The governors of Preah Sihanouk, Ratanakkiri and Pursat provinces have been replaced by Royal Decree, according to officials, with the first of the transfer ceremonies being carried out Thursday morning. Sborng sarath, the governor of Preah Sihanouk province, was replaced Thursday by Chhit Sokhom, the former ...

Cambodian workers for the U.S.- owned Caltex petrol stations in Phnom Penh continued their strike for higher wages Wednesday after wage negotiations late Tuesday failed to reach any agreement. Strike leader Sar Mora, president of the Cambodian Food and Service Workers Federation, Said some 300 Caltex ...

Cambodia on Thursday rejected four recommendations for improving its human rights situation that it initially accepted earlier this year during its second universal periodic review at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. It also “noted” 38 recommendations—meaning it has not committed to implementing them—some relating ...

More than 100,000 hectares of forest have been replanted across the country since 2008, according to a government report – but about 90 per cent of that amount can be chalked up to private plantations. Produced by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the report, ...

A jubilant crowd of opposition supporters burst into cheers yesterday afternoon as seven Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers-elect and one party activist were released on bail just hours after an announced rapprochement between the CNRP and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. They walked free through exits ...

Rin Ren thought that her grandchildren had gone to study English with NGo Mith Samlanh and would return to their home along the railroad in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak II commune by nightfall, just as they had done many times before. Instead, friends of the children ...

After a two-month investigation, police were confident enough to arrest and interrogate nine people on Saturday over an alleged kidney trafficking ring at the state-run Preah Ket Mealea military hospital, including its director Ly Sovann, a lieutenant general in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). But ...

The Ministry of Interior has deported more than 200 foreign nationals over the past two months as part of its ongoing nationwide census, according to Sok Phal, director of the ministry’s immigration department. The Interior Ministry’s census was launched last month, at the same time ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng Said Thursday that the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP must “reorient” and meet regularly to ensure they are not straying from the terms of last year’s July 22 political deal. In a joint press conference following a meeting with opposition lead­er Sam ...

Oxfam said it will expand its savings-led cOmmunity-lending mOdel in CambOdia as an alternative tO traditiOnal credit-based micrOfinance services, which it says are ineffective in reaching the KingdOm&rsquO;s pOOrest. Oxfam&rsquO;s saving fOr Change prOject, which trains rural cOmmunities tO fOrm savings grOups, nOw has $5 milliOn ...

Cambodia has received 230,100 Chinese tourists in the first six months of 2014, an increase of 19 percent over the same period last year, according to a tourism report released on Wednesday. The report shows that China is the second largest source of tourists to Cambodia ...

suspend protests against Vietnam over a territorial dispute as Phnom Penh expressed “regret” to Hanoi over the burning of a Vietnamese flag during the demonstrations last week. Horn Nam Hong met at his office with the head of the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation, Thach Setha, who agreed ...

A 49-year-old journalist reportedly investigating illegal logging in Kratie province was shot dead early Sunday morning. Within hours, police arrested three men—a commune police chief, a military police officer and a Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldier—for the murder, officials said. Taing Try, who contributed to ...

Two business agreements were signed between 21 companies from East China Fujian province and their Cambodian counterparts at a business matching meeting here Sunday. of the two agreements signed between the two sides, one was between China’s Fuzhou Yifeng Rice Company and Cambodia’s Mekong oryza ...

The United Nation’s human rights envoy Surya Subedi met yesterday with the president of Cambodia Chamber of Commerce, Kith Meng, to discuss human rights and economic growth in the Kingdom. at the top of the agenda was the management of economic land concessions and the role ...

H.E. Cheang Vun, the head of the 5th Commission, reaffirmed that, as a tradition, after received any draft law from the Royal Government of Cambodia and assigned by the Standing Committee of the National Assembly for studying and giving opnions on the texts, special Commissions ...

The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) on Saturday held its 42nd congress at the Koh Pich Convention and Exhibition Centre in the capital to review its achievements for last year and set this year’s targets. Presided by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who is also CPP president, ...

Cambodia will observe the World Wetlands Day in Poychar commune, Phnom Srok district, Banteay Meanchey province on Feb 6, the Ministry of Environment said. organised by the Ministry of Environment in cooperation with Banteay Meanchey provincial administration, the forthcoming celebration will be held at Sok ...

The Ministry of Mines and Energy signed  a petroleum agreement with Cambodia Resources Energy Development Co on exploration of the offshore Block D oilfield. “Signing the agreement allows the company to conduct studies and search for oil in Block D,” Cheap Sour, director-general of Petroleum ...

Minister of Post and Telecommunications Tram Iv Tek on Thursday lauded leading mobile operator CamGSM Co Ltd for its progress in rolling out a 5G network in Cambodia. Speaking at an event organised by CamGSM to showcase its 5G capabilities, he said the technology is essential ...