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'>...

An American-made army truck that was allegedly used to smuggle illegal timber through sIem Reap province, and which crashed and killed a family of three on Friday, was not a U.s. government donation, the embassy confirmed yesterday. A spokesman for the U.s. Embassy said an inspection ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S. HouSe of RepreSentativeS on WedneSday paSSed a Spending bill that would SuSpend Some funding to Cambodia until the government carrieS out an independent inveStigation of July&rSquo;S diSputed national election and reformS itS electoral SyStem, or until the oppoSition endS itS boycott of parliament. The SS='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yeSterday raiSed the iSSue of territorial diSputeS in the South China Sea with Prime MiniSter Hun Sen and outlined the Strong focuS the adminiStration of U.S. PreSident Barack Obama iS currently placing on the ASean region, officialS Said. Arriving in SS='cambodia-color'>...

Outlining America’s position on territorial disputes between Asean members and China over the south China sea, U.s. secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Thursday also expressed views on a matter a little closer to home: the benefits Cambodia gains from U.s. development assistance. speaking to reporters ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday convicted a Chinese man and three Cambodians of human trafficking over an attempt to send three Cambodian women to China as brides. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representing more than 1,200 delegates from the 10 Asean countries, the Asean Peoples’ Forum issued a highly critical statement yesterday to visiting Asean leaders concerning issues such as land evictions, effects of large-scale hydropower projects and the opaque nature of drafting the Asean Human Rights ss='cambodia-color'>...

Preservation of capital is fast losing ground to increased risk-taking as global equity markets close the quarter with a stellar performance. Investors are concerned that they will miss the accelerating upside move. Out of the 78 major financial markets around the world, the score is 66 positive ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Prime Minister Hun sen-led Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), which many consider as having already won July’s national elections with no major rival in sight, is planning to bring influential senior military officials into the Kingdom’s legislature by nominating them as candidates, an act seen ss='cambodia-color'>...

The leader of the League for Democracy Party (LDP) on Thursday used a press conference to hit out at the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) for “vote buying” and the court-dissolved opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) for having “no morals or vision”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The president of the Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) on Wednesday slammed the leadership of the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) for handing the 125-seat National Assembly to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party with its boycott calls. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ahead of a mission to the Kingdom by UN’s special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia, a spokesman for the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) yesterday said Cambodia has never been sanctioned by the UN for violating human rights, noting that the rapporteur and other rights ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 Chinese nationals believed to be wanted for crimes in their home country were arrested on Wednesday at a CPP senator’s casino in Poipet City, which had to be shut down during the operation, police said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Koh Kong province reported yesterday that 49 Cambodians were caught trying to cross the Thai border during a forest patrol on Monday in smach Meanchey district.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of 16 Montagnard asylum-seekers who fled to Cambodia from Vietnam over the past two years returned to their home country on Tuesday after failing to secure refugee status in Phnom Penh, an Interior Ministry official said on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

One of the Kingdom’s largest microfinance institutions (MFI), Prasac MFI, increased its paid up share capital by $29 million in a bid to increase public confidence and comply with the National Bank of Cambodia’s (NBC) requirements. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Agricultural exports to Thailand are still being blocked at the border by Thai authorities over concerns that officials’ seals and certificates of origin are being forged, as Cambodian officials try to resolve the issue. The Ministry of Commence on Friday issued a statement stressing that the ss='cambodia-color'>...