Opposition CNRP lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang says he will visit Phnom Penh’s Prey speu social affairs center today to investigate its controversial treatment of detainees following the death of a recent charge. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In its latest plan to tackle gender disparities, the government applauded its own progress, while still acknowledging persistent challenges, such as a lack of women in leadership roles, and new ones, such as women’s vulnerability to climate change. “The situation of women has improved remarkably over ss='cambodia-color'>...

In May, circus artists from Phnom Penh, Battambang City and siem Reap City will come together for the ninth Tini Tinou International Circus Festival, which was relaunched last year after being canceled in 2011 for financial reasons. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The body of a fisherman was discovered floating in the Tonle sap lake in Kompong Chhnang province’s Boribor district on Tuesday after a vicious boating attack, police said Wednesday, in what is the fourth such incident on the lake this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In an internal report released this week, the Ministry of Education gave itself high marks for the access to education it offers disabled children, offering a rundown of successes in the field dotted with green checkmarks, not unlike a school report card. However, though the ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two weeks after five Montagnard asylum seekers crossed into Ratanakkiri province from Vietnam, the U.N. said sunday that reports of the arrival of nine more—including three children—added to the situation’s “urgency.” Two ethnic Jarai villagers living in Ratanakkiri said the nine Montagnards—an indigenous group from Vietnam’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Wildlife Conservation society Cambodia Programme (WCs) has said it safely released 35 Cantor’s giant softshell turtle hatchlings into the wild along the Mekong River on February 17, in Kratie province’s northernmost district of sambor. ss='cambodia-color'>...

There are nearly seven times the number of male lawmakers in the 7th National Assembly compared to female members with 87.2% of seats occupied by men and 12.8% by women in the 125-seat parliament. ss='cambodia-color'>...

FacebookTwitterEmailShareThe ADB haS approved a $100 million loan to enhance Cambodia&rSquo;S labour force by addreSSing SkillS gapS through reformS in TVET. SS='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...