After spending $30 on clothes, Chan Pheavy sat down for lunch in the food court of Sorya Mall, plunking her shopping bags on the floor beside her. “It is very comfortable to do shopping here,” Pheavy, 25, who works for a commercial bank in Phnom ...

A major Hong Kong investor in Cambodia has claimed that a government duty on seafood exports is stunting the country’s fish proc­essing industry. Hong Kong-based Sunwah Group began operating a shrimp-processing factory in Sihanoukville in 1994, and its plans in the country now include building a ...

A United nations official Friday urged Cambodian government and opposition officials to keep negotiating in an effort to end a political impasse. At the end of a five-day visit to Cambodia, Surya P. Subedi, the U.n. special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the country, ...

Cambodia’s Phka Romduol rice has been crowned the best rice in the world at the prestigious World Rice Forum. ...

Health officials in Cambodia are investigating two new severe human H5n1 avian flu infections, pushing the country’s total for the year to six cases. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen will meet with the current United nations Special Rapporteur Rhona Smith at Peace Palace on September 21, 2015. ...

Cambodia reported two outbreaks of the highly pathogenic H5n1 bird flu virus among backyard duck flocks in the northwestern part of the country, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday. ...

The Ministry of Information on Saturday lifted a ban on the broadcast of all Khmer-language foreign radio programs by FM stations during the month leading up to the July 28 national election amid swift and harsh rebuke from the U.S. and the broadcasters themselves. The ministry ...

The government has asked Australia to provide more funding to help complete the rehabilitation of the dilapidated railway line between Phnom Penh and the Thai border, a spokesman said yesterday. Foreign Affairs Minister Hor namhong met with Lieutenant General John Sanderson, former chief of the Australian ...

The International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia program (BFC) must employ more transparency in their monitoring of Cambodia’s factories in order to effectively bring change to the country’s working and wage conditions, a report launched yesterday says. According to “Monitoring in the Dark” a ...

The U.N.’s Food aNd Agriculture OrgaNizatioN (FAO) predicts that Cambodia’s rice crop this year will equal but Not exceed last year’s record yield. IN its July rice market moNitor report, issued quarterly, the FAO said that weather coNditioNs meaNt this year’s rice crop would Not reach ...

The U.N.’s New special rapporteur oN humaN rights iN Cambodia, RhoNa Smith will make her first official visit eight-day iN Cambodia. ...

The United nations has expressed admiration to Cambodia for having responded successfully to the spread of HIV/AIDS, reported the state news agency-AKP. According to an official report, Cambodia has currently over 700,000 people living with HIV/AIDS and some 500,000 of them are receiving antiretroviral treatment. ...

In an interview with local English-language newspaper The Khmer Times, Ambassador Jang Yun Gon said he was confident that Cambodia “really understands” the situation “and would express solidarity through Asean towards our just cause to help find a solution diplomatically to maintain stability and peace ...

The court system is still “chronically underfunded” and laws on its management are almost 20 years overdue, the U.n. human rights envoy Surya Subedi said yesterday. One year ago, during his sixth mission to Cambodia, Mr. Subedi described reform in the courts as moving at a ...

Cambodia on Tuesday dispatched the fourth batch of 184 soldiers to Lebanon to replace the third batch’s forces, whose one-year United nations peacekeeping duties have come to an end. The civil engineering group would perform their one-year duties by clearing landmines, constructing roads, bridges, shelters and ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday donated 3,000 doses of Tamiflu (Oseltamivir), an antiviral drug to prevent the bird flu from spreading in the country. ...

In its first official response to a highly critical resolution on Cambodia from the European Parliament, the government has rejected all criticism and instead accused the Parliament in Brussels of playing politics and interfering in Phnom Penh’s affairs. In its resolution approved October 26, the European ...

SAMRAONG TONG DISTRICT, KompoNg Speu ProviNce &Ndash; LaughiNg, Ouch SamNaNg jumped back aNd forth over a skippiNg rope held by his classmates. The 13-year-old goes to school iN a small village iN Kom­poNg Speu proviNce, he has frieNds, five sibliNgs aNd loviNg pareNts. Overall, he ...

A 9-year-old boy has become the 10th person this year to die of bird flu in Cambodia, the World Health Organization announced Monday. The U.n. agency said the boy from a village in northeastern Battambang province came down with fever and vomiting on July 26 and ...