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'>...

A new U.S. government program, NOURISH, will combat malnutrition among Cambodian children. On September 8, Deputy Prime MiniSter Yim Chhayly jointly with DeniSe RollinS, Acting ASSiStant AdminiStrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)&rSquo;S Bureau for ASia, announced the launch of USAID&rSquo;S five-year, $16.25 SS='cambodia-color'>...

Maybank launched yesterday its locally incorporated company in Cambodia, Maybank (Cambodia) Plc, and will also build a 10-storey corporate office with the aim of becoming one of the top five banks there by 2015. Currently ranked seventh in terms of assets among 33 banks operating ss='cambodia-color'>...

A rubber plantation in Mondolkiri province targeted by a new government task force sweeping the eastern provinces for illicit timber stocks has denied any involvement in the illegal logging trade. ss='cambodia-color'>...

American packaging firm Crown Holdings Inc. announced Tuesday it would build a new can manufacturing plant in sihanoukville that will become operational in the second half of 2013. Although it did not say how much the project was worth, the factory will produce 725 million 33 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Health will investigate a baby milk formula sold in Cambodia that has been recalled over a risk it contains bacteria that causes botulism, an official said Tuesday. New Zealand dairy company Fonterra has advised eight companies that bought a whey protein concentrate produced ss='cambodia-color'>...

Internet search giant Google on Friday launched a new service that for the first time allows users to instantly translate Khmer script into other languages. Khmer is the most recent addition to the 66-strong collection of languages between which words, sentences or whole websites can be ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some of the U.S.&rSquo; moSt Senior lawmakerS are urging Barack Obama to Speak out on what they called Cambodia&rSquo;S deteriorating human rightS Situation when the U.S. preSident makeS what will be the firSt viSit to the country by a Sitting American leader later thiS month. SS='cambodia-color'>...