Forest view. Photo by Open Development Cambodia, taken on 05 December 2021. Under license CC BY-sA 4.0.Cambodia is covered with forest, accounting for around 13.1 million hectares in 1973, and it is had fallen to 8.7 million hectares in 2014.1 However, based on the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Venturing into Cambodia’s casino market in May 2011, Macau-backed gambling firm Entertainment Gaming Asia (EGA) promised tens of thousands of dollars to the wife of Pailin’s provincial governor in order to lease land for the construction of a new casino, documents filed with the U.s. ss='cambodia-color'>...

For hundreds of years, the ancestors of Vam sovann have lived in Koh Kong province’s remote Araeng valley. some 70 km from the nearest national road, Mr. sovann’s village has no electricity or phone coverage, no paved roads or running water; instead, it has access ss='cambodia-color'>...

This past sunday afternoon, while the rest of Phnom Penh’s residents hid from the sweltering heat, a steady stream of cars and motos made their way down a long accces road, flanked by green lawn and tennis courts. Alighting at the sofitel Phokeetra on the Tonle ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ministry of Interior officials held a closed-door meeting Monday with NGO representatives to contest Cambodia’s recent downgrade on the U.s. state Department’s Global Trafficking in Persons Report, which the ministry will discuss in a meeting with the U.s. Em­bassy this week. The annual report, released last ss='cambodia-color'>...

At the end of a well-paved road just past the city’s airport sits a cluster of factories. Each one is barely discernible from the next – grey concrete walls and blue aluminium roofs. But one factory in the lot, MAG (Cambodia), is different. In a country ss='cambodia-color'>...

Defense Minister Tea Banh will meet Tuesday in Hawaii with U.s. secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel as well as nine other Asean defense ministers at the first U.s.-hosted meeting with the regional defense chiefs, officials said. Gen. Banh, speaking at a news conference at Phnom Penh ss='cambodia-color'>...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected that Cambodia will have a very low inflationary rate to 3.5 per cent this year, which is 0.1 per cent below the goverment’s new revision but 0.5 per cent higher than the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Cambodia’s government in August also revised inflation ss='cambodia-color'>...

Greater connectivity between Japan and Cambodia is tightening economic links between the two countries while catalysing Japan’s ambitions to develop a chain of industrial complexes that cut a tract through the Lower Mekong region. Officials at Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO), Japan’s development agency, say ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Phnom Penh yesterday afternoon began rounding up homeless people as part of the city’s preparations for next month’s Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting, officials said. “We collect them because we don’t want them to affect foreign tourists as we prepare for the arrival of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A lawyer for Norwegian-owned power and electronics equipment firm Eltek Valere yesterday called on investors not to buy stakes in the Thai-owned mobile phone operator Mfone, and to await court’s ruling. The lawyer’s appeal came after the Phnom Penh Municipal Court issued a warrant for keeping ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday signed up to provide 230 million U.s. dollars to Cambodia for six development projects, aiming at promoting inclusive growth and reducing poverty in Cambodia, according to the bank’s media statement. The financing agreements were inked between Eric sidgwick, country ss='cambodia-color'>...

Forestry officials on Monday confiscated nearly two-and-a-half cubic meters of luxury grade Thnong wood in stung Treng province from a military truck emblazoned with the insignia of Prime Minister Hun sen’s Bodyguard Unit, forestry officials said yesterday. An additional 100 pieces of luxury grade wood were ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Cambodian workers for the U.s.- owned Caltex petrol stations in Phnom Penh continued their strike for higher wages Wednesday after wage negotiations late Tuesday failed to reach any agreement. strike leader sar Mora, president of the Cambodian Food and service Workers Federation, said some 300 Caltex ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s business community welcomed the news yesterday that the county’s longest-ever parliamentary deadlock had come to an end – a resolution investors say will help ease fears of political instability. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday struck a deal ss='cambodia-color'>...

After 11 hours of escalation, some 30 armed security personnel stormed a home in Tbong Khmum province’s Memot district after responding to reports of a potentially deadly violent domestic altercation there, police said yesterday. Dany’s case coincided with the saturday release of rights group ADHOC’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite the fact that Cambodia is slated to reach the six internationally agreed-upon education goals set by Unesco for 2015, the Kingdom’s education system continues to face systemic problems, according to the Ministry of Education’s annual report. The report’s final draft, which was released to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nagacorp, owner of Cambodia’s largest casino, NagaWorld, is on track to begin flying in high-rollers from China on a fleet of its own commercial aircraft, according to the company’s latest earnings statement and government officials. In a filing to the Hong Kong stock Exchange on Friday, ss='cambodia-color'>...