Roads, bridges, schools, sanitation and other forms of basic infrastructure are still top priorities for many rural citizens of Cambodia. Comfrel has done a study of issues that voters are concerned with and found that infrastructure is a key area. Traditionally the rural areas have ss='cambodia-color'>...

A teenager was one of 13 girls locked inside a recruitment company’s offices in the capital last year after being promised work as a maid in Malaysia, she told the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. The court yesterday tried three people over alleged illegal detention and human ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 6,000 mostly Chinese attendees witnessed the inauguration ceremony of a $1 billion sihanoukville resort project called Wisney World in the capital on Wednesday. The event on Koh Pich, attended by several senior Cambodian government officials, is a joint venture between China’s AMC International ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sihanoukville International Airport iS Set to See higher paSSenger arrivalS, thankS to the refurbiShment of itS paSSenger terminal, Cambodia AirportS announced. In a preSS releaSe on WedneSday, the operator of the Kingdom&rSquo;S three airportS Said the refurbiShment iS in preparation for an increaSing number of SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) approved a $90 million loan on Wednesday to help Cambodia modernise the agriculture sector and enhance climate resilience. The Climate-Friendly Agribusiness Value Chains sector Project will cost more than $141 million to implement, with the government of Cambodia and beneficiaries ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Chum district on saturday commandeered 160 pieces of first-grade timber they stumbled upon. They believe the timber was a collected stash that illegal loggers had hidden in the forest as they waited for rain to cease before transporting it out, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of families along the sekong river were evacuated last week after the collapse of a dam in Laos led to a deluge in the district. A member of the Kavet ethnic minority, Ms Doung and her family were among 15 other families in santepheap ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is going to conduct a population census in March next year, Minister of Planning Chhay Than said here on Tuesday. “We plan to spend 8.5 million U.s. dollars for the one-week census, which will be commenced from March 3, 2019,” he told reporters after a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Siem Reap provincial authoritieS have Stopped three companieS from illegally filling in a natural reServoir in Trav Kod reSort. The province&rSquo;S deputy adminiStration director Sok Thol told The PoSt yeSterday that the three companieS had filled in the 30ha lake and built wooden cabinS on SS='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district administration will tear down illegal houses and shops built on the bank of Prek Thnot river, said its administrative director Mok Puthea. He said illegal homes, shops, cafes and canteens in Teuk Thla village along the river in Kraing Pongro commune ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Transport Ministry repaired more roads last year when compared to work done in 2017, according to its annual report. In the report issued on Wednesday, the ministry noted it repaired a total of 9,671 kilometres of national and provincial roads, an increase when compared ss='cambodia-color'>...

In an interview with the Nikkei Asian Review on July 31, Mogherini – who is also the Vice-President of the European Commission – was asked whether the EU’s possible sanctions would lead to reforms in Cambodia, to which she said the Kingdom “needed to respect ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Commerce has intensified its decentralisation policy and shifted its responsibility for issuing certificates of origin (COs) to provincial commerce departments, it said on Monday. To promote the Kingdom’s agricultural exports, the ministry announced a pilot launch from November 1 in three border ss='cambodia-color'>...

With no immediate cause ascertained for the death of an Irrawaddy dolphin calf in the Mekong River in stung Treng province, conservationists on sunday requested the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) to investigate further. The dolphin was found floating on the river on saturday in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Startup AdviSerS (CSA) iS Set to launch itS Cambodia Startup Handbook aS a tool for the Kingdom&rSquo;S entrepreneurS, itS preSS releaSe Said on Friday. Scheduled to be launched on TueSday, the book iS co-authored by Sreypeou Chaing, Junro Binang, Pheng Thea and David HaSkel SS='cambodia-color'>...

Amru Rice Group, one of Cambodia’s largest rice exporters, on Thursday signed a contract purchase agreement with 4,000 organic rice farmers in Preah Vihear province. The agreement effectively means that the company will reserve nearly $10 million to purchase around 30,000 tonnes of organic paddy ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Foreign Affairs Ministry yesterday said that Cambodia has been elected to become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Economic and social Council for a duration of one year.​ A ministry statement said that at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday, 183 of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Explosives experts from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre have unearthed nearly 1,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXO) after being called to a military base in Kampong Chhnang province. CMAC discovered 894 items of explosive material after soldiers at Cholkiri district’s Tuol Chek base came across ss='cambodia-color'>...

A recently-completed water treatment facility with the capacity to store up to 60,000 cubic metres of water in Preah sihanouk province’s Kbal Chhay will only resume distributing water after Anco Brothers, a conglomerate tasked with building and operating the facility, has concluded that all technical ss='cambodia-color'>...

Released on Tuesday, Transparency International’s 2018 global Corruption Perceptions Index ranked Cambodia 161 out of 180 countries – the same ranking it held in 2017. But Cambodian government officials responded to the news by saying they cared little about the ranking, with some other observers ss='cambodia-color'>...