Several weekS after villagerS on the outSkirtS of a community foreSt in Battambang Province began clearing treeS and Seizing land, foreStry adminiStration officialS Say there haS been a lull in deforeStation. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The first group of refugees to arrive in Cambodia as part of a controversial deal the government struck with Australia a year ago have moved out of their temporary accommodations in Phnom Penh, the Australian government said Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Immigration police rounded up nearly 80 Vietnamese migrant workers along with six European engineers at the construction site of a new Cambodia Beer factory in Phnom Penh on Monday afternoon because they did not possess work permits, according to an immigration official. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A joint commission of 10 lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties yesterday met for the first time to review the draft law on trade unions, and two of 21 articles that were flagged as controversial by unions have changed slightly. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Environmental experts concern of a drop in the number of rare species of fish in the river in the northeastern province including of the Upper Mekong Basin, srepok River and se san river. The worry after a number of exotic fish caught in the area’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

A spending bill approved by the U.s. senate Appropriations Committee last week proposes to make U.s. aid to Cambodia in 2017 contingent on an end to the government’s harassment of the opposition and civil society. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly’s Permanent Committee will resume meeting this morning to discuss proposals related to draft laws and to set a date for the seventh plenary session, while the opposition party is still considering ending its parliamentary boycott, aiming to seek ways to settle the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Immigration Department warned Interior Ministry officials on Wednesday not to issue Cambodian citizenship documents, such as birth certificates and ID cards, to foreigners living in the Kingdom. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The teeth of some 60,000 Cambodian children have been “sealed” to help prevent tooth decay under an oral health project that recently concluded, but many more continue to be in need of such service, given the country’s significantly high tooth-decay rate. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Beat Richner, the founder and head of the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital and a Health Ministry adviser, is seriously ill and has resigned from his position as managing director. ss='cambodia-color'>...

 In a country known for its political patronage networks, volunteering for a demotion is rare. But Moeung Visalsok, 46, a ruling Cambodian People’s Party district council member in Kampong Chhnang province, is doing just that.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian People’s Party won 70 percent of the country’s 1,646 commune councils at yesterday’s elections, according to unofficial results published by a government-aligned media outlet – a marked drop from the 97 percent it won in 2012 but one far smaller than the opposition ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Committee for Counter Trafficking’s (NCCT) six-month report, released on Monday, identified two cases of child labour in brick-making factories in siem Reap, though officials and a rights group monitor said the use of such labour had decreased in the province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen ordered the government to draw up a plan to fund the country’s popular Kantha Bopha children’s hospitals on Monday, four months after the long-serving director of the foundation that runs them resigned. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new million-dollar night market in Phnom Penh has become a fashionable hang out spot for young Cambodians, but in 2009 the Dey Krahorm community was violently expelled from the area and their homes razed in one of Cambodia’s most high profile forced evictions. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chinese aid and expertise—and perhaps some fighter jets—will help modernize Cambodia’s military, Defense Minister Tea Banh said on Monday as navy vessels from China and the U.s. paid courtesy calls to Cambodia’s ports. speaking after his return from the 7th Xiangshan Forum, a regional security summit ss='cambodia-color'>...

Pen Sovann, Cambodia&rSquo;S firSt prime miniSter after the VietnameSe invaSion in January 1979 that Swept the Khmer Rouge from power and a Serving oppoSition member of parliament, paSSed away at hiS home in Takeo province&rSquo;S Duan Keo town on Saturday evening aged 80. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnam inked a deal with Cambodia on Friday to provide more than half a million dollars’ worth of training in encryption coding, prompting some to question the wisdom of accepting foreign help to protect state secrets. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen returned from a three-day trip to China yesterday, all but confirming in a statement what observers have long theorised: that Cambodia now sees China’s backing as a bulwark against Western criticisms over its rights record. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Violence in Cambodia has escalated in recent months with Prime Minister Hun sen’s attempts to quash competition ahead of the upcoming elections on July 29, 2018. security and surveillance measures have been strengthened, media outlets have been closed down, protests have been met with violence and mass ss='cambodia-color'>...