Rhona Smith, the UN&rSquo;S Special rapporteur on human rightS in Cambodia, haS Said that the country&rSquo;S forthcoming national election will not be “genuine” without the participation of the banned Cambodia National ReScue Party. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Environmental rangers on Monday seized a pile of timber hidden in the forest behind a house in Pou Chrei commune’s Me Pai village in Mondulkiri province’s Pech Chreada district following reports from villagers. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Tourism is preparing a draft law for eco-tourism with the hope that it will keep Cambodia’s tourism industry competitive while protecting the Kingdom’s natural resources and promoting conservation efforts. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Benny Widyono, a former UN official in Cambodia during its transition period in the 1990s, says the country’s mass killings were in part a result of the Cold War. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s tourism industry is expanding beyond the iconic temples of siem Reap and its white-sand beaches to the country’s little-explored northeast, with domestic tourists leading the surge, provincial data showed yesterday.  ss='cambodia-color'>...

New figures show that Cambodia’s sugar exports to the European Union fell by 94.8 per cent between 2013 and 2015, amid accusations of rights abuses and land grabbing in the Kingdom’s industry. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An international study of the health of the world’s oceans compiled by more than 65 experts this week ranked Cambodia 179 of 221 countries surveyed, confirming the fragility of the Kingdom’s marine environment. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Malaysia may soon cooperate more closely with a number of the Kingdom’s ministries if all goes according to plan after this week’s 25th World Economic Forum on Asean (WEF) in Kuala Lumpur. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Passengers traffic at Cambodia’s three international airports increased by 5 per cent during the first half of the year, compared to the same period a year earlier, the Kingdom’s airport operator said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty Cham villagers from Kratie province’s snuol district yesterday visited the Ministry of Land Management and Urban Planning to demand authorities resolve their community’s seven-year-old land dispute with two rubber companies. ss='cambodia-color'>...

AGRO-Industrial conglomerate Mong Reththy Group inaugurated its first feed mill on Friday, with the factory’s production line aimed foremost at supplying the group’s industrial pig-rearing operation, a company executive said yesterday.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives from global ride-hailing behemoth Uber confirmed the company’s interest in starting operations in Cambodia during a meeting this week with Transportation Minister sun Chanthol, according to one of the minister’s aides. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S. haS told Cambodia to continue accepting Cambodian citizenS deported from the U.S., deSpite repeated requeStS to renegotiate a repatriation agreement between the two countrieS, Foreign MiniSter Prak Sokhonn Said on Monday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s aviation regulator yesterday granted an operator’s licence to small Planet Airlines, allowing the Lithuanian-based leisure airline to operate flights from its new regional hub in Cambodia, civil aviation officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s strict enforcement efforts against oversized trucks are starting to ensnare legal trucks at checkpoints, further hampering the time-sensitive garment industry, according to the head of the country’s largest trucking federation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

On the 45th anniversary of Lon Nol’s U.s.-backed 1970 ouster of Prince Norodom sihanouk, Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday publicly accused the opposition CNRP of working to illicitly overthrow his CPP government. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Built from the vestiges of the Vietnamese-backed People’s Republic of Kampuchea of the 1980s, the CPP of Prime Minister Hun sen has long been accused by the opposition of subservience to its old master. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government wants Cambodia’s Muslim community to start its own bank to cater to the 600,000 Muslims living here, Labor and Vocational Training Ministry’s secretary of state Datuk Othsman Hassan said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government donated $1 million to Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals on July 18, said Minister of Health Mam Bunheng. The donation came to the free outpatient medical institution as it’s facing a budget shortfall.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Another garment factory within the International Labour Organisation’s Better Factories program was hit by a mass fainting incident yesterday.  More than 50 employees of Heart Enterprise (Cambodia) Co Ltd began collapsing soon after starting their shift at the facility, in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district. An ss='cambodia-color'>...