It's been nearly two years since Cambodia implemented a zero-snaring strategy to end the centuries-old practice of brutal and indiscriminate wildlife capture and death.
A former opposition deputy commune chief who was sentenced to five years in prison over a 2015 protest in Poipet City appealed his case at the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Singapore based oil and gas firm KrisEnergy said on Wednesday that financial setbacks will not affect its plan to produce Cambodia’s first oil by 2020 as scheduled, after being granted a three-month moratorium by a Singaporean court to give the company “breathing space” to restructure its $476-million debt.
Phnom Penh authorities on Monday started to demolish a building in the controversial Borey Keila neighborhood as 13 residents were detained in the Prampi Makara district office.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has rescheduled its verdict into the espionage case against two former Radio Free Asia journalists Oun Chhin and Yeang Sothearin to October 3, court spokesman Y Rin said on Monday.
Six former opposition party officials were reportedly arrested on Friday and Saturday by the National Police, according to the party, a rights group and a ruling party spokesman, though a police spokesman denied the arrests.
Cambodia and Laos on Thursday signed agreements to increase electricity imports into Cambodia, cooperate on labor issues, and “ensure peace and stability” along the at-times contentious Laotian-Cambodian border.
Two Japanese men admitted in court on Monday to killing a taxi driver in a botched armed robbery in Siem Reap province, but said they only wanted his car and had no intention of killing him.
Cambodia hit back on Wednesday at the U.S. State Department over its call for all charges against former opposition leader Kem Sokha to be dropped, saying the politician was being allowed to live at home — under de facto house arrest — on humanitarian grounds.