Food production accounts for almost one third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to a study published last week by the agricultural research organisation CGIAR. Food systems, from growing crops and raising livestock to storage and transportation, contribute 19 to 29 per cent of global ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said he has ordered the government’s lawyers, judicial officials, and legal experts to cooperate jointly with local officials to boost out-of-court dispute settlements at the community level. ...

About 500 of the 600 garment makers at Meroson Cambodia Co Ltd went on strike yesterday, accusing the Taiwanese-owned firm which exports T-shirts to North America of using them as “slave labour” Chey Sovan, vice-president of the Cambodian National Confederation for Labourers’ Protection, said that the main reason ...

While the World Trade Organisation yesterday lauded Cambodia’s economic achievements since joining in 2004, officials pointed to the lack of much-needed financing for the Kingdom’s burgeoning trade sector. Cambodia lacks the capacity to finance the manufacturing and agriculture exports that would allow the country’s industries to ...

With a mixture of hope and hard-earned scepticism, environmentalists from around the country will today get an opportunity most had never dreamed possible: an audience with the prime minister. About 500 civil society activists have been invited to Phnom Penh for the first National Forum ...

The government and its foreign donors are preparing for Their next high-level aid meeting Wednesday, Their first sine The government surprised donors in August 2011 by indefinitely suspending The meetings, citing The global financial crisis. However, officials at The Finance Ministry and The Council for The ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) broke ground yesterday on a $12-million tower being funded by The casino company NagaCorp that is set to take more than two years to complete and has drawn concern from election groups. At a ceremony that took place on National Assembly ...

The Cambodian People’s Party is prepared to make sweeping changes during its fifth government mandate, including improving The often-criticised judiciary and prioritising social justice, a government spokesman said. This “period of reform” would see deep-seated changes across a number of ministries in response to grievances expressed ...

The open-source mapping website Urban Voice launched a campaign yesterday against a government order banning Internet cafes withing 500 meters of schools that will effectively make it illegal to operate such businesses in much of Phnom Penh. “Implementation of this order would mean The closure of ...

Cambodia’s 38 microfinance institutions reported a 44 percent increase in loan disbursements in 2013, according to a report of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), the regulator of banking and finance institutions in the country. the microfinance institutions had lent a total 1.17 billion U.S. dollars ...

Civil society groups are getting closer to unveiling a new set of guidelines that will change how the impact of big development projects is assessed across the Mekong region, NGOs said yesterday, following the end of a two-month public consultation period. ...

On 24 August 2022, the Federation of Khmer Chinese in Cambodia (FKCC) released a statement that disputed international media characterizations of the country as a haven for criminal syndicates. Unofficial translations in English and Khmer are accessible and downloaded in PDF format. ...

The Royal University of Phnom Penh, The Royal University of Fine Arts, and The National Institute of Education inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Monday, agreeing to establish a joint higher education social sciences and humanities research institute. ...

On 14 March 2021, the Ministry of Health issued a press release confirming that the death of a 69 years-old Cambodian man in Prey Veng province died due to coronary heart disease (infarctus du myocard), not because of COVID-19. ...

On 29 March 2021, the Ministry of Health issued a press release confirming the death of a 39 years-old Cambodian man in Phnom Penh who died due to coronary heart disease (infarctus du myocard), not because of COVID-19. ...

Mr. Thong Khon, Minister of Tourism, said that the number of domestic tourists in the first weekend of October (October 2-03, 2021) reached 116,819, of which 113,856 were domestic tourists while the rest were international guests, most of whom are already residing in Cambodia. ...

On 25 January 2021, the Ministry of Social Affair, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation issued an announcement on the results of the implementation of the cash relief program for poor and vulnerable families during the fight against COVID-19 for the third round of the third time.  ...

The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) will become The first publicly traded company on The Cambodian Stock Exchange (CSX) when trading begins on April 18, Ming Bankosal The general director of The Securities and Exchanges Commission of Cambodia said yesterday. “We are planning on ...

On 17 July 2021, the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts issued a press release on the construction of a temple in Buri Ram Thailand. According to the Abbot of the pagoda, where the temple is under construction, the temple does not copy Angkor Wat and ...

The percentage of Cambodia covered in forest has fallen from about 72 per cent in 1973 to only about 46 per cent in 2013, satellite image data released yesterday shows. A series of animated maps that Open Development Cambodia (ODC) produced from NASA satellite images detail ...