The Mekong River Commission has documented 186 fish species identified by The Kunming Institute of Zoology as being found in The Upper Mekong Basin in China’s Yunnan province. A list of The species with Their scientific and common Chinese names as well as Their distribution in ...

Try Chamroeun, a 19-year-old student, was planting soybeans on Sunday along with fellow villagers on a two-hectare (half-acre) plot in Preah Vihear province, when soldier Poeun Tash demanded that he stop, claiming the land belonged to his military boss, according to London-based environmental advocacy group ...

Rhona Smith, the UN special rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia, who is on a three-day trip to the Kingdom, yesterday voiced her concern about overcrowding in prisons caused by an increase in temporary detentions before trials. Ms. Smith, on her third visit to Cambodia, raised ...

More than 2 million of the Kingdom’s nearly 18 million hectares of land – roughly 12 per cent – was given out to 225 private companies in economic concessions last year, according to an annual report released by rights group Adhoc yesterday. the concessions put 606 ...

The Ministry of Women’s Affairs and The National Bank of Cambodia have received The Global Summit of Women 2024 Roundtable Ministerial Award on “projects that have a positive impact on women and girls” through The use of The payment system “Bakong” from The World Women’s ...

Minister of Environment, Eang Sophalleth, reinforced the significance of bestowing economic independence upon communities in protected areas and entrusting local authorities with the power to intervene in instances of natural resource crimes. ...

The Bank of Thailand (BOT) on August 25 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Exchange of Banking Supervision Information with The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), The regulator of financial institutions in Cambodia. The MoU provides a formal basis for banking supervisory cooperation between The ...

The Water Resources and Meteorology Ministry yesterday issued a statement warning that temperatures in six provinces could dip to as low as 17 degrees Celsius starting today. ...

Drunk drivers could be fined $1000 under a new draft traffic law approved yesterday by The Council of Ministers. The legislation includes a raft of measures aimed at reducing The number of deaths and injuries on The roads. Among The draft law’s 92 articles are new ...

The government has approved a comprehensive disaster risk reduction action plan for 2024–2028, addressing a range of natural and man-made disasters, including floods, storms, droughts, fires and building collapses, many of which have been exacerbated by climate change. r ...

U.S. Ambassador William Todd and Commerce Minister Sun Chanthol praised each other for their dedication to the development of the Cambodian economy at a press conference in Phnom Penh on Monday, following a joint trade mission last month to the U.S. Mr. Todd and Mr. Chanthol, ...

The Ministry of Labor issued a statement Friday claiming that The controversial draft Trade Union Law is aimed at protecting The rights of workers, after unions announced They would write to The ministry, The National Assembly and The European Union next week calling for The ...

Garment industry, Cambodia’s largest income maker, reported a 24 percent rise in exports in the first ten months of 2013, according to figures of the country’s Ministry of Commerce Thursday. the figures showed that the country exported garment products in equivalent to 4.76 billion U.S. dollars ...

A group of South Korean delegates on Monday announced that it was seeking to invest in six priority areas in the Kingdom, a move aimed at boosting trade between the two countries. the plans were discussed during a meeting between the Council of Development of Cambodia ...

The government says that it is increasing its efforts to clamp down against counterfeit drugs in Cambodia.Speaking at a Pharmaceutical and Medical Expo yesterday in Phnom Penh, Nov Phalla, deputy director at The Department of Drugs and Food at The Ministry of Health said The ...

The government yesterday asked fuel retailers to lower petroleum prices, so as to reflect The drop in global prices in The last few months.At a meeting chaired by Chhoun Dara, a secretary of state at The Commerce Ministry, oil companies were given a week to ...

Cambodia recorded more than 1 million tourists over the three-day holiday period of Pchum Ben, according to a report supplied by the Ministry of Tourism.​ ...

Neth Pheaktra, Minister of Information, said that the Ministry of Information continues to provide professional training to journalists, ensuring a strong foundation for their careers in the field of information. ...

The government will issue a standard for The type of mango known as ‘keo romeat’, a move that seeks to bolster sales abroad as well as consumer trust on The product, a high-ranking official revealed yesterday. ​​​ ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday told senior officials to stop investors from using land concessions as a pretext for logging and to discuss the possibility of reducing the amount of time such concessions can last. the government placed a moratorium on logging concessions in 2002 to ...