The United StateS embaSSy in Phnom Penh containS an intelligence-gathering operation that amaSSeS information about Cambodia, the&nbSp;Sydney Morning Herald&nbSp;reported yeSterday, citing a map firSt publiShed in Germany&rSquo;S&nbSp;Der Spiegel. The&nbSp;Herald&nbSp;article referenced Some 90 international Surveillance SiteS, including oneS houSed in embaSSieS in neighbouring Jakarta, Yangon, Bangkok and SS='cambodia-color'>...

A Vietnamese company has been transporting thousands of dollars’ worth of illegally logged luxury timber from Kratie’s snuol district to Vietnam on a nightly basis under the nose of authorities, an environmental protection NGO said yesterday. At least 10 trucks with an estimated five cubic metres of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Lawmakers from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party yesterday unanimously voted to pass legislation which will create three new government ministries. sixty-six CPP representatives voted to create a Ministry of Public Function, which will oversee the affairs of civil servants. The MPs also followed through on a floated ss='cambodia-color'>...

The rights group Adhoc says it is monitoring “at least 100” individuals who are complicit in forestry crimes across the country. These include “high-ranking officers” of the police and military police; business tycoons; and ordinary citizens across 11 provinces, Chan soveth, a lead investigator for the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh commuters fed up with navigating the city’s increasingly busy streets will have a chance to test a new public bus service beginning in February. Phnom Penh Municipality spokesman Long Dimanche yesterday confirmed a one-month trial of a bus service along a 7.5-kilometre route running ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Independent Civil servants Association (CICA) has written to the minister of education to request teachers and education officials be given equal access to an exam allowing them to move up the ministry’s pay scale. The association claims the ministry has made recent changes to a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Thursday urged the Ministry of Economy and Finance to eliminate the practice of bribery or greasing the palm to facilitate development projects funded by the Ministry itself or the National Treasury. New Finance Minister, Oun Porn Monirath, successor of Keat Chhon, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three people have died, six remain missing and more than 100 homes have been affected by heavy rains that began on Wednesday in Kampong Chhnang and Kandal provinces, local authorities said yesterday. Prak sophorn, director of the Kampong Chnnang provincial Cambodian Red Cross office, said yesterday ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 work-study participants employed by NGO Digital Divide Data (DDD) in the capitol’s Chamkarmon district jumped on the strike bandwagon on Monday, demanding the same monthly wage garment workers are calling for, a union representative said yesterday. Employees are charged with transforming physical documents ss='cambodia-color'>...

Civil society groups and Phnom Penh municipal officials next month will hold a workshop to decide which designated slum areas will be the focus of a planned pilot project to improve living standards. On Tuesday night, Phnom Penh governor Pa socheatavong and members of civil society ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 60 wooden homes in Pursat province were burned to the ground Wednesday by officials in Veal Veng district, who claimed that the owners were living on state land, rights group Licadho said. “On Wednesday morning, police, military police, RCAF soldiers and the deputy provincial ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Australian senate has passed a motion that calls for an international investigation into the conduct and disputed result of last year’s national election. The motion, which was tabled by Australian Greens party leader and senator Christine Milne, also took note of the January 3 killing ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Chum district are demanding their land back, claiming buyers from a local company failed to uphold a 2007 deal. The 66 ethnic Kreung families filed a complaint on Friday after workers from a nearby rubber plantation started to slash and burn the 400 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 200 ethnic Kuoy minority villagerS in Preah Vihear&rSquo;S Chheb diStrict blocked tractorS belonging to a ChineSe company from bulldozing their rice cropS yeSterday, the Same day that diStrict authoritieS received a letter from the Interior MiniStry inStructing them to broker an agreement between villagerS SS='cambodia-color'>...

The governor of Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district will face arrest if he fails to appear for a second summons to Ratanakkiri Provincial Court to answer questions about his alleged involvement in the illegal logging of protected land around the Ou’sinlair waterfall, the court said yesterday. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new auto-mechanics training school at the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia (NPI) that aims to train select Cambodian youth and support a shortage in the labour market officially commenced construction yesterday. In partnership with the Ministry of Labour, joint sponsors the Korean International Cooperation Agency ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ever since some 500 people laid siege to the home of traditional healer pov sovann, dragged him out and brutally stoned him to death over the course of eight hours on sunday, two opposing sets of fears have gripped members of his community in Takeo ss='cambodia-color'>...

A mining delegation from Cambodia has left for a fact-finding tour of Australia in a bid to glean knowledge from one of the world’s largest minerals exploration countries. The trip is being coordinated by the International Mining for Development Centre of the Western Australia state government. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Eight members of Cambodia’s largest independent union were released on bail yesterday after being tried at Takeo Provincial Court over their alleged involvement in a factory protest late last week, officials said. Defence lawyer Kim socheat said the members of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 17-year-old high school student was charged Wednesday after he confessed to hacking a government website and creating a Facebook page on which he encouraged people to attack government websites as well as the websites of pro-government groups, officials confirmed, though the exact charges are ss='cambodia-color'>...