The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a $43 million project to enhance the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers, local communities and other value chain actors of the Northern Tonle Sap Basin to cope with the increasing threats of climate change in the Kingdom. ...

Tourism leaders remain confident the sector will further rebound in 2023, attracting three million international arrivals. ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday approved a $40 million policy-based loan to support the Government’s efforts to further enhance public service delivery. ...

The British Embassy Phnom Penh and the Secretary of State of the ministry of Environment on Thursday signed a memorandum of Understanding (moU), formalizing cooperation on the UK’s Biodiverse Landscapes Fund (BLF) in Cambodia. ...

To aid in the reform of Cambodia’s fisheries sector, approximately $7 million in funding has been allocated by the EU for the effort. ...

According to a statement from the World Bank on November 22, to assist Cambodia in its efforts to strengthen water and sanitation services, the project will reach more than 175,000 people in the target provinces of Battambang, Pursat, mondulkiri and Kandal. ...

Almost 3.3 million people celebrated ringing in the new year, with Phnom Penh the most popular destination, according to the ministry of Tourism (moT). ...

Prime minister Hun manet has pledged almost $450 million to strengthen the country’s social protection system, with experts advising that transparency is essential in its delivery. ...

Cambodia garnered over $851 million from the export of jewellery and precious stones to the international market in 2023, represents a surge of 261% increase compared to 2022, as per the ministry of Commerce. ...

The state-owned Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia (CGCC), Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) and participating financial institutions (PFIs) signed an agreement on the $30 million Rice Export Guarantee Scheme (REGS) to help millers stockpile rice for milling, processing, exporting and making local value-added products. ...

Cambodia’s reputation as a standard-bearer for apparel workers’ rights is wearing thin – and yet the country is a rising star when it comes to attracting foreign investment and increasing exports. There are many reasons to deter brands and retailers from sourcing clothing in Cambodia. The Kingdom ...

Local chiefs in Stung Treng province claimed on monday that the mekong River has risen by almost 2m, submerging floating cabins at a local tourist attraction, while in Kratie province, a police chief said the water level has risen by 0.5m, flooding Kampi Resort. Preah ...

Demining experts from the Cambodian mine Action Centre (CmAC) on monday cleared two mark 82 (mk 82) bombs in two separate locations. In Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Sruoch district, a villager discovered one bomb buried about 8m below ground, while another was found over 4m ...

Cambodian mine Action Centre (CmAC) found an unexploded aerial bomb form the civil war era in the 1970s. The explosive device was uncovered by an excavator removing sediment from the river in Tonle Boun muk near the Sokha Hotel in Phnom Penh and in front ...

A TAXPAYER-FUNDED development project is mired in controversy after the Cambodian government launched a crackdown against land rights organisations critical of the compulsory resettlement of families. The Cambodian government has cautioned a small group of foreign organisations against stirring up unrest among those being forced off ...

The Ministry of InforMation has banned the broadcast of all KhMer-language prograMs by foreign radio stations for the entire 31 days of the pre-election caMpaign period and on election day, July 28, warning that legal action will ensue if stations fail to coMply. The ban, announced ...

Citing the provincial Department of Water Resources and meteorology, they said that on the morning of September 25, the water level in Stung Sen had reached 11.38m, approaching the emergency point of 11.50m. ...

The relations between Cambodia and the US have reached the highest level ever during the past 72 years, noted Prime minister Hun Sen while receiving former US Senator Donald m. Benton in Washington DC in the morning of may 11 (Washington DC time), on the ...

Garment factory workers on Saturday blocked Street 371 in Phnom Penh’s meanchey district for the second day and said they will continue their strike today unless factory managers give in to their demands. During Saturday’s strike action, more than 3,000 workers from the S.L. Garment Factory ...

Small and medium Enterprise Bank of Cambodia Plc. has approved loans to 346 tourism-related firms totalling $53.46m or 35.64 percent of the $150m budget, said a top official of the bank. ...