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Police and military police officials across the country on Wednesday said they had tightened security at shops and markets, a day after Interior Minister Sar Kheng threatened to demote provincial police chiefs who failed to make arrests following a wave of violent armed robberies. ...

With strong bipartisan support, the National Assembly on Wednesday passed the country’s first animal health and production law, which sets out rules for the humane treatment of livestock and the safe processing of animal meat. ...

In what it says is a bid to fight graft in the Kingdom from the bottom up, the Ministry of Education announced yesterday the expansion of its anti-corruption curriculum to junior high school students. ...

Ending their almost two-month boycott of parliament, opposition lawmakers yesterday joined their ruling party counterparts at the National Assembly in unanimously passing three laws.The plenary session, attended by 68 Cambodian People’s Party parliamentarians and 34 from the opposition Cambodia Nation Rescue Party, was by and ...

Having recently disbanded the so-called estimated tax regime, a flexible scheme that reduced the tax obligations of small and medium enterprises, the General Department of Taxation has issued a new prakas aimed at hastening tax audits and the appeals process, but which also increases the ...

Sourn Serey Ratha, the formerly self-exiled president of the new Khmer Power Party, said yesterday that he was preparing to sue Foreign Minister Hor Namhong for defamation for insinuating last week that Ratha was a “terrorist”, an accusation the government had long levelled at the ...

National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung held talks with visiting President of the Cambodia Senate Samdech Say Chhum in Hanoi on December 16, dealing with an array of important contents of comprehensive cooperation between the two legislatures. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday called on Asean member states to work together on cross-border rescues of citizens in the wake of natural or man-made disasters. ...

President Truong Tan Sang has expressed his belief that cooperation between the Vietnamese National Assembly and Cambodian Senate will grow further. ...

Cambodia will do its best to develop the traditional friendship and comprehensive cooperation with Vietnam to a new height, Cambodian Senate President Say Chhum assured Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong during their meeting in Hanoi on December 16.   ...

The territorial conflict between Thailand and Cambodia will not be discussed during Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to Thailand this week, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha says. ...

Lawmakers for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) attended a plenary session at the National Assembly Wednesday, ending a parliamentary boycott that has lasted for weeks. ...

In an effort to clamp down on illegal construction, the Ministry of Land Management, Urbanization and Construction yesterday threatened to take strict legal action against the owners of any construction companies operating without permits in cities and central areas nationwide. ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy, currently in self-imposed exile and lobbying for foreign diplomatic support, told supporters in France on Sunday that Cambodia should not rely on foreign powers to solve its own problems, given the country’s history. ...

Police chiefs in three provinces have been given an ultimatum from Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng – put a stop to armed robberies or step down. ...

Cambodian manufacturers have to improve the quality of the packaging of their goods if they want to attract investment and compete internationally, Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol said at the opening of trade show yesterday. ...

In 2015, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs rescued 118 Cambodian women trapped in China and Malaysia, ministry spokesman Chum Sounry said yesterday. Eighty brides from China that were deceived by a broker and handed over to Chinese men, as well as 38 maids from Malaysia, ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to Thailand this week reaffirms brightening relations between the two countries after the Cambodian premier sent a delegation to extend his goodwill to the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) in July last year. ...

A pair of Chinese classical music coaches from the Tianjin Conservatory of Music performed here on Tuesday to further enhance cultural ties between the two countries. ...

Revenue from business registration fees rose 13 percent to about $2.4 million in the first 11 months of the year over the same period last year, with 4,076 businesses registering at the Commerce Ministry compared to 3,618 in the year-ago period, the ministry said yesterday. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday called for people to be more careful with what they ingest, as the death toll from rice wine poisoning in the past week rose to 20 with another death in Kratie province and two others reported dead in remote ...

An official at the Ministry of Mines and Energy has confirmed that a Chinese company is applying for a license to extract gold from a 100-hectare plot in Mondolkiri province, but insisted that the project would only go forward with the consent of local, small-scale ...

The volume of fish harvested from the Tonle Sap Lake is likely to rise in the fishing season that starts today due to better weather conditions, a senior official from Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry told Khmer Times yesterday. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered authorities around the country to “crack down” on groups involved in armed robberies following a recent crime wave that has left a number of people killed and injured. ...