The Cambodian Council of Ministers on Friday approved a five-year development strategic plan (2014-2018), which needs financial resources of 26.5 billion U.s. dollars to achieve the target, according to a news statement released after a weekly cabinet meeting. The plan is designed to develop infrastructure, ss='cambodia-color'>...

When Cambodia’s most prominent forest activist, Chut Wutty, was gunned down in April 2012, the community network he created to sabotage the rampant deforestation of this vast forest fragmented. The forest patrols that he organised nearly ground to a halt. Without money to fund large-scale expeditions, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ten years ago Wednesday, union leader Chea Vichea walked to his favorite newsstand in front of Wat Lanka to read the day’s headlines: Prime Minister Hun sen had ordered spending cuts, health officials were trying to handle the first outbreak of bird flu in southeast ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two suppliers of mosquito nets to Cambodia found to have bribed officials to gain contracts under the Global Fund’s health grant scheme have had their contracts renewed. The two firms, sumitomo Chemical and Vestergaard Frandsen, were found by the fund’s Office of the Inspector General in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dana Beerdsen, a 19-month-old Dutch girl who was critically injured last month in an attack in which her mother was stabbed to death in their Phnom Penh home, died in a Bangkok hospital on Wednesday night, according to police. Lieutenant Colonel Mom sitha, municipal foreign police ss='cambodia-color'>...

Deep in the forest, about an hour from stung Treng’s provincial capital through a rough and difficult road, just over half of the houses in an ethnic minority village have been tagged with bright orange spray paint saying, “Lss2”. According to a 2010 environmental impact ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local and foreign dignitaries offered their condolences to the royal family on news of the death in Beijing yesterday of King Father Norodom sihanouk, who led his country out of colonial rule in the 1950s and went on to play a leading role in the country’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s 2020 exports to the Us remained strong despite the COVID-19 pandemic crisis as the Kingdom’s exports to its other primary trading partners declined. Figures from the Us Census Bureau showed that Cambodia exported $6.577 billion of goods to the world’s largest economy, a year-on-year ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kampong Thom’s sandan district: snang An village chief sok Heng proudly displays a photo of his new home, constructed in July 2021, as his phone’s background image. But Late Cheng Mining Development, a gold mining firm with ties to Prime Minister Hun sen’s bodyguard unit, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sok Ren&rSquo;S eyeS dart from Side to Side aS he explainS in a huShed tone why he&rSquo;S been detained at military barrackS in Preah Vihear province, rarely allowed to leave and under near conStant Surveillance, Since July 31. While caSting hiS ballot for the Cambodian People&rSquo;S SS='cambodia-color'>...

During his speech last week at the swearing-in ceremony of Phnom Penh’s new governor, Pa socheatvong, Interior Minister sar Kheng noted that managing Cambodia’s capital is by no means an easy task. While critics of [former Phnom Penh governor] Mr. [Kep] Chuktema note his failure ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP said Thursday it is forging ahead with plans to hold a three-day demonstration, which the party has dubbed a “camp-in,” despite a letter from the Ministry of Interior that says the protests can only go on for one day. The Interior Ministry letter, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The CNRP has pledged to take legal action against the leadership of the National Election Committee (NEC) after the Constitutional Council of Cambodia announced on saturday that election irregularities in Kratie province were not significant enough to alter preliminary results released by the NEC. Despite the ss='cambodia-color'>...

On the morning of September 23, anti-eviction champion Tep Vanny waS grappling with a legion of Security guardS blocking the entrance of the Daun Penh diStrict officeS while fellow proteSterS diSmantled a razor-wire barricade nearby. The next day, She waS on a plane to WaShington SS='cambodia-color'>...

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) on Monday launched an initiative to provide health inSurance to the nation&rSquo;S workforce, a plan that the country&rSquo;S largeSt employerS&rSquo; aSSociationS Said waS premature. NSSF director Ouk Samvithya Said that by the middle of thiS year, enterpriSeS in the country SS='cambodia-color'>...

An NGO’s plan to build an “entire city” for the victims of a forced eviction has been backed by the Phnom Penh municipal government, with preliminary construction already under way. The $2.2 to $2.5 million project, devised by the organisation People for Care and Learning, is expected ss='cambodia-color'>...

Taiwanese food supplier Ve Wong, one of two sugar company owners locked in a long-running battle with villagers in Koh Kong’s sre Ambel district, has made an eyebrow-raising offer – to give the disputed land back. The company’s offer, posted to the non-profit Business and Human ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sino Grain, a ChineSe agriculture company, haS come to Cambodia Seeking to import milled rice to China. MiniSter of Commerce Cham PraSidh haS encouraged the company to inveSt in Cambodia by building a rice proceSSing plant in the country and not merely exporting grain. A SS='cambodia-color'>...

Pakistan and Cambodia yesterday discussed strengthening economic ties in areas such banking and transportation, a government official said. Ambassador of Pakistan Fazal-ur-Rahman Kazi and Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister sok An considered an agreement on the protection of trade and investment, Ek Tha, spokesman for the Council ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange may launch aS Soon aS March or April, according to an official at the Korea Exchange, the Kingdom&rSquo;S partner in launching itS Stock market. Final preparationS for the CSX&rSquo;S&nbSp; initial public offeringS Should be complete at that time, Pat Gil-Soo, Senior vice-preSident SS='cambodia-color'>...