<p>As world leaders meet in New York from Monday to discuss the global challenge of climate change, thousands of kilometres away people in&nbsp;Cambodia&nbsp;are grappling with dramatic changes to the country’s ecosystem, including the lowest water levels in the crucially-important Mekong River ever recorded.&nbsp;The United Nations ...p>

<p>Cambodia has asked Germany to buy some of the Kingdom’s carbon credits earned from preserving its natural resources.&nbsp;Interior Minister Sar Kheng made the request during a visit to Germany which concluded yesterday, a ministry statement noted. It said Cambodia requested Germany to study the possibility, ...p>

<p>Sexual harassment in the workplace could have an indirect cost to the garment industry of up to $89 million per year, said Care Cambodia’s acting country director Jan Noorlander.&nbsp;Speaking at a Business of Women at Work forum yesterday, Mr Noorlander said the organisation was very ...p>

<p>Japanese firm Sumitronics signed a lease to become the first tenant at the poipet Special Economic Zone, which was established as a subsidiary of the publicly listed phnom penh Special Economic Zone (ppSEZ) in 2014. The electronics firm leased a 1-hectare plot of land in ...p>

<p>Ever since the dissolution of the main opposition, the Cambodia National Rescue party, the progressive Grassroots Democracy party has found itself between a rock and a hard place. Many have called for them to boycott an election that is no longer fully democratic. As one ...p>

<p>The government has ordered all domestic and international internet traffic in the Kingdom to pass through a Data Management Centre (DMC) that has been newly created by the state-owned Telecom Cambodia, in a move some have claimed is an attempt to censor government critics. Spokesman ...p>

<p>Ten men were caught engaged in illegal logging during a three-day patrol by the prey Lang Community Network (pLCN) that began on Friday. This led a representative of the group to declare that illegal logging at the prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary in preah Vihear province ...p>

<p>The first industrial park for small and medium enterprises in the Kingdom will open this October in Kandal province, just 12 kilometres from the centre of phnom penh. The SME Eco park, referred to also as SME Cluster Zone by the developer, is located on ...p>

<p>Cambodia became the largest bicycle supplier to the European Union (EU) last year, overtaking Taiwan, which had held the number one spot for two decades, a recent report from the website Bike-EU.com said on Monday. The report from the leading industry newsletter associated with the ...p>

<p>The National Election Committee (NEC) has rapped the provincial Election Committee (pEC) for going against the Election Law to allow a polls watchdog to send volunteers to monitor the political situation during the election period. But a Committee for Free and Fair Elections (Comfrel) official ...p>

<p>Cambodia’s three major sugar companies produced 120,126 tonnes of raw sugar in the first nine months of this year, said a Ministry of Industry and Handicraft report. It said Rui Feng (Cambodia) International Co Ltd produced 56,664 tonnes, Yellow Field (Cambodia) International Ltd (51,420 tonnes) ...p>

<p>Today (Tuesday) marks the final day for the EU Commission for Trade to receive the opinions of the EU bloc’s 28 member-states before deciding whether to suspend the Everything But Arms (EBA) tariff preferences for Cambodia. However a unanimous decision will be required to withdraw ...p>

<p>Cambodia has unveiled several measures to support local manufacturers and exporters in case the European Union (EU) decides to temporarily strip trade preferences from the country, according to China’s Xinhua News Agency.&nbsp;The Cambodian Ministry of Commerce issued a statement on February 12, saying that it ...p>

<p>In an agreement signed at the Embassy of Japan in phnom penh on Tuesday, Shanti Volunteer Association (SVA) received a $529,068 grant from from the Japanese government to carry out its projects aimed at improving early childhood education in Battambang. In a press release, the ...p>

<p>US-based supporters of Cambodia’s former opposition party have launched a campaign to lobby US lawmakers to support legislation aimed at placing sanctions on the Cambodian government. The activists are planning to call and petition lawmakers to urge them to support the Cambodia Trade Act and ...p>

<p>Two men who allegedly led some 30 villagers to illegally grab and clear forest land within the Ream National park for private ownership were detained by the preah Sihanouk provincial authority on Saturday. Neth pheaktra, secretary of state and spokesperson of the Ministry of Environment, ...p>

<p>preah Sihanouk provincial authorities have announced they would not recognise the more than 200 families who had illegally built makeshift huts and planted boundary markers on state and private land at Rithy II village in Stung Hav district’s Keo phos commune. Stung Hav district governor ...p>

<p>The government has contributed more than $110 million toward mine clearance operations, management of mine action institutions and through tax exemptions on demining equipment over the last 10 years. Ly Thuch, first vice president of Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority, yesterday disclosed this ...p>

<p>Despite losing its duty-free export status in the EU, the Kingdom’s rice exports saw a six per cent increase in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year, according to figures released by the Secretariat of One Window Service for ...p>

<p>Cambodia is currently among the fastest electrifying countries in the world, with coverage reaching 89.1 per cent as of the end of 2017, a newly published World Bank report says. The Kingdom has made significant progress in providing access to electricity, becoming one of four ...p>