Nearly nine months after factional fighting erupted in Phnom Penh, leaving burned-out factories, smashed auto dealerships and gas stations without pumps, local businesses are still waiting for their compensation claims to be met.

Bawdy, gaudy and naughty—Lysistrata and her friends are using all their feminine wiles to keep their menfolk knocking and knocking on the doors of love, but they’re not letting them in.

The former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Phnom Malai is now linked to Sisophon and the rest of Cambodia, thanks to the completion of a major road project in the northwest province of Banteay Meanchey.

Earl Spencer, brother of Brit­ain’s late Princess Diana, said Thursday his trip to Cambodia to highlight the struggle against land mines is a debt he is paying to his sister.

No suspects have been arrested or identified in connection with the brutal Tuesday murder of an Australian lawyer, Municipal Police said Thursday.

On a dusty road in Phnom Penh’s Don Penh district, 12 of the police’s fastest motorcycles are lined up in two neat rows. But they are not going anywhere: A thick wire winds through the bikes’ wheels and locks them together, on the order of the municipality’s influential deputy governor.

It’s a hotel owner’s nightmare: Two teens show up to rent a room and eight of their closest friends sneak in later, trash the room and disturb the neighbors.

The Cambodian People’s Party is resurrecting a socialist election strategy by gathering personal details of voters and showering them with gifts, party officials confirmed this month.

News of the royal pardon granted to deposed first prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh, and of the prince’s scheduled return, has been given a mixed reception among the ranks of the CPP and its political allies.

koh rong, Koh Kong province – On this remote island paradise two hours by boat from Siha­noukville, the beaches are white and the water clear blue. But the villagers in these scenic fishing villages are dying from a preventable disease: malaria.

Comments by senior civil aviation officials Wednes­day cast doubt over the validity of a deal to allow direct flights between Tai­wan and Cam­bodia.

Government officials Wed­nes­day staunchly de­fended a deal with a private firm to organize July elections, despite growing criticism from donors, watchdogs and opposition politicians.

The World Bank and the Agri­culture Ministry have agreed on a plan to crack down on runaway illegal logging in Cambodia.

An official in the Interior Min­istry’s narcotics division was shot Tuesday night, topping off more than three weeks of attacks against anti-drug forces, police said Wednesday.

Leading opposition politicians on Tuesday called for the resignation of the nation’s highest election official, saying “he is no longer trustworthy as a widely accepted referee in the ongoing electoral process.”

The government has given a British investment company until the end of the month to find a partner for its power-plant project in Battam­bang town—or face the possibility of its contract being terminated, officials said Tues­day.

Despite commerce having been effectively frozen on the eastern end of Sihanouk Boule­vard for three days, business owners there were upbeat Tues­day about fu­ture prospects once the street’s repaving is finished.

Leading dissident Sam Rainsy on Tuesday called for the postponement of July’s scheduled elections. He spoke upon his re­turn from talks in Bangkok with de­posed first prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh.

Thach Reng has formed his own party for the upcoming elections, but said the party doesn’t signify a major break from the Son Sann faction of the split Buddhist Liberal Democrat Party.