In southwest Cambodia, at the foot of the Cardamom Mountains, is a single dirt road that meanders through the heart of the pristine Areng valley. Ten miles down this road, villagers have set up an encampment to stop a hydroelectric dam project that they fear ss='cambodia-color'>...

An ice-skating rink, bowling alley, seven-screen cinema and a proverbial catwalk of high-end European and Us labels will start vying for a slice of Cambodia’s rising middle class inside the soon-to-open AEON Mall, management with the firm overseeing it confirmed on saturday. The Japanese-owned shopping centre’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition is eyeing two leading civil society figures and deputy party leader Kem sokha’s daughter to fill the three remaining slots the party holds on the nine-member National Election Committee, according to a high-level party source. Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker-elect Kuoy Bunroeun has already ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia will send a detachment of 216 peacekeepers to the United Nations stabilisation mission in the Central African Republic (MINUsCA), the Information Ministry has said. The Kingdom already sent a delivery of tanks, trucks and other materiel there on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Shortly after a Speech in New York by US PreSident Barack Obama, in which he applauded the effortS of human rightS defenderS, Cambodian Foreign MiniSter Hor Namhong SayS hiS country iS making progreSS. Obama acknowledged the work of two Cambodian rightS activiSt during a Speech at SS='cambodia-color'>...

An opposition official has hit back at claims made by “Khmer for Khmer” founder Kem Ley last week that CNRP Vice President Kem sokha has collected a salary of $15,000 per month since the opposition joined parliament in August. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of workers who were fired from a Phnom Penh garment factory returned to work yesterday after Phnom Penh Municipal Court filed an injunction on Monday requiring management to reinstate them. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After issuing an extraordinarily public resignation announcement on her Facebook page last week, Prime Minister Hun sen’s sister Hun sinath has officially left her job at the Ministry of National Assembly-senate Relations and Inspection. According to a Royal Decree that was signed on Monday, King ss='cambodia-color'>...

The head monks of Phnom Penh’s Wat samakki Raingsey on Tuesday drafted a letter rebutting City Hall’s claims of illicit and immoral behavior at the pagoda, which has drawn the government’s ire over the past year by supporting evicted villagers from across the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court haS denied bail to RuSSian buSineSSman Nikolai DoroShenko, who waS arreSted at hiS family&rSquo;S reStaurant in Sihanoukville laSt week and jailed on a trio of fraud chargeS related to a diSpute with fugitive developer Sergei PolonSky, the inveStigating judge Said SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s King Norodom sihamoni swore in opposition leader sam Rainsy and 54 others from his party as lawmakers Tuesday, bringing to an end their 10-month boycott of parliament following disputed national elections. The ceremony at the Royal Palace in the capital Phnom Penh came two weeks ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials are requesting the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) to destroy an anti-tank mine unearthed last week next to a sihanoukville town street. According to village chief Heng Bunly, Commune 4 is rife with UXO because it was a former military base during the Lon ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen’s sister Hun sinath has resigned from her job as a secretary of state over what she said was her colleagues’ fear of investigating a land dispute between villagers in Kampong speu province and tycoon Ly Yong Phat. sinath revealed her resignation ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ethnic Bunong communities in Mondulkiri’s Bousraa commune will soon hold protests that will call on French industrialist Vincent Bollore to honour promises his firm made during a meeting with them in Paris in October, a representative has said. His Bollore investment group is a shareholder in ss='cambodia-color'>...

A report based on interviews with 54 children has exposed critical failings in Cambodia’s judicial system, recounting stories of unpleasant experiences in the presence of police, doctors and court rooms. UNICEF and Hagar, a child rights NGO based in Cambodia, released Wednesday “A system Just for ss='cambodia-color'>...

The head monks of Phnom Penh’s Wat samakki Raingsey on Tuesday drafted a letter rebutting City Hall’s claims of illicit and immoral behavior at the pagoda, which has drawn the government’s ire over the past year by supporting evicted villagers from across the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A recently elected village chief in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district, who was forced into another election by his rival, was arrested on Wednesday during the second poll. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Sihanoukville arreSted a TurkiSh buSineSSman Friday&nbSp;afternoon, leSS than 24 hourS after gunmen fired up to 10 ShotS at hiS car from a paSSing vehicle, leaving a Cambodian man wounded outSide KampongSom City CaSino on ThurSday night, officialS Said. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Incensed by the prime minister’s assertion last week that the “same faces” always show up at protests, a group of Phnom Penh’s most prominent anti-eviction activists picketed City Hall on Monday to vent their anger. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 women’s rights activists were prevented from riding tuk-tuks to the National Assembly and the Phnom Penh headquarters of the ruling CPP on Tuesday, but successfully delivered a petition to the opposition CNRP demanding female representation on the reformed National Election Committee. ss='cambodia-color'>...