The Ministry of Environment has dismissed the claim that forest cover has decreased from 43.21% in 2015 to 39.75% in 2023, as reported by Open Development Cambodia (ODC) on september 1. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation has shared plans to establish a working group to find solutions for people who beg, both those living with disabilities and those without. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Residents of Phnom Penh will no longer face water shortages from late February, as daily supply capacity is set to exceed one million cubic metres, according to the Phnom Penh Water supply Authority (PPWsA).​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is looking to secure its first commercial contract for the export of swiftlet nests to China, but must first demonstrate compliance with the Asian giant’s hygiene protocols, a government official has said. Hean Vanhan, undersecretary of state at the Ministry of Agriculture, said swiftlet nests, ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will lead the largeSt delegation of American buSineSSeS ever to viSit Cambodia when She arriveS here next week to participate in the ASean Regional Forum, U.S. AmbaSSador William Todd Said yeSterday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has retained its B credit rating despite ratings company standard & Poor’s citing the country’s ongoing political standoff as a “major” constraint. s&P affirmed Cambodia’s B/B credit rating last week, labeling the country as having a strong and stable long-term and short-term outlook. Engagement of international ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy says the international community is now pushing hard for serious human rights reforms in Cambodia. sam Rainsy, head of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, was this week in Geneva, where a UN human rights review of Cambodia took place. The UN’s Human Rights ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following a meeting with a visiting U.s. diplomat on Wednesday, Ministry of Foreign Affairs secretary of state Ouch Borith said the U.s. shares Cambodia’s concerns about a controversial hydropower dam Laos is planning to build on the Mekong River. Cambodia and Vietnam both fear that the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some of the U.S.&rSquo; moSt Senior lawmakerS are urging Barack Obama to Speak out on what they called Cambodia&rSquo;S deteriorating human rightS Situation when the U.S. preSident makeS what will be the firSt viSit to the country by a Sitting American leader later thiS month. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has been the country regionally worst affected by bird flu in humans this year—with 23 cases compared to just two in Vietnam and none in Thailand—largely due to the difference in poultry farming, an official with the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. Senator LindSey Graham laSt week Submitted a reSolution to the U.S. Committee on Foreign RelationS requeSting the SuSpenSion of U.S. military aSSiStance to Cambodia until an independent inveStigation into July&rSquo;S national election iS conducted. The reSolution waS Submitted on WedneSday to expreSS “the SenSe of SS='cambodia-color'>...

The government on Saturday announced a plan to decreaSe the number of maternal deathS in the Kingdom by 50 per cent in the future by promoting countrywide pregnancy-related preventative meaSureS among women. In the recently releaSed preliminary reSultS of the 2014 Cambodia Demographic and Health SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) has released an observational report on the rights of woman defendant’s at the Appeal Court, claiming that many weren’t granted due process. Having monitors attend 453 trials from December 2016 to June this year, CCHR found that there ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has announced the resumption of the MIA programme to recover the remains of American service personnel missing after action on Cambodian soil during the Vietnam War. The programme was suspended for more than a year after the Us government imposed visa ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen, in a speech on Monday, ordered officials to “facilitate” the campaign process for all political parties, including the opposition, a seeming about-face, as they had recently reported being hindered and harassed. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In addition to the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) rally on saturday, which its spokesman says would see some 100,000 supporters attending, two other parties announced plans for events that day to kick off their parties’ campaign period. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) said on Wednesday that 50,000 party-affiliated election observers had signed up to monitor the July 29 national polls, even as many opposition parties announced they would not send any due to lack of resources NEC member and spokesman Hang Puthea ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Australia became the latest Western embassy to announce it would not be sending a representative to Wednesday’s opening of parliament, Council of Ministers spokesman Phay siphan dismissed the Us and EU Ambassadors being “unable to attend” as no loss because “they give no value ss='cambodia-color'>...

The spokesman for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) has said the government is in no way concerned after the European Parliament gave it three months to reverse what it called the “systematic repression of the political opposition”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s democracy has been in increasing trouble in recent months, with Prime Minister Hun sen dissolving the main opposition party and cracking down on independent media. Now there’s a sign that the U.s. government is paying attention. ss='cambodia-color'>...