In May Cambodia became a member of the World’s Most Beautiful Beach Club and as a result Koh Kong provincial authorities are not renewing leasing for beachfront stores and evicting those who work there. The leases are said to have expired two months ago, and ...

More than 40 families from Koh Kong province gathered on Friday outside Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Phnom Penh home to ask him to intervene in their land dispute with provincial forestry administration, village representatives said yesterday. According to one villager, 37-year-old Sam Sary, 47 families delivered ...

In another push to facilitate bilateral trade, Cambodian and Thai delegates met for two days last week to discuss developments on a handful of new border crossings, a rail line connecting the two countries at Poi Pet, and special economic zones designed for those living ...

Eight workers at the Stung Tatay hydro project, in Koh Kong province, are presumed dead after being swept away by floodwaters on Sunday. Seven of the men drowned while trying to rescue a colleague who had fainted after floodwaters swept over a bridge, stranding him at ...

Paying Cambodian farmers to capture carbon by not removing mulch during planting and harvesting would help support climate change mitigation, reduce soil deterioration and return higher yields in the long term, say leading agriculture experts. Speaking at a conference in Phnom Penh last Friday, Professor Rattan ...

Twelve Cambodians were shot dead by Thai security forces on March 5 after illegally crossing the border from Choam Ksan district in Preah Vihear province to log timber, Cambodian officials said yesterday. Another three illegal loggers were killed on Wednesday and two others are still missing, ...

Cambodia’s foremost logging baron exported more than 100,000 cubic metres of timber from Sihanoukville Port last year, likely including a species protected by an international treaty to which the Kingdom is a signatory, an analysis by Global Witness of leaked export records suggests. The data, obtained ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Cambodia (SECC) confirmed Friday that three more companies will list on the securities market by the end of this year. They are: Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone, Phnom Penh Autonomous Port and Taiwanese-owned TY Fashion(Cambodia) Ltd. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday denied giving the green light for a neighboring country to construct an electricity-generating nuclear power plant in Cambodia, saying it would be too dangerous. Senior Minister and Vice Chairman for the Council for the Development of Cambodia Sun Chanthol said ...

More than 600 people, including 50 Buddhist monks, who have been affected by illegal logging across the country arrived in Koh Kong province yesterday ahead of a memorial service to be held today at the site where well-known forestry activist Chut Wutty was shot dead ...

Ministry spokesman Mao Hak said yesterday that seasonal rains are expected to taper off in mid-November, with cooler winds sweeping into the Kingdom from Siberia and Tibet, promising a “winter” even cooler than last year’s, in which some areas saw temperatures as low as 18 ...

A final report from Thailand’s human rights commission on the alleged rights violations of a Thai company involved in two Cambodian sugar plantations is expected by late January, a member of the commission said. In July, the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand said its investigation ...

The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Chea Vandeth issued a formal letter on October 18 appealing to students who are taking the upcoming high school diploma exam to focus on learning digital skills. ...

The government plans to rebuild the derelict old Dang Tong Port in Koh Kong province into a medium-sized multi-purpose seaport at a cost of $1.5 million to spur waterway trade with Thailand, a senior public works official said. ...

THE  Ministry  of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation (MISTI) provides a free PDF Science, Technology and Innovation guidebook to students looking to choose a higher education degree involving science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in Cambodia. ...

Sixty-two Cambodian students have gotten annual scholarships for their bachelor’s and master’s degrees in various universities in China, according to Chinese News Agency (Xinhua).​​ ...

Construction work at the site of Phnom Penh’s Buddhist Institute by Hong Kong-listed casino operator NagaCorp has caused concern among staff that the large development is driving away students. In recent days, a wall separating the institute from Hun Sen Park in Chamkarmon district’s Tonle Bassac ...

Three activists from Mother Nature Cambodia have been detained by the provincial court of Koh Kong, after launching a campaign to stop sand dredging along a river there. ...

Fourteen companies have been added to a Ministry of Environment watchlist for purportedly failing to live up to their investment promises. The companies include firms owned by some of the country’s wealthiest and most politically connected land barons, such as Mong Reththy and Sok Kong. ...

The production of Nutrix, a new fish-based wafer snack, was launched in Phnom Penh on Monday to assist in the fight against “severe acute child malnutrition” in Cambodia. The Nutrix facility is the first of its kind in the Kingdom and only the second in ...