The UN Children’s Fund in Australia has warned volunteers and tourists to avoid visiting Cambodian orphanages following critical reports from the press in recent weeks. In a post on its website, UNICEF Australia said “these types of tours exploit children and their families for the financial ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is quickly becoming a hub for Japanese exports, according to the latest figures from the Japan External Trade Agency, JETRO. The state-run agency’s latest trade figures show Cambodia exported more than $584 million worth of locally made products to Japan over the first nine months ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Bunong ethnic community in Mondulkiri province’s Bou sra commune on Friday sought Pich Chreada district hall’s assistance to probe several land plots located within the Phnom Nam Lear Wildlife sanctuary that they suspect have been grabbed for private ownership. However, officials said that should ss='cambodia-color'>...

With concern over increased air pollution affecting people’s health, the government yesterday issued a directive ordering all institutions to prevent and reduce emissions. According to a directive signed by Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday, pollutants are produced by factories, vehicles, forest fire, rubbish and waste burning ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asia Development Bank‘s Cambodia Resident Mission has appointed Eric sidgwick as its new country director. sidgwick aims to focus his efforts on promoting an inclusive and environmentally sustainable growth, said a press release issued by the Asia Development Bank (ADB) yesterday. sidgwick started working at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government has cancelled a 14,981-hectare concession in the Cardamom mountains granted to an Australian firm for a banana plantation, the conservation group Wildlife Alliance has reported. Wildlife Alliance has long lobbied against the concession in Koh Kong province’s southern cardamom forest on which Indochina ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 2,500 Ocean Garment factory workers jostled with about 100 military police in the capital’s Dangkor district yesterday in their second protest march over the alleged sexual harassment of four female employees. In an inter-governmental ministerial committee meeting on Tuesday, Ocean – which supplies ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the wake of the dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party last week by the supreme Court, which effectively removes any viable opposition party from challenging next year’s national elections, the European Union issued a statement seemingly warning that the Kingdom’s preferential access through the Everything ss='cambodia-color'>...

A male banteng was found dead in sorng Rukhavorn Wildlife sanctuary in Oddar Meanchey province’s samrong town on saturday and was likely killed by hunters, said officials.​ Ministry of Environment’s secretary of state and spokesman Neth Pheaktra said​ that ​​this was the sixth banteng that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just published a new online resource detailing Cambodia’s water and sanitation coverage in two languages, Khmer and English. With this new resource, the maps illustrate the information of the access to latrines and drinking water in the country’s rural areas. (Water ss='cambodia-color'>...

Funded by the Global Environmental Facility’s Least-Developed Country Fund (LDCF), the project will help coastal fishing communities and protected areas in Cambodia’s main four coastal provinces – Kampot, Kep, Koh Kong and Preah sihanouk  improve their livelihoods by increasing adaptive capabilities regarding climate change while ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee’s (NEC) “successful” holding of the 2023 general election reflected the proper implementation of the Kingdom’s Constitution, laws and relevant legal documents, said NEC vice-chairman Nuth sokhom as he addressed an August 14 meeting held to summarise the electoral work. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A business associate of the prime minister’s daughter has received 67 hectares from the state on the rapidly filling Boeng Tamok lake in Phnom Penh. Boeng Tamok, one of the city’s last lakes, has been doled out to tycoons and officials’ family members in recent years, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei Hun Manet attended the third RCEP Economic and Trade Cooperation Business summit under theme of “Integrating into RCEP’s More Open Market and Promoting Win-Win Asia-Pacific Cooperation” in Nanning, China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

China’s Ambassador to Cambodia has categorically stated that military cooperation between his country and Cambodia is not for the purpose of confrontation with any country. The remarks were made by Ambassador Wang Wentian on Wednesday, at a media briefing at the embassy to introduce the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Forty families from Kandal province’s Chroy snor village filed a complaint with Licadho yesterday, accusing district fishery officials of keeping an illegal fishing lot open and renting it to businessmen.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday said the government will increase the budget for the health and education ministries in next year’s national budget to improve the welfare of people.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

A delegation from the German government congratulated Prime Minister Hun sen for his latest election victory and pledged on Berlin’s behalf to continue supporting the development of the Kingdom. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A joint task-force consisting of the national police and Pursat province’s Phnom Kravanh district police on saturday arrested five people found transporting illegally-felled timber in santre commune. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fourteen indigenous families from Mondulkiri province’s Dak Dam commune have sought urgent intervention from local authorities and a human rights NGO after machinery was used to clear their farmland. ss='cambodia-color'>...