The Ministry of Interior has approved the creation of three new districts in Phnom Penh following a proposal from City Hall to create five new districts before district and city council elections are held in May. sak setha, secretary of state at the Ministry of Interior, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian housing rights activist Tep Vanny is in Washington this week, seeking to increase international pressure on Cambodian authorities to end forced evictions and find resolutions to longstanding land disputes. Tep Vanny, a housewife who has emerged as a leader for Cambodian victims of forced evictions, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia ranked 137 out of 189 countries in the World Bank’s Doing Business 2014 report released Tuesday, the first drop in at least two years that shows conducting business in the country is becoming more difficult. The report ranks countries in 10 categories, including starting a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong haS iSSued an ultimatum to Cintri, the city&rSquo;S waSte diSpoSal company: Clean the StreetS, and keep them clean, or loSe your contract. At a meeting between Cintri, City Hall and all levelS of Phnom Penh officialS on Monday, Mr. Socheatvong told SS='cambodia-color'>...

On Friday morning, two sources quoted in a report on illegal logging will face questioning at the hands of a Kandal province prosecutor over allegations that they defamed Cambodian tycoon Try Pheap. Under the Cambodian penal code, the legal definition of defamation is much like that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Since being deSignated for development by the municipal government in 2006, Koh Pich haS been abuzz with activity. Now covered in the wideSt, leaSt-congeSted roadS in central Phnom Penh, thiS iSland iS filling up quickly with reSidential, retail and hoSpitality projectS aimed at affluent localS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng sat down with representatives from 10 civil society organisations on Friday for what Cambodian Center for Human Rights president Ou Virak described as a “very frank discussion” of how to handle the investigation into the multitude of alleged irregularities in last ss='cambodia-color'>...

Microsoft Cambodia has found that an overwhelming majority of computer retailers surveyed earlier this year failed to offer customers the option to purchase licensed, as opposed to pirated, software. Out of the 54 Cambodian computer retailers included in the May survey, the results of which were ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy yesterday told supporters in Kandal province to pack up their bed mats, pillows and rice and prepare for the long haul as he and deputy Kem sokha outlined plans for a sit-in at Freedom Park that could drag on for days ss='cambodia-color'>...

Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) chief Om Yentieng on Wednesday told donor countries to keep their noses out of how the institution goes about its work while at the same time informing the public that he was powerless to stop the courts from dropping corruption cases. In a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Eight-year-old Sokun* Spent almoSt the firSt Seven yearS of hiS life in priSon. Unlike other Cambodian children who have the freedom to play and run free, countleSS hourS of hiS early life were Spent in a hot, Squalid and teeming cell in the priSon where hiS SS='cambodia-color'>...

More than two decades after the Paris Peace Agreement, which was meant to open the way for peace and multiparty democracy in Cambodia, legal experts and hu­man rights advocates said Tuesday the government has largely abandoned the vision of the accord. speaking at a conference on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of opposition supporters made their way to Freedom Park in Phnom Penh on Wednesday morning to begin the first of a three-day demonstration designed to urge signatories of the Paris Peace Agreement to intervene in the country’s current political deadlock. Unlike at the previous protests ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 villagers in Preah Vihear province’s Rovieng district on saturday turned out in protest for the second time this week to prevent a bulldozer that belongs to well-known businessman Try Pheap from clearing their land next to his rubber plantation, local officials and residents ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday charged convicted British pedophile Richard Fruin, 36, with sexually abusing two brothers, aged 8 and 11, at a guesthouse in Phnom Penh, court officials said. While the court has yet to decide Fruin’s fate, his case—and many similar ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kompong Speu Provincial Court haS Summoned for trial a married couple accuSed of encroaching on land exciSed from a plantation belonging to CPP Senator and buSineSSman Ly Yong Phat, and haS iSSued more than two dozen other SummonSeS and arreSt warrantS in the paSt SS='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Tuesday delivered its latest report on its review of allegations of massive bribe taking inside the Health Ministry leveled by the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in November. Officials on Wednesday were mum about the review, however, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new report by researchers from Harvard University and the University of sydney has ranked Cambodia’s 2013 national election as the fifth most “flawed or failed” out of the 73 national ballots held around the world between July 2012 and December 2013. Based on surveys completed ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kompong Chhnang provincial government has set up a new committee to help settle a long-running land dispute between local farmers and a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister suy sem, but a representative of the villagers has not been invited ss='cambodia-color'>...

They save for months, borrowing from family and friends, even taking out loans, to pour as much as a year’s worth of earnings into the hands of recruiters that may have no intention and certainly have no guarantee of procuring overseas employment. Recruitment agencies, several of ss='cambodia-color'>...