The consumer protection office flagged 12 different baby powder products, all imported from Thailand and Malaysia, for containing asbestos, suspending them from sale on Cambodian shelves as of Tuesday.
The website of human rights group Licadho was temporarily hacked, while the three Kampong Thom military police officers have been charged with manslaughter for a death in custody.
Two prime ministerial bodyguards who moonlight as social media pundits are being discharged over their broadcasts, one for drunken antics in a bid to boost viewership and the other for criticizing Phnom Tamao deforestation.
Participants from some lesser-known Cambodian indigenous groups are learning filmmaking in Phnom Penh to document their cultures, but much of their traditions are already obscured.
A train hit a car in Pursat province with no parties injured; four opposition parties unite to push reforms at the National Assembly, NEC and Interior Ministry.
Over 300 vendors from O’Russei Market in central Phnom Penh petitioned Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday to intervene to reduce their stall prices amid persistent economic effects of the pandemic.
Nav Srey Pov and other top kun khmer boxers are retraining in kickboxing as they prepare to compete at the Cambodia-hosted Southeast Asia Games next year. They must avoid attacks with their elbows or knees, and stop holding their opponents in clinches, as expectations rise in the country.
For women’s rights advocates, bullying and body-shaming are familiar territory. But they are pushing back against senseless conformity to seek new avenues for feminist conversations.
Parents and local officials are up in arms over a Kampong Chhnang school deputy director’s repeated attempts to threaten and force students to buy snacks from his wife’s stall and not others.
Roofs, kitchens, shacks and other extensions built unapproved on houses in the wider Angkor Archaeological Park area will need to be removed, Apsara Authority has told residents, some of whom believe they only have two days left to finish the removals.
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