The government appealed to the public on Saturday to avoid eating seafood or swimming in the waters off Kep province, as a natural—but potentially toxic—phenomenon had swept across the coast of the popular tourist destination.
With a severe drought choking the northeast, it’s only a matter of weeks before many residents of Ratanakkiri province run dry, according to villagers, local officials and organizations working in the province.
As outgoing Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol takes his reputation for reform to a new post as Transportation Minister, he continues to be dogged by a criminal dispute with his in-laws in a case that has come to symbolize the country’s unpredictable legal system.
The opposition CNRP plans to vote against a reshuffle of the prime minister’s cabinet during a plenary session of parliament today, but will wait to see what changes have been made to a controversial union law before deciding how to vote, a party spokesman said on Sunday.
Khem Veasna, the provocative leader of the small-time League for Democracy Party (LDP), was re-elected to his position at a party convention in Phnom Penh on Sunday, seizing on the opportunity to scold the deputy opposition leader and praise the prime minister.
A 14-year-old girl who went missing from her house in Kampot province on Friday was found raped and murdered on Saturday, police said on Sunday, adding that they had yet to identify any suspects in their ongoing investigation.
The Ministry of Interior has ordered National Police to investigate a scam in which unidentified callers claimed to be senior officials at the ministry and the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) in an attempt to extort money from district governors, according to a letter issued on April 1.
Laos’ military has begun building a base just meters from an undemarcated stretch of its border with Cambodia, sparking protest from Stung Treng provincial authorities, officials said on Sunday.
In apparent violation of the Leahy Law, the U.S. provided training to alleged human rights abusers in Cambodia.
His mind was damaged by the Canadian government, but David Nixon’s memories of Cambodia live on.
In rural Cambodia, bride brokers have built an industry selling the Chinese dream to desperate families.
On the morning of March 28 in the northwestern province of Oddar Meanchey, just a few miles from the Thai border, 10 soldiers stormed the Forestry Administration’s head office in Anlong Veng district, their guns drawn.
As a moralizing crusade against deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha for alleged infidelity continues, few Cambodians can summon outrage at a practice believed to be widespread among political elite.
The U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia said the political climate had clearly deteriorated in the six months since her first fact-finding mission and that the country remained at a “dangerous tipping point” ahead of commune and national elections.
