The number of dengue cases in the Kingdom is continuing to dwindle, but health officials noted a spike of rainy season-induced Japanese encephalitis over the weekend. On Saturday alone, 112 children at Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital were diagnosed with encephalitis – brain-swelling – that was caused lass='cambodia-color'>...

Residents here yesterday expressed concern about the lack of energy during the count process for Sunday’s national election. Many in Kampong Siem district’s Koh Mit commune said that they felt indifferent, even as the National Election Committee said that the voter turnout rate in the lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian officials have accused two United Nations (UN) human rights experts of interfering in its internal affairs when they commented on the freedom of opinion and expression in the Kingdom and the media code of conduct for the July 29 national elections. lass='cambodia-color'>...

With rapid growth in its economy and population, the Cambodian government was urged on Wednesday to recycle and reduce as it faces a growing volume of municipal and industrial waste. The call came from the country director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Nick lass='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities say they have discovered irregularities among the 170,000 thumbprints the CNRP gathered in support of a petition seeking King Norodom Sihamoni’s intervention in the current political crisis, deputy National Police chief Kang Sokhorn said on Tuesday.   lass='cambodia-color'>...

National Election Committee (NEC) spokesman Hang Puthea yesterday promised the body would release electoral lists for vetting after it finished registering voters, but conceded the process faced a tight deadline. lass='cambodia-color'>...

A group of United Nations human rights experts have condemned the murder of Cambodian political analyst and social activist Kem ley and called for an impartial investigation by an independent body with no ties to the government. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday urged Cambodian artists to include elements of national identity in their work to ensure they are not threatened with intellectual property rights lawsuits from international artists. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) on Monday rejected the results of the national election, calling for a joint committee to be established to investigate what the opposition party said were vast irregularities in Sunday’s polls. “The Cambodia National Rescue Party demands for the establishment lass='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Wednesday announced that his party could stage nationwide labor strikes in protest of disputed election results, and said the CNRP would begin an international campaign to make the CPP government a pariah state. “In the air is an idea of lass='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government as the two sides remained stalled in talks in a deadlock over disputed national elections. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) said in a public statement that it could not guarantee that any agreements made with Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Ministry is seeking 478 students to work in prisons and offices across the country, according to an announcement posted online Monday. The ministry’s message, posted to the website of the National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development, calls for 80 candidates to work as prison lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Opposition leader reaffirmed that the Cambodia National Rescue Party would not join the National Assembly until there is an agreement on new election. “We will not join the Assembly until there is an agreement on the holding of a new election,” Sam Rainsy said in lass='cambodia-color'>...

About 300 villagers from 10 communities in Preah Sihanouk province blocked a road in front of the provincial hall for more than two hours Monday demanding intervention in their land disputes. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has called on the government to intervene in the softening prices of Cambodian agricultural commodities. In a letter passed to Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday, via National Assembly president Heng Samrin, a group of opposition lawmakers has raised concerns lass='cambodia-color'>...

A senior official yesterday urged local leaders to share information on available community services and government changes to residents as the Ministry of Information yesterday laid out its social accountability strategic action plan for the coming year and eyed last year’s results. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly on Thursday unanimously approved the country’s two new election laws, paving the way for the new bipartisan National Election Committee (NEC) to be established before the Khmer New Year in mid-April. lass='cambodia-color'>...

LocaL NGOs are urging the new NationaL AssembLy to pass term Limits for the prime minister, to prevent a &Ldquo;dictatorship” in Cambodia. Prime Minister Hun Sen has ruLed Cambodia in some capacity for 30 years, but foLLowing discussions in Phnom Penh, rights groups and deveLopment NGOs Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

A senior official yesterday urged local leaders to share information on available community services and government changes to residents as the Ministry of Information yesterday laid out its social accountability strategic action plan for the coming year and eyed last year’s results. lass='cambodia-color'>...

At the kickoff for the National literacy Campaign at the National Institute of Education in Phnom Penh on Monday, Prime Minister Hun Sen called on private sector employers to introduce literacy classes for their employees. Reading classes will benefit both illiterate employees and their employers, the lass='cambodia-color'>...