A leopard appears healthy and strong as it paces the walls of its cage with a confident swagger and muffled growl that hints at its ferocity. It’s a welcome sight at Kampot province’s much-maligned Teuk Chhou zoo, which less than one year ago was struggling to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Senior CPP memberS Selected nomineeS for the National ASSembly&rSquo;S nine permanent committeeS behind cloSed doorS on TueSday, while the oppoSition CNRP, which haS continued to boycott the ASSembly over July&rSquo;S diSputed election, urged Some of Cambodia&rSquo;S foreign donorS to immediately Sever tieS with the government SS='cambodia-color'>...

CAMBODIA’s prices were 7 percent higher at the end of June compared to the month in 2010, according to National Institute of statistics official sim Ly yesterday. Although the organisation was still preparing to release the official figures, sim Ly said the figures would also ss='cambodia-color'>...

While Cambodia’s Moody’s rating is still at the same B2 level as last year, its economic growth has been downgraded two points from 2015, with the international credit rating agency warning that the Kingdom’s rapid pace of credit growth could pose financial stability risks. “The pace ss='cambodia-color'>...

New government estimates on this year’s rice production and forecasts for next year’s crop may be overly optimistic, industry experts say, factoring in the impact of a drought that damaged crops and is expected to carry over into the next dry season harvest.The Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...

In Sihanoukville, juSt north of Cambodia&rSquo;S only deep-water port, StandS the headquarterS of Chenla Seafood. A uniformed guard StandS watch at the gate, which openS on to manicured groundS and a two-building facility that houSeS what will likely become the country&rSquo;S premier Seafood proceSSor. A few SS='cambodia-color'>...

Though the mood was congratulatory yesterday at the inauguration of ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat’s sugar company – a gleaming, new facility nestled in between two hills in Kampong speu province’s Omlaing commune – the mood just a few kilometres away bordered on desperation. sitting ss='cambodia-color'>...

China has pledged 200 million Yuan (around UsD $33 million) to Cambodia in addition to the loans and grants provided in April of this year. The loan announcement was made during a meeting between Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun sen and China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang. Hun sen ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japanese investors will put $56 million into a joint venture with local company sanco Investment Group (sIG) to build a new special economic zone in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet town, officials said yesterday. Chhour Vichet, executive director of sIG, said Thailand’s labour shortage, Cambodia’s ongoing political ss='cambodia-color'>...

A senior Cambodian opposition lawmaker has lodged a complaint against a high-ranking, ruling-party official in parliament, accusing him of corruption and nepotism, but is frustrated by the lack of response. son Chhay, from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), charged that Mith Karen, parliament’s deputy ss='cambodia-color'>...

Faced with Cambodia’s rapid deforestation, a group of monks and environmental groups want to replenish Cambodia’s natural world. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s teachers want a raise. That’s the demand from a prominent teachers’ union, which has applied to march to the Ministry of Education on World Teacher’s Day to submit their salary request. The Cambodian Independent Teachers’ Association (CITA) wants teachers to receive at least ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than a month since completing the Golden Dragon joint military exercises with China, some 2,000 members of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) are set to launch their own drills at a Kampot army training school. Next month’s exercises, using live ammunition, will take ss='cambodia-color'>...

Koh kong provincial authorities have announced a plan to temporarily ban heavy trucks from travelling on National Road 48, while it’s being repaired by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport. According to the ministry’s assessment, about 22.26 per cent of the road or around ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia continued to improve its business environment over the past year, according to the World Bank’s “Doing Business 2017” report that measures the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it in 190 countries. The World Bank made this assessment despite the Kingdom’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has borrowed $732.06 million in the form of concessional loans from development partners (DPs), amounting to 74.83 percent of the debt ceiling of special Drawing Rights (sDR) approved by the National Assembly last year, according to the latest report on Cambodia’s public debt. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Civil Society OrganizationS (CSO&rSquo;S) and independent expertS believe that the July&nbSp;22 political leader&rSquo;S agreement between the Cambodian People&rSquo;S Party (CPP) and the Cambodian National ReScue Party (CNRP) provideS a framework for baSic principleS to enSure&nbSp;the effectiveneSS and tranSparency of the parliamentary proceSS in accordance SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia collected 444 million U. S. dollarS in tax revenue during the firSt five monthS of the year, up 12 percent over the Same period laSt year, Said a preSS Statement releaSed by the General Department of Taxation on WedneSday. In May alone, the department SS='cambodia-color'>...

The chairman of parliament’s banking and finance commission yesterday rejected allegations of misuse of state funds at the National Assembly, which were raised on Tuesday by opposition lawmaker son Chhay. Cheam Yeap, a ruling Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker who heads the commission, said Chhay was wrong ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seven undetonated exploSive deviceS &ndaSh; three in Kandal, three in PurSat and one in Prey Veng &ndaSh; were diScovered yeSterday, local authoritieS confirmed, juSt dayS after a RuSSian-made anti-perSonnel mine waS found leSS than 100 metreS away from a ticket booth at Angkor Wat. The SS='cambodia-color'>...