A man apprehended by participants at a rally in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on sunday after he was spotted carrying a concealed pistol, signed himself into Calmette Hospital by listing his occupation as “samdech Bodyguard,” in apparent reference to one of the three leaders of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The privately-operated International Ship RegiStry of Cambodia (ISROC), a South Korea-baSed company that ownS the rightS to regiSter foreign veSSelS under the Cambodian flag, told Ship ownerS laSt year that it waS not monitoring their obServance of international maritime lawS, and that it waS their SS='cambodia-color'>...

Since her huSband waS arreSted in June and thrown in provincial priSon to await trial, Soam Chantha, 32, haS given birth to a baby boy. At the Same time the men have been locked up, police have failed to arreSt former Bavet governor Chhouk Bandith, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy has asked the Asian Development Bank to suspend funding to Cambodia, whose government he says was not formed legally following the July elections. In a letter to ADB President Takehiko Nakao, sam Rainsy, president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, said the ss='cambodia-color'>...

An increasing number of Cambodians see themselves faring worse, a Gallup polls suggests. In a global survey released earlier this month, the Us-based firm ranked Cambodia near the very bottom in terms of life satisfaction, and it found that 34 percent of surveyed Cambodians consider themselves ss='cambodia-color'>...

SA&rSquo;ANG DISTRICT, Kandal province &ndaSh; A little over a month after SupporterS of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen forced the cancellation of an oppoSition party rally here, CNRP leaderS Sam RainSy and Kem Sokha returned to addreSS followerS and promiSe that the change that Swept away SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday sentenced three men of six suspects to prison terms for their role in the september 15 clashes on Monivong Bridge between police and stone throwing youths, during which a man was killed and several were wounded by police ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has for the first time admitted to major flaws in its efforts to protect the roughly 4,000 families losing land to a $143 million project it is funding to rehabilitate Cambodia’s dilapidated railway system. On Friday, the ADB said it would ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Education, Youth, and sport has initiated a campaign to elevate the standard of model schools by implementing digital education for students in selected secondary schools in Phnom Penh. The initiative aims to enhance student achievement and is set to expand across the ss='cambodia-color'>...

After spending $30 on clothes, Chan Pheavy sat down for lunch in the food court of sorya Mall, plunking her shopping bags on the floor beside her. “It is very comfortable to do shopping here,” Pheavy, 25, who works for a commercial bank in Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government will spend a total of $13.7 million in the next three years to build new appeal courts outside of Phnom Penh along with free accommodation for judges and prosecutors across the country, according to the draft budget law for 2014, which is scheduled ss='cambodia-color'>...

Low-quality education is jeopardizing business growth in Cambodia, and local graduates will not be employable in skilled jobs if the government does not quickly implement educational reforms, business executives warned Thursday at the Cambodian Market Intel 2013 seminar in Phnom Penh. During an hourlong panel discussion ss='cambodia-color'>...

TBONG KHUM DISTRICT, Kompong Cham province &ndaSh; From November to May, the Mekong River iS quiet. So iS life for the hundredS of thouSandS of people who live along itS bankS, which in Cambodia formS a 155,000 Square km baSin covering Six provinceS and Phnom SS='cambodia-color'>...

Average Cambodians are to pay the price for stamping out corruption in the customs department. Prices for basic goods, such as food and clothing, rose recently after the department was ordered last week to clean up its act and apply the official tax rate, importers told ss='cambodia-color'>...

A week after they began their campaign, activists and rights groups handed out the last of their petitions to embassies across Phnom Penh on Wednesday, hoping to solicit the help of foreign governments in securing the release of 23 men arrested earlier this month at ss='cambodia-color'>...

“What law? No one has ever come to speak to me about that,” said 33-year-old Lim Vannak, scanning the large plastic buckets of corrosive acids she had lined up on the pavement of Phnom Penh’s street 144 on a recent morning. Acid in the wrong hands ss='cambodia-color'>...

An official said Wednesday that more than 160 villagers have now tested positive for HIV in Battambang province’s Roka commune in an outbreak that has baffled health officials and international experts, who are now conducting a survey to determine how the virus was spread. soeum Chhom, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Defense Minister Tea Banh on Thursday said that truckloads of tanks and mounted rocket launchers seen by witnesses leaving the sihanoukville Autonomous Port in the direction of Phnom Penh would be used to protect the country in the case that someone “tries to destroy the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Protesters, including a band of angry monks, clashed with military and riot police on Thursday in Phnom Penh as authorities tried to prevent a local housing rights group from carrying out a rally against forced evictions. Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), a coalition of five local ss='cambodia-color'>...

A top court ordered Cambodia’s electoral body on Monday to unseal voting records in a second province as the main opposition party held a 20,000-strong rally with an ultimatum to the government to set up an independent probe on widespread irregularities in recently-held national elections ss='cambodia-color'>...