Mesco Gold has established the required surface-level infrastructure and is awaiting government approval to begin the extraction of gold at its Phum syarung mine in Ratanakkiri province, the company’s director said yesterday.The Indian mining firm is poised to become the first operational commercial mine in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Som Saron haS not worked Since teSting poSitive for HIV late laSt year. Taking care of her young niece at her parentS&rSquo; home in Roka commune laSt week, the 37-year-old Said that a fear of being Stigmatized kept her from walking the community&rSquo;S gravel roadS Selling SS='cambodia-color'>...

Last week’s brutal attacks by off-duty soldiers on two opposition lawmakers were retribution for anti-government protests in Paris and New York, Prime Minister Hun sen said in a speech yesterday. “If there is no fire, there will be no flames,” he said. “If there had ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s acting Prime Minister while Mr. Hun sen is out of the country for the Us-AsEAN summit, Interior Minister sar Kheng, acknowledged that there are “gaps” in the implementation of democracy in Cambodia during a speech to the National Police Academy on Tuesday, but warned ss='cambodia-color'>...

About half of the country’s rice millers and exporters went out of business last year and those clinging on are likely to follow suit within two years unless the government injects capital into the sector and takes measures to curb the flood of imported rice ss='cambodia-color'>...

Although 254 people were either killed or injured in traffic accidents across the Kingdom during this year’s Khmer New Year, and the fatality rate rose, the rate of injury over the four-day celebration decreased when compared with the same period last year, according to a ss='cambodia-color'>...

National Road 5 which connects Phnom Penh to the border with Thailand at Banteay Meanchey will soon be expanded to strengthen Asean’s trade connectivity between Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday assistance from the Japanese government to improve National Road 5 will ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s small family-run pig farming businesses seem to be roughing it out in an unpredictable market with fluctuating pork prices while facing stiff competition from the illegal flood of cheap imported live pigs from neighboring countries. To add salt to their wounds, the high price ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district reopened the Ta Mok bridge for traffic yesterday after water levels subsided, but some officials were still stationed at the bridge. The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology released a statement yesterday, saying the water in Ta Mok ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than half of Cambodia’s 9.6 million eligible voters had been registered as of saturday, despite the National Election Committee reporting that heavy rains had dampened the pace of registrations recently. Updated figures released on the weekend show that 4.9 million voters had registered in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

While the Kingdom’s automotive sector has seen the entry of authorised dealerships, grey market dealers still make up the bulk of car sales.Dealerships are trying to lure prospective customers to purchase new vehicles, but grey market used cars still enjoy a substantial cost advantage given ss='cambodia-color'>...

To mark the United Nations’ second International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, we, the undersigned civil society organizations (“CsOs”), call upon the Royal Government of Cambodia to bring an end to Cambodia’s rampant culture of impunity, and to ensure that the perpetrators ss='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank looks forward to working with Cambodia to support the country’s efforts in reducing poverty and improving economic and social conditions for its people, especially in agriculture, health, education and transportation, said Axel van Trotsenburg, World Bank Regional Vice President for East Asia ss='cambodia-color'>...

On the outskirts of Phnom Penh once stood a smoldering testament to mankind’s assault on the Earth. stung Meanchey was the largest waste disposal site in Cambodia, the size of 76 football fields. scavengers sifted through 900 tons of new waste delivered each day, amid ss='cambodia-color'>...

Private utility companies that run their cables along overhead lines in central Phnom Penh will now have to bury them beneath the city’s streets, and pay to do so, City Hall announced on Friday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia Confederation Development Association (CCDA), a well-known tuk-tuk and moto-taxi association, plans to lodge complaints against local rights group Licadho next week over a statement the NGO co-signed with 33 other civil society groups regarding the association’s involvement in a saturday protest at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

This year’s theme will be “Authentic Experiences along the Mekong River.”  According to Jens Thraenhart, executive director of the MTCO, “Travellers want to be able to truly experience the country that they are visiting and come away with a true appreciation of the local experience. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The seeds of confusion in the rice industry have been sown further. After endorsing the Phka Romduol and Phka Chansensor varieties to be the Kingdom’s own umbrella brands for fragrant and premium rice last week, the National standards Council (NsC) said yesterday it did not ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japan-based Yusen Logistics has opened one of Cambodia’s largest temperature-controlled distribution center in Phnom Penh, which is becoming a significant air cargo destination for its textiles and perishable exports. The 33,000-square-foot facility has almost twice the capacity of the existing warehouse and includes a 4,237-square-foot ss='cambodia-color'>...

Though all countries in the Greater Mekong sub-region (GMs) had signed a cross-border trade agreement (CBTA) 14 years ago to enhance the sub-region’s economic connectivity, the CBTA, however, is yet to be ratified in individual Mekong nations for its full implementation. This was revealed last ss='cambodia-color'>...