A group of young people hoping to celebrate the Khmer New Year by cleaning up Phnom Penh’s heavily polluted Beoung Trabek canal and raise awareness for the environment were stopped by local authorities who said the area was too dirty.
The families in Kompong Chhnang province’s Lor Peang community lost their homes and farms to a government minister’s wife more than a decade ago.
Hundreds of pigs have been culled in Ratanakkiri province as authorities work to contain an outbreak of African swine fever.
Almost 700 villagers from Kompong Speu province protested outside the Land Management Ministry on Thursday to demand more than the $500 in compensation they were offered for losing several hectares of land each to a ruling party senator’s sugarcane plantation.
A 65-year-old woman and her 6-year-old granddaughter were found beheaded behind their house in Kompong Cham province’s Prey Chhor district on Tuesday night, with local authorities saying they still have no leads on the perpetrator.
Police are searching for a team of Taiwanese criminals they say are behind a large drug operation in Phnom Penh raided this week, according to an official.
Five garment factory workers had their hands amputated after the flatbed truck they were travelling in to work crashed into the side of an oncoming vehicle in Kompong Speu province’s Oudong district on Thursday morning.
Women wearing surgical masks and claiming to be acting on behalf of authorities prevented a protest in front of the Russian Embassy on Wednesday over the jailing of a journalist who helped report on child trafficking for Moscow’s RT service.
The government has threatened legal action against about 5,000 mostly Vietnamese migrants it says are in living in Cambodia with invalid immigration documents unless they come forward to authorities within three months.
A man who went missing after being arrested over a land dispute in Preah Vihear province in January has been found hiding at a relative’s house.
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