<p>The phnom penh Municipality has approved a feasibility study on an underpass crossing National Road 1.&nbsp;The study will be conducted by Borey peng Hout, a leading local real estate developer. In a meeting Thursday chaired by Khuong Sreng, the governor of phnom penh, the municipality ...p>

<p>NGO Good Neighbours Cambodia (GNC) has released a report which said that 3.4 per cent of youths had tried drugs and another 4.9 per cent were enticed or forced into using narcotics by friends and neighbours. GNC said a survey of 283 youths from 13 ...p>

<p>The Ministry of Agriculture said the number of contract farming schemes is increasing remarkably, helping enhance productivity and market access for farmers.&nbsp;From January to August, a total of 91 contract farming schemes were inked in various sectors, including rice, sugarcane and livestock production, the ministry ...p>

<p>Cambodia is not a claimant state to the territorial dispute in the South China Sea and, as such, it can afford to have its own stance toward the issue.&nbsp;Stating this exclusively to&nbsp;Khmer Times&nbsp;during a recent interview, Malaysian prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said: “Cambodia has to ...p>

<p>The Social Affairs Ministry yesterday said the government has helped more than 60,000 impoverished families affected by natural disasters since it first launched its mitigation policy in 2014.&nbsp;Lao Veng, deputy director of the ministry’s general technical department, said during a press conference at the Council ...p>

<p>prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday ordered that waste collection fees be removed from electricity invoices issued by Cambodian national utility company Electricite du Cambodge (EdC). The decision will take effect from January. The move came a day after the government revoked the business licence ...p>

<p>prime Minister Hun Sen met with the new ambassadors of the US, Germany and Japan individually at the peace palace in phnom penh on Wednesday. He said the meetings touched on a broad range of issues, from trade to politics. In the afternoon, Hun Sen ...p>

<p>The government, through the Council of Ministers, has decided to abrogate a land swap deal between the Kampong Speu provincial Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and Touch Sarin Development Co Ltd. In the initial agreement, ownership titles for 10ha were to be given to ...p>

<p>Changes to unfair wages for garment sector workers has to start at the top, with global brands paying higher prices for clothes, said leaders of an international labor organization at a meeting yesterday. IndustriALL is pushing for this through its ACT program. If successful, it ...p>

<p>Human Rights Watch (HRW), long one of the most strident critics of prime Minister Hun Sen and his ruling party, again slammed the government on Wednesday for its failure to uphold human rights in Cam­bodia, with the release of its World Report 2016. ...p>

<p>A landmark decision by Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen could see almost a million hectares of forest reclassified as protected areas in a country with one of the highest deforestation rates in the world.​&nbsp;But the order, circulated on Friday, to transfer control of the sites ...p>

<p>The United States has invited senior Cambodian officials to learn about cybercrime from U.S. experts.&nbsp;Numerous countries and nongovernmental organizations have expressed concern in recent years over the drafting of a Cambodian cybercrime law, which critics say could be used to restrict freedom of expression and ...p>

<p>Officials at the Ministry of Commerce and Council of Ministers announced yesterday that a draft consumer protection law, which is intended to ensure that food and consumer products made domestically or imported into Cambodia are safe, was almost complete. A quarter of the almost 60 ...p>

<p>preah Sihanouk provincial authorities plan to recruit about 30 lifeguards to help prevent drownings across the province’s seven beaches.&nbsp;The move comes in the wake of several tourist drownings; the latest casualties involved a South Korean 40-year-old father, Lee Minseock, and his 4-year-old son, Lee Seungjae, ...p>

<p>Indonesia would consider buying more rice from Cambodia if the price was more competitive, the Indonesian ambassador to Cambodia told reporters after the Indonesian Trade and Tourism promotion 2016 expo in phnom penh on Friday. Ambassador pitono purnomo said that Cambodia and Indonesia signed a ...p>

<p>police patrolling the Thai border yesterday stopped close to 160 Cambodians who were attempting to illegally cross into Thailand from Banteay Meanchey province to work.&nbsp;Chan Mab, the police chief in O’bey Chorn district, told Khmer Times that his men were tipped off that 157 Cambodians ...p>

<p>Cambodia’s prime Minister Hun Sen is taking a belated leap into the digital age in a bid to court young, urban voters as he tries to fend off unprecedented competition from the opposition after three decades in power. Hun Sen’s Facebook, which how has 1.2 ...p>

<p>Empathy and forgiveness should be at the heart of efforts to heal the wounds of Cambodia’s tragic history, according to academics attending a recent symposium. Kosal of Brooklyn College added that the tribunal might not be an effective mechanism to achieve reconciliation and healing for ...p>

<p>With the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) expected to intensify business competition across the region, Thailand’s biggest industrial conglomerate expects to rise to the challenge under a new leader.Kan Trakulhoon is retiring as president and chief executive of Siam Cement Group (SCG) after a decade at ...p>

<p>The government has warned Mong Reththy Group (MRT), an investor in agro-industrial crops such as palm oil and cassava, that it must pay all outstanding back taxes on its economic land concession in Sihanoukville’s prey Nop district within three months, according to a document received ...p>