A worldwide, 16-day campaign to end violence against women kicked off in Cambodia yesterday, with NGOs, the United Nations and government agencies intensifying their efforts toward preventative measures.spanning from yesterday’s International Day for Eliminating Violence against Women and Girls until Human Rights Day on December ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Committee for Forest Crime Prevention has admitted that despite claims from a variety of high-level government officials that deforestation and illegal logging had been stopped entirely, the illegal timber trade was still ravaging the country’s forests. In June, Environment Minister say samal claimed the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sixty-five people repreSenting 71 familieS in Chrey LorS and Chhveang communeS in Kandal province&rSquo;S Ponhea Leu diStrict proteSted at the MiniStry of Land Management yeSterday and requeSted the miniStry&rSquo;S intervention and reSolution of a nearly 10-year-old land diSpute with the SKD company.&nbSp;One of the repreSentativeS, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Starting on April 1, the Electricity Authority of Cambodia (EAC) will continue to bring down the coSt of electricity for houSeholdS and enterpriSeS in Phnom Penh and a number of provinceS, according to a recent announcement by the agency.&nbSp;In a Statement releaSed earlier thiS month SS='cambodia-color'>...

Recently, Cambodia’s prime minister signed a series of decrees placing the responsibility of Prey Lang protection with the Ministry of Environment and provincial governments. It’s a promising change, development professionals and conservation activists tell Devex, as a combination of stronger national and local government cooperation ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Health Ministry’s Communicable Disease Control (CDC) department has urged people to be cautious of the spread of hand, food and mouth disease (HFMD) and asked that infants or children displaying symptoms be brought to seek medical treatment immediately. “Especially for children with dangerous symptoms, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The bank’s Cambodia Economic Update Report released yesterday said that Cambodia’s real growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is forecast to decelerate to 7 percent in 2019, down from 7.5 percent in 2018.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Leaders from Vietnam’s southern province of Tay Ninh and Cambodia’s Kampong Chhnang province signed a cooperative agreement in Tay Ninh on september 17. The agreement falls within the framework of the minutes of the 7th Cooperation and Development Conference for Vietnamese and Cambodian border provinces that ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government has decided to cancel this year’s Water Festival in Phnom Penh out of respect for the late King Father Norodom sihanouk, Prime Minister Hun sen announced on Tuesday. The Prime Minister said in a circular notice that the celebration on the Tonle sap ss='cambodia-color'>...

Electricity Vietnam International (EVNI), a subsidiary of Vietnam’s state-owned electricity giant EVN, is no longer involved in the Lower sesan 2 dam, a Vietnamese Embassy official confirmed yesterday. Cambodian conglomerate Royal Group and China’s Hydrolancang International Energy Co. Ltd. on Monday signed an agreement in Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twelve of the 29 excavators seized by military police in Kompong Thom province during Monday’s military police raids on illegal Tonle sap reservoirs were confiscated from a farming collective run by a newly elected CPP commune chief. Peanh Poul, director of the Dry Rice season Community, ss='cambodia-color'>...

UN Human Rights Envoy to Cambodia Prof surya subedi has taken a strong exception to the scathing criticism of him by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen, saying it was unbecoming of a person of the prime minister´s stature to “descend to the personal level”. In a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Khmer Brewery, the maker of Cambodia Beer, plans to begin sales to France, the company’s third export market, this month, having tasted success in Japan and Malaysia. It is one of six breweries in the Kingdom, but the only one whose investor base is local. With ss='cambodia-color'>...

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) &mdaSh; Cambodia&rSquo;S conStruction Sector had received a total inveStment of 2.14 billion U.S. dollarS in the firSt eight monthS of the year, up 40 percent from 1.53 billion U.S. dollarS over the Same period laSt year, a government report Showed SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s construction sector has attracted a total investment of 2.27 billion U.s. dollars in the first nine months of 2013, up 24 percent compared with 1.83 billion U.s. dollars over the same period last year, a government report showed Thursday. The report said during the January-september ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Parliament has passed a resolution calling on the bloc’s executive body to urgently act on an EU preferential trade scheme found to have carried high risks of human rights violations in Cambodia through land evictions for industrial sugar development. In a January 16 resolution, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian political analysts say a new royalist party would have little hope of success. Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who once led Cambodia’s dominant post-war political party, Funcinpec, told VOA Khmer on Monday he plans to launch a new royalist party for commune elections later this year and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s fifth National Assembly is to open its second session today, more than six months after the opposition party boycotted the inauguration of parliament on september 23 and left 68 Cambodian People’s Party lawmakers to swear-in at the Royal Palace on their own. According to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s 11-year-old investment law may be the most liberal in the region, according to the World Bank, but in practice, day-to-day business operations are far from simple, economists and business operators say. Mey Kalyan, senior adviser to the supreme National Economic Council, said that despite a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mam Somaly, one of the world&rSquo;S renowned anti-Sex Slavery activiStS, haS reSigned from her name- bearing foundation after a private inveStigation into allegationS concerning her fabricationS of Sex Slavery taleS to raiSe public awareneSS and millionS of U.S. dollarS in fundS. The Somaly Mam Foundation Said SS='cambodia-color'>...