Tourism authorities in Siem Reap are anticipating that more than a million tourists will descend on the temple town for the Angkor Sangkran festival, the country’s biggest cultural attraction over the Khmer New Year holiday. ...

Cambodia scored very poorly on a perceived corruption index, put out each year by Transparency International, but a government spokesman says the report doesn’t reflect the “effort” the government has put into combating the practice. ...

Singapore head quartered creative agency Alchemy has been appointed as the digital marketing agency for Total Cambodge in Cambodia. the win will see Alchemy driving the overall digital communication planning, creative and production for the brand. ...

The National Assembly’s Permanent Committee will next week conduct an urgent plenary session to review and adopt The draft amendments to The law on political parties, despite strong requests for a delay from The opposition. ...

As opposition grew yesterday over plans to remove Areng dam activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson from the country when his visa expires later this week, analysts said the government was hoping to clear the way to develop the valley. ...

The World Bank is losing influence in Cambodia to “emerging donors” and making no major headway in stemming corruption, The Bank’s Independent Evaluation Groups said in a report released Wednesday. Specifically focused on The World Bank;s 2007 anti-corruption initiative through 2010, The report uses six ...

The Preah Sihanouk provincial authority has taken tougher measures against land grabbing and encroachment on mangrove and flooded forests at The protected Prek Kampong Smach sanctuary in Prey Nub district. In a directive released on Monday, provincial governor Yun Min said The encroachment severely affected ...

As the US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership moves forward, analysts say Cambodia should focus on other obligations in the region.Jayant Menon, lead economist for the Asian Development Bank, told VOA Khmer from Manila that Cambodia would do better to try to meet its obligations under Asean and ...

The Banteay Meanchey provincial court has ordered casino workers in a border town to resume work, following a five day strike over poor working conditions. The provincial court judge, Pich Vicheathor, told workers They must resume Their work or be fired, workers said. The workers say ...

Real wages for Cambodia’s semi-skilled construction workers fell during the past five years, according to a recent report from market research firm BDLINK Cambodia. A 36 per cent increase in the Kingdom’s consumer price index during the period put semi-skilled workers’ real wages last year ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen reiterated Tuesday that the government would no longer tolerate illegal strikes or demonstrations led by the opposition and its aligned trade unions. Speaking during the 17th Government-Private Sector Forum, the premier said the opposition party and its trade unions have used ...

An experiment in public busing sponsored by the Japanese government ends tomorrow, but Phnom Penh officials say they want the service to continue. the service will be handed over to the city and a Chinese company, so that 10 bus lines will keep running, but officials ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday signed to provide grant and loan agreements worth nearly 99 million U.S. dollars to Cambodia for three development projects, The bank said in a press statement.​ The agreements cover a rural roads improvement project, a technical and vocational ...

The Sihanoukville governor yesterday expressed his disappointment over The city’s garbage problem and warned The city’s waste management company that its license could be revoked if They fail to solve The problem within three months. ...

Backed by the U.N., Cambodia on Wednesday launched a national action plan to completely eliminate hunger in the country by 2025, the first step in an ambitious initiative that the government signed on to last year. ...

Cambodia has the third-highest prevalence rate for modern slavery in the world, trailing only North Korea and Uzbekistan, according to the Global Slavery Index 2016, released this morning by the Walk Free Foundation.   ...

The Thai government has approved The Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), linking The Dawei deep-sea port in Myanmar with Sihanoukville in Cambodia and Vung Tau port in Vietnam, according a report in The Bangkok Post. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen revisited a wedge issue between Cambodia and the US on Tuesday, complaining about the approximately $500 million in Vietnam War-era debt accumulated under the Lon Nol regime still owed to the superpower. ...

A recently approved road project leading to the border with Vietnam in Mondulkiri would do irreversible damage to the province’s protected forest and threaten future attempts to reintroduce tigers to the Kingdom, according to the World Wildlife Fund. ...

The opposition is expected today to lodge a constitutional challenge to The controversial law on associations and non-governmental organisations (LANGO) in a last-ditch effort to stop The legislation before it’s signed by The King. ...