Prime Minister Hun sen ordered troops stationed along the border with Vietnam to start “shooting down” unidentified drones flying into Cambodia’s territory, in a Tuesday Facebook Live post. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After Cambodia’s elections, the Us announced it planned to impose further visa and funding restrictions, while China and Russia endorsed the electoral process and its outcome. ss='cambodia-color'>...

According to the [inter]national Monetary Fund (IMF), at the end of 2011, the stock of Cambodia’s external public debt, including arrears, stood at around Us 3.8 billion or 30 percent of GDP (24 percent in NPV terms). China remains the largest bilateral creditor, contributing to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Debt levels among the more than 1,000 families being evicted by a $142.6 million railway project bankrolled by Australia and the Asia Development Bank (ADB) have reached “crisis” proportions and require major intervention, according to a U.s resettlement expert who was hired by the ADB ss='cambodia-color'>...

CPP lawmaker and de facto party spokesman Cheam Yeap said yesterday it was now “too late” to form an independent committee to investigate alleged irregularities during last month’s national election and that the opposition CNRP needs to be “more flexible” in its relationship with the ss='cambodia-color'>...

During an epic speech on Wednesday that lasted for more than six-and-a-half hours, Prime Minister Hun sen told his newly approved Cabinet that they would be subject to increased public scrutiny as part of a series of reforms to be undertaken by the CPP over ss='cambodia-color'>...

The prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS infectionS in Cambodia haS declined to 0.7 percent in 2013, down from 0.8 percent two yearS ago, a Senior government official Said Sunday. “According to Scientific eStimation, in 2013, HIV carrier rate among adultS aged between 15 and 49 yearS iS SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Global Fund has threatened to suspend or reduce health grants to Cambodia totalling more than $100 million if the Ministry of Health, the National Center for HIV/AIDs, Dermatology and sTD (NCHADs) and NGO umbrella group MEDiCAM fail to meet a 30-day deadline to return ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday questioned two businessmen over allegations of fraud and using forged public documents, including claims they faked a signature from Prime Minister Hun sen in a mining transaction, court and police officials said. Deputy prosecutor Var sakada said Cambodian Al ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers have accused a CPP commune chief in Ratanakkiri province of threatening four ethnic minority Tampoun men after they filed a complaint against him for allegedly selling off community land to a local businessman. Rocham Norng, a Tampoun villager in Bakeo district, has alleged that soeung ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh municipal government will today issue announcements to two property developers ordering them to partially demolish buildings near the Royal Palace in order to reduce their height to comply with the original planning agreements, an official said. The two buildings—one owned by Vattanac Properties ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) on Friday publicly opened 12 official polling records from siem Reap province, but seven of them had been either torn or improperly sealed, sparking fresh concerns from the opposition CNRP that they had been tampered with. The unsealed packages—known as “safety ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of 12 ethnic minority villagers in Ratanakkiri province have filed a complaint with the provincial court over what they claim is collusion between other villagers and local authorities to illegally log luxury timber from 193 hectares of land inside a community forest. The Prov ss='cambodia-color'>...

Laos is taking steps to convince neighboring countries of the merits of the planned Don sahong hydropower project over Mekong River. Lao government officials organized a site visit on sunday and Monday so that interested parties could see the site first-hand and get a sense of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials at the Ministry of Labor who mediated talks Wednesday between the management of sL Garment Factory and union leaders who have led a three-month-long strike at the factory said that they would send the results of the meeting to Prime Minister Hun sen to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of garment workers from four factories have gone back on strike this week to protest a decision by their employers to withhold pay for the days they did not work during recent nationwide strikes. Between 8,500 and 12,500 workers at four factories—two in Phnom Penh, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government recently awarded the operator of its three international airports more than $100 million for upgrades in an effort to accommodate strong passenger growth driven by the country’s nascent tourism industry. Cambodia Airports—the subsidiary of Italian firm Vinci, which serves as the concession ss='cambodia-color'>...

In late January, five of the 10 chickens owned by Leng Lal, a subsistence rice farmer in Kratie province, suddenly died. Although Mr. Lal, 40, said he knew the dead birds might be dangerous and he should burn and bury the carcasses, he instructed his 8-year-old ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dara Raksmey, the owner of a pharmacy of the same name on Phnom Penh’s street 294, keeps a record of every can of Dumex baby formula she sells. “If you buy six large cans you get a scooter and if you buy 12 large cans you ss='cambodia-color'>...