City Hall on Friday officially issued its ban on trucks weighing more than 3 tonnes from using the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge until cracks discovered last month in a pillar on the bridge’s eastern end are repaired, a city spokesman said yesterday. Long Dimanche said police had ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 30 families continued to demonstrate in Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district on Friday and saturday over what they say is the illegal clearing of land by a Chinese company, villagers said sunday. The families accuse Rui Feng (Cambodia) International of clearing 500 hectares of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s porous borders are creating one of several headaches for health officials working to minimise outbreaks of avian influenza, officials revealed yesterday at a symposium on emerging infectious diseases in southeast Asia. The border provinces of Takeo and Kampong Cham have been witness to the highest ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy has been meeting with a number of Australian lawmakers in recent days, asking them to urge the Australian government to support his call for reform and a new election in Cambodia. But while the Cambodia National Rescue Party leader had announced that ss='cambodia-color'>...

A weekend storm battered buildings in Banteay Meanchey province’s Thma Pouk district, leaving hundreds affected by damage to houses and schools across the area. Deab Chhun, Thma Puok district deputy governor, said strong winds and rain swept through Komrou, Thmor Puok and Phoum Thmey communes at ss='cambodia-color'>...

Pen Siman, the general director of the MiniStry of Finance&rSquo;S general department of cuStomS and exciSe, will retire in October, according to a royal decree Signed by King Norodom Sihamoni and reprinted WedneSday in local media. Dated April 3, the royal decree inStructS Prime MiniSter Hun SS='cambodia-color'>...

As news broke yesterday evening that the Thai political situation had evolved from martial law to a full-blown coup d’etat, Cambodian government officials said they hoped the army’s takeover would be transitional and dismissed any concerns that tensions could rise on the Cambodia-Thailand border. ”We wish ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Education is drafting two sub-decrees on private educational institutions aimed at improving regulation of the nation’s vast body of private schools. The sub-decree on Organization and Management of Private schools and sub-decree on Categorization of Private schools have been sent to a range ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Electoral Reform Alliance, a group of election monitors and NGOs, put its support behind the opposition CNRP’s demands for a two-thirds majority vote for selecting members of the National Election Committee (NEC) at a workshop Tuesday in Phnom Penh. The process for selecting members of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two former board members of the country’s largest independent garment sector union asked the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday to suspend president Ath Thorn and two fellow officials over allegations of embezzlement. Oum Visal and Roeung Chanthorn, founding board members of the Coalition of Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has rejected a request from two former members of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (CCAWDU) to have the union’s president be forced to step down as he is investigated for embezzlement. Former CCAWDU officials Oum Visal and Roeun ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of Cambodians hoping to migrate to Japan to work in the electronics industry yesterday protested outside an NGO that they claim conned them out of up to $200 each with promises of jobs. About 100 protesters – out of a total of 300 who are ss='cambodia-color'>...

Economic freedom in Cambodia worsened over the past year, according to the latest report from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in the Us. Cambodia is ranked 108 out of 178 countries surveyed, with an overall score of 57.4, a 1.1-point dip from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy launched another effort to mobilize support behind the opposition’s demand for a fresh election, by holding opinion poll via his Facebook page. The opinion poll is regarded as another effort of the opposition leader sam Rainsy in order to mobilize the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A sand-dredging ferry caught fire and two of its pumping machines exploded yesterday in Kandal’s Kien svay district. The blast sent a black plume of smoke over the Mekong and caused oil to leak into the river. Yem sokhum, Phomthom commune police chief, said that according to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of Cambodian rural households with access to latrines increased from 23 to 33 per cent in 2013, a Ministry of Rural Development report released yesterday says. Chreay Pom, director of the ministry’s rural health care department, said that last year, the ministry constructed about ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of mobile subscribers in Cambodia topped 20 million last year, surpassing the country’s population by about 5 million. Internet users also jumped, according to a report released Wednesday by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. The report fails to say how many Cambodians own ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 50 land rights activists from two Phnom Penh communities filed a complaint Wednesday with police over an incident in which an unidentified man allegedly fired a shot at a bus transporting them from an anti-eviction protest in siem Reap to Phnom Penh. The city’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of houses have been marked for demolition near Phnom Penh International Airport as authorities say the families must be moved to bring the site in line with international standards. Civil aviation officials visited Chrey Chisark village in Por sen Chey district’s Choam Choa commune with ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP’s campaign for the May 18 council elections rolled through these northwestern provinces Wednesday, with party leaders sam Rainsy and Kem sokha casting aside their promises last week to refrain from attacks on the ruling CPP. A growing cavalcade moved across Battambang province and ss='cambodia-color'>...