The National Assembly will conduct a session on Friday to announce the new parliamentary representative for Takeo province, replacing Deputy Prime Minister sok An who died last month.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Facebook has long been the key battleground in Cambodian politics, with parties wrestling for the ear of a young and increasingly connected electorate. But recent analytics show a particularly political brand of social media addiction in the Kingdom, even by regional standards, pushing the stakes ss='cambodia-color'>...

Axiata Group sold a 10 percent stake of its Cambodian subsidiary smart Axiata to Japanese group Mitsui Co Ltd to form a strategic partnership and further the firm’s activity in the Kingdom, according to a company release on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amnesty International today accused the ruling CPP of using its grip on the judiciary to systematically harass and intimidate civil society and urged the government to drop cases against opposition activists and human rights defenders. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Ministry plans to monitor the Facebook page of former opposition president sam Rainsy for violations of newly passed amendments to the Law on Political Parties, which will also force the CNRP to spend upwards of half a million dollars to erase his image ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) will open a museum on finance and monetary matters in January 2018, a representative of the central bank has announced. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s former opposition leader sam Rainsy’s reverence for political change is exceeded only by his reverence for himself as the instigator of it. That may be why, this weekend in the United states, he launched the Cambodia National Rescue Movement (CNRM), a new body that is ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and Vietnam signed an agreement earlier this month to greatly expand Cambodia’s cashew exports by 2028, but the proposed export level would require several hundred thousand hectares of additional land and there is no concrete plan yet to meet the target. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Senior government figureS yeSterday noted major flawS in an ongoing drug crackdown, among them a lack of rehabilitation for incarcerated uSerS, during a day-long review of the campaign yeSterday. The government alSo propoSed eStabliShing five ill-defined “white villageS” &ndaSh; or drug-free locationS &ndaSh; on the SS='cambodia-color'>...

About 300 people from 11 provinces gathered at Prime Minister Hun sen’s cabinet near Wat Botum pagoda yesterday to ask for help in their ongoing dispute with Empire Big Capital Limited, an investment company that cheated thousands of victims out of nearly $60 million. In May ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia currently faces significant foreign policy challenges amid great power rivalry in the Asia-Pacific. Against the backdrop of Us President Donald Trump’s uncertain and unpredictable foreign policy in the region, China’s economic, military, and strategic influence over Cambodia continues to grow. China is now Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Tbong Khmum province seized two trucks that were about to break the government’s ban on timber exports to Vietnam by carting wood across the border for a company owned by business mogul Kith Meng. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s national debt stood at $5.8 billion at the end of 2016, totalling nearly a third of GDP, according to the latest debt bulletin released by the Ministry and Economy and Finance earlier this month. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Angkor Wat was yesterday named the world’s number one landmark in TripAdvisor’s 2017 Traveller’s Choice awards. The World Heritage site beat competition from the likes of India’s Taj Mahal, Peru’s Machu Picchu, and st Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City to take the top spot. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amnesty International today accused the ruling CPP of using its grip on the judiciary to systematically harass and intimidate civil society and urged the government to drop cases against opposition activists and human rights defenders. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The British government has attempted to assuage the fears of least developed countries (LDCs) including Cambodia by assuring them that they will retain their trade privileges to the United Kingdom following the country’s exit from the European Union ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Supreme Court yeSterday upheld a lower court&rSquo;S deciSion to deny jailed political analySt Kim Sok&rSquo;S requeSt for bail, alSo rejecting hiS requeSt to SummonS Prime MiniSter Hun Sen, the plaintiff in the two defamation and incitement caSeS that landed the analySt in detention. SS='cambodia-color'>...

he Kingdom’s biggest industrial park is moving beyond its initial development stage and looking to attract nearly 200 new tenants in the next five years as it doubles its footprint. ss='cambodia-color'>...

n a speech to 65 senior government officials yesterday, Cambodia’s acting foreign affairs minister said this month had been “the worst” so far in the history of Cambodia-Us relations. “Our relationship seems to be difficult,” said Ouch Borith, who is second-in-command at the Foreign Affairs Ministry. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new study on wind energy and its potential to diversify Cambodia’s energy sector is now being conducted, with results expected for mid next year, according to a representative of the Ministry of Mines and Energy. ss='cambodia-color'>...