<p>This week, media outlets began reporting that China and Cambodia would be holding the next iteration of a military exercise in March as both countries commemorate the 60th anniversary of their ties this year and the Cambodian government heads to elections in the summer. The ...p>

<p>Eleven new chemical bomb sites have been discovered by the Cambodian Mine Action Centre in prey Veng province.&nbsp;The sites are in an area that was formerly part of Svay Rieng province prior to its transfer to prey Veng in 2013.&nbsp;Deputy Svay Rieng provincial governor Toch ...p>

<p>The governments of Cambodia and Thailand in November will launch a new border crossing in Banteay Meanchey province and Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province to facilitate entry of citizens from both countries.&nbsp;Cambodian officials met with their Thai counterparts on Friday to discuss the new checkpoint, which ...p>

<p>Cambodia’s forests are being felled at a shocking rate, as poachers and corrupt officials profit from the black market trade in rare wood species, which is being exported to Vietnam —&nbsp;and beyond.&nbsp;Loggers are illegally felling rare and valuable trees to sell in China and Europe, ...p>

<p>The Cambodian government has reclaimed 13 hectares of protected mangrove forest in Koh Kong province, which were illegally sold off to a tycoon and partially filled with sand, though nobody involved in the sale will be sent to court. According to an announcement from the ...p>

<p>A senior official at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban planning and Construction appealed yesterday to institutions, private companies and related parties to help increase public housing for low and middle income families.&nbsp;In the first annual national forum on housing yesterday, Chhan Saphan, a secretary ...p>

<p>The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology said that some areas in the Kingdom would be hit by a storm next week, especially the coastal provinces.&nbsp;Water Resources Minister Lim Kean Hor said that a high pressure system would have a weak influence on Cambodia and ...p>

<p>Officials from Koh Kong province’s environment department have confirmed that the construction of a yellow vine processing plant has been halted after a directive from the Environment Ministry.​&nbsp;Department chief Morn phalla said that while the plant’s construction had ceased, factory equipment was on the site ...p>

<p>The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) issued a prakas, or directive, last week instructing commercial banks and microfinance institutions to make out more riel loans to their customers, in a bid to promote the use of the national currency.&nbsp;The prakas, which took effect on Thursday, ...p>

<p>Alleged illegal logging and timber exports continue to happen in the prey Lang forest, while drug trafficking in the area is also on the rise, according to the latest prey Lang Com-munity Network (pLCN) report yesterday.&nbsp;The fifth monitoring report on the forest’s status from April ...p>

<p>As the country enters its first campaign period since the CNRp nearly upset the ruling party in 2013, the opposition party believes momentum is on its side. The researchers found that in the three communes they visited, the ruling party was deeply intertwined with the ...p>

<p>In a tributary in phnom penh’s phum prek Toal district that flows into Boeng Tompun, a mountain of plastic, garbage and waste has built up to the point where it stifles the water from flowing. Embattled residents who live next to the pile of waste ...p>

<p>Addressing the delegates, Chea Serey, director general of National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), stressed the role and importance of digital finance initiatives in broadening financial inclusion. She said digital finance could be a “game changer” for Cambodia’s nascent financial sector as it enables financial service ...p>

<p>In popel commune, Takeo province, some seven commune councilors from the ruling Cambodian people’s party are going to vote in the Senate election, which will take place on February 25.&nbsp;The election will take place without the main opposition Cambodia National Rescue party, which gained more ...p>

<p>The killing of three conservationists patrolling Cambodia’s biggest carbon credit project exposes the nearly insurmountable conflicts of interest plaguing schemes in which huge corporations such as Disney and Virgin Atlantic have invested millions of dollars, observers say.&nbsp;Military police Officer Sek Wathana, Environment Ministry Ranger Teurn ...p>

<p>On the orders of prime Minister Hun Sen, Koh Kong provincial authorities on Friday inspected a section of protected mangrove forest that in December was discovered to have been filled in with sand and illegally sold, with the consent of local authorities, to tycoon Chea ...p>

<p>The Labour Ministry has created a technical working group to study and investigate what causes fainting in an attempt to reduce episodes of fainting at factories nationwide.&nbsp;Labour Minister Ith Samheng, who is also chairman of the National Committee for Health and Work Safety, said the ...p>

<p>The Ministry of Cults and Religion has said it will consider lodging a complaint against activist monk But Buntenh following his remarks that Cambodians, including the King, drink contaminated water. Cambodian Youth party president pich Sros, who initially had said he was thinking about lodging ...p>

<p>Cambodia is preparing to construct the longest wooden boat to break a world record currently held by China by making a boat about 85 metres long that can hold nearly 200 people. Sar Sokha, vice president of the Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia, said ...p>

<p>Cambodia and Thailand are due to open an international checkpoint bordering Battambang province and Sa Kaeo province to facilitate the flow of goods across the border at the end of this month.&nbsp;Nguon Ratanak, Battambang provincial governor, and porn poth penpas, Sa Kaeo provincial governor, held ...p>