Political analyst Kem Ley plans to create a diverse set of independent political parties in the new year, tackling what he says is an autocratic “disease” infecting both the ruling party and the opposition. Using his newly founded “social network” Khmer for Khmer as a springboard, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government is nearing completion of a policy aimed at strengthening the Kingdom’s small and medium-sized enterprises (sMEs), a senior official said yesterday. Minister for Industry and Handicraft Cham Prasidh yesterday told reporters his ministry was preparing a comprehensive sME policy with the purpose of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Global 2014/15 rice supply and use projections are lowered from last month.  Thailand’s 2014/15 rice crop is lowered 1.0 million tons to 19.5 million due to a reduction in dry-season plantings resulting from an on-going drought and a reduction in irrigation water availability concentrated in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Another Montagnard asylum-seeker has arrived in Phnom Penh, joining 10 others who are still in the capital after having their requests to have their refugee claims processed rejected, according to the U.N. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The $1.6-billion Untac mission of the early 1990s injected a huge amount of money into Cambodia’s economy. Now, the U.N. wants to pump millions more into the country—this time by buying up the offerings of local businesses. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three boys and a girl, one of whom is disabled, were removed from a Phnom Penh orphanage on Tuesday after its main donor accused its director of physical abuse and sexual misconduct. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Appeal Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling finding  Candlelight Party vice president, son Chhay, guilty of defamation against the Cambodian People’s Party and ordered him to pay  4 billion riel ($1 million) in damages — an increase by a third of what ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s outgoing Prime Minister Hun sen on Thursday afternoon unveiled the incoming government members led by his eldest son Hun Manet. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Manet said that Cambodia will continue to adhere to its principle of neutrality as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and will not take sides in any conflict. ss='cambodia-color'>...

ADB to support development of 2GW of solar power and study opportunities for increased solar power battery capacity. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Deputy Prime Minister Prak sokhonn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation chaired the annual Informal AsEAN Foreign Minister’s Meeting (IAMM), held in New York City, UsA on sept. 22, on the sidelines of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Cambodia will add two more airports to the construction agenda in a bid to improve connectivity between the country and other tourism hubs in the world, said Mao Havannall, Minister in charge of the state secretariat of Civil Aviation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Pharmacists in Cambodia have a particular affinity for prescribing antibiotics, so much so that resistance to the drugs has become a public health problem worthy of a national response. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 officials from some 20 economies in Asia and the Pacific are meeting with donor institution representatives in Cambodia’s siem Reap province in a bid to strengthen public financial management systems for climate change adaptation projects, said a news statement on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank yesterday raised Cambodia’s gross domestic product outlook for 2012 by 0.1 percent to 6.6 percent, saying that last year’s flooding and the global economic slowdown did not affect Cambodia’s economy as much as first expected. According to the World Bank’s East Asia and ss='cambodia-color'>...

China’s Yunnan province on Monday provided 200 agricultural engines to Cambodia’s northwestern Banteay Meanchey province for post-flood rehabilitation. A handover ceremony was held here between Yu Dingcheng, vice chairman of the standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial People ‘s Congress, and Oung Oeun, chief of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Already under attack by overfishing, pollution and deforestation, Tonle sap Lake fisheries face an even bigger threat in the form of hydropower dams, according to experts. Laos’ planned Don sahong Hydropower Project in particular has environmentalists fearing an emptier, less bio-diverse lake, and a nation pitched ss='cambodia-color'>...

Winning text messages in hand, about 25 angry Metfone customers yesterday gathered at the telecom’s head office on Mao Tse Tung Boulevard to demand the new iPhones they were promised. Each of the customers had paid Us$0.30 to enter a Metfone-sponsored contest and received a text ss='cambodia-color'>...

After winning what is said to be a landslide victory in sunday’s polls, caretaker Prime Minister Hun sen announced on Thursday that new members to the National Assembly would be confirmed, and a new government created by the third week of september. However, a leader ss='cambodia-color'>...