Alex Gonzalez-Davidson, the outspoken director of the environmental group Mother Nature, has written to the U.N.’s special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders to request that he pressure the government to release three Mother Nature activists imprisoned on charges stemming from an anti-sand ss='cambodia-color'>...

The event was attended by President Tran Dai Quang, Minister of Defense Ngo Xuan Lich, Minister of Public security To Lam, Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army Luong Cuong as well as Chinese Ambassador to Vietnam Hong Xiaoyong, Lao ss='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank’s board of directors could vote today to renew a project for landless families in Cambodia that has run into major problems, a move that would effectively lift a five-year freeze on lending its own money to the country in protest over forced ss='cambodia-color'>...

Preparations are underway for the construction of a new border checkpoint to Thailand in Banteay Meanchey province, officials said yesterday. After signing a joint agreement to open a new checkpoint last August for the purpose of boosting bilateral trade, Banteay Meanchey authorities sent a letter to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The new United Nations envoy to Cambodia concluded her first official visit to the country Thursday by calling on Prime Minister Hun sen’s government to ensure the independence of the judiciary amid a host of land and labor disputes she said are encroaching on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A US government finance inStitution planS to inject more capital into Cambodia&rSquo;S buSineSSeS, forecaSting rapid growth in Small buSineSS and microfinance inStitutionS around the country. The development finance inStitution OverSeaS Private InveStment Corporation (OPIC) iS looking to inveSt in Cambodia&rSquo;S Small and medium enterpriSeS (SMES) SS='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of activist monks rallied on sunday at Wat stung Meanchey to protest the pagoda’s decision to defrock a fellow monk for allegedly throwing Buddha statues into a dirty pond, claiming that he was framed because he is Khmer Krom and is known for supporting ss='cambodia-color'>...

A U.S.-baSed PentecoStal miniStry with an extenSive network of “orphan homeS” in Cambodia will be inveStigated by the MiniStry of Social AffairS after allegationS of Sexual abuSe Surfaced at one of itS centerS in Kratie province, though the organization will be allowed three monthS to SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh property market continued to see a broad rise in sales and rental values during the final quarter of last year, with land values across the capital’s four central districts rising by an average of 8.4 percent from the third quarter, according to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand’s sahacogen (Chonburi) Pcl, an independent producer and distributor of electricity and steam, will form a joint venture with saha Patthana Inter Holding Pcl, the investment arm of Thailand’s saha Group, to invest in biomass power plants in Cambodia and Myanmar, according to online business ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia could receive over $1 billion in developmental aid and grant funding from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in the coming four years as the multilateral financial institution consolidates its lending arms and scales up operations across the region – a move that some analysts ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition members of the National Assembly may soon have their pay and expenses docked if they continue their months-long boycott of the sessions. The Parliamentary Permanent Committee is thinking of amending the National Assembly’s internal regulations to include disciplinary articles concerning members who boycott sessions, including ss='cambodia-color'>...

Terminal facilities, a road connecting to National Road 5 and a bridge linking stung Bot in Cambodia with Ban Nong Ian in Thailand will begin construction next year. The entirety of the bridge, including Cambodia’s side, will be constructed by Thailand, according to Va sim soriya, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Today, mulberry trees are a rarity in Cambodia – most of them having been destroyed during the Khmer Rouge era – and silk weavers in Phnom Penh’s main silk producing area in Koh Dach, an island on the Mekong river, have no choice but to ss='cambodia-color'>...

With official tallies from sunday’s commune elections slowed by internet hiccups, both major political parties provided similar results but different stories on Monday on which had won a vote that drew a record 7 million Cambodians to the polls—300,000 more than had been previously reported ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 06 July 2017, the General Department of Taxation has issued a notice to all financial institutions operating in the Kingdom of Cambodia to be aware that the implementation of a May 25 prakas that more clearly defines the government’s laws for nontaxable supplies concerning ss='cambodia-color'>...

The doors of the Lower sesan II dam were closed on saturday for a monthlong test run, forcing more than 100 families holding out in stung Treng’s srekor and Kbal Romea communes to prepare for floods. since the doors’ closure on saturday morning, water levels ss='cambodia-color'>...

As growing trade and investment linkages in Asia and the Pacific have helped to improve the region’s overall resilience to global economic and trade policy uncertainties, countries in the Greater Mekong subregion (GMs) need to make swifter progress in streamlining trade through multilateral agreements that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s economy is predicted to remain strong and resilient for the next two years, fuelled by a shift to higher value-added manufacturing, despite lingering concerns over political stability and the slowed growth of both the construction and garment sectors, the World Bank said yesterday in ss='cambodia-color'>...

With Prime Minister Hun sen publicly daring Western countries to impose sanctions in response to the recent dissolution of the country’s main opposition, the minister of commerce has quietly expressed concern at the staggering customs bill Cambodia would incur should the EU suspend its preferential ss='cambodia-color'>...