Prime Minister Hun sen is pushing government institutions and businesses to improve the country’s rice production. Investment is required in machinery and warehouses to dry and store rice for export, something Cambodia is discussing with China, Hun sen said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed a new Country Director for Cambodia, samiuela T. Tukuafu. A Tongan national, Mr. Tukuafu officially started in this post on 1 February, 2016. Mr. Tukuafu replaces Mr. Eric sidgwick, who has been appointed Country Director for ADB’s Resident ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 100 residents from six communities within Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district filed a petition to City Hall, the Canadian Embassy and the World Bank yesterday demanding intervention in a land dispute with the Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC), which is responsible for constructing a ss='cambodia-color'>...

After police in Preah Vihear province blocked the U.N.’s human rights envoy from meeting with indigenous villagers earlier this week, Rhona smith sat down with Interior Minister sar Kheng in Phnom Penh on Wednesday and called for better communication between national and local government officials. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government needs to take stock of its economic place within AsEAN, and globally, to continue its growth trajectory given the anticipated ratification of a major international trade pact expected to erode the competitiveness of the Kingdom’s biggest industrial sector, Us Ambassador to Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

After setting a date this week for next year’s commune elections, Prime Minister Hun sen used a speech on Wednesday to urge officials to speed up work to ensure that 2 million people without new identification cards are able to obtain one by election day ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ten people representing 380 families who fear they will be affected by an ING Holdings project in the south of Phnom Penh yesterday submitted a letter to the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Development and Construction requesting that the villagers’ land be cut out of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Floodwaters displaced another 74 families on the outskirts of Phnom Penh in Dangkao district on Wednesday as water levels continued to rise, according to Nop Puthea, director of the district’s administration. The flooding began on sunday night when a dam in Kompong speu province collapsed after ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Preah Sihanouk provincial hall haS Started providing land to nearly 300 familieS living illegally around the Kbal Chhay waterfall in Sihanoukville&rSquo;S Muoy commune.&nbSp;The deciSion to provide land came after villagerS blocked National Road 4 in September, burning tireS in proteSt of reSettlement from the SS='cambodia-color'>...

More than 30 percent of Cambodian women have experienced some form of domestic violence at the hands of their partner at some point in their lives, a report released on Friday by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) revealed. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After Cambodian rice exports declined dramatically in March, caused by what millers claimed was a stricter enforcement of sanitary and phytosanitary (sPs) measures by the Chinese government, the Ministry of Agriculture announced yesterday that it would lobby on the sector’s behalf to allow more millers ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials yesterday said government-issued media guidelines for election coverage which prohibit the publication of news that affects the country’s “social stability” were just a “reminder” of existing laws, but some NGOs said the issuing of the code of conduct was an act meant to “stifle ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Tax Department yesterday issued a letter asking the Immigration Department to prevent Deborah Krisher-steele and Douglas steele – both representatives of the Cambodia Daily – from leaving the country, a day after department head Kong Vibol said he would continue to pursue the tax ss='cambodia-color'>...

The founder of the now-shuttered Cambodia Daily, Bernard Krisher, has told Prime Minister Hun sen in a letter that he will travel to the Kingdom to take on any tax liabilities of his daughter, Deputy Publisher Deborah Krisher-steele, stemming from the paper’s dispute with the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new centre will launch in April 2018 to train Cambodian migrant workers to work with elderly people in Japan. On Tuesday, Minister of Labour Ith samheng said the Japanese company Procast Asia would establish the centre. ss='cambodia-color'>...

With the opposition under pressure from the government and teetering on the brink of dissolution, former CNRP President sam Rainsy has claimed party lawmaker Mao Monyvann is attempting a leadership change in light of current party leader Kem sokha’s detention – an allegation that was ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nine critically endangered Mekong Irrawaddy dolphins, were born this year, but two of them died, the World Wildlife Fund has said. In a statement issued on Friday, the WWF said the population continues to be threatened by illegal fishing and hydropower dams. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fourteen families from Koh Kong province’s Kiri sakor district have asked the Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Land Management to intervene in their land dispute with the Union Development Group. The 14 families, from Prek Khsach and Phnhi Meas communes, delivered their petition to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of victims killed or injured by landmines or other unexploded ordnance (UXO) left over from Cambodia’s decades-old wars is projected to have dropped below 100 last year, for the first time since the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979, as far as ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has improved its ranking in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index.​​ The nation was ranked 101 of 136 countries in the 2017 report, thanks to performance improvements that drove an overall score increase from 3.2 points in 2015 to 3.3 ss='cambodia-color'>...