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Over 200 people gathered on Friday from across Cambodia to join in a campaign against the construction of the Don Sahong Dam, which has been ongoing in the past month on one of the major channels of the Mekong at the Cambodia-Lao border. The campaign, ...

Rice wine brewed with a toxic level of alcohol has killed at least 19 people and left 172 more in hospital in northeast Cambodia, the health ministry said Sunday.“Laboratory tests found the deaths were caused by the high methanol level in the wine,” Ly Sovann, ...

Both sides agreed to focus on all-level delegation exchanges – especially among young officers, deputy ministerial-level defence policy dialogue, personnel training, and joint sea patrols. ...

Malaysia and Cambodia have agreed to resume supplying Cambodian maids to the country, four years after the Phnom Penh banned the practice following reports of exploitation and torture at the hands of Malaysian employers. ...

It will be some months before Cambodian maids resume travel to Malaysia despite a newly signed agreement between the two countries lifting the ban on domestic workers sent from Cambodia to its ASEAN neighbour, The Cambodia Daily reported. ...

National Assembly President Heng Samrin declared Friday the closure of the Eighth Plenary Session of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA). APA grew out of the Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace (AAPP), which held its inaugural assembly in Bangladesh in 1999. Cambodia, a founding member, ...

The Council of Ministers yesterday approved a sweeping new master plan for managing urban development in Phnom Penh over the next 20 years, according to a statement from the cabinet, although it was scant on specifics. ...

About 30 members of the displaced Borei Keila community rallied outside Phnom Penh City Hall on Friday, seeking clarification about the compensation on offer to them amid complaints that municipal authorities have not been keeping the community informed. ...

The Interior Ministry has re­sponded to remarks the chief of the government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) made this week about graft among police officials, claiming that such comments belittle the work of civil servants who have dedicated their lives to the state. ...

More than $15 billion exited Cambodia in illicit capital flows over the past decade, stripping the economy of money that could have been used for development, a new report showsA staggering amount of money was funnelled out of Cambodia in shady transactions over the past ...

After closing down its tiny Phnom Penh embassy in 2009, Canada has opened a new diplomatic office inside the British Embassy staffed by a single Canadian official, according to a statement released Friday. ...

Cambodia and Pakistan agreed to enhance parliamentary cooperation and collaboration in different fields for mutual benefit of the two countries. ...

With Asean integration fast approaching, analysts say Cambodia has more to do to strengthen its human resources and be competitive in the region’s open markets. ...

A group of doctors from east China’s Jiangsu province has received deep admiration from Cambodian officials and common people for providing free treatment to patients here.A group of ten Chinese doctors has been providing medical checkup and treatment to hundreds of patients in southwestern Cambodia’s ...

Art can represent a nation’s identity, and younger generations have a responsibility to conserve it. But that means education, to help youth appreciate art and culture, says Donna Strahan, head of conservation and research at the Freer-Sackler Gallery. ...

The Govern­ment has signed another Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the recruitment and employment of domestic workers and foreign labour, this time with Cambodia.Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Richard Riot signed the papers with his counterpart from Cam­bodia, Ith Samheng, yesterday. ...

The National Assembly’s Legislative Commission will hold a consultative workshop next week at the National Assembly to collect inputs over a much-criticized draft law on Trade Union. ...

Cambodia’s goods exports including the garment export in 2015 increased 25 percents in value in 2015, worth more than $4.5 billion, according to Ministry of Commerce’s figure. ...

Thai soldiers opened fire on a group of 17 illegal loggers yesterday evening, wounding two, police said.The group had illegally crossed the border into Thailand in Oddar Meanchey province under cover of darkness when they encountered a Thai patrol, according to Brigadier General Men Leu, ...

Close to 2,000 people, including monks, NGO workers and citizens, marched peacefully to the Ministry of Justice yesterday morning, defying City Hall’s ban on the Human Rights Day protest.Demonstrators from 16 different provinces marched from three separate locations – the Senate, Chenla Cinema and Wat ...

Salt producers in Kep and Kampot say their revenues have plummeted over the last two years as cheaper and better-quality salt from Thailand floods the local market.Bun Baraing, co-director of the Kep-Kampot Salt Producers Community, said local consumers have switched to imported Thai salt, which ...

The rights of LGBT people took centrestage at an event to celebrate Human Rights Day at the FCC mansion in Phnom Penh yesterday.Organised by NGO CamAsean, which advocates on behalf of marginalised people, the morning conference included a rap performance by lesbian and transgender teenagers, ...

Following a decision by opposition leader Sam Rainsy for the CNRP to cautiously re-engage with the CPP in parliament rather than carry out a full-blown boycott, senior officials from the parties met at the National Assembly on Thursday for the first time since last month’s ...

Australia has so far disbursed more than $3.5 million in aid to Cambodia as part of the agreement for its unwanted refugees to be resettled here, but the Interior Ministry’s spokesman is livid that the money has come into the country via development agencies rather ...