The greatest barrier to bringing solar power to Cambodia’s villages is not the cost, the lack of trained engineers, or the lack of equipment, analysts say. The sNV is only funded for the next three years. Mr. Barbian said he hopes the government will be ss='cambodia-color'>...

For the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.On Monday, lawmakers for the ruling party passed the country’s new $4.3m national budget — at least the third time in two years the opposition has gifted the CPP the chance to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thanks to improved collection efforts, a total of $34.7 million in taxes was taken in from Cambodia’s casinos in 2015, a 33 percent increase on the previous year, the Finance Ministry said on Monday. Ros Phearun, deputy director-general of the ministry’s finance industry department, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Environment Ministry has started it’s process of recruiting 300 new forest rangers to work in select provinces next year in a bid to fill staff shortages and reduce deforestation.​ Ministry spokesperson sao sopheap said yesterday that the existing 960-strong ranger workforce was insufficient to guard ss='cambodia-color'>...

SoutheaSt ASia&rSquo;S youthful population iS embracing the internet and rapidly connecting to the digital economy, creating enormouS potential for economic growth throughout the region, panelliStS at the World Economic Forum on ASean Said yeSterday.&nbSp;AddreSSing a panel diScuSSion on “The ASean Dream”, Kao Kim Hourn, the SS='cambodia-color'>...

In a speech to workers yesterday, Prime Minister Hun sen pinned the blame for any damage inflicted on Cambodia’s garment industry by potential economic sanctions squarely on the opposition party. “You must remember clearly that if the purchase orders are reduced, it is all the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Permanent Committee of the National Assembly (NA) approved a number of amendments to the Traffic Law yesterday, sending them on to parliament’s 7th plenary session for final ratification on Monday.NA spokesman Leng Peng Long said the committee decided on amendments to nine articles of ss='cambodia-color'>...

As residents began to move out of Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building on Tuesday, government officials were also present, handing out documentation to those leaving while microfinance staff offered their services.While some residents piled their possessions into trucks or blocked narrow hallways with unwanted goods, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has provided $30 million in loans to rice millers since september to facilitate the purchase of paddy rice, with the head of a state-run bank saying more money was available if necessary. The loans were issued to 38 rice millers by the state-owned ss='cambodia-color'>...

A​ tourism​ development​ agreement​ was​ signed​ last​ week​ between​ Cambodia’s​ Ministry​ of​ Tourism​ and​ China’s​ shanghai​ spring​ International​ Travel​ service​ Group​ to​ boost​ the​ influx​ of​ Chinese​ tourists​ to​ the​ Kingdom. In​ announcing​ the​ agreement​ on​ saturday,​ Minister​ of​ Tourism​ Thong​ Khon​ said:​ “The​ memorandum​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

The damage to the country’s rice crops from the recent heavy rains is likely to be small, according to provincial officials, as the Agriculture Ministry stressed that flood damage to rice crops was under control. As the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology continue to warn ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than a month after businesses on a prime stretch of Occheuteal Beach were told to pack up and leave, officials in Preah sihanouk province are still unaware of local conglomerate Royal Group’s plans for the space. Evictions on the beach began around Christmas time, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has reserved around $3 billion to cope with a possible suspension of the Kingdom’s access to the EU’s preferential “Everything But Arms” (EBA) agreement. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia had spent 1 billion U. s. dollars to buy petroleum from foreign suppliers in the first seven months of this year, up 22 percent from 817 million U.s. dollars at the same period a year ago, a report of the Commerce Ministry showed saturday. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 700 workers from the International Royal Fashion garment factory, in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district, blocked the Veng sreng road yesterday for about four hours to show their dissatisfaction with their employer’s failure to respond to their demands. An International Royal Fashion official, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia had issued licenses to 146 domestic and foreign investment projects with the total investment of 2.05 billion U.s. dollars in the first eleven months last year, showed a report of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) released Tuesday. During the period, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 170 villagers in Banteay Meanchey province locked in a land dispute with a local company protested yesterday in front of the provincial hall, seeking land titles in compliance with Prime Minister Hun sen’s recent titling project. The families say they had been granted a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty-seven families in Oddar Meanchey’s Trapaing Prasat district filed a complaint with Hun sen’s cabinet and the rights group Adhoc on Monday, maintaining that soldiers have been preventing them from farming since October 2012. A representative of the villagers, soeung sophea, 59, said yesterday that troops ss='cambodia-color'>...

Eight ethnic Tampuon villagers from Ratanakkiri’s Bakeo district will file a lawsuit at provincial court today alleging that more than 70 hectares of protected forest have been illegally cleared by a police official and six villagers from a neighbouring commune. Ting Kham se, 52, of Laminh ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of hectares of farmland have been inundated by the rain-swollen Mekong River in Kratie province’s Bos Leav commune since late last week, officials said yesterday. Bos Leav commune chief Nai Khhy said seven of the commune’s eight villages are flooded affecting more than 800 ss='cambodia-color'>...