The Women’s Media Center (WMC) will start this month after receiving funding from the British government via UNEsCO for one year to improve and promote safety for female journalists in the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Infrastructure is of crucial importance in developing the nation as it serves as the economic arteries of the Kingdom, linking each province to the next, said Minister of Environment say samal. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Children, young people, authorities, celebrities, civil society organizations, and development partners from all sectors in Cambodia come together Friday to begin a three-day celebration of World Children’s Day 2023, which is officially marked on 20 November. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The third ring road has been named “Xi Jinping Boulevard”, 60 years after a major thoroughfare in Phnom Penh was named Mao Tse-Tung Boulevard by King Norodom sihanouk in honor of the iconic Chinese leader. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Environment has dismissed the claim that forest cover has decreased from 43.21% in 2015 to 39.75% in 2023, as reported by Open Development Cambodia (ODC) on september 1. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation has shared plans to establish a working group to find solutions for people who beg, both those living with disabilities and those without. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Residents of Phnom Penh will no longer face water shortages from late February, as daily supply capacity is set to exceed one million cubic metres, according to the Phnom Penh Water supply Authority (PPWsA).​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen told business leaders and government officials Tuesday that he will not tolerate “illegal” labor strikes that harm investment, but avoided judgment on a request to withdraw ratification of a U.N. convention protecting workers’ rights to unionize. speaking at the 17th Government-Private sector ss='cambodia-color'>...

With agriculture still the mainstay of its economy, Cambodia is seeking to reform rural communities in partnership with Korea to shore up residents’ livelihoods and boost grain exports. The southeast Asian country is seeking to follow in the footsteps of the “saemaeul Undong,” or New Community ss='cambodia-color'>...

A high-ranking Chinese official has vowed to boost ties with Cambodia to a new high, noting that the Kingdom has steady economic development during a meeting with Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

While highly contentious new rules were being passed in the National Assembly on Monday banning the CNRP from collaborating with its former leader sam Rainsy, photographs were posted to Facebook of senior opposition lawmakers dining at a riverside hotel in Kampot province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is looking to secure its first commercial contract for the export of swiftlet nests to China, but must first demonstrate compliance with the Asian giant’s hygiene protocols, a government official has said. Hean Vanhan, undersecretary of state at the Ministry of Agriculture, said swiftlet nests, ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will lead the largeSt delegation of American buSineSSeS ever to viSit Cambodia when She arriveS here next week to participate in the ASean Regional Forum, U.S. AmbaSSador William Todd Said yeSterday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has retained its B credit rating despite ratings company standard & Poor’s citing the country’s ongoing political standoff as a “major” constraint. s&P affirmed Cambodia’s B/B credit rating last week, labeling the country as having a strong and stable long-term and short-term outlook. Engagement of international ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy says the international community is now pushing hard for serious human rights reforms in Cambodia. sam Rainsy, head of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, was this week in Geneva, where a UN human rights review of Cambodia took place. The UN’s Human Rights ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following a meeting with a visiting U.s. diplomat on Wednesday, Ministry of Foreign Affairs secretary of state Ouch Borith said the U.s. shares Cambodia’s concerns about a controversial hydropower dam Laos is planning to build on the Mekong River. Cambodia and Vietnam both fear that the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two weeks after five Montagnard asylum seekers crossed into Ratanakkiri province from Vietnam, the U.N. said sunday that reports of the arrival of nine more—including three children—added to the situation’s “urgency.” Two ethnic Jarai villagers living in Ratanakkiri said the nine Montagnards—an indigenous group from Vietnam’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

“From my view, I don’t want to have it, but it is development, we can’t stop them,” says srekor’s village chief, Leang saroeurn. Cambodia’s impressive yearly GDP growth rates of 7 percent for the last decade have come, in part, through a ravenous consumption of the countries ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S. Department of State haS launched the Mekong Dam Monitor in collaboration with the StimSon Center and EyeS on Earth. The new Mekong Dam Monitor iS a Significant Step toward improving underStanding of the water conditionS in the Mekong River BaSin. SS='cambodia-color'>...