Opposition leader sam Rainsy left for Europe yesterday evening to attend a UN Human Rights Council review on Cambodia in Geneva and to lobby European Union officials to take a stronger stance against the government, he said before departure. Rainsy plans on attending the Universal Periodic ss='cambodia-color'>...

Beehive Radio director Mam Sonando will not be granted a digital TV licence becauSe up to 80 channelS have been allocated to a ChineSe State televiSion network. Khieu Kanharith, the miniSter of information, Said in an interview on TVK on TueSday night that the allocation of SS='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of youth activists have deployed to the provinces to collect signatures for a petition calling for an amendment to the election law that would allow direct elections for district, city and provincial councillors. The current system sees the Kingdom’s more than 11,000 sitting commune councillors ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh’s murder rate was halved in 2013 as compared with 2012, but the same could not be said for crime cases across the board, which jumped a whopping 62 per cent last year, municipal police announced yesterday. “There were a total of 775 cases of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Family members of two men slain by military police in violent suppression of a garment worker protest in January were questioned Wednesday at the Ministry of Interior, although the investigation into the killings was officially declared closed on March 16. soun Nara, the brother of Yean ss='cambodia-color'>...

The sole retailer of Mercedes-Benz cars into the country, Hung Hiep (Cambodia) Co., has suspended imports since January over what it claims is a new import duty on luxury cars coming into the country. Other luxury car importers including Porsche, Audi, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover, ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 striking workers at Cambodia’s largest brewer, Cambrew Ltd., resumed work on saturday after the company agreed to lift their monthly salary from $120 to $150 as they had been demanding. The workers at the company, which produces Angkor beer and Black Panther stout, ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 people from the group Land Communities for Peace marched from the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) to the National Assembly on Thursday in defiance of a ban issued by City Hall. Phnom Penh deputy governor Khuong sreng said the protest would not be allowed after ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Japanese embassy is reporting a $280 million drop in Japanese investment last year, but officials were quick to say that the numbers don’t necessarily reflect slumping investor confidence in Cambodia. Japanese investment in the Kingdom reached about $47.5 million in 2013, compared to $328 million ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 20,000 passengers have traveled on Phnom Penh’s limited city bus service since a month-long public transport experiment began two weeks ago, which bodes well for a citywide expansion of the service once the trial ends on March 4, City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche said ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the latest case involving illegal logging in Mondulkiri’s sen Monorom district, two indigenous communities filed a lawsuit against three unidentified illegal loggers after confiscating a truck laden with luxury wood on saturday, a rights monitor and villagers said yesterday. About 50 villagers turned over the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seven people from the capital&rSquo;S Borei Keila community allegedly injured by baton-wielding Security forceS laSt month, a pregnant woman among them, filed a lawSuit againSt Prampi Makara diStrict authoritieS yeSterday. The Seven were among a group of dozenS of familieS violently removed from a building on SS='cambodia-color'>...

Ethnic Jarai villagers in Ratanakkiri province have once again accused the Vietnamese owners of a rubber plantation of illegally logging their ancestral forests in a complaint filed with rights group Adhoc. A district official, however, said the plantation owner, Company 72, was granted an extension on ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 80 activists from Phnom Penh’s Borei Keila and Boeng Kak communities protested outside City Hall on Monday morning, but were confronted by municipal security guards who prevented them from delivering a petition to the governor. sar soun, a representative of families from the Borei Keila ss='cambodia-color'>...

Accompanied by his wife, Bun Rany, Prime Minister Hun sen continued his trip to China on Tuesday evening by attending a dinner reception hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to state news agency Agence Kampuchea Press. Mr. Hun sen and his delegation of high-level officials ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fish and rice are staple foods for all Cambodians. Historical records show that Cambodia’s fisheries have been of major importance for centuries. Fish is a major source of nutritious food in the daily diet, a primary source of employment and income and has strong cultural ss='cambodia-color'>...

Military police in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district on Monday were duped into letting a detained immigration official walk free just hours after he was arrested for alleged involvement in the cross-border illegal timber trade, police said yesterday. District military police chief sok Min said yesterday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

A draft law regulating the purchase and consumption of alcohol in Cambodia will, if passed, set the country’s legal drinking age at 21 years old, according to officials involved with the legislation, which many see as a tool to fight excessive youth drinking and drunken ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nine sun bear cubs have been rescued in the first 10 months of this year, according to the Phnom Penh office of NGO Wildlife Alliance. The cubs, some as young as two weeks, were saved by government rangers and the NGO’s Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (WRRT), ss='cambodia-color'>...

Union leader Pav Sina on TueSday Said garment factorieS around the country illegally fired dozenS of hiS local repreSentativeS laSt year, far more than in 2013, and urged the government to help get their jobS back. Mr. Sina&rSquo;S Collective Union of Movement of WorkerS (CUMW) iS SS='cambodia-color'>...