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Hungarian businesses are keeping their eyes on Cambodia for investment, said László Kövér, speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary, during an official visit to the Kingdom. ...

Mong Reththy, a senator for the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and an agro-industrial tycoon, said land disputes between companies and local residents occur because of a lack of understanding on both sides. ...

At a time when he’s facing one of the tensest political periods since the 2013 national elections, Prime Minister Hun Sen last Saturday took time to tell a former bitter enemy he has a “very sweet” voice. ...

Three of the men at a pro-CPP protest who beat CNRP lawmakers Nhay Chamroeun and Kong Saphea last week as they tried to leave the National Assembly turned themselves in Tuesday, Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said. ...

Six families in Kratie have accused military officers of stealing 20 hectares of their land, destroying their crops and threatening them with rifles.​ ...

A coalition of garment industry unions reiterated warnings yesterday that they will launch nationwide strikes calling for better conditions if Minister of Labour Ith Sam Heng refuses to negotiate on previous demands. ...

Members of the Jarai ethnic community in Ratanakkiri province turned to human rights NGO Adhoc for help yesterday after briefly detaining alleged illegal loggers. ...

Government ministries bound by sexist traditions and a lack of support are keeping women officials across Asia from implementing their ideas, female leaders gathered for a four-day seminar in Phnom Penh said yesterday. ...

Following raids on phone shops selling grey-market devices last week, the government is giving retailers a two-week window to declare their stock of mobile phone handsets and pay the relevant taxes or face hefty fines.Many of the capital’s vendors have already received a notice from ...

Cambodia’s garment industry continued to perform “solidly” through the first half of the year, allaying fears that recent minimum wage increases would cripple one of the country’s main economic engines, according to the latest figures released by the International Labor Organization (ILO). ...

Immigration department director Sok Phal said Tuesday that Cambodia will be taking in only one of the two refugees who volunteered to resettle here during a delegation’s visit to Australia’s refugee center on the South Pacific island of Nauru in late September, but did not ...

A few hundred CNRP supporters welcomed opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha back to Cambodia last night after a week of political turmoil in which two lawmakers were beaten by pro-government thugs and Mr. Sokha was ousted from his parliamentary leadership position. ...

The chairman of the National Assembly’s culture and tourism commission said Tuesday that he will summon Tourism Minister Thong Khon for questioning over claims that public beaches are being taken over for private use. ...

Phnom Penh Municipal Hall plans to create 11 new communes in five districts in the capital to improve social service management, Deputy Municipal Governor Eang Ony said yesterday. ...

Three men have turned themselves into Cambodian police, claiming they were involved in the beatings of two opposition lawmakers last week.The Ministry of Interior announced late Tuesday Chay Sarith, Mao Hoeurn, and Suth Vanny had turned themselves in earlier in the day. But little more ...

Revenue from ticket sales to foreign tourists visiting Cambodia’s famed Angkor Wat temple reached $47.68 million in the first 10 months of 2015 — up 0.62 percent year-on-year, according to an official statement on Tuesday. ...

Almost 75 percent of kids in the country’s orphanages are there because their families can’t afford to keep them at home. In 2011, UNICEF released a study saying that the number of orphanages in Cambodia had increased by 75 percent in the previous six years, ...

Vietnam has full and absolute sovereignty over the border area of Dak Dam in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong, which is adjacent to the Cambodian province of Mondulkiri, the foreign ministry has said. ...

Cambodian Public Bank Plc. (Campu Bank), a leading commercial bank in the Kingdom of Cambodia (“Cambodia”), and JCB International Co., Ltd. (JCBI), the international operating subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., today announced that Campu Bank has launched JCB merchant acquiring service to accept JCB cards ...

Rights group launches justice campaign for murdered journalists on second UN-backed International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. ...

Phnom Penh Municipality has anticipated the connection of city bus service to other provinces across Cambodia, reported state news agency-AKP. With intention to assist the sector, the Government of Japan agreed to provide 130 buses and China, 100 buses to Cambodia shortly. ...

Two people detained at Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey Speu social affairs centre died last month after being rounded up from the streets as part of the city’s preparations for the Pchum Ben festival, a local rights groups has said, prompting renewed calls for the facility’s ...

About 400 parishioners at the Christian Evangelical International Ministry in Phnom Penh were singing hymns when 15 armed police officers rushed through the doors on Saturday and rounded up all of the Nigerian men present, according to Peter Ike, a preacher’s assistant at the church. ...

Pressure is growing on investigators probing the savage beating of two opposition lawmakers outside parliament last week, as an official yesterday claimed police needed more time to make arrests.Cambodia National Rescue Party parliamentarians Nhay Chamroeun and Kong Sakphea are recovering in a Bangkok hospital after ...