CPP lawmaker and de facto party spokesman Cheam Yeap said yesterday it was now “too late” to form an independent committee to investigate alleged irregularities during last month’s national election and that the opposition CNRP needs to be “more flexible” in its relationship with the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS infectionS in Cambodia haS declined to 0.7 percent in 2013, down from 0.8 percent two yearS ago, a Senior government official Said Sunday. “According to Scientific eStimation, in 2013, HIV carrier rate among adultS aged between 15 and 49 yearS iS SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Global Fund has threatened to suspend or reduce health grants to Cambodia totalling more than $100 million if the Ministry of Health, the National Center for HIV/AIDs, Dermatology and sTD (NCHADs) and NGO umbrella group MEDiCAM fail to meet a 30-day deadline to return ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday questioned two businessmen over allegations of fraud and using forged public documents, including claims they faked a signature from Prime Minister Hun sen in a mining transaction, court and police officials said. Deputy prosecutor Var sakada said Cambodian Al ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers have accused a CPP commune chief in Ratanakkiri province of threatening four ethnic minority Tampoun men after they filed a complaint against him for allegedly selling off community land to a local businessman. Rocham Norng, a Tampoun villager in Bakeo district, has alleged that soeung ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh municipal government will today issue announcements to two property developers ordering them to partially demolish buildings near the Royal Palace in order to reduce their height to comply with the original planning agreements, an official said. The two buildings—one owned by Vattanac Properties ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of 12 ethnic minority villagers in Ratanakkiri province have filed a complaint with the provincial court over what they claim is collusion between other villagers and local authorities to illegally log luxury timber from 193 hectares of land inside a community forest. The Prov ss='cambodia-color'>...

Laos is taking steps to convince neighboring countries of the merits of the planned Don sahong hydropower project over Mekong River. Lao government officials organized a site visit on sunday and Monday so that interested parties could see the site first-hand and get a sense of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials at the Ministry of Labor who mediated talks Wednesday between the management of sL Garment Factory and union leaders who have led a three-month-long strike at the factory said that they would send the results of the meeting to Prime Minister Hun sen to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of garment workers from four factories have gone back on strike this week to protest a decision by their employers to withhold pay for the days they did not work during recent nationwide strikes. Between 8,500 and 12,500 workers at four factories—two in Phnom Penh, ss='cambodia-color'>...

In late January, five of the 10 chickens owned by Leng Lal, a subsistence rice farmer in Kratie province, suddenly died. Although Mr. Lal, 40, said he knew the dead birds might be dangerous and he should burn and bury the carcasses, he instructed his 8-year-old ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dara Raksmey, the owner of a pharmacy of the same name on Phnom Penh’s street 294, keeps a record of every can of Dumex baby formula she sells. “If you buy six large cans you get a scooter and if you buy 12 large cans you ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Kompong Chhnang province on Tuesday said they were looking for three suspects in the murder of a local journalist on Friday night and may soon add more names to the list, but still had no motive for the attack. However, the provincial coordinator for ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 16 May 2022, the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued a press release on His Excellency CHHIENG Yanara held a courtesy meeting with Mr. RHO Hyunjun. On Monday, May 16th, 2022 at the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), His Excellency CHHIENG ss='cambodia-color'>...

After the bus company Giant Ibis Transport delayed concluding negotiations with 30 laid off union employees, the workers continued protests at the company’s sen sok district station in Phnom Penh on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen promised that 100% of people living in Cambodia’s cities and towns will have access to clean running water by 2025. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Permanent Mission of Cambodia to the United Nations dismissed the comments made by UN Human Rights spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan who urged the government “to review the charges” of the 10 Mother Nature environmental activists as it was “highly prejudicial” against the integrity of Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Forest cover is the area of land covered by tree canopy. Measuring and reporting this can show the different types of forest that exist and the areas of each, and how these areas change over time. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The total value of Cambodia’s international trade amounted to $35.8 billion in 2020, a 2.5 percent increase on the $34.9 billion in 2019 even after the Covid-19 pandemic slowed global trade, according to Ministry of Commerce (MoC) reports from 2020. The main sources of Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

The garment industry has rooted in Cambodia earlier than the footwear industry. As a result of trade privileges given by the U.s. and EU, both industries have blossomed. As of 2013, the garment and footwear industries were accountable for about 80 percent of Cambodia’s total ss='cambodia-color'>...