Cambodia’s microfinance sector continued to expand rapidly during the first half of the year, despite concerns over rising default rates as the industry’s main borrowers – provincial farmers – struggle to repay their loans after successive seasons of drought and poor harvests. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A girl has died and thousand hectares of agricultural plantation have been flooded by flashflood in two separate districts in Battambang province, said Keo Vy, spokesman for the government’s National Committee for Disaster Management said today.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

After more than two years of denials from Prime Minister Hun sen that a Facebook fan page bearing his name really belongs to him, the premier’s cabinet has acknowledged that it does—shortly after the page garnered its one-millionth “like.” ss='cambodia-color'>...

From a simple stall on a street corner in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district, Khuon Andy sells sIM cards, between 40 and 60 per month. Half of his customers provide identification to make their purchase, and half of them do not. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Troops assigned to a light infantry unit destroyed village fields in southern Cambodia’s Kampot province on Monday in a bid to expand the property used by a commune set up for retired army soldiers, sources said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A broad spectrum of villager representatives, civil society organisations and government officials – large land-concession holders among them – met in the capital for the ninth year in a row yesterday to discuss the Kingdom’s seemingly intractable issue of land disputes. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Loans from Japan to Cambodia will help finance work on a key highway upgrade. The loan package totals Us$150 million and will be used for the project to upgrade Cambodia’s National Road No 5. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hun Many, the youngest son of Prime Minister Hun sen and a CPP lawmaker, revealed during a radio show on Wednesday his ambition to follow in his father’s footsteps and become the future prime minister. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Health Ministry has yet to respond to a request from the Interior Ministry last week seeking assistance in dealing with drug abuse in the country’s prisons and rehabilitation centers, Interior Ministry secretary of state Nuth sa An said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Visitors to Cambodia’s premiere tourist destination, Angkor Wat, can expect better mobile network coverage come June, after Apsara Authority signed an agreement with local telecom services firm Camtowerlink Communications to install six camouflaged mobile towers across the vast temple site. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh’s hell-raising street racers will enjoy a structured outlet for their love of motorbikes at a new amateur racing cup on Koh Pich island this weekend, a competition also meant to promote compliance with the new traffic law. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Civil servants, police officers and retired officials with disabilities will receive a Khmer New Year’s bonus of 50,000 riel (about $12.50) next month, a fraction of the $37.50 request that was made by a union last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tons of dead fish were found in the protected Tonle Chhmar Lake on saturday, according to Ministry of Agriculture officials. The lake is a wildlife sanctuary on the edge of the Tonle sap river in Kampong Thom’s Peam Bang commune. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officially sanctioned reductions in port container fees will have little impact on the Kingdom’s trade competitiveness as deeply engrained problems in trucking and railways, as well as high custom fees, remain in place, stakeholders in the transport sector said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seven angel inveStorS deScended on Phnom Penh laSt Friday aS part of the launch of a new inveStment initiative that aimS to tap into Cambodia&rSquo;S growing Startup culture and Support entrepreneurial endeavourS with guidance and early Stage riSk funding. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Local shops dealing in gold reported a surge in activity following the United Kingdom’s vote on Friday to leave the European Union – a decision that pushed international gold prices up sharply as worried investors sought a safe-haven asset. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Though the Kingdom’s existing salt farms in Kampot and Kep produce enough salt to support domestic consumption, industry experts, however, are worried that a flood of the vital commodity from neighboring countries will spoil the market for Cambodian producers. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government said this week it wanted to increase by at least 30 percent the number of forest rangers working next year in Cambodia’s wildlife sanctuaries, national parks and other protected areas to guard against encroaching logging, poaching and farming. ss='cambodia-color'>...

With rebuke raining down on the ruling CPP for its judicial assault, arrests and intimidation of the political opposition and other critics, Cambodia’s annual assessment by the U.N. Human Rights Council will be held next week in Geneva. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Council of Ministers spokesman Phay siphan expressed support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Cambodia yesterday, responding to Nepal’s new constitution – which has been described as the first in Asia to enshrine protection for the rights of LGBT people. ss='cambodia-color'>...