Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Kuoch Chamroeun wants the UN in Cambodia to provide support for the development of officials’ capacity in moving towards the preparation of Sihanoukville development principle as per the smart city model. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s inflation rate increased by 4.2 percent in the 12-month period to October, with food prices accounting for more than half of the rate, according to data released Monday by the National Institute of Statistics. The monthly inflation rate grew from 3.4 percent in August to lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian National Assembly Chairman Samdech Heng Samrin paid an official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of Vietnamese National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung. It was the second visit of Cambodian National Assembly Chairman Samdech Heng Samrin to Vietnam in 2014. In early 2014, the Cambodian lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly will cut some jobs in this fifth legislature in order to enhance the quality of its officials, an official said Tuesday. “Some staff don’t work, but they receive pay by just only coming to provide thumbprints,” parliament’s spokesman Chheang Vun said in lass='cambodia-color'>...

Provincial authorities in Ratanakkiri province on the Vietnam border have yet to allow a team of UN workers to actively seek out a group of Montagnards potentially seeking asylum. UN refugee workers met with provincial officials for more than an hour on Wednesday, but no permission lass='cambodia-color'>...

Thirteen hill tribespeople known as  “Montagnards” have left their jungle hideout in Cambodia and will apply for asylum after crossing from Vietnam to flee persecution, it was announced Sunday. The minority group had for more than seven weeks sought refuge in the jungle in Cambodia’s northeastern lass='cambodia-color'>...

Newly-elected members of new National Election Committee (NEC) will hold swearing in ceremony today afternoon in Royal Palace after they were approved on Thursday by the National Assembly. lass='cambodia-color'>...

229,307 Cambodian people visited Vietnam for tourism and medical checkups from January to July, 2014, according to Vietnam National Tourism Administration’s website. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The number of people killed in traffic accidents during this year’s Pchum Ben holiday and preceding two days increased by nearly 50 percent over the same period last year, a senior police official said on Thursday. From Saturday through Wednesday, there were 49 fatalities, compared to lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s National Assembly will soon amend its internal rules in order to formally recognize a “minority leader” in this legislative body, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday. However, the minority leader will not have the real power as the prime minister since the title lass='cambodia-color'>...

As part of its plan to up Cambodia’s soldier count, the Ministry of Defence is recruiting 620 university students. The candidates from the 2014-2015 academic year are to be volunteers with no criminal backgrounds, according to an official announcement. The recruitment drive spans the month of lass='cambodia-color'>...

Approximately 1,500 young Cambodian people on Saturday performed the “Madison,” a popular dance during Khmer wedding receptions and New Year celebrations, here in order to call for an end of violence against women and girls, an organizer said. Inala Fathimath, a gender program specialist at the lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia on Thursday dispatched the fifth batch of 184 peacekeepers to Lebanon to repLace the fourth group, whose one-year United Nations peacekeeping mission has ended. Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

The proposed amendments on internal regulation of the National Assembly was adopted on Friday, paving the way for Sam Rainsy to become minority leader in the parliament. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Remaining five hill tribe Montagnards emerged from northeast Cambodia’s jungle on Saturday night after hiding for more than seven weeks since illegally entering Cambodia from Vietnam, a senior human rights activist said Sunday. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Illegal logging and destructive farming practices have archaeologists racing to rescue an ecologically crucial mountain and its hidden temples. Some 80 per cent of the forest on Phnom Kulen – one of Cambodia’s National Parks – has disappeared due to a combination of illegal logging, lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) of Cambodia will test a computerized voter registration system in August or September of this year, according to a statement from the NEC. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnam offered Friday the lower price for the additional rice supply that the Philippines will import to increase its buffer stock for the lean season, the National Food Authority said. NFA earlier invited Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam to supply an additional 250,000 metric tons of rice lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Food Authority (NFA) of the Philippines has re-invited bids for the remaining 100,000 tons from the June 5 tender, BusinessworldOnline quoted Reuters. The NFA has reportedly invited governments of Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia, with which the Philippines has bilateral agreements, to send their bids lass='cambodia-color'>...

Unicef and the Ministry of Health have prepared four spots to raise awareness in the care of newborns and young children with illnesses. The ads, for radio and television, aim at improving the country’s high child mortality rate. lass='cambodia-color'>...