The investors of a project to build the first coal-fired power plant in Koh Kong province are still looking for buyers, according to the Ministry of Mines and Energy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s goods exports including the garment export in 2015 increased 25 percents in value in 2015, worth more than $4.5 billion, according to Ministry of Commerce’s figure. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 27-year-old migrant worker who used his Facebook page to threaten to “shoot the head of sok Touch,” a prominent scholar recently tasked with researching the Vietnamese border, was provisionally charged by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian nongovernmental organizations and officials in sihanoukville province have applauded a warning issued earlier this week by Interior Minister to local authorities to not accept bribes from Thai and Vietnamese fishermen to fish in the southeast Asian nation’s waters. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Indigenous villagers in northeastern Cambodia’s stung Treng province on Monday called for an investigation into a saw mill they say has polluted their local waterway and caused residents to contract a skin disease. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia may not be an industrialized nation, and therefore not putting as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as other countries, but it nevertheless is contributing to climate change through deforestation, experts say. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new traffic law will come into force on January 1 that is hoped to reduce the number of people killed on Cambodia’s roads each year.Road accidents cost the economy an estimated $300 million annually, and the death toll from road accidents keeps rising. According ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Child Rights International Network (CRIN) has released its worldwide rankings of countries’ protection of children’s legal rights, with Cambodia coming in at a lowly 166th place out of 197, just ahead of Libya and just behind Tongo. ss='cambodia-color'>...

We the Heads of state/Government of the Member states of the Association of southeast Asian Nations (AsEAN) and the United states of America gathered in sunnylands, California, on February 15-16, 2016, for a special Leaders summit.  This special U.s.-AsEAN Leaders summit was the first ever ss='cambodia-color'>...

A $300 million sugarcane processing factory will begin producing sugar in Preah Vihear province next month and it is being described as the world’s largest such factory, according to reports in local media. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After a boat capsized and sank off sihanoukville last week, ferry company managers say local police have begun strictly enforcing safety regulations and rough weather warnings, in a dramatic shift from the city’s relaxed attitude toward boat safety. ss='cambodia-color'>...

From the snowy plateaus of Tibet to the mountain gorges of China’s Yunnan province and beyond to the jungled borders of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and down to the plains of Cambodia and paddy fields of Vietnam – the Mekong River is of crucial importance to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Angkor Air, the Kingdom’s flag carrier, inked an agreement with singapore-based aircraft leasing company BOC Aviation Ltd yesterday to dry lease two Airbus A320s, with the new planes scheduled for delivery by the end of the year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

During a cabinet meeting on Friday, Prime Minister Hun sen announced a “vision” to shrink the country’s cabinet by excluding secretaries and undersecretaries of state from the body, and to be given the right to bypass the National Assembly by appointing them directly, according to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Ministry said it will investigate documents and a video from 2013 that resurfaced yesterday showing former opposition leader sam Rainsy committing to upholding the rights of ethnic minorities in four northeastern Cambodian provinces, with a Justice Ministry spokesman saying it qualified as “treason”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In an unusual reversal of rhetoric, Prime Minister Hun sen publicly questioned the loyalty of long-time ally Vietnam on Wednesday, while ordering the interior and justice ministries to thoroughly investigate former opposition leader sam Rainsy for treason for allegedly colluding with the Kingdom’s eastern neighbour. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The prime minister’s older brother Hun san has sent a letter to the Interior Ministry asking for “serious action” to be taken against a deputy National Police chief over an alleged dispute on his land in Banteay Meanchey province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Popular media outlets Radio Free Asia and Voice of America have become the latest to draw the attention of the government for allegedly not paying taxes, one week after a letter to the Cambodia Daily demanding more than $6 million in back taxes was leaked. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Giving a speech to high-ranking officials on Wednesday, Borith spoke of the rising tensions between Washington and Phnom Penh following the arrest of opposition leader Kem sokha and the closure of U.s.-linked media outlets and a democracy promotion NGO. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Permanent Mission of Cambodia to the United Nations in Geneva shot back at the UN human rights office (OHCHR) yesterday for criticising what it characterised as the Kingdom’s deteriorating political climate, claiming the criticism was “unverified” and “politically motivated”. // //   ss='cambodia-color'>...