While 600 hectares of farmland has dried up in Banteay Meanchey province’s Thmar Puok district, as the region’s nearly month-long drought took its toll, local officials on Monday were optimistic that sunday evening’s rainfall will spare the rest of the district’s fields. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Increasing the tobacco retail tax — one of the world’s lowest at 10 per cent of unit price for domestically produced cigarettes — would deter smokers and increase government revenue while having minimal effect on tobacco producers, Ayda Yurekli, co-ordinator for the World Health Organization’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s relationship with China is at an all-time high, officials said on Wednesday, as authorities braced for the arrival of the country’s premier Xi Jinping today with the deployment of some 7,000 security personnel. During a meeting between China’s new ambassador to Cambodia, Xiong Bo, and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s opposition and ruling parties have completed 90 percent of a draft law to reform the country’s electoral body, officials said Monday following talks. Revamping the National Election Committee (NEC), which oversees the country’s elections, was a key component of a deal struck in July between ss='cambodia-color'>...

On May 09 2018, the undersigned of 79 civil society groups, condemn the latest blow to press freedom in Cambodia, with the opaque sale of The Phnom Penh Post, and the new owner’s immediate interference in the paper’s editorial independence, which compelled 13 senior staff and reporters to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen’s Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the main opposition party resumed negotiations on Thursday to break their 10-month stalemate but failed to reach an agreement on how to reform the country’s election body, party officials said. The CPP agreed to a proposal by ss='cambodia-color'>...

The future of the government’s Labour Advisory Committee is hanging in the balance as the country’s first draft law on the national minimum wage is set to come into force by the end of the year.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s capital on Thursday, arresting five monks and 10 others in a display of force that has been described by a rights group as unprecedented. The soldiers from special Command Unit 911 were deployed to crush the demonstration over minimum wages near the Yak Jin ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S.-baSed advocacy group Human RightS Watch (HRW) on TueSday releaSed a report claiming that WaShington&rSquo;S ongoing Support for Cambodian Security forceS iS inconSiStent with U.S. CongreSS directiveS regarding aid to Cambodia. HRW chargeS that laSt month&rSquo;S 10-day Angkor Sentinel military exerciSe, undertaken by memberS of the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia had granted licenses to 157 domestic and foreign investment projects with a total investment of 2.28 billion U.s. dollars in 2012, according to a report of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on Tuesday. Domestic investors topped the chart among all investors last ss='cambodia-color'>...

Over 100 people representing 140 families from the capital’s Por sen Chey district are set to gather in front of Prime Minister Hun sen’s residence in Kandal province’s Takhmao town on Friday to seek his intervention in their long-standing land dispute with military personnel from ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...