International relations

The Mondolkiri Provincial Court on Friday charged six Vietnamese nationals with illegally logging in the province’s O’Reang district, where they were caught felling first-grade Sokrom trees after allegedly crossing into Cambodia with the help of a local military officer, officials said Sunday. ...

Cambodian National Assembly (NA) supports topics that are raised by the 132nd Assembly of the Inter- Parliamentary Union (IPU) organizing committee and believed that those topics will be agreed among IPU members, said Heng Samrin, president of Cambodian National Assembly, while meeting with his Vietnamese ...

Another Montagnard asylum-seeker has arrived in Phnom Penh, joining 10 others who are still in the capital after having their requests to have their refugee claims processed rejected, according to the U.N. ...

The U.N. was due to appoint its new human rights envoy to Cambodia on Friday night at the 28th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, with British academic Rhona Smith expected to be selected from a three-person shortlist. ...

The Interior Ministry on Thursday confirmed for the first time that Cambodian officials are paying a second visit to the South Pacific island nation of Nauru this week to look for refugees interested in resettling in Cambodia, but said the delegation has yet to find ...

At a ceremony to inaugurate a new stupa at Phnom Penh’s Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum on Thursday, German Ambassador Joachim Baron von Marschall urged young Cambodians to be less reluctant to speak openly about the Khmer Rouge era, noting that it was Germany’s youth in ...

A spokesman for the Cambodian Secretary of State says Cambodia supported the Abbott government’s $40 million refugee resettlement agreement on “humanitarian” grounds and to strengthen ties with Australia. ...

A lack of capital is the main obstacle for Cambodia to expedite connectivity development and the Southeast Asian country hopes that the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Silk Road Fund will fill the shortage, a spokesman said. ...

A spokesman for the Cambodian Secretary of State says Cambodia supported the Abbott government’s $40 million refugee resettlement agreement on “humanitarian” grounds and to strengthen ties with Australia. ...

The stamp and postmark designed by Vietnamese artists will be produced as a joint issue stamp within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Aug. 8, 2015 to celebrate the association’s 48th founding anniversary and the formation of the ASEAN Economic Community by Dec. ...

A Ukrainian member of parliament sought by Cambodian authorities over allegations of child-rape was removed from Interpol’s most-wanted list on Tuesday night because, according to Cambodia’s Interpol office, “the case involves politics in Ukraine and Russia.” ...

A Ukrainian member of parliament sought by Cambodian authorities over allegations of child-rape was removed from Interpol’s most-wanted list on Tuesday night because, according to Cambodia’s Interpol office, “the case involves politics in Ukraine and Russia.” ...

Refugees on Nauru say Cambodian officials have returned to the tiny South Pacific island nation to once more try to convince some of them to resettle in Cambodia, according to an Australia-based group that advocates for refugee rights. ...

Refugees on Nauru say Cambodian officials have returned to the tiny South Pacific island nation to once more try to convince some of them to resettle in Cambodia, according to an Australia-based group that advocates for refugee rights. ...

Cambodia presented its human rights report before the United Nations Office in Geneva amid growing allegations that abuses are being systematically committed by state forces. The UN committee acknowledged that Cambodia has introduced some reforms in recent years, in particular land reform and registration of ...

Cambodia’s leader has publicly endorsed China’s position that territorial disputes in the South China Sea cannot be solved through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In Phnom Penh, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday the issue should be solved by the countries directly affected by ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng left for Australia on Tuesday amid ongoing efforts by the two countries to convince refugees Australia is currently holding on the South Pacific island nation of Nauru to resettle in Cambodia. ...

The United Nations’ refugee agency met this week with representatives of the Cambodian and Vietnamese governments to “discuss solutions” to the recent influx of Montagnard asylum seekers, with repatriation touted as a possible answer, the Post has learned. ...

China’s newly proposed, yet controversial, regional investment bank could be an opportunity for Cambodia to​ prove it can use foreign aid more effectively, a Cambodian Fulbright scholar says. ...

The government plans to rope in private firms for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s big diplomatic push to ‘Act East Policy’, with its proposed special purpose vehicle for investment in Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam set to offer up to 51 per cent stake to the ...

Grete Faremo, executive director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), said on Monday that UNOPS has a plan to open its office in Cambodia.​ ...

Following First Lady Michelle Obama’s three-day visit to Cambodia to promote her “Let Girl Learn” initiative, Cambodian officials say they hope for positive changes in girls’ education. Cambodia has nearly 1.5 million female students studying at primary and high schools, he said. But only 42 ...

Vice President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar will pay an official visit to Cambodia from 1-3 April to further enhance cooperation between the two countries, said U Cho Tun Aung, outgoing Myanmar Ambassador to Cambodia, today. ...

The president of the Asian Development Bank says a proposed Chinese-led regional bank is a potential partner instead of a rival and the ADB is talking with Beijing to share its experience. Takehiko Nakao’s comments came after Washington softened its opposition to the Chinese-proposed Asian Infrastructure ...