A public consultation session on the controversial draft union law will be held at the National Assembly next Wednesday, officials confirmed yesterday.  ...

Sihanoukville beachfront businesses that were due to be bulldozed this weekend have been granted a temporary stay of execution. ...

The Kampot Provincial Court will continue to investigate three villagers and an NGO worker after they were arrested and released on Friday for allegedly setting up an illegal checkpoint to extort money from timber and firewood transporters in Kampot’s Chhouk district, according to officials. ...

Cambodia’s controversial ambassador to South Korea, Suth Dina, has released a public plea to Prime Minister Hun Sen to safeguard his job, amid what appears to be an investigation by the Foreign Affairs Ministry into his office, it emerged yesterday. ...

More than 350 marijuana plants were destroyed by police during a raid on Tuesday that led to the owner’s arrest in Kampong Cham province’s Stung Trang district, while a second suspect involved in the operation is at large. ម្ចាស់ដើមកញ្ឆារត្រូវបានចាប់ខ្លួន  ...

New regulations are to be bought in for the life insurance sector, which has grown from $60 million in 2014 to $80 million last year, according to a senior official from the Ministry of Economy and Finance.   ...

A journalist in Pailin province yesterday filed a lawsuit against a local police officer for allegedly threatening to kill him if he published a story about a drunken shooting spree the officer went on last week. ...

In 2008, British American Tobacco (BAT) was awarded its third straight “Gold Medal” from Prime Minister Hun Sen in recognition of good corporate stewardship, according to the company’s July newsletter. ...

Beginning on May 1, traffic police will ramp up enforcement of the new Traffic Law after a month and a half delay, according to a police statement yesterday. Police officials said enough drivers throughout the country now understood the Law, paving the way for stricter ...

A newspaper publisher charged with murdering his friend in Phnom Penh last year told the municipal court on Thursday that his confession to military police was obtained through torture, but the presiding judge argued that such a claim would have “broken out” in the media ...

Police arrested a man in Koh Kong province on Friday for allegedly sexually assaulting his friend’s two young daughters over the course of a day and a night.   ...

Twenty-seven Chinese and Taiwanese nationals were arrested during a raid on a villa in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district on Monday on suspicion of operating an internet-phone scam, officials said.   ...

The Supreme Court on Monday upheld a guilty verdict and 20-year prison sentence handed down to a former military general and an accomplice in 2013 for large-scale drug trafficking. ...

Police in Ratanakkiri province say they are investigating the origin of a pile of first grade logs stashed along a road built by and leading out of a Vietnamese-owned rubber plantation that has long been the target of illegal logging accusations.   ...

The disgraced former director of Koh Kong’s provincial agriculture department will not be prosecuted despite admitting to profiting from the illegal sale of state land, Agriculture Minister Veng Sakhon said on Monday.   ...

Three Cambodia National Rescue Party staff members have fled, via Thailand, to another country in the region and are applying for asylum in third countries after being linked to the case of imprisoned opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour, sources have said.The group – believed to ...

A university student in Siem Reap province was detained and sent to court yesterday after allegedly posting a death threat against Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng on the social networking site Facebook.Tao Savoeun, a 26-year-old graduate of the University of South-East Asia, located in Siem ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday will hear the case against opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour, who was arrested and saw his parliamentary immunity bypassed last month over a Facebook post. ...

The Court of Appeal yesterday heard the case of three organ traffickers convicted of convincing relatives to travel to Thailand to have their kidneys sold between 2012 and 2014. ...

Customs officials and local police yesterday raided a motorbike market in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district they said was illegally selling vehicles without licence plates or paperwork. ...