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'>...

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'>...