A new centre will launch in April 2018 to train Cambodian migrant workers to work with elderly people in Japan. On Tuesday, Minister of Labour Ith samheng said the Japanese company Procast Asia would establish the centre. ss='cambodia-color'>...

With the opposition under pressure from the government and teetering on the brink of dissolution, former CNRP President sam Rainsy has claimed party lawmaker Mao Monyvann is attempting a leadership change in light of current party leader Kem sokha’s detention – an allegation that was ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nine critically endangered Mekong Irrawaddy dolphins, were born this year, but two of them died, the World Wildlife Fund has said. In a statement issued on Friday, the WWF said the population continues to be threatened by illegal fishing and hydropower dams. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fourteen families from Koh Kong province’s Kiri sakor district have asked the Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Land Management to intervene in their land dispute with the Union Development Group. The 14 families, from Prek Khsach and Phnhi Meas communes, delivered their petition to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of victims killed or injured by landmines or other unexploded ordnance (UXO) left over from Cambodia’s decades-old wars is projected to have dropped below 100 last year, for the first time since the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979, as far as ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has improved its ranking in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index.​​ The nation was ranked 101 of 136 countries in the 2017 report, thanks to performance improvements that drove an overall score increase from 3.2 points in 2015 to 3.3 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vertiv, formerly known as Emerson Network Power, officially announced its new branding on Wednesday in Cambodia to tap more markets in the country’s fast developing economy.Vertiv is a global provider of infrastructure technologies for vital applications in data centres, communication networks, and commercial and industrial ss='cambodia-color'>...

The next Senate electionS will be held on January 14, according to a directive iSSued on Friday and ordered by Prime MiniSter Hun Sen, who noted earlier thiS month that hiS party&rSquo;S performance at the June 4 commune electionS meanS it will almoSt definitely win SS='cambodia-color'>...

The investor in Cambodia’s first large scale marine fish farm project in Preah sihanouk province, that was approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) in April, has been asked to submit an environmental impact assessment study to the Ministry of Environment before ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday directed Phnom Penh Governor Khoung sreng to quickly resolve land dispute claims by seven families residing in the Boeung Kak area, an order that flies counter to City Hall’s announcement in April that it had officially closed the resolution process ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the latest attempt to push its narrative of an impending “colour revolution”, the Press and Quick Reaction Unit released a sweeping, nearly hourlong video, broadcast on multiple television stations on Monday night, attempting to link the opposition’s activities to protest movements in the Middle ss='cambodia-color'>...

A family living in Kratie province’s snoul district have said they are concerned for their safety following the destruction of their home. Local authorities last week dismantled the home using an excavator because it had been built on state land that is now earmarked for the ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 500 villagers in Mondulkiri’s Chung Phlas’ mining community thumbprinted a letter sent to Prime Minister Hun sen, and to the Ministry of Mines and Energy and its provincial counterpart, requesting that those holding a community mining licence be allowed to dig below the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A document purported to have come from the US State Department appearS to Show planS to SlaSh US development aSSiStance to the Kingdom down to zero, a move obServerS Said&nbSp;yeSterday would further weaken the US&rSquo;S Standing in the country, allowing for China to cement itS SS='cambodia-color'>...

After several years of rapid growth, the expansion of credit provided by the Kingdom’s myriad microfinance institutions (MFIs) stalled abruptly last year, raising concerns poorer Cambodians could be pushed toward loan sharks to obtain credit or cover their debts, the World Bank said in its ss='cambodia-color'>...

Incensed by Thai authorities’ arrest of their family members, residents of Banteay Meanchey’s Thma Puok district took conflict resolution into their own hands on saturday by holding Thai trucks hostage on their side of the border for days until Thai and Cambodian officials agreed to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The central bank hopes to launch its central shared switch mechanism next month after a trial run that has already connected the account records of three of the Kingdom’s leading financial institutions, allowing them to operate ATM and point-of-sale (POs) terminals in tandem, according to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Just one day after the Kingdom’s microlenders mutinied and said they would not implement a government directive requiring all financial institutions to implement a 10 percent value-added tax (VAT) on fees for financial services, the Tax Department announced it would back down and temporarily suspend ss='cambodia-color'>...

In an agreement mediated by the International Finance Corporation’s watchdog mechanism, a controversial Vietnamese rubber firm has reached a deal with 11 ethnic minority villages affected by its Ratanakkiri operations to return nearly 20 community “spirit mountains”, restore streams filled or polluted by its activities ss='cambodia-color'>...

UN Special Rapporteur Rhona Smith kicked off an official viSit to the Kingdom yeSterday by raiSing concernS over ruling party officialS&rSquo; increaSed uSe of violent rhetoric, Singling out Social AffairS MiniSter Vong Soth&rSquo;S recent threatS to bludgeon proteSterS with bamboo rodS, during a meeting with SS='cambodia-color'>...