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SkyScraperS, SupermarketS and high-end clothing StoreS along Sihanouk Boulevard may reflect the increaSingly affluent Side of Phnom Penh, but turning down buSy Street 63 toward Central Market the Scene iS more warzone than ASean capital, with air thick with duSt and the road peppered with SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen announced in late March that the nation was on target to move from the status of a low-income to a lower-middle-income nation by the end of 2013, ranking it the 15th country that obtained high economic growth in the world in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) plans to give its leader, sam Rainsy, a hero’s welcome when he returns to the country on Friday after nearly four years in self-imposed exile. But unless action is taken quickly, Mr. Rainsy will be forced to deliver his first ss='cambodia-color'>...

A government spokesman on Thursday welcomed remarks of support for the ruling CPP from China’s foreign minister, saying they showed Cambodia’s main benefactor was an example to other foreign states. Following meetings with Prime Minister Hun sen and Foreign Min­ister Hor Namhong on Wednesday, Chinese Foreign ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipality on Saturday launched a new campaign to clean up the city&rSquo;S drainage SyStem in an effort to alleviate chronic flooding during the rainy SeaSon. The campaign would encourage people to diScard their waSte correctly and would alSo See City Hall cleaning the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng on Wednesday released a statement warning civil society groups that they would be in breach of their operating contracts should they offer support, directly or indirectly, to the opposition CNRP at its planned three-day demonstration beginning sunday. The warning comes a day ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Prime Minister Hun sen’s new Cabinet on Friday approved a 2014 draft budget of $3.5 billion, a 13 percent increase over this year’s budget, but gave no details as to how the money would be spent. The CPP also said it will go ahead with a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen’s government as the two sides remained stalled in talks in a deadlock over disputed national elections. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) said in a public statement that it could not guarantee that any agreements made with Hun sen’s ruling Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 villagers involved in three different land disputes gathered in front of Cambodia’s top court in the capital Tuesday to demand the release of jailed rights campaigner Yorm Bopha ahead of her final appeal against a criminal conviction later this week. Yorm Bopha’s impending ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hor Nambora, the son of Foreign Minister Hor Namhong, will step down as Cambodia’s ambassador to Britain, according to an official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Cheung Buntheng, undersecretary of state at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, said Tuesday that Meas Kimheng, an adviser to Mr. ss='cambodia-color'>...

National Assembly President Heng samrin will in the coming days send the National Election Committee (NEC) an official letter informing it of the opposition party’s boycott of parliament, according to local media, possibly the first step in the ruling party’s plan to have the opposition’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two days after the killing of an unarmed man near Phnom Penh’s Monivong Bridge, officials on Tuesday offered little information on the progress of an investigation into the killing, and rights workers expressed concerns that the inquiry would lack credibility. King Norodom sihamoni and Queen Mother ss='cambodia-color'>...

KOH KONG – The dullness of a rainy day accentuates the lush shades of green rainforest of the Cardamom Mountains in Koh Kong province. Float down the Tatai River and you see bobbing turquoise, red and yellow canoes tied up along the banks—in their vivid ss='cambodia-color'>...

One of the four suspects who have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the theft of $2.3 million from Canadia Bank was the head of the bank’s credit section during the time that the embezzlement scheme was carried out, according to a senior adviser ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen’s Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the opposition are debating prospects of new talks aimed at ending their political deadlock three months after disputed national elections thrust the country into a crisis. But chances of a fresh meeting between the two sides following ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amid the ruling CPP’s continuing stranglehold on the country’s nine terrestrial television stations, the opposition CNRP on Monday launched an online television station that it describes as a “test,” CNRP director of public affairs Mu sochua said Wednesday. The station, called CNRP TV, follows requests from ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) said Friday that it has investigated the public procurements of the National Center for HIV/AIDs, Dermatology and sTD Control (NCHADs) and found they were carried out correctly, despite an exhaustive investigation by the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Transparency International Cambodia (TIC) on Thursday concluded in a report that official results of the July 28 national election released by the National Election Committee (NEC) do not reflect the will of the people due to widespread irregularities occurring both before and on election day. The ss='cambodia-color'>...