Two opposition activists in Siem Reap’s Bakong district were arrested yesterday on accusations of inciting villagers to protest a new committee to support boating tourism. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Private donations to orphanages in Cambodia means the government is struggling to cope with their reform, with lack of transparency and lack of safety checks. Most of Cambodia’s orphanages are financed by private donations from abroad, but no one knows exactly how much money flows lass='cambodia-color'>...

Citing an uptick in drug cases and a lack of manpower in some provinces, the National Police yesterday announced they will be transferring scores of officers to positions in anti-drug units. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) has set up a working group to assist the Interior Ministry in distributing microchipped national ID cards, which will be used in the new electronic voting system being introduced next year. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party will send digital maps of the Kingdom to the Royal Academy today to compare with copies provided by the United Nations, United States and France of the original French-Indochina maps known as the “Bonne maps”. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian National Rescue Party has started negotiations to buy land in Kandal’s Kien Svay district for its television station Sun TV. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday handed over digital copies of a Cambodia-Vietnam border map bought in France to the Royal Academy.The academy’s border committee now has maps from the UN, US and France, and says it will begin studying them in a bid lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC)’s spokesperson Hang Putea said Cambodia will start computerized-voter registration in March next year, but needs 2,400 computers. lass='cambodia-color'>...

A district official with the Cambodia National Rescue Party has offered a group of disgruntled donors in Kandal their money back after they lodged a complaint with local police over the opposition’s fundraising efforts for its Sun TV station. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee has no plan to replace its secretary general, Tep Nytha, despite a pledge after the revamped body’s approval earlier this year to name someone new to the post within three months. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The General Department of Immigration yesterday reported that tens of thousands of Chinese nationals left the Kingdom before the end of last year since the ban on online and arcade gambling was announced by Prime Minister Hun Sen in August. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Construction work on the new National Road No.10 connecting Battambang to Koh Kong is scheduled to begin in March, with the ground-breaking ceremony to be presided over by Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has decided to postpone secondary and high school exams in response to the pandemic. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron on Monday advised private academic institutions to adopt online teaching to provide students with the opportunity to continue their studies. For students in grades nine and 12 who have to take examinations, the ministry will allow lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Royal Government of Cambodia has decided to transfer $166 million to municipal and provincial administrations to manage their respective health service provision. lass='cambodia-color'>...

A crucial time-saving function of the new digital voter registration system may not have been taught to the more than 2,000 computer operators who today will begin the task of registering Cambodia’s nearly 10 million eligible voters, it has emerged. After months of preparation, and several lass='cambodia-color'>...

The recent testing of a new electronic voter registration system has fallen significantly short of expectations, with only about 50 per cent of the hoped-for registrations completed, according to officials.The National Election Committee (NEC), which is tasked with organising new voter lists for the 2017 lass='cambodia-color'>...

After a three-month registration period, the National Election Committee will release its preliminary voter list on January 3, giving political parties, civil society and election monitors until January 14 to lodge complaints for any discrepancies found in the rolls.​ lass='cambodia-color'>...

A national police spokesman yesterday said a report alleging that tycoon Kith Meng’s Royal Group was colluding with loggers to launder timber was mistakenly posted on the body’s official site by a “tired” employee who meant to share the information with local reporters but not lass='cambodia-color'>...

Amid the outbreak of the coronavirus the government plans to trim the 2021 state budget to around $4 billion, accounting for about a 50 percent drop from this year’s state budget, including an 11.3 percent drop for social affairs and 6.4 percent for general administration. lass='cambodia-color'>...