Cambodia’s first-ever agricultural census is under way, tasked with addressing the lack of reliable statistical information on one of  the Kingdom’s most crucial economic sectors. The census is being taken by the government with assistance from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in two ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s per capita GDP was projected to hit 1,036 U.s. dollars in 2013, up from nearly 1,000 U.s. dollars in a year earlier, Prime Minister Hun sen said saturday. The premier said the country has enjoyed full peace and political stability in the last 15 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday outlined the role of the newly christened Ministry of Public Function, explaining that the body would oversee the reform of the Kingdom’s civil service, including the salaries of its employees – a major plank in the opposition’s campaign platform. As a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Defence Minister Tea Banh yesterday said the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces are ready to protect the Kingdom’s constitution should the opposition’s threatened general strike fall on the wrong side of the law. “A nationwide general strike or mass demonstration must be held under the framework of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has signed an international treaty designed to regulate the trade in conventional weapons, becoming the 114th country to formally pledge its support for the agreement, which was adopted by the U.N.’s General Assembly in April. sea Kosal, Cambodia’s ambassador to the U.N. in New York, ss='cambodia-color'>...

In an effort to bolster China’s cultural influence and expand bilateral ties, the Chinese government last week donated $203,000 to support the Kingdom’s increasingly popular Chinese-language classes. The funding was transferred last Thursday to the Chinese Association in Cambodia, which said it plans to expand class ss='cambodia-color'>...

Before this past september, Nov Borom, a 52-year-old mother of five, lived with both a tenuous housing situation and HIV. But through a collaboration of several NGOs who sought to provide Cambodia’s most vulnerable people with housing able to withstand the region’s rainy season and floods, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction began yesterday on the sokha Hotel Group’s 600-room luxury resort in siem Reap – right next door to Angkor Wat. Named the sokha siem Reap Resort, both company and government officials were out in force at yesterday’s groundbreaking ceremony, talking up the perks of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives from some of the world’s largest fashion brands and the leader of one of the world’s biggest union organizations met this week with Cambodian officials and local clothing manufacturers to demand better treatment and improve workplace safety for the country’s estimated 600,000 garment workers. Garment ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the international community on Wednesday lauded the opposition CNRP’s agreement with the ruling CPP to take its seats in the National Assembly, some of the opposition’s most outspoken allies talked of treachery from a party that months ago was demanding a re-election or the ss='cambodia-color'>...

From the finance to the education sector, the interest from companies looking to list on Cambodia’s nascent stock exchange is on the rise, a CsX official said yesterday, after a meeting with some of the Kingdom’s largest firms. some 30 companies, the CsX say, are eyeing ss='cambodia-color'>...

High-ranking government officials expounded on the detrimental effect political and labour demonstrations are having on Cambodia’s security during an annual meeting of police officials yesterday. In a speech to about 500 police in leadership positions, Interior Minister sar Kheng said demonstrations, which have exploded since July’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s opposition has written a formal request to the country’s ruling party, requesting an agreement to reform the national election body before political negotiations resume on Monday. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party wants a two-thirds majority vote on members of the National Election Committee, which ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new blueprint for the long-delayed Snake ISland (Koh PoS) reSort development off the coaSt of Sihanoukville will Soon be completed, and inveStment of up to $1 billion iS hoped to kick-Start the project, which haS a planned completion date of 2018, according to the SS='cambodia-color'>...

ANZ’s financing of ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat’s controversial sugar plantation has come under fire once again, this time in an investigation by NGO Oxfam into Australia’s big four banks and their links to rights abuses in developing countries. In a report titled “Banking on ss='cambodia-color'>...

A week after it called off a failed sweep of the city’s vagrants, City Hall held a meeting with four NGOs and district authorities Friday in which they agreed to form a joint committee to conduct a census of street sellers and beggars, according to ss='cambodia-color'>...

In yet another attempt to stem the looting of Cambodia’s forests, lakes and rivers, the Interior Ministry has given all cities and provinces until July 20 to submit detailed reports on all the illegal logging and fishing taking place in their jurisdictions. The latest initiative comes ss='cambodia-color'>...

Avoiding a reprisal of the roadblocks and counter-protests that forced the cancellation of planned opposition events in recent days, Cambodia National Rescue Party vice president Kem sokha gave a speech calling for peace and stability to hundreds of supporters at the party’s Kampong Thom province ss='cambodia-color'>...

Yin Vuth, one of hundreds of Cambodians who protested against the Don sahong dam over the weekend, said that if construction on the project in Laos goes ahead, the fish will disappear, and once the fish disappear, the dolphins will be next. “All we will have ss='cambodia-color'>...

Less than a year after all refurbishments were completed on Hongkong Land’s Central Mansions – formerly Colonial Mansions – the classic residential units in the heart of Phnom Penh’s burgeoning financial, government and office-rental district are enjoying occupancy rates of close to 100 per cent, ss='cambodia-color'>...