In the not-so-distant past, visitors to Koh Dach, an island in the Mekong River about 15 kilometers outside of Phnom Penh, were often struck by the sound as well as the sights that met them there. Among the many crafts on display by local artisans, ss='cambodia-color'>...

After years of immersion in a vicious price war, battle weary and capital-haemorrhaging [sic] mobile operators in Cambodia’s oversaturated telecommunications sector may finally have reason to breathe a sigh of relief; 2013 might be cited as the year the tide turned. Tarred by legal threats, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Opposition leader sam Rainsy expressed his concern that the accusation by the government led by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party may aim to silence the opposition and to punish him by using the Cambodian courts. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The treason trial of supreme Court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Kem sokha began at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday with the presentation of a two-minute video clip. The footage, which was the basis of the charge against him, was dismissed by ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the wake of concerns about the detrimental impact of the European Commission’s partial EBA withdrawal on Cambodia’s rice export industry, there is positive news. As the country’s most important crop, around 600,000 tonnes of jasmine and fragrant rice are exported every year, according to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Australian government is studying the new project to help Cambodia’s economy development, trade facilitate and diversification, according to Australian Ambassador to Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A sex-trafficking network that included “high-ranking” government officials and had infiltrated Cambodian law enforcement agencies and NGOs for years worked to cover up Vietnamese sex rings and collect payoffs from illegal prostitution establishments in Phnom Penh. However, four years after a court finally convicted the police ss='cambodia-color'>...

For the fourth year in a row, Transparency International (TI) has rated Cambodia the country perceived as AsEAN’s most corrupt, and just ahead of North Korea and Afghanistan for the entire Asia-Pacific region.The 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index, which scores and ranks 176 countries and territories ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng yesterday, after becoming the latest ruling party official to weigh in on the CNRP’s embattled campaign slogan, went on to question the validity of the recent extraordinary congress that elevated Kem sokha to party president.At the inauguration of a new road ss='cambodia-color'>...

Eight months since announcing the biggest acquisition deal in the history of Cambodia’s financial sector, Thailand-based Bank of Ayudhya, also known as Krungsri Bank, has yet to receive approval for the landmark deal. In a statement released in January, Bank of Ayudhya announced its intention ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two men were killed on Sunday in Separate caSeS of landmine and unexploded ordnance exploSion in the provinceS of Kandal and Battambang. Colonel Duong Teng, Kandal province&rSquo;S Ponhea Leu diStrict police chief, Said 51-year-old Scrap metal buyer Y Sarin waS killed Sunday afternoon after a SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s financial sector remains on a sustainable growth path despite the Covid-19 pandemic squeezing crucial industries, National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) governor Chea Chanto said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has asked the World Bank (WB) to help mobilise more grant aid to support the country’s projects promoting skills, education and health, particularly in the context of COVID-19. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Embassy of sweden in Phnom Penh will close on November 30, 2021, but the diplomatic relations between sweden and Cambodia will continue, the Embassy of sweden in Phnom Penh recently affirmed. ss='cambodia-color'>...

“If there had not been this project, we would have still been living in hardship, using kerosene-burning lamps or batteries,” souy For, a 51-year-old father of two, said of a new power station in the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S. EmbaSSy in Phnom Penh and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural AffairS at the U.S. Department of State have called for propoSalS for the AmbaSSadorS Fund for Cultural PreServation (AFCP) GrantS Programme. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia, the incoming chair of ASEAN for 2022, vowed to Strengthen ASEAN centrality in order to maintain and uphold peace, Security and proSperity, the country&rSquo;S Foreign MiniSter Prak Sokhonn Said on WedneSday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The newly upgraded 84.74km stretch of Cambodia’s National Road 5 – from Battambang town north to Banteay Meanchey provincial capital sisophon – will improve trade, tourism and investment between Cambodia and Thailand, according to Prime Minister Hun sen. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh International Airport handled 55,000 tonnes of air freight in 2021, surging by about 28 per cent from a year earlier, according to a state secretariat of Civil Aviation (ssCA) report. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite the challenges of COVID-19, local apparel and textile suppliers have cut energy and water consumption through a range of sustainable solutions under an IFC programme which aims to increase resource efficiency and reduce operating costs. ss='cambodia-color'>...