Journalists in Cambodia are facing increasing threats and being prevented from doing their jobs amid growing restrictions on press freedom and civic and political rights, the U.n human rights office there said this week. The U.n. agency’s report, issued August 3, describes press freedom in ...

Cambodia’s human rights record was assessed Tuesday by the U.n. Human Rights Council’s 47 member states in Geneva, many of which cited concerns about the recent violent suppression of protests by the government, and a judiciary beholden to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling CPP. The U.n. ...

Nasdaq-listed ENtertaiNmeNt GamiNg Asia INc, a compaNy liNked to Macau casiNo operator Melco CrowN ENtertaiNmeNt Ltd, is selliNg its assets iN Cambodia. The sale iNcludes all assets of Dreamworld Leisure with the exceptioN of all electroNic gamiNg machiNes, aNd prohibits aNy use of the Dreamworld ...

Cambodia failed Monday to make its deadline to submit a key human rights report—known as the universal period review (UPR)—to the U.n., said Mak Sambath, deputy chairman of the government’s Human Rights Committee. Having missed the submission deadline, the government is now hoping to get its ...

Teenage pregnancies are hindering Cambodia’s development as young mothers are unlikely to finish school and therefore lack job opportunities, government and U.n. officials said at the launch of a global report on adolescent pregnancies on Wednesday. “The Ministry of Women’s Affairs acknowledges that adolescent pregnancies have ...

Cambodia signed an agreement with Vietnam and Laos during a meeting on Thursday to enhance efforts to fight human trafficking—with Vietnam reporting at the meeting that police discovered nearly 90 human trafficking rings along its border with Cambodia last year. ...

Vietnamese police visited a group of Montagnards in Phnom Penh on Tuesday in an effort to persuade them to return to Vietnam, where the asylum-seekers claim to have fled systematic government persecution, a member of the group said on Wednesday. ...

After eight years in the works, the Agriculture Ministry on Monday circulated the framework for Cambodia’s first law regulating the quality of domestic and imported meat products and livestock. ...

With rain finally starting to fall across the country, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday declared an end to the relief campaign he launched last month to counter the worst drought in decades, calling the devastating dry spell an opportunity for “lessons” in governance. ...

Health officials in Svay Rieng province, which was hit by an outbreak of bird flu (H5n1) early this month, said the virus has been stopped and there was no sign of a continuing outbreak.   ...

U.N. humaN rights eNvoy Surya Subedi oN WedNesday wrapped up his appearaNce before the HumaN Rights CouNcil iN GeNeva with a vow to coNtiNue assistiNg Cambodia iN improviNg its judicial system as NGOs provided witheriNg testimoNy of the situatioN of rights iN the couNtry. A dialogue ...

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has warned that some garment factories in Cambodia may be forced to shut down temporarily or lay off workers next month due to a shortage of raw materials. As the 2019 novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) continues to spread across ...

With the new coronavirus claiming its 17th life in China, the Cambodian Ministry of Health on Thursday said it is taking measures to ensure the disease does not enter the Kingdom, including inspecting all flights from Wuhan City, the outbreak’s epicentre. Ministry secretary of state ...

Cambodia has been the country regionally worst affected by bird flu in humans this year—with 23 cases compared to just two in Vietnam and none in Thailand—largely due to the difference in poultry farming, an official with the U.n.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said ...

Cambodia has not seen any case of H7n9 bird flu virus and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus, a senior health official said Monday. Speaking at a seminar on the awareness of H7n9 and MERS coronavirus, Dr. Ly Sovann, director of the health ministry’s communicable ...

Thaneakea Srov (Kampuchea) Plc, the recipient of a low-interest $15 million loan from the state-run Rural Development Bank, inked contracts yesterday with three companies to build and outfit its massive 200,000-tonne capacity silo and warehouse facility in Battambang province. ...

The Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Cambodia wishes to advise members of the public that one (1) new human case of avian influenza has been confirmed for the H5n1 virus. ...

Authorities in bordering provinces with Vietnam have reportedly increased the number of inspections of poultry imports to prevent a bird flu outbreak in the Kingdom. ...

NatioNal Assembly voted Friday to ratify the U.N. CoNveNtioN oN the Rights of People with Disabilities aNd the U.N. Rotterdam CoNveNtioN, which promotes the respoNsible labeliNg Nd export of hazardous chemicals aNd pesticides. The assembly also voted iN favor of aN agreemeNt with Qatar to ...

The long-term impact of 6 tons of toxic chemicals that spilled into a stream in Kompong Chhnang province on Tuesday, killing several hundred kilograms of fish, is still unclear, the provincial department of environment said on Friday. The chemicals, identified as the cleaning agents Ridoline 560, ...