More than 200 mines, rockets and rounds of ammunition were found in Preah Vihear’s Sangkom Thmei district on Wednesday about 150 meters from the Prasat Damrei temple, officials said. ...

A kilogram of methamphetamine was confiscated and two men were apprehended in Pursat province on Tuesday by police who said the arrests had uncovered a new drug supply route in the country. ...

Increasingly closer ties between Phnom Penh and Beijing are spurring a rise of Chinese investment into the Kingdom, with businesses from the world’s second-largest economy now taking a closer look at Cambodia’s agricultural sector, Chinese officials said during a press tour last week to the ...

Nearly a hundred of senior Thai officials and entrepreneurs from six lower northeastern provinces met with counterparts from five Cambodian border provinces on June 26th in siem Reap, Cambodia, to discuss their cooperation in trade, investment and tourism. ...

A blaze authorities have attributed to a forest fire ripped through a nearly 4,000-cubic-metre timber stockpile on a social land concession in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district on the weekend, although the company yesterday said it suspected a case of arson. ...

After negotiations between vendors and management at Phnom Penh’s Sorya Mall ended without a solution on Wednesday, hundreds of disgruntled shopkeepers shut their shops on Thursday, effectively closing one of the city’s biggest shopping centers. ...

Cambodia is a major player in ASEAN for realizing China’s Belt and Road Initiative, which Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed last year to connect China to neighboring countries and the world, Chinese officials said.   ...

Three women have been granted awards for their contributions to the technology sector in Cambodia. Fat Si Em, a transport and planning manager at a telecomm company, won the ICT Engineer Award; Long Leakhena, a buSinesswoman, won the Woman ICT Entrepreneur award; and Chan Penh ...

Police and military officials were searching for six missing Cambodians yesterday who villagers believe were shot dead by Thai soldiers on Saturday night after entering the Khun Han district of Thailand’s si Saket province in search of luxury timber. Neth Hing, who lives in Oddar Meanchey’s ...

In the latest series of arrests involving illegal logging on the Cambodian-Thai border, 21 Cambodians were picked up by Thai authorities on Friday while attempting to smuggle rosewood into Oddar Meanchey province, a rights group said yesterday. Srey Naren, provincial coordinator for rights groups Adhoc, ...

Eight SET international (SI) schools have closed nationwide over the past two months because of financial problems, and the remaining two schools in Phnom Penh and Kompong Chhnang provinces also appear poised to shut their doors soon, a Ministry of Education official said. The abrupt cloSIngs ...

More than 300 villagers from Kampong Cham province’s Chamkar Leu, Memot, and Stung Trang districts gathered in Phnom Penh on Friday to protest against a plan to relocate them from their land in order to make way for rubber plantations. The villagers contend they have ...

Hundreds of families in Koh Kong province’s Khmara Phoumint City are suffering from a shortage of water, which is provided by a reservoir that dried up during the hot season, local officials said yesterday. Smach Meanchey and Dang Tong communes typically receive water from the Cham ...

Several days of rain have finally brought relief to hundreds of families in Koh Kong province’s Khemara Phoumint City who had been without water for two weeks because the reservoir that provides their supply dried up during hot season. LYP Group, a company owned by ...

The cabinet yesterday approved the Commerce Ministry’s plan to develop a rice trade partnership with Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam to stabilise international rice prices According to a source at the Commerce Ministry, the rice trade zone project will begin with Cambodia and will involve rice ...

At a meeting with Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen had admitted Cambodians were conducting illegal logging and that Thai authorities were right to attempt to defend their territory. On Saturday, 20 natural resource protection officials from Si Sa Ket province which borders ...

About 500 people gathered outside Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar prison on Tuesday to demand the release of form­er Capitol Tours bus driver Nan Vanna and la­bor activist Ros si­phay, who were arrested two weeks ago for participating in a demonstration against the company. ...

In what is becoming an all too familiar tale, another mother of a domestic worker who was sent to Malaysia has filed a complaint alleging her daughter is being exploited. Chea si Yan said yesterday she wanted her daughter and goddaughter to come home because they ...

The Philippines’ PLDT Global Corp (PGC) unveiled a new partnership with Cambodia’s SINET, a registered trademark of SI Group Co Ltd, to broaden its regional footprint and supply technology solutions that help the local telecoms service provider’s customers stream more seamlessly. ...

A combined task force of Thai soldiers and national park officials yesterday arrested 38 Cambodian villagers who encroached on the Panom Dong Rak Wildlife Sanctuary in Thailand’s Si Sa Ket province, which borders Oddar Meanchey province. Thai National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department chief Damrong ...