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Three members of an alleged international drug syndicate and more than 1 ton of marijuana they are accused of importing from Laos were on Tuesday paraded before reporters during a press conference at the National Police headquarters in Phnom Penh. ...

The Education Ministry on Tuesday oversaw the groundbreaking of a $4 million high school that will be built on land that was once the municipal dump in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. ...

Viet Nam and Cambodia, at a high-ranking meeting in Phnom Penh yesterday, agreed to co-operate further to implement the co-operation agreements they signed in the field of religion and belief. Dung said the implementation of bilateral agreements signed in February this year would help to ...

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia. The deal involves information exchange and collaboration in many aspects. The move also aims to further strengthen ties between the telecom regulators. ...

The Cambodia’s three found-maps by UK in the British Library were published by Services Geographique de l’Indochine are the maps printed in between 1933 and 1953. ​​ ...

The Seventh Cambodia – Lao PDR – Myanmar – Viet Nam (CLMV) Economic Ministers’ Meeting (EMM) was held on 25 August 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, according to ASEAN secretariat’s press release.The Meeting was chaired by H.E. Mr. Pan Sorasak, Secretary of State for Commerce, ...

The Cambodian government will return 18 map sections to the UN, but opposition officials say they still doubt the legitimacy of maps used in marking the border with Vietnam. ...

With China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, heading to the United States next month for talks with President Barack Obama, Cambodian observers say their country would benefit from improved relations between the two powers. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen thanked the U.N. on Sunday for providing maps that he said prove that the government had upheld the law in its work demarcating the country’s border with Vietnam. ...

Environment Minister Say Sam Al and a group of NGOs on Monday agreed to cooperate to resolve a years long dispute between hundreds of families in Koh Kong province and a Chinese company they accuse of stealing their land. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen called for the Royal Government officials in charge of hospitality service to pay high attention to fasten procedure and work effectively with private sectors to improve the country’s economy. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen addressed a dinner of powerful businessmen Saturday night, claiming he could be a “professor” to Western leaders, who are beginning to bore him with their advice. ...

Japan and the five Southeast Asian countries bordering the Mekong River adopted a blueprint Monday to boost industrialization in the subregion.​ It aims to boost the combined gross domestic product of the grouping to $4.7 trillion by 2020. ASEAN’s combined GDP is currently estimated at ...

Police seized more than 2 tons of marijuana in Phnom Penh on Friday evening and later arrested four suspected drug dealers, police said Sunday. ...

Boasting of his more than 30 years’ ruling Cambodia, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Saturday that he could teach a thing or two to the West about running a country while managing demands for change.The premier, who is Southeast Asia’s longest-serving current leader, recalled ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook page surpassed 1 million likes yesterday, earning him a spot in the country’s top 10 most-liked pages on Cambodia’s most popular social network. ...

The Ministry of Interior has sent a stern warning to its officials found to be collecting salaries from other organisations, including private sector actors: stick to your day job. ...

Prayers, blessings and visits to shrines have replaced cheat notes in this year’s Grade 12 exam. ...

Industrial technology companies from across Asia expect garment manufacturers to turn to mechanization as a way to supplement human labor power in Cambodia. ...

With public statements of their own over the weekend, the national police and armed forces dutifully fell in behind Prime Minister Hun Sen’s call on Friday for swift legal action against anyone who still dared to dispute that his government was using the right maps ...

The transport ministries of Vietnam and Laos have affirmed close cooperation in all aspects of the transport sector at an annual bilateral ministerial meeting in Hanoi on August 22. Vietnam and Cambodia reached consensus on a range of traffic matters at a ministerial-level meeting held ...

Cambodian Minister of Post and Telecommunications Prak Sokhonn on Sunday praised Chinese-owned Southeast Asia Telecom (Cambodia), or SEATEL, for investing a huge amount of capital in the development of 4G services in Cambodia. ...

A slew of anonymous graft accusations against two district officials—accompanied by responses of denial—were posted separately to the website of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Friday, continuing the agency’s recent surge in such exposure. ...

Twenty undocumented Vietnamese laborers are being held for deportation after they were arrested Friday during a raid on a construction site for a new Acleda Bank branch in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, an immigration official said. ...