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In an effort to digitalize its public services, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport announced yesterday that registration of vehicles and payments for drivers’ licenses can now be made online by the end of the year. ...

Plans for a light railway system in Phnom Penh were discussed at a meeting between Public Works and Transportation Minister Sun Chanthol and Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) regional director-general Yasushi Tanaka on Friday. ...

Immigration officials say they will introduce a new visa category for foreign retirees as soon as Monday—the latest push in a campaign to encourage more expatriates to settle in Cambodia. ...

Local shops dealing in gold reported a surge in activity following the United Kingdom’s vote on Friday to leave the European Union – a decision that pushed international gold prices up sharply as worried investors sought a safe-haven asset. ...

A senior Interior Ministry official tasked with investigating the 170,000 thumbprints submitted in support of a CNRP petition to the king said on Thursday he had received samples of the prints but would be unable to proceed with his work without more money. ...

One in every four children in Cambodia under the age of 5 has not had their birth registered, but a new program aims to tackle the problem at the commune level using mobile phone technology, according to UNICEF. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has threatened to use the full force of the law against the hackers who attacked his website early on Saturday morning. ...

Long Dimanche, the spokesman for Phnom Penh City Hall and son of a secretary of state in the Foreign Affairs Ministry, has been appointed to replace Suth Dina, the disgraced former ambassador to South Korea. ...

The two ministers who were publicly scolded for their “very slow” work by Prime Minister Hun Sen in February both gave up control to their successors at a pair of handover ceremonies in Phnom Penh on Wednesday as part of a cabinet reshuffle approved by ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen vowed on Tuesday to arrest civil servants who gave the government a bad name and skewered political commentators for criticizing his cabinet reshuffle. ...

The National Assembly yesterday approved a reshuffle of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet, with a pair of unidentified opposition lawmakers backing the changes along with the ruling party, even after the prime minister reminded the CNRP he didn’t need their support.   ...

Outgoing minister of land management Im Chhun Lim and former Ministry of Tourism secretary of state Sam Prumnea are set to join the Constitutional Council. ...

The National Assembly’s permanent committee yesterday put forward Sam Promnea, a former Tourism Ministry secretary of state, as a new member of Cambodia’s Constitutional Council.   ...

On Monday, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced a new phase of the Public Financial Management Reform Program, a donor-assisted initiative established in 2004 to bolster the country’s ability to soundly manage its budget. In a speech at the launch event, he touted the government’s progress ...

A new government sub-decree addressing the regulation of working hours and attendance for civil servants and government contract employees was submitted to the Council of Ministers on Friday in an effort to increase productivity, but is still short on oversight and accountability, one observer said ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday revealed the names of the ministers who will be changing jobs in a cabinet reshuffle expected to be approved by ruling-party lawmakers early next month. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen told the United Nations that Cambodia is well equipped to send more peacekeepers on missions abroad if such a request is made. ...

Activists have cast doubt on whether Prime Minister Hun Sen’s new initiative for the country’s problems to be solved through social media can tackle the country’s most pervasive problem—land disputes. ...

Just a quarter of Cambodian voters are fully satisfied with the government’s efforts to deliver on its promises thus far in the fifth mandate, though more than half rated themselves partly so, according to the results of a nationwide survey conducted by election watchdog Comfrel. ...

Revenue for the state-owed Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) surged more than 40 percent last year from 2014, according to a preliminary report released last week. ...

Administrators at Phnom Penh’s Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital on Thursday refuted claims that hospital staff denied a brain scan, blood transfusions and surgery to a wom­an suffering from severe head wounds—a charge leveled by her husband shortly before she died there on Wednesday afternoon. ...

New reports of border officials at Poipet International Checkpoint demanding extra from travellers crossing the border between Cambodia and Thailand have again thrown the spotlight on the oft-maligned western gateway to the Kingdom, with an opposition lawmaker pledging action to stop the “anarchy”. ...

Less than a month after Phnom Penh Tollway began collecting money from commuters using the factory-lined Veng Sreng Boulevard in outer Phnom Penh, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Monday that the government would buy out the private firm and, as a New Year’s gift ...

Expired glue used in the production of Cambodia’s new generation of national identification cards is causing the top layer of some to peel off, though it’s unclear exactly how many of the 6.4 million issued since 2012 are affected, according to a Ministry of Interior ...