Cambodia’s largest opposition party has expressed concern that China’s investment in the country is heavily skewed towards exploiting natural resources, wreaking havoc on the environment. China is Cambodia’s largest investor by a wide margin, having poured U.s. $9.7 billion into the country over the past 18 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 1,000 employeeS from one of Cambodia&rSquo;S largeSt microfinance inStitutionS gathered in the Koh Pich exhibition hall yeSterday to watch&nbSp;A River ChangeS CourSe, the award-winning documentary about three CambodianS from different backgroundS all Struggling to eke out a living in faSt-changing timeS. Why Angkor Mikroheranhvatho (Kampuchea) SS='cambodia-color'>...

Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana agreed to consider drafting the country’s first surrogacy law during a Friday meeting with Australia’s ambassador to Cambodia, according to the minister’s spokesman.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Activists have cast doubt on whether Prime Minister Hun sen’s new initiative for the country’s problems to be solved through social media can tackle the country’s most pervasive problem—land disputes. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh is officially back in the political game. The Ministry of Interior has approved the former prime minister’s Community of Royalist People’s Party (CRPP), Ranariddh’s cabinet chief, Noranarith Anandayath, said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s opposition leader yesterday lauded the success of Aung san suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party in Myanmar’s historic election, an outcome he said will help pave the way for his party’s own electoral victory.In a post on his Facebook page, Cambodia National ss='cambodia-color'>...

High returns on investment and healthy interest rates are helping Cambodia’s microfinance sector continue its rapid expansion, according to Cambodia-based investment firm Mekong strategic Partners. With an average of 22 per cent return on equity and 48 per cent increase in loans across Cambodia’s 27 microfinance ss='cambodia-color'>...

China’s Ambassador in Phnom Penh says the European Union should not mix politics with trade as it mulls withdrawing Cambodia’s vital preferential single market access in response to the country’s autocratic backslide. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Appeal Court yesterday rejected a bid by Hong sok Hour’s lawyer to secure the imprisoned opposition senator’s freedom and avoid being forced to hand over further evidence, including the lawmaker’s laptop. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s salt producers are suffering from a catastrophic harvest season that is likely to deplete their reserves and threaten the industry’s future prospects, according to leaders of the country’s largest salt federation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly’s permanent committee on Monday approved further study of amendments to Cambodia’s election law that would allow more than 1 million migrant workers to vote from outside the country’s borders. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly a week after Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report detailing systemic labour rights abuse in Cambodia’s garment sector, the country’s garment manufacturers association fired back, criticising the study’s methodology and alleged omissions. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The value of Cambodian exports to the EU is expected to decline between $513-$654 million per annum if the country’s tariff-free access is withdrawn, according to a World Bank report released on Monday. The World Bank’s assessment – made in a report named Cambodia Economic ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia reported a trade deficit of 34 percent in equivalent to 1.51 billion U.S. dollarS in the firSt Seven of thiS year, the report of the Commerce MiniStry Showed on ThurSday. During January-July period thiS year, the country&rSquo;S total import and export value waS 7.45 billion SS='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leaders brought politics to the forefront of a ceremony to mark yesterday’s anniversary of France’s official transfer of the former Kampuchea Krom provinces to Vietnam in 1949. speaking to a crowd of hundreds of monks, Khmer Krom and Khmer attendees at samaki Rainsey pagoda in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union announced yesterday that it is suspending all support for Cambodia’s National Election Committee, calling credible elections impossible in light of the government’s dissolution of the ruling party’s only legitimate competitor. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly will hold its first plenary session meeting on Thursday since Prime Minister Hun sen’s 68 members of parliament last month approved an Assembly president and chairpersons to head the body’s nine committees, and despite the opposition CNRP still refusing to take their ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kampong Speu provincial court iSSued SummonSeS yeSterday to five villagerS from Thpong diStrict&rSquo;S Omlaing commune, who are involved in a long-Standing land diSpute with Cambodia People&rSquo;S Party Senator Ly Yong Phat&rSquo;S Phnom Penh Sugar company. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Health Minister Mam Bunheng has been summoned for questioning next week by the National Assembly’s health commission over the outbreak of HIV among villagers in Battambang province’s Ro­ka commune, the commission’s secretary-general said Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Strategic environmental aSSeSSment (SEA) repreSentS an advanced tool for eStimating and evaluating the conSequenceS of Specific development planS, programS and policieS. In contraSt to widely-uSed environmental impact aSSeSSment (EIA) taking place at the end of the deciSion-making proceSS, SEA iS conducted before all major deciSionS SS='cambodia-color'>...