One of a farmer’s greatest enemies is heat. As many as 50 percent of the fruit and vegetables harvested in Cambodia are lost because of heat – lettuce wilts, onions become slimy, tomatoes turn to mush. Because of a lack of cold storage at most of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s central bank ‒ the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) ‒ is working closely with experts from the Us Treasury to set up a depositors’ protection scheme among banks in the country. This move was welcomed by the country’s banking industry with CEOs saying ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sam RainSy, the longtime leader of Cambodia&rSquo;S beleaguered democracy movement, reSigned aS preSident of the oppoSition CNRP on Saturday in the face of the government&rSquo;S threatS to diSSolve the entire party over hiS criminal record. The brief letter Said only that he waS reSigning for SS='cambodia-color'>...

India, the world’s second most populous nation, agreed to provide a $20 million concessional loan for the construction of electricity transmission lines in Cambodia after Prime Minister Hun sen’s official four-day visit to India. According to a joint statement, “The two governments agreed to sign a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has called on the Agriculture Ministry to do more to prevent land grabbing in the country’s endangered flooded forests.speaking at the closing ceremony of the Agriculture Ministry’s annual meeting yesterday, Mr. Hun sen said encroachment risks wiping out fish populations that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite a court-ordered land title in their favour, 163 families in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district last week watched excavators rip apart their homes at the behest of two district deputy governors. The forced eviction, denounced in a petition delivered on Friday to Prime Minister Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipality has begun construction work on a road skirting the area formerly taken up by the Boeng Kak lake, according to a statement posted on the city’s website. On Monday, the municipality held an inauguration ceremony for construction of a 615-meter concrete road ss='cambodia-color'>...

A long day of negotiations failed to resolve a factory dispute yesterday at a company that supplies to major international brands Gap, Levi’s and H&M. After more than 1,500 workers from sL Garment Processing (Cambodia) factories in the capital’s Meanchey district marched to the Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Criticism of the Cambodian People’s Party has been overt in recent months as those from Boeung Kak lake and Borei Keila have taken to the streets to vent their frustration and anger at their housing situations. But an equivalent backlash at the polls was nowhere to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of workers from factories owned by Tai Yang Enterprise in Kandal province’s Ang snuol district blocked National Road 4 for more than seven hours yesterday to push the company to meet their demands. May sopheaktra said workers decided to block the road after the companytried ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Thai company set to build Laos’s Xayaburi hydropower dam will not begin construction until a study determines the dam’s environmental effects on the Mekong River, Thai Prime Minister Yingluck shinawatra said on Friday. Yingluck reaffirmed her commitment to the study, which Mekong River Commission countries ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Battambang province’s Phnom Proek district have called on the government to shut down several unlicensed gold mines being blamed for the deaths of cattle that drank from a pond contaminated by chemical runoff. “Three of the village’s cows died and two became sick after ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Agriculture’s fisheries administration announced yesterday that the seasonal nationwide ban on commercial fishing is now in effect, according to a statement. signed by the director general of the fisheries administration, Nao Thuok, the announcement states that the fishing ban north of Phnom Penh’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

A joint investigation into election irregularities may have gone back to square one after the government appeared to have blocked NGO participation in an inquiry, saying yesterday that they could only play a role of observer. “If [NGOs] just join to listen or observe, it’s no ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ethnic Jarai villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district have accused border officials of not only allowing illegal Vietnamese loggers to cross the border unimpeded, but also of taking their side in negotiations with a community forest patrol. Members of the patrol in Paknhai commune’s Lam village said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh’s sanitation workers are expected back on the job today after a two-day strike that saw garbage beginning to pile up in neighbourhoods across the city. The decision by employees of Cintri, the private firm contracted to remove the capital’s garbage, came after a four-hour ss='cambodia-color'>...

Considered the world’s most valuable fluid, fresh clean water is a commodity that can become a life-and-death issue. Lack of it can also contribute to a child’s absenteeism rate in Cambodia, says a newly released study report by Research Advisor Helen Risebro and Professor Paul Hunter ss='cambodia-color'>...

Siem Reap hotel operatorS are preparing for a deluge of touriStS thiS Khmer New Year SeaSon the likeS of which iS not often Seen, touriSm officialS Say. Chheuy Chhorn, deputy director of Siem Reap&rSquo;S touriSm department, Said after attracting 170,000 viSitorS to the firSt annual Angkor SS='cambodia-color'>...

CNRP supporters sang and danced on the streets of siem Reap City on Thursday as party leaders continued to lambaste Prime Minister Hun sen and his ruling CPP in the opposition party’s council election campaign. Upwards of 3,000 supporters attended this leg of the CNRP’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian government officials yesterday appealed to gem and jewellery industry representatives to improve design quality at the opening of the 6th Gem and Jewellery Fair on Koh Pich. seun sotha, director of the trade promotion department at the Ministry of Commerce, said while Cambodia’s gemstones are ss='cambodia-color'>...