<p>Rice millers in the country will now be able to access the government’s promised emergency loan of $20 million to purchase paddy rice from farmers in a bid to prevent rice prices from falling further, the Rural Development Bank (RDB) announced yesterday.&nbsp;Rural Development Bank CEO ...p>

<p>Special Economic Zones (SEZs) have brought almost 70,000 new jobs to the country, according to an Asian Development Bank report released last week. With tax exemptions on production materials, lower profit tax, and renewable leases, the SEZs have drawn foreign-owned factories manufacturing everything from bicycles ...p>

<p>Farmers in Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam have called for a halt to the construction of hydroelectricity projects along the upstream of the Mekong River citing negative impact to the environment and on their livelihoods.Farmers in Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam have called for a halt to ...p>

<p>About 370 workers fainted at Cambodian factories in the past two days, possibly because of pesticide spraying on nearby rice fields, officials said Friday. The garment industry is Cambodia’s biggest export earner, employing about 700,000 people in more than 700 garment and shoe factories. In ...p>

<p>Some rice businesses in the southern province of Tien Giang have begun sourcing rice from Cambodia to distribute to Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring localities, instead of that grown in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, known as the country’s granary.Trung, who runs a major rice firm ...p>

<p>Cambodia suffers from one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, with an average of one percent of the country’s forest lost each year.&nbsp;But in an initiative funded by USAID Supporting Forests and Biodiversity (SFB), Winrock International hopes to help solve the problem ...p>

<p>According to a 2013 United Nations Environmental protection report, a water hyacinth plant releases more than 3,000 seeds every year and, because its roots are floating, it does not need to be in shallow water to survive. Water hyacinth has moved rapidly across South America, ...p>

<p>Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is in the progress of archiving the old website “opendevelopmentcambodia.net” by moving it to the new address at “archive.opendevelopmentcambodia.net”. Once the process is entirely completed, the address “www.opendevelopmentcambodia.net” will be re-used to replace “https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/” as the only official website address of ...p>

<p>The Vietnamese government distanced itself on Wednesday from angry posts its citizens made on prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook page, saying the platform should not be used to inflame tensions between “good neighbors.” The statement from the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs stopped short, however, ...p>

<p>The Information Ministry has banned journalists from publishing any information about the results of the next elections before the ministry does to avoid what they claim would cause “confusion to the public.”&nbsp;Information Minister Khieu Kanharith told a seminar on Tuesday that the ministry was ordering ...p>

<p>In an open letter to the leaders of Asean member states and the rest of the world, the ruling Cambodian people’s party (Cpp) yesterday attacked the opposition for allegedly “undermining democracy, political stability and the image of Cambodia in the international arena.”&nbsp;On Monday, the government ...p>

<p>Cambodian forests, some of the most biologically diverse areas in the world, are vanishing fast as a result of the Vietnamese, Chinese and Cambodian political interests.&nbsp;Cambodia has one of the largest deforestation rates in the world. Forest Trends, an influential organization with&nbsp;a mission to conserve ...p>

<p>Two new power plants are being planned for Cambodia, a $167 million garbage-fueled plant for phnom penh, and an $89 million solar plant for Siem Reap province, the tourism ministry announced.&nbsp;In a statement on the ministry’s Facebook page yesterday, the ministry unveiled plans for the ...p>

<p>The World Bank has projected the Kingdom’s economic growth will reach seven percent this year, slightly up from its 6.9 percent projection in April, due to solid garment exports and a resilient construction sector.&nbsp;The World Bank’s “Cambodia Economic Update October 2016” highlighted solid garment export ...p>

<p>The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology has appealed again to residents and local authorities to be careful in the event of flooding from heavy rain expected throughout the country from today until Monday.​​ The ministry said yesterday that a low pressure system will cause ...p>

<p>The Ministry of Land Management, Urban planning and Construction and Habitat for Humanity Cambodia (HFHC) yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that supports a national housing policy to address housing for low-income families.&nbsp;The MoU aims to support implementation of the national housing policy, which ...p>

<p>Cambodia and Vietnam have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to exchange parcels of land in provinces along the border in both countries after Joint Border Committee meetings in Ho Chi Minh City in July and last Thursday.&nbsp;The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry released information on its ...p>

<p>The government has established the National Committee for Health and Work Safety, to comprise in part officials from relevant ministries to review, give counsel and spread information related to health and work safety.&nbsp;According to a sub-decree dated Monday and signed by prime Minister Hun Sen, ...p>

<p>The high-profile investment conference, held under the tagline “Cambodia: The Kingdom of Opportunity Along The ‘One Belt, One Road”, saw representatives of more than 200 Chinese companies gather at a hotel conference centre on the outskirts of the capital. The full-day event was jointly organised ...p>

<p>About 100 people representing 162 families from Koh Kong province came to phnom penh yesterday to resubmit a petition to the National Assembly and some state institutions asking for intervention in a decade-old land dispute with three sugar companies.&nbsp;phav Nherng, a representative of the families ...p>