Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday threatened to fire two government ministers unless they dumped the idea of exchanging the state’s ageing public buildings, which he said should be preserved.

Investigations in the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s Case 003 are being resumed on the orders of UN-nominated International Co-Investigating Judge Laurent Kasper-Anserme.

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday mocked the recent defections and resignations of opposition Sam Rainsy Party.

House and crops in Kampong Speu province’s Chbar Mon town will be flooded during heavy rain if a private company owned by tycoon Chhoun Kim San continues to fill Boeung Chhouk Lake, concerned families in the area have said.

The vice-president of a Christian organisation that Social Affairs Minister Ith Sam Heng said on Wednesday.

A defence lawyer yesterday said he had evidence that would clear the names of Hen Chheang and his wife Tep Kolap.

A 38-year-old Korean-Aust-ralian was arrested on Wednesday night for allegedly sexually assaulting two girls aged six and 10 and producing child porn-ography, Banteay Meanchey provincial police said yesterday.

Protesting villagers from two districts of Kampong Speu province have claimed police, military police and soldiers threatened them with assault rifles as they gathered outside the provincial court yesterday.

The Cambodian Foreign Ministry had sent a diplomatic note to the Thai government alleging Thai military encroachment in the Provisional Demilitarised Zone around the Preah Vihear temple, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Koy Koung said yesterday.

Phnom Penh Munici-pal Hall had issued an appeal to community leaders in the city’s nine districts to recruit young,

More than three months after his arrest by anti-human trafficking and juvenile police, 44-year-old Phuong Vanna stood trial yesterday over the alleged provision of sexual services in his massage shop.

The EU and British ambassadors pledged to take Cambodia’s campaign for a non-permanent seat to their respective governing bodies.

Children belong, first and foremost, with their families, not in institutions – that was the central message delivered by Minister of Social Affairs Ith Sam Heng yesterday as he announced that 70 orphanages would be closed.

Panellists declared that a living wage for workers could be considered a “human right”.

Two former staff members of the much-maligned and now defunct NGO Drugs and AIDS Research and Prevention Organisation appeared before the Preah Vihear provincial court for questioning in connection with several human-rights abuses.

Battambang provincial police detained four brokers and 51 migrant workers, including 19 minors, who were attempting to illegally cross into Thailand early yesterday morning.