The government has already provided $9 million from its emergency rice loan fund to the Kingdom’s rice millers since the harvest season began in september, nearly triple the amount it provided when it first launched the initiative last year when millers showed little appetite for ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has unveiled four strategies to eliminate malnutrition in the country, especially among children. Prime Minister Hun sen is enlisting state institutes, partners and NGOs to join the fight to eliminate malnutrition as the country holds national nutrition day today. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After it graduated from least developed country status in July 2016, Cambodia’s economy has remained healthy with a GDP growth rate of 6.9 per cent in 2017. This was driven by the recovering tourism sector, the ongoing construction boom and the gradual emergence of non-textile ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Supreme Court on WedneSday upheld a 30-month Sentence for land activiSt Tep Vanny on chargeS relating to a 2013 proteSt outSide Prime MiniSter Hun Sen&rSquo;S houSe that turned violent, leaving the Boeung Kak reSident to Serve out more than a year of her remaining SS='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of more than 400 families in Kratie’s snuol district protested yesterday following the temporary detention of two fellow community members at a demonstration the day before, when locals blocked a road to demand the government find a solution to their land dispute with a ss='cambodia-color'>...

A representative of villagers in a land dispute in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district was arrested on Wednesday for alleged property damage. sat Bora, 34, has been representing 122 families in Anlong Veng commune, who have been locked in a land dispute with authorities for ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand’s second-largest insurer is looking to enter the Cambodian market by next year, local Thai media reported yesterday. Dhipaya Insurance announced it has applied for a licence to operate in the Kingdom and is the latest international insurance company planning to offer services in Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ministry spokesman Mao Hak said yesterday that seasonal rains are expected to taper off in mid-November, with cooler winds sweeping into the Kingdom from siberia and Tibet, promising a “winter” even cooler than last year’s, in which some areas saw temperatures as low as 18 ss='cambodia-color'>...

An official from the National Election Committee said yesterday the body was pleased to have registered more than 80 percent of Cambodia’s estimated 9.6 million eligible voters over the past three months, blaming overzealous estimates of available eligible voters, deaths and the weather for coming ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mobile phone technology could be an effective means to promote improved health practices among Cambodia’s female entertainment workers and help curb the spread of HIV, according to a new study conducted by the organisation KHANA and the Center for Global Health Research at Touro University ss='cambodia-color'>...

Unless there are fundamental changes to the dynamics of politics in Cambodia—with the government suppressing dissent and the opposition often relying on racially charged attacks—disenchantment following next year’s election is likely to lead to violence, a think tank warned in a political analysis released on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Undeterred by the $500,000 lawsuit filed against him by Prime Minister Hun sen, political commentator Kim sok returned to the radio waves on Tuesday to say that the government could settle the case against him by releasing video footage of Kem Ley’s murder. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank on Thursday forecast a slight dip in the country’s economic growth rate by 2019 amid declining foreign investment, rising inflation and a slowdown in the expansion of garments manufacturing, and advised improvements to infrastructure and training to keep the economy on its ss='cambodia-color'>...

Via the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and the Ministry of Tourism, the government is progressing with a set of relevant documents as a proposal to UNEsCO to induct Battambang city, Kampot city and Kratie city on to the United Nations arm’s World Heritage ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives from the E.U., CNRP and civil society organizations put newly delivered election ink to the test on Wednesday, a week after a spokesman for the country’s top election body warned that a sample batch of the ink could be washed off using a hair ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sixteen CambodianS were arreSted on Monday for illegally croSSing the border to log luxury roSewood treeS in Thailand&rSquo;S Sa Kaeo province.&nbSp;The men, aged between 16 and 55, were all reSidentS of Battambang province. They were arreSted in Pang Sida National Park with logging toolS and SS='cambodia-color'>...

Independent election observers praised sunday’s running of the nationwide commune elections as largely smooth and peaceful, even while noting a raft of problems, including unauthorized officials at polling sites, intimidated observers and soldiers being brought to vote at some polling stations by the truckload.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Activists say a new sand-processing facility is under construction in Koh Kong’s Tatai Wildlife sanctuary, in the vicinity of the area where two companies were granted permission to conduct environmental impact assessments (EIAs) for sand-dredging projects, documents show, despite a standing government ban on sand ss='cambodia-color'>...

Although growth in Cambodia’s consumer price index (CPI) went up by 4.3 percent year-on-year in March, according to latest figures from the National Institute of statistics, an expert maintains that the increase in cost of living will have minimal effect on the lives of Cambodians. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Defence Minister Tea Banh is slated today to preside over the official opening of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre’s new $700,000 “Peace Museum for Mine Action” at its siem Reap regional headquarters, with Japan set to donate $12 million worth of demining equipment, an official ss='cambodia-color'>...