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In a few weeks, Cambodian high school seniors will sit down to take the national college entrance exam. Last August, Cambodia’s Minister Hang Chuon Naron pulled off a revolution. He cracked down on cheating. Pass and fail rates neatly flipped, with only 25 percent passing ...

Phnom Penh City Hall on Monday canceled a contract with a local construction company that had been operating a pair of tollbooths on Street 2004 in Sen Sok district to raise funds for the road’s ongoing construction and maintenance. ...

Describing complainants as opportunists, the Apsara Authority on Sunday rejected allegations that it has not complied with a sub-decree ordering it to return 220 hectares of land to local villagers in Siem Reap province. ...

Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky, who was deported to Moscow last month to face trial on serious fraud charges, could be allowed to return to Cambodia in five years’ time, an immigration official said Sunday. ...

Cross-border porters in Banteay Meanchey’s Poipet town over the weekend defended the decision last week to stage a demonstration over customs fees – a demonstration that turned violent and ultimately left four injured – saying that import tax and unofficial fees exacted by police are ...

A complaint lodged with the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) alleges that a high-level planning official in Phnom Penh has been illegally building a house that has caused damage to neighbouring buildings, and used his influence to override a court order for construction to stop. ...

In their latest crackdown on shisha, Phnom Penh police detained, “educated” and informed the parents of 80 people found smoking the flavored tobacco out of water pipes at two separate establishments over the weekend, officials said Sunday. ...

More than 300 locals from Tbong Khmum province accompanied by opposition lawmakers scuffled with Vietnamese soldiers Sunday morning while trying to reach a disputed 16.6-hectare plot of land along the country’s border with Vietnam. ...

Funcinpec President Prince Norodom Ranariddh on Sunday warned the leaders of the CNRP to call off their “culture of dialogue” with the ruling CPP, which he said was an attempt by the opposition party’s leaders to trick their supporters. ...

A deadline set by Prime Minister Hun Sen to finalize a controversial draft NGO law by the end of May will be missed, as a government spokesman said discussions were put on hold while the Interior Minister is abroad. ...

In anticipation of World No Tobacco Day on Sunday, Phnom Penh’s City Hall called upon tobacco companies to stop the illegal advertisement of cigarettes and for district officials to start enforcing non-smoking zones, in an event at Wat Phnom on Friday. ...

The Ministry of Labor issued a statement Friday claiming that the controversial draft Trade Union Law is aimed at protecting the rights of workers, after unions announced they would write to the ministry, the National Assembly and the European Union next week calling for the ...

Three Chinese men and a Cambodian were charged Friday by the Battambang Provincial Court for operating unlicensed medical facilities and supplying spoiled or fake drugs, a court official said. ...

Much of Cambodia’s electrical infrastructure was destroyed or heavily damaged during its civil war. Starting almost from scratch, the country has relied heavily on imported electricity while it rebuilds infrastructure and develops new energy sources. Keo Rottanak, director-general of Electricite du Cambodge (EdC), which controls ...

The portion of the Cambodian population that is undernourished has been reduced by half since 1990, meeting a U.N. Millennium Development Goal ahead of the deadline at the end of the year, according to a report released Thursday. ...

The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has decided to relocate the Royal University of Fine Arts from its central Phnom Penh location to the outskirts of the city to allow for an expansion of the National Museum, officials said Thursday. ...

About 500 workers from a Taiwanese-owned footwear factory in Takeo province on Wednesday continued a weeklong protest that began when the company fired five workers for attempting to unionize, workers and officials said. ...

Journalists in Ratanakkiri province said Wednesday they would defy a “request” from the provincial government to cease gathering in public places and taking photographs during their reporting. ...

The number of tourists visiting the Choeung Ek Genocidal Center, known as the Killing Fields, is estimated to be rising markedly in the first four months of 2015 compared to the same period last year, an official said. ...

More than 30,000 people are expected to turn out for CPP President Chea Sim’s funeral procession in Phnom Penh on Friday, with security around the city to be ramped up accordingly, a festival official said Wednesday. ...

Three refugees who have agreed to travel to Cambodia are being housed in the Nauru detention centre before they are scheduled to fly out. There are currently just four refugees who have agreed to take up the Australian government’s resettlement offer in Cambodia, despite a large ...

A final draft of the 26th ASEAN Chairman’s Statement says the group will call for intensified consultations on a code of conduct for the South China Sea. The draft, obtained by VOA Khmer from an ASEAN official who did not want to be identified, says the ...

Members of Cambodia’s civil society are rebuking their representation at the ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ASEAN Peoples’ Forum last week, alleging the Kingdom’s civil society representatives were disproportionately government-aligned. ...

A couple was arrested and sent to court yesterday after attempting to sell $38,000 in fake diamond jewellery to a gold vendor in Preah Sihanouk province, according to provincial military police.​ ...