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  • National budget to be discussed today

    The Cabinet of Ministers will today deliberate the allocation of 2019’s national budget, which is to be approximately $6.44 billion, a seven percent increase when compared to this year’s.

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  • PM addresses worries over Chinese

    Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday said Cambodians should not be concerned over an influx of Chinese nationals in Preah Sihanouk province, where a rising investment has led to foreign population growth and a spike in crime.

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  • Police block villagers amid protest to seek land dispute solution

    A woman fainted on Wednesday following a confrontation with police while she and 800 other protesters were marching to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s residence in the capital to deliver a petition.

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  • Senate proposes new prisons to offset rise in inmates

    Senators have asked the Interior Ministry to build more prisons in order to reduce overcrowding in jails across the Kingdom.

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  • Land activists summoned by court

    Phnom Penh Municipal Court has issued summons for three Borei Keila and Boeng Kak land activists following a complaint filed by the owner of the Phanimex company, who accused them of extortion and property damage.

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  • Kratie villagers rally in capital

    More than 100 people representing hundreds of families in Kratie province descended upon Samaki Raingsey Pagoda in Phnom Penh yesterday to await a resolution from the Land Management Ministry over their land dispute.

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  • Kratie rice wine operations halted amid poisoning

    Rice wine operations in Kratie province have been shut down indefinitely with immediate effect after a toxic batch recently killed several people and hospitalised others.

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  • Accords ‘not a tool for foreign intervention’

    A the Kingdom enjoyed a public holiday on Tuesday to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, the Royal Academy of Cambodia said that even though the agreement still carries “moral value”, it “cannot be used as a tool to allow the international community to become involved in the internal affairs of Cambodia”.

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  • Royal Academy of Cambodia head slammed over a plan to reform monkhood

    The Supreme Sangha Council of Cambodia on Monday issued a statement denouncing a plan by the Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC) to research and draft a law on monkhood disciplines.

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  • Hun Sen requests UN cooperation on human rights

    Prime Minister Hun Sen has requested the United Nations to cooperate in order to ensure understanding on the issue of human rights prior to any evaluation by the intergovernmental organisation’s human rights commission.

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  • Paris Peace Accords anniversary marked

    The Royal Academy of Cambodia yesterday marked the 27th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords, signed to end decades of armed conflict, by saying that the accords could not be used as an instrument to have the international community meddle in Cambodia’s internal affairs.

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  • EBA withdrawal will not impact Cambodia: PM

    Prime Minister Hun Sen has said that the withdrawal of the Everything-but-arms treaty by the European Union will not affect Cambodia as it would have eventually disappeared regardless of the EU’s current review.

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  • Dozens of workers faint at shoe factory

    Nearly 100 workers at a shoe factory in Kampong Speu province fainted during their shift Friday morning after a worker suspected of living with epilepsy had a seizure.

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  • Hun Sen meets Cambodian students in Turkey

    Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday met with Cambodian students studying in Turkey, advising them that they should apply for embassy positions in the country once they graduate.

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  • Kratie again hit by fatal poisonings

    Sambo district, Kratie province – Authorities here have banned villagers from making and selling rice wine after five people died and many others were hospitalised due to methanol poisoning.

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  • Man charged over rape and brutal murders

    Kampong Chhnang Provincial Court yesterday charged a farmer who allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl before brutally murdering her and her younger sister on Thursday.

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  • Unruffled by EBA withdrawal, PM seeks ‘low interest’ loans

    After meeting with the European Commission, Prime Minister Hun Sen said he had expected that Cambodia would one day lose its access to the bloc’s “Everything But Arms” (EBA) preferential trade agreement and had “already requested low interest” loans from China, Japan, South Korea and the World Bank.

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  • PM says no more negotiations

    Prime Minister Hun Sen renewed his vow over the weekend not to negotiate with former opposition leader Sam Rainsy.

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  • Interior ministry official charged over land grab

    Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Saturday charged a government official who allegedly tried to grab state land by fraudulently using Interior Minister Sar Kheng’s wife’s name to threaten a commune chief in Preah Sihanouk province.

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  • Aussie lawmaker calls for fresh probe into murder of Kem Ley

    An Australian politician has called on that country’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to urge the Cambodian government to establish a commission of inquiry into the murder of activist Kem Ley.

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