<p>From now on, only certain sub-decrees will need to be pored over by the cabinet before they are signed by prime Minister Hun Sen, the premier told a session of the cabinet on Friday morning, although failing to specify what the selection criteria would be.&nbsp;Mr. ...p>

<p>Hun Sen, prime Minister of Cambodia, is the president of the Cambodian people’s party (Cpp), the country’s ruling party since 1979. In recent years, when an opposition party, the Cambodia National Rescue party (CNRp), started gaining momentum and making their voices heard, Sen’s government found ...p>

<p>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 ...p>

<p>Nearly 30 Cambodians detained in Thailand since early July were released last week, though four remain in detention, an official at the Cambodian Embassy in Bangkok said.&nbsp;The migrant workers – 20 women and 14 men – were arrested on July 7 and taken to a ...p>

<p>In an effort to make the area look better and promote environmental practices amongst the communities living within the Angkor Archaeological park in Siem Reap province, the Apsara Authority, which is tasked with maintaining the temple area, is pushing the use of solar panels.&nbsp;Unsightly electric ...p>

<p>Cambodia’s beleaguered rice millers can now breathe a sigh of relief after a tumultuous three months in what seemed to be government ineptitude in disbursing an emergency loan of $30 million to prevent them from becoming insolvent.&nbsp;In June, the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) announced that ...p>

<p>Five days of heavy rain flooded rice fields in prey Veng and Svay Rieng provinces and some residential areas around phnom penh, causing capital residents to question when the city’s long-in-the-works sewage upgrade will finally be completed.&nbsp;More rainfall is expected to flood the country’s northern ...p>

<p>After almost 15 years working at various economic-related agencies, primarily the ministry of economy and finance, H.E. Hang Chuon Naron has been at the forefront of transforming Cambodia’s broken economy into one that is more open and competitive. Since 2013 he has been minister of ...p>

<p>The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is helping Cambodia conduct a feasibility study on an automated gateway transit system (AGT) to overcome phnom penh’s daily gridlock, caused by traffic congestion, during peak hours.&nbsp;Hideaki Wase, an urban transportation advisor in JICA, told Khmer Times yesterday that ...p>

<p>Authorities in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district have suspended traffic on the Ta Mok bridge since Monday night after the water level rose beyond the warning level because of heavy rain.&nbsp;The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology said yesterday that traffic was suspended from ...p>

<p>GIZ Cambodia, a branch of Germany’s international development agency, signed an agreement yesterday with local organic food retailer Khmer Organic Cooperative to provide technical support to develop organic vegetable production and to assist the firm in obtaining certification for its products.&nbsp;The agreement calls for the ...p>

<p>Unions decided to lower their demand for $179.60 per month as the new minimum wage for the garment, footwear and textile industries in 2017, telling employers yesterday that they were dropping the figure by $2 – matching the $2 employers added to their figure earlier ...p>

<p>The high-pitched whine of chainsaws drowned out the sound of birds and bugs you usually hear during any trek through prey Lang forest.&nbsp;What was once an area full of animals scurrying under the shade of gargantuan trees is now largely populated by stumps and ash.&nbsp;The ...p>

<p>The National Committee for Forest Crime prevention has admitted that despite claims from a variety of high-level government officials that deforestation and illegal logging had been stopped entirely, the illegal timber trade was still ravaging the country’s forests.&nbsp;In June, Environment Minister Say Samal claimed the ...p>

<p>Sixty-five people representing 71 families in Chrey Lors and Chhveang communes in Kandal province’s ponhea Leu district protested at the Ministry of Land Management yesterday and requested the ministry’s intervention and resolution of a nearly 10-year-old land dispute with the SKD company.&nbsp;One of the representatives, ...p>

<p>The Ministry of Environment signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday with two Chinese companies to study planting “paulownia-Guotong” – an extremely fast-growing tree used to make furniture and wooden equipment – and practice growing it in Cambodia. Speaking at a workshop on a feasibility ...p>

<p>Companies should embrace the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in their operations and encourage a positive impact through their activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all other members of the public, said an NGO official yesterday.&nbsp;“CSR-focused businesses would proactively promote public ...p>

<p>A mobile laboratory that will be able to analyze food samples at markets around the country was launched by the Ministry of Commerce yesterday, at the same time the ministry announced it was seeking Chinese support in building testing facilities at land borders to analyze ...p>

<p>phnom penh residents may soon be able to travel to select provinces via boat as the government has pledged to build a waterways public transit system to reduce traffic congestion in the city.&nbsp;public Works and Transports Minister Sun Chanthol said yesterday during the ministry’s annual ...p>

<p>Environmental organizations and civil society groups have expressed concern at plans to build another dam along the Mekong River in Laos and asked the Lao government to suspend the project due to the effects it will have on communities, water flow and fishery resources in ...p>