When Pang Vunny walks around his rented room just off of Veng sreng Boulevard, he waves his hand from side to side in front of him, like a man feeling his way in the dark. Ever since he was arrested and badly beaten on January 2 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite sustained levels of high economic growth, most people in Cambodia are still eating rice at every meal, with little meat, fish or vegetables, meaning undernutrition will remain high and stunting common among children if the government does not scale up targeted health programs, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The financial burden inflicted by hundreds of thousands of returning Cambodian migrant workers has already reached $5 million in government-mobilised emergency services alone, according to official estimates. In less than two weeks, nearly 200,000 mostly undocumented Cambodian migrants have spilled through the Thai-Cambodia border, fleeing what ss='cambodia-color'>...

As part of the ongoing effort to create agreed-upon border posts between Cambodia and Vietnam, officials from both countries will demarcate land in svay Rieng province this month, setting the stage for a possible confrontation with an opposition lawmaker-elect who intends to visit the same ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Lao government has agreed to a lengthy public consultation process with its neighbors before building a controversial hydropower dam on the Mekong River, within 2 km of the Cambodian border, according to the environmental group WWF. Laos announced the 256-MW Don sahong dam last year ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Public Works and Transportation (MPWT) and the Phnom Penh municipality are preparing a ban on heavy trucks crossing the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge after cracks were discovered in a pillar on the bridge’s eastern end, a City Hall official confirmed yesterday. At a meeting ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen lambasted a senior official in the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) on Thursday after announcing that he would allocate money to aid victims of recent floods that have killed a total of 12 people. speaking at the Chaktomuk Conference Hall for ss='cambodia-color'>...

Australia has reportedly installed a key immigration bureaucrat in its Phnom Penh embassy as the government prepares to send up to 1000 asylum seekers in its care on Nauru to Cambodia. Greg Kelly, who formerly headed the detention operations division of the Immigration Department and managed ss='cambodia-color'>...

While the smoke has long cleared on January’s violent garment strikes, for many of the 23 workers and unionists arrested and tried on charges widely considered to be baseless, the ordeal is far from over. Nine months after security forces used deadly violence to end strikes ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian scholars have voiced their support to Chinese President Xi Jinping for his announcement of China’s contribution of 40 billion U.s. dollars for the establishment of a silk Road Fund, saying that such a fund is vital for developing countries. Chheang Vannarith, senior researcher of ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 soldiers in Pursat province have threatened to resign en masse after being ordered to bulldoze their own lands, which are claimed by tycoon Try Pheap’s MDs Import Export Company. The threat of mass resignations came two days after a soldier, seng Pov, took ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thai soldiers admitted to burning alive two men last week who may have been undocumented Cambodians, Battambang military officials said yesterday. Cambodian officers said their Thai counterparts informed them that on the night of January 7, four Cambodians illegally crossed the border with intentions of evading ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian national who was allegedly arrested on Thursday alongside dozens of Montagnard asylum seekers remained missing yesterday, while those sent back to Vietnam were reportedly abused by authorities for their attempted escape. Forty-two-year-old Dy Heun, an ethnic Jarai from Ratanakkiri province, was officially reported missing ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Council of Ministers has granted farmers in Kompong Thom province permission to start farming on the floodplains of the Tonle sap lake in an area previously off limits and home to flooded forests that provide a critical fish breeding habitat. The Council of Ministers’ notice, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Economic ministers from the 16 participating countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) have reiterated their commitment to conclude negotiations by the end of 2015. The ministers reaffirmed they are committed to ending the RCEP negotiations in line with the vision endorsed by their state ss='cambodia-color'>...

Resintech Bhd, a local Polyethylene and poly vinyl chloride (PVC) pipe manufacturer, will tap into the rubber plantation sector in a bid to diversify its business segment given the healthy outlook on the rubber industry. Resintech’s managing director Datuk Teh Kim Poo said that according to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tropical Storm Sinlaku iS expected to hit Cambodia today, bringing with it heavy rainS and flooding for reSidentS in the Kingdom&rSquo;S northeaStern provinceS, a government meteorologiSt confirmed. Mondulkiri and Ratanakkiri are expected to be the moSt vulnerable areaS, and the Storm will have little effect on SS='cambodia-color'>...

US AmbaSSador William Todd created the AmbaSSador&rSquo;S Youth Council in Cambodia in 2012, one of 80 Such groupS of youth around the world. The goal iS to create better relationS between Cambodia and the US and to cultivate young leaderS for Cambodia, he Said. “ThoSe SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Kampot Provincial Court on Thursday sentenced the former Banteay Meas district police chief and his former deputy to four years and two years in prison respectively for embezzling funds and taking bribes amounting to $64,360 over a five-year period, a court official said. In March, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four ethnic Jarai village representatives in Ratanakkiri province, including the wife of a rights group activist, were ordered to appear at court today or face arrest on charges of defamation against Keat Kolney, the sister of Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon. The case is part of ss='cambodia-color'>...