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Two women charged with drug trafficking told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday that their original police statements, which placed them in a trafficking ring, had been falsified by police. ...

As the ruling party prepares this week to elect a president and deputy president following Chea Sim’s death on June 8, the Ministry of Interior has lashed out at an international rights group that last week linked Sim to Khmer Rouge abuses. Though he was lauded ...

Negotiators from 16 Asia-Pacific countries ended their eighth round of talks to promote a deal that would free up their trade early Sunday, falling short of setting any ambitious goal of eliminating tariffs. ...

Cambodian Health Minister Mam Bunheng on Sunday called for more blood donations since the Southeast Asian country saw only 4 out of 1,000 people donate their blood. ...

Cambodia has protested Vietnam for digging five ponds inside northeast Cambodian territory in Ratanakiri province, according to a Cambodian Foreign Ministry’s diplomatic note sent to the Vietnamese Embassy in Phnom Penh on Friday.  ...

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni Sunday bestowed the royal honorary title of “Samdech” on two politicians in the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) for their devotion to the nation and the throne. ...

Cambodia National Rescue Party Chief of Information Meach Sovannara will return to the United States for medical treatment following a car accident last week, he told Khmer Times yesterday. ...

The recent ban on dredging sand from the Mekong has resulted in some people resorting to more innovative measures to obtain landfill. On the island of Koh Oknha Tey, also known as Silk Island, people pay from 7,000 to 10,000 riels per cart-load for delivery ...

Mam Sonando, a prominent radio station director and government critic, announced Friday that he would resign from his position as head of the Association of Democrats, an NGO he founded in 2010, in order to create a new political party to stand in the upcoming ...

The oldest public school in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, is in a small courtyard downtown. The Tuan Hoa school has a Chinese temple and Mandarin language classes for its 2,000 students. But in Phnom Penh, Chinese usage is still behind English. This is true although ...

Cambodia will begin to discuss the annual increase of monthly minimum wage for the garment and footwear industry for 2016 in July, according to a Labor Ministry’ s statement issued late Friday. ...

The spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Kiev Sopheak, said that there are still ghost workers in government offices, even though the Anti-Corruption Unit cracked down on this practice last year. ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced 14 people, including district officials, over a bribery scandal involving illegal water reservoirs built in protected areas near the Tonle Sap lake. ...

The first ever Paddy Art Festival will be organized early 2016, aiming to boost agro-tourism and cultural natural tourism to attract oversea tourists visit the country. ...

The Foreign Affairs Ministry sent a strongly worded diplomatic note to Vietnam on Friday asking its eastern neighbor to “respect the borderline” after an inspection by government officials confirmed that Vietnamese authorities dug five ponds within Cambodian territory in Ratanakiri province. ...

Cambodia reported 44 casualties related to landmines and explosive remnants of war in the first four months of 2015, a 38 per cent fall from the same period last year. ...

The Ministry of Mines and Energy on Friday announced the provisional winners of its public auction to award four licenses to dredge sand on a stretch of the Mekong River clogged by a build-up of silt, which is obstructing the passage of vessels through the ...

Mam Sonando, a prominent radio station director and government critic, announced Friday that he would resign from his position as head of the Association of Democrats, an NGO he founded in 2010, in order to create a new political party to stand in the upcoming ...

Cambodia and Thailand have joined hands to boost foreign and inter-ASEAN tourism under the ” Two Kingdoms, One Destination” pact, local media reported on Friday. Tith Chantha, secretary of state at Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism, said Cambodia and Thailand have already created a single- visa option ...

Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said Cambodia has not yet received any reactions from India over Angkor Wat replica in Biha State after sending a protest note to the Ministry of External Affairs of India concerning the plan. ...

Cambodia has seen 957 dengue fever cases in the first five months of 2015, a 63 percent rise compared with 586 cases over the same period last year, a health official said Thursday. ...

Cambodia reported 39 landmine casualties in the first three months of 2015, a 35 percent drop compared with 60 casualties over the same period last year, according to the latest report released on Thursday. ...

Three members of the Free Trade Union on Thursday filed complaints against members of a rival union for allegedly beating them with bamboo sticks and banana tree branches during a clash outside Phnom Penh’s SH International garment factory on Wednesday morning. ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Thursday that he had secured pledges of at least $1.5 million in funding for the opposition’s planned television station, but had been forced to abandon a share-selling model to raise the funds. A private company created by the CNRP last year ...