The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia will pay her fourth visit to the country from August 8 to 18 to examine children’s rights, among other issues. lass='cambodia-color'>...

A raid on Monday of a woman’s house in Prey Veng province turned up hundreds of animals, dead and alive, set to be sold in the illegal wildlife trade. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Senate has approved four amendments to the election laws related to the redistribution of the seats of the CNRP and local councilors if the main opposition party is dissolved. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Tourism (MoT) has announced plans to strengthen the image of Sihanoukville’s coast as a tourism destination, with authorities expecting the province to surpass the two-million mark in tourist arrivals in 2017. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Amid accusations of bias in favour of the ruling party – and following the removal of the main opposition party from the electoral field – the National Election Committee has announced the creation of a new press reaction team to “attack back at negative points”. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen has appointed his son-in-law as deputy national police chief, in a move apparently aimed at consolidating his power ahead of an election this year. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Labour Ministry is pLanning to Launch a nationaL poLicy to cut the number of traffic accidents invoLving garment workers being driven to and from factories. The poLicy wiLL encourage empLoyers and drivers to prioritise road safety. Labour Minister Ith Samheng yesterday addressed a workshop on the Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

The National Election Committee yesterday announced the details of an assistance package from China, which has pledged to support Cambodia’s upcoming commune and national elections, set for 2017 and 2018. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The CNRP said on Tuesday it would join today’s meeting of the National Assembly’s agenda-setting permanent committee in hopes of pushing ahead with proposed amendments to a trio of contentious laws on judicial independence. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Alleged illegal logging and timber exports continue to happen in the Prey lang forest, while drug trafficking in the area is also on the rise, according to the latest Prey lang Com-munity Network (PlCN) report yesterday. The fifth monitoring report on the forest’s status from April lass='cambodia-color'>...

In a frank rebuke of members of his own party, Minister of Interior Sar Kheng yesterday accused national leaders and ministers of impeding the process of decentralising Cambodia’s government out of a desire to maintain power for themselves. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The three appointees are Nuth Sokhom, who will be the deputy chief of the NEC, Dim Sovannarom, and Hel Sarat from the Khmer Nationality Party. They were selected among five candidates, according to CPP National Assembly spokesperson Chheang Vun. lass='cambodia-color'>...

According to a report by the National Police’s public order department, there was an increase in deaths and a decrease in injuries compared with the previous year. There were 1,717 deaths and 6,607 injuries reported in 2016. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Interior yesterday instructed provincial authorities to “make it easy” for parties preparing for the upcoming national elections, including facilitating the building of party banners and the holding of meetings – after a year in which the government systematically removed CNRP banners and lass='cambodia-color'>...

On 20 February 2018, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva has posted a news release to express the grave concern of their experts regarding the proposed changes to Cambodia’s Constitution which impose far-reaching limits on democracy a head lass='cambodia-color'>...

More than 3,000 traffic accidents across the country during the first 10 months of the year caused more than 1,400 deaths and about 5,300 injuries, a decline from the same period last year. According to a National Police report released yesterday, there were 3,001 traffic accidents lass='cambodia-color'>...

Statistics released by the National Social Security Fund yesterday showed that it increased its reach in 2016, adding more than 900 new private firms encompassing some 59,000 workers, and increasing its workplace accident payouts. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia currently faces significant foreign policy challenges amid great power rivalry in the Asia-Pacific. Against the backdrop of US President Donald Trump’s uncertain and unpredictable foreign policy in the region, China’s economic, military, and strategic influence over Cambodia continues to grow. China is now Cambodia’s lass='cambodia-color'>...

A group of NGOs from the education sector yesterday urged the government to boost education spending to at least 20 percent of the country’s budget – a benchmark the Ministry of Education had hoped, and failed, to hit last year under its strategic plan. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee yesterday defended its decision to print 1.5 million extra ballots for the upcoming commune elections, saying the chances of misuse were minimal given better identification systems – though the opposition and civil society remained unconvinced. lass='cambodia-color'>...