Investors in Cambodia, tied with Yemen as the world’s 164th-cleanest country for doing business, face risks in a planned stock market because of ineffective financial and legal systems, the country’s exiled opposition leader said. “Among the little dragons of southeast Asia, Cambodia is the least encouraging,” ss='cambodia-color'>...

Eighty-five percent of U.S. companieS in SoutheaSt ASia plan to expand their buSineSS aS the region will become more important in the next two yearS, the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Singapore Said on Monday. “ASEAN continueS to grow in importance for buSineSSeS in the SS='cambodia-color'>...

All but a handful of foreign journalists on staff at The Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia’s last remaining independent daily newspaper, resigned on Wednesday. Citing differences over the meaning of “editorial independence,” they quit within days after new owners fired its editor-in-chief who refused to remove a published ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two US congreSSmen on TueSday introduced the Cambodia Trade Act bill to aSk US PreSident Donald Trump&rSquo;S adminiStration to review the preferential trade treatment under the General SyStem of PreferenceS that Cambodia receiveS from the United StateS. The CTA bill will require the adminiStration to SS='cambodia-color'>...

Wat Bo Primary School in Siem Reap town iS conSidered a model School throughout the Kingdom and beyond, having made a name for itSelf for itS well-mannered pupilS, pleaSant environment and attentive teacherS. Located in Sala Kamroeuk commune&rSquo;S Wat Bo village, thiS academic year the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Mother Nature Cambodia environmental activists will submit a proposal to the Ministry of Environment and Fauna & Flora International (FFI), requesting for releasing Areng crocodiles in the Areng area of Chumnap commune, Thma Bang district, Koh Kong province for preservation purpose. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Provisional census figures released on Wednesday show that as of March 3, Cambodia’s population stood at 15,288,489 people – 7,869,912 women and 7,418,577 men – a 14.1 per cent increase since the previous census 11 years ago. Minister of Interior sar Kheng, who is also ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Stock Exchange- (CSX-) liSted Sihanoukville AutonomouS Port (PAS) Saw a 16.55 per cent year-on-year increaSe in revenue during the Second quarter of thiS year, according to an unaudited report filed on the exchange. In the Second quarter of thiS year, the port earned $20.42 SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Koh Kong provincial authority on Monday ordered the temporary halt to the filling-in of canals at the Tatai Wildlife sanctuary in Khemarak Phoumin City’s smach Meanchey commune while an environmental impact assessment is being conducted. ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...