A Chinese state railway construction contractor has approached the government with a bid to conduct a feasibility study on connecting the capital’s river port to the Kingdom’s sole operating railway line, a state official said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A mixed force of 7,000 military and security personnel will be deployed to protect Chinese President Xi Jinping when he visits Cambodia later this month for his first visit since coming to power, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition lawmakers yesterday left a meeting at the Interior Ministry exasperated, as officials from the latter continued to deem the presidency of their leader, Kem sokha, and the vice presidency of three senior lawmakers, illegitimate, but offered no clear path to a resolution. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Ministry of Information department director denied wrongdoing yesterday after the Anti-Corruption Unit released a letter on Friday detailing allegations of bribery, nepotism and improper hiring practices, as well as the accused official’s response. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Grown in floods and thriving without pesticides, floating rice offers Cambodia a sustainable alternative for its eco-friendly food production amid threats from climate change. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Testing of a new batch of election ink to be used in upcoming commune elections showed that it cannot be removed, a spokesman for the National Election Committee (NEC) said on Thursday, a day after telling reporters that samples provided by the ink supplier could ss='cambodia-color'>...

Earlier this month, Makro, a well-known wholesale supermart based in Bangkok, Thailand, began putting up signs on the zinc walls surrounding its sales office in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district, advertising its imminent opening at the end of the year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fishermen on the Tonle sap river are smelling success: The season’s first harvest of the fish now being crushed into the famously pungent prahok has hauled in a bounty set to almost double last year’s catch. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As part of an ongoing Japan-funded project to reduce congestion in the capital’s clogged streets, City Hall turned on three new traffic lights on Wednesday in Phnom Penh—with two more set to follow today.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition spokesman Yim sovann said yesterday that if any of the CNRP’s more than 400 new commune chiefs who won office on sunday cannot follow through on the party’s campaign pledges, they will “give up” their positions.sovann said the Cambodia National Rescue Party had made ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Wildlife Conservation society has made its first discovery of siamese crocodile eggs on the sre Ambel River in Koh Kong province in six years, it announced yesterday in a statement. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Cambodia continues its upward trajectory towards becoming a lower-middle-income country, it will face even greater challenges in reducing high levels of poverty as the Kingdom loses its preferential trade privileges and donor funding dries up, according to a new World Bank report. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The cabinet will hold a debate on Friday and is expected to approve the 2018 budget of $5.86 billion, an increase of 16.2 percent from last year’s $5.04 billion, according to a government document seen by Khmer Times yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s budget process was slightly more transparent last year than in previous years, according to a new report, though scant information is provided to the public over the course of the budget process, with few opportunities for public engagement and limited oversight in its creation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

New European legislation passed last month could help transparency in the extractive industries, by forcing companies to declare payments to foreign governments rich in resources For resource-rich countries like Cambodia, that means much more transparency, she said. More than 95 percent of the world’s major extractive ss='cambodia-color'>...

Inside a gleaming white-and-blue garment factory in Cambodia stand rows of second-hand singers — weathered sewing machines transported from a plant in China that closed last year. The Hong Kong-headquartered Top Form, which has 700 workers at the plant, is one of many businesses that have ss='cambodia-color'>...

In Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district there is a 133-hectare mound of sand that was once a lake. It took nearly four years to fill Boeng Kak with that sand. On the southern perimeter of the massive sand pit sit two large billboards. On those billboards there ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Cambodia prepares to host a series of top-level meetings in Phnom Penh next week, questions remain over how it will approach major issues such as the south China sea. Analysts now say next week’s meeting will be a test of whether Cambodia will continue ss='cambodia-color'>...

NagaWorld casino is set to inaugurate its first office in Vietnam on saturday with high-ranking Cambodian officials set to attend. The casino’s owner, NagaCorp, has announced plans to draw more customers from Vietnam, though Hem sopheak, a senior media executive for the casino, said all details ss='cambodia-color'>...

A combined force of police, soldiers and military police last night set a deadline of 8am this morning for villagers in Mondulkiri province’s tiny Rayum commune to leave their homes or face forcible eviction. Authorities, who have surrounded the village for a week, say the villagers’ ss='cambodia-color'>...