A Korean-style forest park will be set up near Angkor Wat Buddhist temple complex, Cambodia’s most famous tourist destination, using south Korean forest management technology. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six monthS after Prime MiniSter Hun Sen ordered a moratorium on the granting of economic land conceSSionS (ELCS) and a legal review of the conceSSionS that already exiSt, the Agriculture MiniStry haS yet to begin the review proceSS due to rain, and the danger of SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian authorities have disrupted several events held by nongovernmental organizations and have threatened to arrest anyone holding protests ahead of sensitive regional summits to be held in the capital Phnom Penh, rights groups said Wednesday. The Independent Democracy of Informal Economic Association (IDEA) said authorities in ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than four years after the violent forced eviction of about 800 families from Dey Krahorm in the capital’s high-rent Tonle Bassac commune, small-scale construction is finally beginning on the site. In the past month, the skeletons of a future barbecue restaurant and a beer garden ss='cambodia-color'>...

The elusive Mekong giant catfish, which the U.s.-based World Wildlife Fund (WWF) called “one of the world’s largest and rarest freshwater fish,” can reach up to three meters (10 feet) and weigh up to 300 kilograms (660 pounds). The Xayaburi dam would prove an “impassable barrier” ss='cambodia-color'>...

Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong made another appeal to Australia for additional funds to complete a behind-schedule project to rehabilitate the country’s railway network, this time to newly appointed Australian Ambassador Alison Burrows, according to a ministry spokesman. While work on the southern Line of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Forty-four Number One and OK condom packers, out of work since their contracts ended on sunday, protested outside the office of health NGO Population services Khmer (PsK) in Phnom Penh yesterday, demanding “unpaid” seniority bonuses. Representative so Nita said the workers, four of whom have physical ss='cambodia-color'>...

As work begins on Cambodia’s biggest dam, those advocating against its construction have warned that the region’s rush for hydropower will have a disastrous effect on millions of people who rely on the Mekong River to survive. Last month, workers began preparing an area in northeastern ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a move to facilitate a more unencumbered travel experience in the region, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia and the Philippines plan to develop a mutually beneficial system that would allow tourists to enter the four countries with one single visa. Collaborating with relevant government agencies and stakeholders, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A court official at the Kompong Speu Provincial Court Said Monday that a total of 16 union repreSentativeS have been charged with damaging property and inciting violence during a proteSt outSide a garment factory earlier thiS month, twice the number of arreStS previouSly confirmed. Provincial Judge SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Information has banned the broadcast of all Khmer-language programs by foreign radio stations for the entire 31 days of the pre-election campaign period and on election day, July 28, warning that legal action will ensue if stations fail to comply. The ban, announced ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Information, in response to a number of civil society organisations, said it has been working to accelerate the drafting of the Freedom of Information Act. The ministry said it is optimistic that the law will be promulgated in 2023. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia was ranked 13th in terms of peacefulness in the Asia-Pacific Region, and 73rd among 163 countries around the world, according to the 2023 Global Peace Index released yesterday by the sydney-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia (CGCC) has infused credit guarantees of as much as $164.7 million as of December 2023. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Moody’s Investors service said Tuesday that Cambodia’s risk of external debt vulnerability was still contained. In its latest assessment of the impact of Covid-19 on Asian and the Pacific, the U.s. rating agency said “liquidity pressures will continue to haunt some frontier market sovereigns. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the World Food Programme (WFP) have signed a $50 million aid plan aimed to reduce food security and nutrition. The Cambodia Country strategic Plan 2019-2023 was approved by the WFP council on February 27 in Italy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology has forecast that the maximum temperature would rise to 39 degrees Celsius during the 2023 dry season. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian people across the country saturday commemorated the 44th anniversary of the January 7 Victory Day (1979 – 2023). ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Primary School GameS 2023 waS SucceSSfully completed Sunday evening after ten dayS of competitionS. SS='cambodia-color'>...