Cambodia is keen to grow Japonica rice and the Ministry of Agriculture is currently conducting field trials to explore the possibility. “We are currently studying how Japonica rice can be grown in the country and it will take three to four years to know the full ss='cambodia-color'>...

The ruling CPP and opposition CNRP have filed a combined 39 official complaints over the running of sunday’s commune elections while independent observers continue to criticize pre-election conditions that they say likely compromised the poll.Hang Puthea, spokesman for the National Election Committee (NEC), said the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) today announced a new “Malys Angkor” brand to be used as the official moniker for four species of Cambodian fragrant rice. The first day of the two-day Cambodia Rice Forum also featured the release of a remarkably frank report on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Deputy Prime Minister Bin Chhin, the Kingdom’s top authority in charge of resolving land disputes, slammed the Ministry of Agriculture over “shameful” irregularities in granting economic land concessions at the Environment Ministry’s annual meeting yesterday.During yesterday’s meeting, Chhin accused the Ministry of Agriculture of granting ss='cambodia-color'>...

The new function building at Diamond Island known as Koh Pich City Hall will host the AsEAN Foreign Minister’s dinner on July 12. Completed in March and opened last month, construction of the lavishly furnished venue was timed to coincide with Cambodia’s chairmanship of AsEAN this ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia recorded a trade deficit of 2.65 billion U.S. dollarS in 2012, according to the government&rSquo;S StatiSticS on WedneSday. The country&rSquo;S total import and export volume had reached 13.63 billion U.S. dollarS laSt year, up 19 percent from 11.48 billion U. S. dollarS in a year SS='cambodia-color'>...

The listed Phnom Penh Water supply Authority (PPWsA) earned total revenues of 36.9 million U.s. dollars in 2012, up 25 percent year-on-year, according to the firm’s unaudited financial statement on Wednesday. The report said that the firm’s net income after tax was 8.56 million U.s. dollars ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia will spend about 21 million U.s. dollars to cover for the [sic] proceedings of the general elections on July 28, a senior official at the National Election Committee (NEC) said Friday. “The budget for the forthcoming elections is about 21 million U.s. dollars, up from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers locked in a land dispute with ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat’s Phnom Penh sugar Company have submitted a petition to the provincial court asking for a cessation of the court’s issuing of summonses and arrest warrants. The court has so far issued 37 summonses, ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 50 residents evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood in 2008 and 2009 to make way for a senator’s real estate project once again protested in front of City Hall Monday to demand better compensation. They are among some 3,000 families who were forced ss='cambodia-color'>...

Lending by Cambodia’s commercial banks rose by 6 percent while deposits grew by 10 percent in the first quarter of this year, a National Bank of Cambodia (NBC)’s report said Tuesday. The report said the country’s 34 commercial banks had lent a total of 7.87 billion ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) will inveSt $1.3 million in a water treatment plant in Kep province to Supply clean water to more than 1,000 houSeholdS there, the company&rSquo;S head Said laSt week. Speaking at the announcement of PPWSA&rSquo;S 2013 reSultS in Phnom Penh SS='cambodia-color'>...

A military police official confirmed Thursday that his unit’s new headquarters were being built in the heart of Phnom Penh’s restive Boeng Kak neighborhood, meters away from the homes of some of the country’s most high-profile anti-eviction activists. About a half-dozen armed military police officers were ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N.’s human rights representative in Cambodia visited ethnic Bunong villagers in Mondolkiri province this week, days after local authorities prevented hundreds of them from marching to mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous People. Wan-Hea Lee met with villagers in Pech Chreada district’s Bosra commune ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials in Preah sihanouk province last week moved to bar prominent Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko from selling sihanoukville’s Victory Beach after the Appeal Court ruled that he had violated a contract to transfer the property to fugitive Russian oligarch sergei Polonsky, court officials said Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s defence minister lauded a decade of corporate sponsorship of the country’s military, which he said had enabled underfunded units to acquire weapons with the backing of affluent supporters.Prime Minister Hun sen’s policy on the relationship between Cambodia’s powerful tycoons – known as oknhas – ss='cambodia-color'>...

On the first anniversary of Prime Minister Hun Manet’s administration, Minister of Environment Eang sophalleth reviewed the advancements in Cambodia’s environmental sector. He conveyed optimism for the future, underscoring the government’s dedication to sustainability and cleanliness. ss='cambodia-color'>...

CNRP lawmakers on sunday took an oath in front of Angkor Wat swearing they would boycott today’s opening session of the National Assembly and promising “not to betray the conscience of the people.” With the opposition in siem Reap, the ruling CPP—which officially won a majority ss='cambodia-color'>...

growing behind his party’s call for an independent probe into claims of fraud and other irregularities in the country’s recent elections. speaking in Washington following his visit to Europe, sam Rainsy said that governments and parliamentarians in the European Union, the United states and several other ss='cambodia-color'>...

An “unofficial” land concession granted earlier this year to an agro-industry firm that has logged luxury hardwood in Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat Wildlife sanctuary is in violation of Prime Minister Hun sen’s 2012 moratorium on new economic land concessions (ELCs), a government spokesman said Tuesday. Phay siphan, ss='cambodia-color'>...