For the past decade, Cambodia’s economy has steadily grown with GDP growth surpassing 5% on a compounded annual basis for the past twelve years. Nearly 58% of the populace is engaged in agriculture, while the service sector employs 26% and industry accounts for the remaining ...

A lack of rain across the country is affecting more than 145,000 hectares of rice paddy and  parts of the nation’s crop have already been completely destroyed, according to data released yesterday by the Ministry of Agriculture. Hem Sophal, director of the statistics department at the ...

In an effort to promote rice exports among Cambodian farmers, government officials said on Tuesday they will register the type of rice seed set for export and the rice seed produced for the national market. Cham Prasidh, Minister of Commerce, said on the closing of the ...

ASEAN says it will study how to implement a proposed economic partnership with its six external partners that might lead to the foundation of world’s largest economic bloc. The proposed bloc, dubbed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) or “ASEAN+6” , would integrate ASEAN’s 10 ...

As the National Election Committee laid out its rules for post-election appeals yesterday, the opposition and election monitors slammed the announcement, raising concerns over the brief window in which to file complaints over the preliminary results. The committee told political parties they would have until 11:30am ...

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Thailand went down by 2.3 percent during the first quarter of this year, according to the statistics released by [the] Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh on Monday. Officials said the drop was due to “Thai baht appreciation, not ongoing border conflict” ...

Gambia’s recent announcement that it would ban rice imports in about three years to spur local demand will only have a small impact on Cambodia, which sends a portion of its annual output to the west African country and other nations on the continent, data ...

Opposition vice president Kem Sokha on Thursday said he could not guarantee there would be no violence following Sunday’s vote and appealed to the international community to be on alert and help ensure a peaceful transition after the election results are released. Speaking to reporters after ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy arrived in Cambodia on Tuesday after a two-week long campaign abroad to seek support for his Cambodia National Rescue Party’s (CNRP) bid to bring foreign intervention to Cambodia’s election dispute. He returned home just a day before his party’s planned three-day protest ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a 100 million USD aid package to support the development of tourism infrastructure in the three Mekong River countries of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The decision was made at the annual meeting on tourism development of the Greater Mekong ...

Myanmar’s president Thein Sein congratulated Hun Sen over his reappointment for a new five-year term as the Prime Minister of Cambodia for the fifth legislature. “I strongly believe that under the wise leadership of Sam Dech, the relation and cooperation between our two countries will ...

Cambodia’s political rivals are set to hold crisis talks as crowds massed for a second day to protest a disputed election, following violence that left one demonstrator dead and several wounded. Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy were due to meet at 9am ...

Opposition leaders have given the ruling party an ultimatum: Agree to our demands by the end of the year or the talks are over. Kem Sokha, Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy president, said yesterday that after discussing the matter with party president Sam Rainsy, they had ...

The Cambodian government should construct an effective annual review system for the minimum wage to ease worker unrest, according to clothing retail giant H&M. The Swedish company’s comments came after CEO Karl-Johan Persson visited the country in mid-October, meeting Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen and other ...

Land activists who were brutally cracked down on at a protest in September submitted video and pictorial evidence of masked suspects slinging marbles, beating and electric shocking them to Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. The group of 70 Borei Keila and Boeung Kak activists are suing ...

The National Election Committee yesterday announced a date for the election of district and city-provincial council members, a vote that will only be open to current commune council members, a vote that will only be open to current commune council members. NEC Secretary-General Tep Nytha took ...

The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today deplored the killing of Cambodian journalist Suon Chan and called for those responsible for the killing to be brought to justice. A group of men wielding stones and bamboo sticks attacked Mr. ...

Hun Many, the youngest son of Prime Minister Hun Sen and an elected lawmaker in Kampong Speu province, has defended his party against allegations of nepotism, corruption and election irregularities in a foreign TV interview. In a wide-ranging Channel News Asia interview that aired on Friday, ...

Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy president Kem Sokha returned to Phnom Penh late on Monday and hit the ground running, lambasting the ruling party for blaming the recent collapse of talks on his intransigence and inviting his political foes to risk interNational condemnation by ...

A 19-month-old girl critically injured when her mother was stabbed to death in their Phnom Penh home last month has died in a Bangkok hospital, a Dutch Embassy official confirmed Thursday. “I can confirm this,” said an official at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Bangkok, ...