With a rapidly rising population exacerbating the country’s existing infrastructure, the Asia Development Bank (ADB) has highlighted in a new study the Cambodian government’s failure to install effective planning policies in its most densely populated urban centres. The ADB estimates that, driven by work opportunities and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Li’s visit comes at a time when Cambodia’s government, under Prime Minister Hun sen, is facing rising pressure from the United states and the European Union over its human rights record. Both have threatened sanctions in response to a ruling by the nation’s top court ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen’s Facebook page surpassed 1 million likes yesterday, earning him a spot in the country’s top 10 most-liked pages on Cambodia’s most popular social network. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s ambassador to Asean on Friday rebuked his U.s. counterpart for comments she made on the country’s human rights situation, asking her to refrain from “criticizing Cambodia inappropriately.” ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty-four officials from the Interior Ministry’s fire department have been ordered to join the ruling Cambodian People’s Party’s local working groups operating in Battambang province.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s suppression of human rights poses a serious threat to Cambodia’s democratic progress, visiting members of the European Parliament’s human rights subcommittee warned on Friday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

China on has handed over medical equipment worth $2.5 million to Cambodia’s Preah Ket Melea military hospital, underpinning China’s growing role as the country’s major military donor and defense partner. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Investment in the garment and footwear sector, one of Cambodia’s economic pillars, is growing at a slightly slower pace in 2019 compared to last year, according to an official from the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC).​ The deceleration is likely the result of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

An agreement was signed between Cambodia’s Constructors Association (CCA) and the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction two days ago, to tighten enforcement on construction companies here in making them meet industry standards. The ministry’s head, Im Chhun Lim, said that Cambodia’s construction and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of InveStigation (FBI) haS agreed to Cambodia&rSquo;S requeSt for greater aSSiStance aS it attemptS to “crack down” on U.S.-baSed diSSidentS, according to the National Police CommiSSariat webSite. A delegation led by National Police Chief Neth Savoeun returned Saturday from a three-day viSit SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is one of only two economies worldwide to have declined in global value chain (GVC) participation since 1995, according to the World Trade Organization’s latest study. The WTO’s World Trade Report 2014, released Monday, shows Cambodia’s overall percentage of GVC participation – one country’s contribution ss='cambodia-color'>...

Woori Bank, South Korea&rSquo;S Second-largeSt bank in termS of aSSetS, iS vying to purchaSe a 50 per cent Stake Cambodia&rSquo;S largeSt microfinance inStitution, PraSac, the company&rSquo;S CEO confirmed yeSterday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s largest opposition party has expressed concern that China’s investment in the country is heavily skewed towards exploiting natural resources, wreaking havoc on the environment. China is Cambodia’s largest investor by a wide margin, having poured U.s. $9.7 billion into the country over the past 18 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 1,000 employeeS from one of Cambodia&rSquo;S largeSt microfinance inStitutionS gathered in the Koh Pich exhibition hall yeSterday to watch&nbSp;A River ChangeS CourSe, the award-winning documentary about three CambodianS from different backgroundS all Struggling to eke out a living in faSt-changing timeS. Why Angkor Mikroheranhvatho (Kampuchea) SS='cambodia-color'>...

Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana agreed to consider drafting the country’s first surrogacy law during a Friday meeting with Australia’s ambassador to Cambodia, according to the minister’s spokesman.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Activists have cast doubt on whether Prime Minister Hun sen’s new initiative for the country’s problems to be solved through social media can tackle the country’s most pervasive problem—land disputes. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh is officially back in the political game. The Ministry of Interior has approved the former prime minister’s Community of Royalist People’s Party (CRPP), Ranariddh’s cabinet chief, Noranarith Anandayath, said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s opposition leader yesterday lauded the success of Aung san suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party in Myanmar’s historic election, an outcome he said will help pave the way for his party’s own electoral victory.In a post on his Facebook page, Cambodia National ss='cambodia-color'>...

High returns on investment and healthy interest rates are helping Cambodia’s microfinance sector continue its rapid expansion, according to Cambodia-based investment firm Mekong strategic Partners. With an average of 22 per cent return on equity and 48 per cent increase in loans across Cambodia’s 27 microfinance ss='cambodia-color'>...

China’s Ambassador in Phnom Penh says the European Union should not mix politics with trade as it mulls withdrawing Cambodia’s vital preferential single market access in response to the country’s autocratic backslide. ss='cambodia-color'>...