Preparations for this year’s Angkor sangkran, siem Reap’s largest cultural event, are almost complete, with half a million tourists expected to join in the celebration during Khmer New Year, according to provincial officials. Of the anticipated 500,000 visitors this year, the majority are expected to be ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Aiming to attract investors to broaden the Kingdom’s manufacturing base and to boost the country’s industrial development, the government is alledgedly preparing a master plan to turn sihanoukville province into a new special economic zone, said an official.The advisor to the Cambodian government, Dr sok ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Ford assembly plant in Preah sihanouk province will supply Cambodia’s limited but growing car market, the American carmaker’s local representative RMA Cambodia announced yesterday. The Us$3 million investment, wholly owned by RMA, has a capacity of up to 6,000 vehicles per year, and is expected ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Wildlife Conservation society’s (WCs Cambodia) Nest Protection Team, in collaboration with the Fisheries Administration, have found five nests of the critically endangered Cantor’s Giant softshell Turtle (also known as frog-headed turtle) during the 2020 breeding season on a beach along the Mekong River in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The victims of Ly Yong Phat’s Phnom Penh sugar Company development project in Kampong speu province’s Oral district said they are “happy” to hear that ANZ Bank had declared to the Australian Parliamentary Committee that it would consider compensating those affected by the project. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh municipal government has announced a plan to provide limited free bus services along national roads during the Pchum Benh week. The plan will see 120 buses deployed to “ease people’s travels during the holiday”, the capital’s City Hall said in a statement. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Environmental activists have launched the “Rescue Island” campaign to urge the government to preserve Koh Kong province’s Koh Kong Krao island, Cambodia’s largest, as a national park. They are concerned that development could destroy forever the natural beauty of the 103sq km island. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Minister of Agriculture yesterday said the government’s programme to boost agricultural output is well on its way to achieve its goals, but called on farmers and firms to modernise and abide by international standards of agricultural and production practice to ensure the programme’s success. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The head of the government’s National Malaria Center said on Tuesday that mefloquine-based malaria drugs began arriving in western Cambodia earlier this month, two years after local and international health experts agreed they were needed to combat the parasite’s growing resistance to other medicines. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities from the government’s new anti-logging task force swooped into stung Treng yesterday and inspected timber stockpiles belonging to the Kingdom’s most prominent logging magnate, Try Pheap, who has been accused of reaping immense profits from the clear-cutting of Cambodian forests for years. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After over 100 villagers in Kampong Thom province’s sandan district spent three days protesting a sand dredging operation near their homes in srey Chang village, the company responsible for allegedly affecting villager’s jobs and drinking water source agreed to stop their project in its entirety. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Aceleda Bank was the only Cambodian bank to make The Banker’s Top 100 AsEAN Banks 2016 list, and saw the largest jump up the rankings among all entries, securing the 88th position on the financial publication’s annual list, up from 97th last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a startling admission yesterday, the Ministry of Agriculture finally acknowledged that the Kingdom’s forest cover has decreased rapidly over the past few decades, down from a high of 73 percent in 1965 to now, where only 49.5 percent of the country’s forests remain. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After over 100 villagers in Kampong Thom province’s sandan district spent three days protesting a sand dredging operation near their homes in srey Chang village, the company responsible for allegedly affecting villager’s jobs and drinking water source agreed to stop their project in its entirety.  ss='cambodia-color'>...

Security forceS including riot police were deployed to Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Borei Keila neighborhood on TueSday to keep a watchful eye over activiStS in the area, aS rightS groupS, undeterred by arreStS of eight proteSterS on “Black Monday,” began planning next week&rSquo;S demonStration. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...

Amidst ongoing negotiations to boost the minimum wage for garment workers in Cambodia, H&M, the world’s second-largest fashion retailer, has rolled out a program aimed at improving pay in the Kingdom’s factories, arguing that higher wages improve industrial relations and productivity. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Immigration department director Sok Phal Said TueSday that Cambodia will be taking in only one of the two refugeeS who volunteered to reSettle here during a delegation&rSquo;S viSit to AuStralia&rSquo;S refugee center on the South Pacific iSland of Nauru in late September, but did not SS='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union (EU) last week announced this year’s recipients of 8.2 million euros ($8.9 million) in grants to civil society, with much of the money going to nongovernmental groups whose stated goal is to make the country’s elections more open and inclusive.  ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodians were optimistic about the economic and political future of the Kingdom, according to a national survey on citizen’s perceptions released on Wednesday by the Asia Foundation, although observers yesterday questioned whether that optimism remains in light of the government’s recent crackdown on the opposition. ss='cambodia-color'>...