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Opposition lawmaker Real Camerin has written to the Anti-Corruption Unit denying accusations that he embezzled the majority of $55,000 he allegedly raised to help pay for trips to inspect the border with Vietnam. ...

The national high school exam will take place on August 24, but unlike last year there will be no second chance for those who fail, Prime Minister Hun Sen said. ...

The head of a research team investigating the demarcation of Cambodia’s borders yesterday called for changes to the Kingdom’s constitution to avoid losing land to Vietnam. ...

The Khmer Kampuchea Krom Buddhist Monk Association has slammed the August 1 arrest and defrocking of two monks, accusing police officials of detaining the pair on baseless and politically motivated charges. ...

Six Cambodian domestic workers were repatriated yesterday after spending three months in Malaysia where they were promised work by a broker but given only tourist visas. ...

Four Vietnamese nationals were jailed on kidnapping charges in Svay Rieng province on Saturday after allegedly detaining two of their countrymen over gambling debts in a casino in Bavet town.​ ...

The number of casualties from last week’s fatal bus crash in the Dankrek Mountains rose to 17 on Friday, after victim Sem Sambath, 58, succumbed to her injuries, Siem Reap Provincial Hospital director Pen Phalkun said yesterday. ...

Forestry officials confiscated 13 cubic meters of illegally logged timber in Stung Treng City on Saturday after discovering the wood hidden in a pond and the surrounding underbrush, an official said Sunday. ...

Following orders from Prime Minister Hun Sen, opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour was arrested and charged with forgery and incitement over the weekend for posting an apparently fake treaty with Vietnam to Facebook. ...

Officials in Kratie province are insisting that a small group of families involved in a local land dispute register with the Interior Ministry or be “punished.” ...

Local tech startups discussed a possible reduction in the Ministry of Commerce’s business registration fees at a meeting on Saturday, to ease the initial financial burden on their businesses, given the difficulty in raising funds in Cambodia’s nascent tech market. ...

Faced with slower growth at home and rising labour costs, Chinese entrepreneurs are seeking foreign markets as never before.But as they rush abroad, they are grappling for the first time with unruly trade unions and meddlesome journalists. ...

Thirty labor unions and associations appealed to the Labor Ministry on Friday to redraft its planned Trade Union Law, which they say will suppress industrial action and facilitate union busting, despite significant concessions in the latest draft. ...

Considered a nuisance throughout much of Cambodia, the long-tailed macaque might not seem like a species in need of protection. ...

Three activists from environmental NGO Mother Nature were summoned to appear at the Botum Sakor district police station in Koh Kong province on Friday to answer for their involvement in a campaign to chase off a sand-dredging company accused of destroying the environment, officials said. ...

In Cambodia, the first group of rats is training to help their human counterparts clear land still contaminated with mines and other unexploded ordnance (UXO) after decades of war.It might seem odd to use rats as deminers, but Apopo, an organization that trains Giant African ...

Every Saturday afternoon, in a room in the Phnom Penh offices of a German political foundation, chairs are arranged in a u-shape. About 50 people, from a range of backgrounds, gather and chit-chat. ...

Cambodia’s trade volume with foreign countries was valued at $ 9.75 billion in the first six months of 2015, an increase of 9.5 percent from $ 8.9 billion over the same period last year, according to Chinese News Agency-Xinhua quoted the ministry of commerce’s statistics. ...

Faced with slower growth at home and rising labor costs, Chinese entrepreneurs are seeking foreign markets as never before. But as they rush abroad, they are grappling for the first time with unruly trade unions, independent courts and meddlesome journalists. And for many, navigating the ...

Former Phnom Penh Municipal Court Director Ang Mealaktei was arrested, said Om Yentieng, senior minister and chairman of Anti-Corruption Unit. ...

The Cambodia International Machinery Industry Fair is to be held in conjunction with the Cambodia International Textile and Garment Industry Fair at Koh Pich from the August 21 to 24. ...

His Majesty Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia, and Her Majesty Queen-Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk departed here this morning for a routine medical checkup in China. ...

The royal government of Cambodia said the originals of Cambodian maps borrowed from the UN will arrived here on Aug. 18, at 22:12.  ...

Cambodia launched a health strategic plan in 2002, in an effort to improve services to areas that lack medical personnel and resources. But in many rural areas, there has been little progress, and even an awareness of basic hygiene and disease prevention remains considerably low. ...