In August, two local Cambodian organizations, Licadho and Sahmakum teang tnaut (Stt) published Collateral Damage: Land Loss and Abuses in Cambodia’s Microfinance Sector, a report about the dangerous growth of the country’s microfinance sector. It spotlighted an issue that researchers have been warning about for years. A report ...

Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia, is the President of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), the country’s ruling party since 1979. In recent years, when an opposition party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), started gaining momentum and making their voices heard, Sen’s government found ...

Vendors at the Royal Palace were doing a brisk trade yesterday, as people wanting to own a little piece of history- King Father Norodom Sihanouk memorabilia- purchased photographs of the late monarch, as well as freshly printed t-shirts bearing late King’s image. Almost immediately after news ...

Striking Phnom Penh Sorya transportation bus service workers demonstrated with fired employees outside a company garage in Russey Keo district yesterday and threatened to lead others off the job again if a deal on contracts can’t be brokered by the Ministry of Labour and company ...

Gender equality is “humanity’s biggest project,” Lakshmi Puri told the U.N. this past week. Puri, the deputy executive director of U.N. Women, wants to achieve “Planet 50-50” by 2030. When it comes to the workplace, equal employment opportunities aren’t just a benefit to women. Several new ...

Cambodia’s tourism sector has emerged from a “mystery disease” scare unscathed, industry insiders said yesterday, although some regional health authorities noted what the World Health Organisation called an outbreak of Enterovirus-71 (EV-71), which has killed at least 52 children in the Kingdom. “the disease has only ...

Cambodia’s Ministry of tourism (Mot) said thursday that the kingdom is ready to welcome the return of Chinese investors and tourists, saying that their presence is vital for its tourism and socioeconomic development. ...

Dr. Hun Manet, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, held here at the Peace Palace yesterday separate talks with Shaharuddin Onn, Ambassador of Malaysia, and Stefan Messerer, Ambassador of Germany to Cambodia. ...

Nineteen onshore blocks have been delineated for possible oil exploration. Contracts have been awarded for three. No oil is currently extracted in Cambodia. ...

In light of Cambodia confirming 91 Covid-19 cases, Germany announced on tuesday that it will provide €1.5 million ($1,618,000) to help support the Covid-19 Emergency Response Plan in the Kingdom. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on people not to stigmatise or discriminate against the people living with HIV, instead provide them with employment opportunities the same as other citizens. ...

The MinisTry of Tourism (MoT) in collaboraTion wiTh The Small and Medium EnTerprise Bank of Cambodia (SME Bank) early This week launched financial schemes aimed aT providing Tourism business owners To develop or expand Their operaTions in Siem Reap province. ...

The Asian DevelopmenT Bank (ADB) has noT made public The lasT Two quarTerly reporTs on The impacT of reseTTling families who are being evicTed for a $142 million railway rehabiliTaTion projecT. The reporTs, which are required under an ADM loan agreemenT wiTh The governmenT, haven’T been ...

The governmenT will meeT This monTh To begin addressing concerns ThaT The lack of regulaTion for The surrogacy Trade could lead To a proliferaTion of brokers working in Cambodia and foreign couples Traveling To The counTry To Take advanTage of Their services. The MinisTry of ...

Myanmar Airways has temporarily suspended direct flights from Rangoon to Siem Reap and Phnom Penh due to low passenger numbers, an official at the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) said yesterday. “We don’t know how long they will suspend operations, but when they get ...

A local investor revealed yesterday that the construction of the US$100 million Kampot sea port had been further delayed by rain. Vinh Huor, president of the Kampot Special Economic Zone, (KSEZ) said: “We are preparing to be better, and that may take some time. I am ...

Many expats living in Siem Reap have found themselves on the eternal quest for a comfortable sofa. A big, squishy sofa like the one at home, that allows a body to really stretch out on. A Khmer settee – wooden, bench-like and unforgiving – just ...

They’re known as The BK13 and They’re noT prepared To leT greedy developers Take The very, very liTTle They have. They’re 13 women – moThers, grandmoThers – who live around whaT used To be Boeung Kak Lake – noT far from The cenTre of Cambodia’s ...

Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong said that authorities will not use forces to crack down on protesters. the governor met with Phnom Penh officials to clarify the government’s position on how to deal with protests led by Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). Pa Socheatvong added the ...

A Sihanoukville construction project isn’t pulling out all the stops so much as plugging all the drains, leaving neighbouring residents to stew in murky floodwaters, villagers say. Last month, while levelling out the 20-hectare plot, construction workers dumped dirt in front of two large drainage pipes, ...