<p>According to Gray, the snaring crisis is worst in Vietnam and Laos, but is increasing in Cambodia – where he works – as well as Myanmar, Indonesia and Thailand. In some places – even protected areas – it is so bad that scientists talk of ...p>

<p>China has provided a $2.5 million grant to the government to support the demining activities of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre.&nbsp;According to a CMAC statement issued on Thursday, China granted the aid under the China-Aided Cambodia Landmine Elimination project, which will run until May 2019 ...p>

<p>The government is to add millions of dollars to its budget for drugs against HIV and its opportunistic illnesses for its battle to reduce and eliminate infections. A government official confirmed that the budget for the drugs would rise to $4.5 million from 2018 to ...p>

<p>As one of the Kingdom’s main engines of economic growth, the agricultural sector has been drawing increased attention recently from both the government and development partners. Millions of dollars have been poured into agriculture projects by both the state and international NGOs, investments which are ...p>

<p>Representatives from Viet Nam, Cambodia and Lao people’s Democratic Republic took an important step forward in support of triangular cooperation on nuclear techniques at a meeting hosted by the IAEA in June 2018. The meeting is the latest in a series of IAEA-supported activities to ...p>

<p>The Kingdom ranked second in the first half of the year for overseas Vietnamese investments, receiving about $32 million of the total $263 million outflow from the eastern neighbour. The Vietnamese General Statistics Office (GSO) said from January to June this year, that country’s businesses ...p>

<p>As floods inundated preah Sihanouk province yesterday, hundreds of motorists were left stranded along National Road 4 in Kampong Seila district prior to being evacuated. The floods not only affected motorists on the National Road, but also residents in Samraong and Stung Chral villages, where ...p>

<p>Nearly 10,000 civil servants and those who had retired from service were treated in hospital in the first six months of the year after healthcare insurance for these groups came into effect.&nbsp;The National Social Security Fund said it was registering with more state clinics and ...p>

<p>Corn harvest season has begun in the Kingdom, but farmers in the northwest are facing a price decline, and hinting they may seek markets in neighbouring Thailand for their crops. prior to the harvest, provincial authorities reported corn prices at around 630 riel per kilogram ...p>

<p>The philippine government congratulated Cambodia for holding a peaceful and orderly election on July 29, saying that it is committed to working with a new government. In the statement issued on August 5, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan peter S. Cayetano said that the philippine government ...p>

<p>Some 300 pieces of timber were discovered and two men arrested in separate cases in pursat and Mondulkiri provinces as they were transporting the logs to Vietnam. National Military police on Monday found piles of first-grade timber measuring nine cubic metres in pursat’s Veal Veng ...p>

<p>phnom penh governor Khuong Sreng on Tuesday told the newly appointed municipal police chief to continue preventing protests and crimes of all kinds in the capital. Sar Thet, who maintains his position as deputy National police chief, replaced Chuon Sovann who has been promoted as ...p>

<p>More than 130 families in Kampong Chhnang province’s Boribo district were evacuated from their homes after floods hit the area on Tuesday. Keo Vy, spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management, said yesterday that district authorities moved some families to relief centres and others ...p>

<p>prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said that the government has spent millions of dollars on more than 40,000 pregnant female workers this year. During a speech to workers in Kampong Speu province, Mr Hun Sen said that about 42,000 female garment workers have delivered about ...p>

<p>Minister of Interior Sar Kheng cited satellite footage of recent forest crimes as he criticised inept provincial officials for illegal logging and the flouting of the Kingdom’s forestry law. “You are not born with the forest. We have an obligation to protect the natural resources ...p>

<p>prime Minister Hun Sen has vowed to protect peace and people’s lives as long as he leads the Kingdom. Mr Hun Sen wrote on his Facebook yesterday saying that no one or group would be allowed to stage a coup or start a colour revolution ...p>

<p>The preah Sihanouk provincial Department of Tourism says preah Sihanouk province received more than 1.3 million tourists during the first semester of this year. Of this, over one million were domestic tourists and 290,782 foreign, with Chinese accounting for 84,664 – up 10.12 per cent ...p>

<p>The Cambodian Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, has issued a warning to all citizens planning to travel to the quake- and tsunami-hit region of Indonesia. The embassy urged “all Cambodians with no urgency to visit the disaster-hit area in Central Sulawesi province to suspend their travel ...p>

<p>The Labour Ministry has reminded business owners not to employ minors, while also noting that it has not come across any cases of child labour so far this year. Labour Minister Ith Samheng on Friday said employers must respect and follow labour laws and directives ...p>

<p>The number of people being held in Cambodian prisons has reached epidemic proportions, leading to overcrowding and corruption, and causing families to suffer unnecessarily, claims a report by local NGO Licadho. However, Ministry of Justice spokesman Chin Malin rejected the findings, saying the rise in ...p>