Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh says Vietnam is willing to co-operate with Cambodia in terrorism prevention through exchanges and joint drills, Nhan Dan reported Wednesday. The official organ of the Communist Party of Vietnam said the offer was made at a reception in Hanoi Tuesday ss='cambodia-color'>...

Recent flooding has claimed another victim, a child in Kratie province who drowned, bringing the total death toll to 30, Keo Vy, cabinet director at the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), said yesterday. While water levels are declining across the 12 provinces affected by flooding, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four more goods made in Cambodia have been linked to exploitative child labour, adding to a mounting list of items the United states considers to be produced in violation of international rights laws. The mounting number of Cambodian goods found to use child labour runs ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Ministry of social Affairs official yesterday announced that, starting next year, the government would offer regular payments of 20,000 riel (about $5) to all disabled Cambodians, a benefit that so far has only been available to retired disabled soldiers. In an announcement that coincided with ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thirteen ethnic Montagnards have emerged from the jungles of Cambodia, where they hid for more than seven weeks after entering the country from Vietnam to flee alleged persecution, the United Nations and local authorities said saturday. Eight of the Montagnards–including one woman–left their jungle hiding ss='cambodia-color'>...

Defense Minister Tea Banh joked Tuesday that the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) are “biased to the right people” in protecting the government from destabilizing political agitators. speaking at the annual review of the military’s activities at the Defense Ministry, General Banh said the armed forces ss='cambodia-color'>...

Forestry officials and police on Monday arrested seven men for logging illegally in stung Treng province’s sesan district, officials said Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition CNRP lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang says he will visit Phnom Penh’s Prey speu social affairs center today to investigate its controversial treatment of detainees following the death of a recent charge. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In its latest plan to tackle gender disparities, the government applauded its own progress, while still acknowledging persistent challenges, such as a lack of women in leadership roles, and new ones, such as women’s vulnerability to climate change. “The situation of women has improved remarkably over ss='cambodia-color'>...

In May, circus artists from Phnom Penh, Battambang City and siem Reap City will come together for the ninth Tini Tinou International Circus Festival, which was relaunched last year after being canceled in 2011 for financial reasons. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The body of a fisherman was discovered floating in the Tonle sap lake in Kompong Chhnang province’s Boribor district on Tuesday after a vicious boating attack, police said Wednesday, in what is the fourth such incident on the lake this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In an internal report released this week, the Ministry of Education gave itself high marks for the access to education it offers disabled children, offering a rundown of successes in the field dotted with green checkmarks, not unlike a school report card. However, though the ministry 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'>...

The Wildlife Conservation society Cambodia Programme (WCs) has said it safely released 35 Cantor’s giant softshell turtle hatchlings into the wild along the Mekong River on February 17, in Kratie province’s northernmost district of sambor. ss='cambodia-color'>...

There are nearly seven times the number of male lawmakers in the 7th National Assembly compared to female members with 87.2% of seats occupied by men and 12.8% by women in the 125-seat parliament. ss='cambodia-color'>...

FacebookTwitterEmailShareThe ADB haS approved a $100 million loan to enhance Cambodia&rSquo;S labour force by addreSSing SkillS gapS through reformS in TVET. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA) regarded the commentary by NGOs and civil society organizations on the industry as “biased, incomplete, and cherry-picked”, taking just the negative parts of a report produced by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) into account while ignoring ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has launched its first strategic plan on cooling, seen as one of the largest contributors to global warming, to steer the nation towards a greener and cleaner future. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Permanent Mission of Cambodia to the United Nations (UN) in Geneva on Tuesday criticised the request from human rights experts at the UN to suspend the Cambodian Press Charter, claiming it was made with insufficient evidence. ss='cambodia-color'>...