Phnom Penh Municipal Hall yesterday defended the actions of police and security guards who blocked protesters as they tried to leave the capital’s Boeung Kak area before they stopped and searched an NGO’s vehicle. Dozens of Daun Penh district police, security guards and military police blockaded ss='cambodia-color'>...

An official from Battambang province’s department of agriculture who was charged last Monday with embezzling $200,000 from the illegal sale of fertilizer donated to the poor by Japan has implicated four other officials in the case, including the son of senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap, ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 20 leprosy patients have been treated at a rehabilitated and expanded wing of the Battambang Provincial Referral Hospital, the second hospital to offer professional treatment for leprosy patients in Cambodia. “We have two doctors and one nurse who specialize in leprosy treatment, and in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prominent activist monk But Buntenh, head of the Independent Monk Network for social Justice, was arrested in Preah Vihear province on Thursday, along with another monk and three NGO staffers who had traveled to the province to support a group of ethnic Kuoy villagers protesting ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police maintained a subtle, and mostly unarmed, presence at a rowdy opposition rally that filled Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Monday, despite persistent tensions over last month’s contested national election and a beefed-up security presence around the city. Even as the crowd swelled to well over ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia National Rescue Party has said it plans to expand the mass demonstration already slated for Tuesday in siem Reap to include another large rally in the capital. The CNRP announced late last month it was moving its first in a series of new rallies ss='cambodia-color'>...

The minister of posts and telecommunications on Monday insisted an edict ordering the country’s seven mobile phone operators to abide by a law that sets minimum prices for calls is only temporary. Prak sokhon, the newly-appointed posts and telecommunications minister, said the order was necessary because ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new set of prakases tacked onto a law that regulates overseas employment recruitment agencies is a “step in the right direction” towards protecting some of Cambodia’s most vulnerable citizens from scams and abuse, local and international NGOs said yesterday. But some remain unconvinced that the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government can’t seem to agree on whether or not Prime Minister Hun sen has lifted the ban on the constitutional right to freedom of assembly. Last week, Mr. Hun sen said in a speech: “I will not prevent [demonstrations] because everyone has equal rights,” which ss='cambodia-color'>...

A team of disabled security guards hired to protect the embattled sL Garment Factory in Phnom Penh is seeking the formalization of their employment and an end to what they claim is the factory’s exploitation of their impairments. In November—at the height of an occasionally violent, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government now requires union leaders to prove that they have no criminal record before registering new branches of their organization, according to a statement from the Ministry of Labor, a decision that comes less than a week before planned nationwide strikes in the garment ss='cambodia-color'>...

A few thousand opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party supporters marched through central Phnom Penh yesterday as the party held its largest public gathering in the capital since protesters were chased out of Freedom Park in early January. Although Prime Minister Hun sen suggested in late February ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two men died and another was seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident on Friday night in Phnom Penh when a Range Rover plowed into a motorbike in Toek Thla commune, police said sunday, add­ing to a recent spate of fatal—and of­ten high-profile—hit-and-runs. Thang Ratha, 23, died ss='cambodia-color'>...

Among thousands of residents in the Boeung Kak Lake district of the capital whose land has been targeted for redevelopment by a Chinese-financed real estate company, Tep Vanny carried a letter explaining the “sadness and suffering” caused by the project — which has turned Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is home to some 400,000 Cham Muslims. The ethnic group, like many others, suffered terrible losses during the Khmer Rouge regime. Lives were lost and cultural landmarks destroyed. Now, as mosques and heritage sites around the country are demolished to make way for more ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kep province – On a sunny weekday in Kep, a seaside village about halfway along Cambodia’s coast, the crab market was heaving. Women in straw hats and rubber boots stood knee deep in the surf shouting out prices, periodically darting into the sea to pull writhing ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sixty community repreSentativeS from Preah Vihear and Kampong Thom provinceS expreSSed concern yeSterday over a String of recent economic land conceSSionS granted within the boundS of the Boeung Per Wildlife Sanctuary. At a preSS conference held in Preah Vihear&rSquo;S Rovieng diStrict yeSterday, they claimed the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Three women were slightly injured while participating in a strike of about 500 workers outside the Zongtex Garment Factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district yesterday, a union representative said yesterday. suos sokha, head of the Rights and Profit Workers Federation of Trade Unions, said yesterday the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday called for greater regional cooperation to tackle a range of environmental problems in the Greater Mekong sub-region, but did not specifically address the threat posed by dams. “I call on all countries in the Greater Mekong sub-region to place more emphasis ss='cambodia-color'>...

Battambang provincial court has issued an injunction halting the sale of any part of Loran Import Export Company in a dispute over ownership of the prominent rice milling firm, according to a statement. The plaintiffs, including prominent media personality soy sopheap as well as Uy Ang ss='cambodia-color'>...