Siem Reap iS littered with traSh and local young people have had enough. Once a month Since March, monkS and youth volunteerS from NGOS, buSineSSeS and public SchoolS have joined together to clean up their neighbourhood and promote awareneSS of how rubbiSh affectS people&rSquo;S liveS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s faith in Phnom Penh’s embattled trash-collection company appears to have finally been lost after the Council of Ministers announced in a letter on Tuesday that a shake-up was on the way as it considers rescinding Cintri’s exclusive right to manage the city’s garbage ss='cambodia-color'>...

The ruling Cambodian People’s Party’s decision-making central committee will hold its annual congress this weekend on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S. Senate on WedneSday confirmed William Heidt, a career diplomat, aS the country&rSquo;S next ambaSSador to Cambodia, the U.S. EmbaSSy Said ThurSday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia exported about $3 billion worth of goods to the EU in the first nine months of last year, according to Ouch Borith, a secretary of state at the Foreign Affairs Ministry. Borith’s remarks came at the ministry’s annual meeting and were in response to a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fishermen who have lived off the Tonle sap river in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district for generations were forced upstream recently after hundreds of dead fish mysteriously appeared in local waters. The 29 families who live on houseboats from which they cast their traps started moving ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amid a dour assessment of the current geopolitical landscape, Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday warned that only bad things follow when long-ruling strongmen are overthrown. In the lead-up to last year’s national elections, which Mr. Hun sen’s ruling CPP officially won amid reports of widespread ss='cambodia-color'>...

CPP President Chea sim is presently having a medical checkup in Vietnam and may not return to Cambodia in time for the ruling party’s national congress scheduled to begin Friday in Phnom Penh, his chief bodyguard said Wednesday. Defense Minister Tea Banh, a member of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and Japan had amounted to 180 million U.S. dollarS in the firSt three monthS of thiS year, up 14 percent compared with the 158 million U.S. dollarS at the Same period laSt year, a report of the Japan External Trade SS='cambodia-color'>...

Krousar Thmey, the country’s pre-eminent NGO working to educate disabled children, is in the process of being integrated into the Education Ministry, the company’s director and government officials confirmed Thursday. speaking on the sidelines of the National Workshop on Inclusive Education, Herve Roqueplan, director of Krousar ss='cambodia-color'>...

An estimated 3,000 garment workers from various factories rallied at the capital’s Freedom Park on Wednesday to protest against the low wage hike for 2014. The strike was led by pro-opposition trade unions. It happened a day after the government decided to raise a monthly minimum ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties are preparing to resume negotiations aimed at ending the country’s political crisis following a hiatus for local council elections, party officials said Tuesday. Cambodia’s opposition leader sam Rainsy said he had contacted Interior Minister sar Kheng, the top negotiator for Prime ss='cambodia-color'>...

By the time Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon closed the first session of the Cambodian securities Exchange yesterday morning, shares in Phnom Penh Water supply Authority, the Kingdom’s first domestically listed company, were just shy of soaring 50 per cent. Institutional and retail investors traded 487,110 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Minister of Education has revealed the government’s 8-point education policy which will become the Cambodian People’s Party’s (CPP) strategy to improve the country’s education system. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Women’s inclusion and empowerment in Cambodia’s burgeoning financial sector is crucial for the Kingdom’s economic growth, said delegates yesterday at a regional economic forum. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A heightened global profile for the opposition CNRP since last year’s disputed election has brought with it a new challenge: balancing multiple foreign relations. The party’s campaign to delegitimize the CPP government has taken on multiple faces over the past nine months as opposition leader sam ss='cambodia-color'>...

The German government on Wednesday signed up to provide 64 million U.s. dollars to Cambodia for two-year projects in health, rural development, governance reform, and education. According to a press release after the signing ceremony, 27 million U.s. dollars would be allocated to health, 26.5 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s trade volume with foreign countries amounted to 15.9 billion U.s. dollars last year, up 18 percent compared with 13.4 billion U.s. dollars in a year earlier, according to the report of the Commerce Ministry on Wednesday. The country had exported products in equivalent to 6.9 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Asia Atlantic Airlines, a Thai airline owned in part by Japanese tourism firm HIs Co, will launch scheduled flights between Cambodia and Japan this september, according a statement published by the airline on June 26. As of september 2, Asia Atlantic will run three weekly flights ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia saw a trade deficit of 1.32 billion U.s. dollars in the first six months of this year, according to a Commerce Ministry’s report on Thursday. The country’s total imports and exports were valued at 7.62 billion U.s. dollars during the period, up 20 percent from ss='cambodia-color'>...