Phnom Penh Post - National

The number of malaria cases in Cambodia plummeted by more than 50 percent in 2016, compared to 2015, though experts and recent research findings suggest the emergence and spread of artemisinin-resistant malaria parasites in the Greater Mekong subregion represents a “serious threat” in the elimination of the disease. The Ministry of Health’s National Malaria Centre yesterday released its 2016 malaria figures, which show a 54 percent drop in cases. In 2016, the Kingdom recorded a total of 23,627 cases, compared to 51,262 in 2015.

The international co-investigating judge at the Khmer Rouge tribunal ruled on Tuesday that an attack by a government on its own soldiers can be considered an attack on a civilian population, and therefore can constitute a crime against humanity. The debate arose in regards to a line in Article 5 of the law establishing the tribunal, which defines crimes against humanity as “Atrocities and offenses, including but not limited to murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, rape, or other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population.”

More than 25,000 marijuana plants were destroyed in 73 different locations during a crackdown by Takeo province police on Wednesday and Thursday. Yuth Sarath, police chief in Kiri Vong district, said that the villagers were secretly planting the illegal crop in the mountains. “It was not full grown yet, just small plants … A broker convinced the villagers to grow it, saying he would buy it back from them after,” Sarath said.
“They do not understand that it is a kind of illegal plant,” he added. He said police decided not to arrest the villagers, but burned the crops and had them sign a contract promising not to grow the plant again.

The Ministry of Information formed a commission on Wednesday to investigate an incident that journalists and a NGO worker claim was a case of attempted murder during their investigation of illegal timber activity in Rattanakkiri las

North Korea dodged international sanctions with the largest shipment of ammunition yet discovered in the communist nation’s sanctions history under the guise of

A 23-year-old man was charged and placed in pre-trial detention on Wednesday for cutting down a rosewood tree in Oddar Meanchey’s Samraong town.

The director of Mondulkiri’s rural development department stands accused of clearing about 50 hectares of state-owned forest for his own farming purposes, authorities said yesterday.

Chhoun Sovan, Phnom Penh municipal police chief, on Wednesday took local police and members of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces to task for ongoing weapons-related crimes in the capital.

Cambodian authorities were yesterday prepared to hand over to Thai authorities one of two men wanted in the murder of British national Tony Kenway in Pattaya last month, according to a Bangkok Post report attributed to a se

The Appeal Court yesterday upheld a defamation conviction against opposition leader Sam Rainsy for accusing a Cambodian People’s