A prviate company filling Preah Sihanouk province&rSquo;S Praek Treng beach with Soil iS reluctant to dredge it deSpite a direct order from Prime MiniSter Hun Sen. On September 18, the prime miniSter ordered MiniSter of Land Management, Urban Planning and ConStruction Chea Sophara to perSonally SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian economy is projected to slow slightly this year compared to last year, despite robust growth of around seven per cent, an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released on Wednesday said. ADB said economic expansion last year hit 7.3 per cent on the back ss='cambodia-color'>...

Last week, Myanmar’s de facto leader and state Counselor Aung san suu Kyi paid her first visit to Cambodia in her current capacity. The trip spotlighted the ongoing state of ties between the two fellow southeast Asian states amid wider domestic and foreign policy developments. Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Chinese laboratory pledged this week to aid the development of Cambodia’s agricultural sector by sharing expertise, technology and human resources. Representatives of the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Centre, located in China’s southern province of Hunan, made the pledge on sunday during an official visit ss='cambodia-color'>...

Speaking at the cloSing ceremony of 2018-2019 Agriculture, ForeStry and FiSherieS Annual ReSult Review Meeting, Prime MiniSter Hun Sen Said Cambodia&rSquo;S agricultural Sector iS Showing progreSS, with it producing nearly Six million tonneS of paddy, which can be proceSSed into four million tonneS of milled SS='cambodia-color'>...

Negotiations for next year’s minimum wage will continue this week as the parties work to reach an agreement that will impact about 800,000 workers in the textile, garment and footwear industries, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training said on Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Singapore-baSed Indochina Energy PartnerS iS focuSing on rooftop Solar inStallationS in three SoutheaSt ASian nationS, including Cambodia.&nbSp;According to a report by ScanASia releaSed Monday, IEP iS working on rooftop photovoltaic panel inStallationS in Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday received assurance that south Korea will continue to assist the Kingdom with the development of its healthcare sector, including training doctors.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $40 million policy-based loan to support poor and rural households and improve their financial access, it said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

While unemployment rates are low among Cambodian youths, their jobs are largely poorly paid and informal, providing them with just enough money to survive on, according to a recent report.The report, released on sunday by youth NGO the Youth Resource Development Program (YRDP) and the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Administrators at Phnom Penh’s Khmer-soviet Friendship Hospital on Thursday refuted claims that hospital staff denied a brain scan, blood transfusions and surgery to a wom­an suffering from severe head wounds—a charge leveled by her husband shortly before she died there on Wednesday afternoon. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The collective land of indigenous communities in Cambodia will continue to face encroachment from economic land concessions and the actions of private companies in the future despite the Cambodian Government’s moratorium on granting ELC licenses, according to a Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) report ss='cambodia-color'>...

Efforts to integrate of southeast Asia’s economies are beginning to bear fruit, experts say, although there is some way to go before the goal of turning the region into a single market and production base can be reached. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia could be headed to another civil war if the country’s young people fail to appreciate and preserve the peace achieved after decades of civil conflict, Hun Many, the son of Prime Minister Hun sen, said over the weekend. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Koh Kong town was left without a clean water supply on Friday when the company responsible for the utility made repairs to a filter pipe. Koh Kong resident Ing soth yesterday said the water was so dirty that the villagers could not use it at ss='cambodia-color'>...

Key Sokha waS preparing dinner for her family at their home in Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Meanchey diStrict on ThurSday night when a choruS of ShoutS broke out nearby. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...

About 200 Cham Muslims turned out to the Al-serkal Mosque near the old Boeng Kak lake in Phnom Penh on Friday to protest a controversial road that the government plans to build through the mosque’s land. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two days after Prime Minister Hun sen told Phnom Penh municipal authorities to either improve the city’s notorious Prey speu detention center or shut it down, a spokesman said on Thursday that officials had concluded that the “indispensable” facility would remain open. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Plans to complete the railway line connecting Phnom Penh to Poipet City—thereby linking Cambodia’s main port in sihanoukville to Thailand—may not be completed within current time and budget constraints, a Transport Ministry official said on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s fixed-line internet services market continues to attract new players despite limited infrastructure and a crowded playing field, new data show. ss='cambodia-color'>...