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The National Election Committee on Saturday wrapped up its 10-day call for applications for top administrative positions with 124 forms submitted, the agency said in a statement, with one secretary- general and four deputies set to be selected.

The Svay Rieng Provincial Court has charged an 11th person, a female garment worker, over violent protests that have rocked the Manhattan and Tai Seng special economic zones in Bavet City over the past week and a half.

A 77-year-old man died on Saturday while 48 others have been hospitalized in the past week after eating what local authorities suspect was contaminated meat at a wedding party in Pursat province.

Nearing the end of a year that has seen tension over Cambodia’s border with Vietnam often dominate domestic political discourse, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday appeared alongside Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to inaugurate two new border posts in Ratanakkiri and Takeo provinces.

A former garment worker announced plans on Thursday to launch a political party focused on alleviating the problems faced by Cambodia’s youth, targeting what he says is a lacuna in current policy.

A 22-year-old woman was found murdered in Phnom Penh’s Pur Senchey district on Thursday morning, while police say her killer was found dead of a suspected suicide later in the day.

T Mohan, publisher of the Khmer Times, will no longer be writing for the English-language daily, a senior editor said this week, following the discovery of a trove of plagiarized material in opinion pieces written by the Malaysian businessman in his newspaper over the past 16 months. The content stolen by Mr. Mohan and placed in his periodical opinion pieces came from a range of papers and articles by academics and journalists, an essay by an Indonesian student, and the top response to a question asking “Can You Give Five Reasons Why Laws Are Important In Any Society?” posted to the Q&A website Blurtit.com.