A delegation of Cambodian officials told attendees at seminar at the Global Green Growth Institute’s Green Growth Week conference yesterday that waste management was the biggest environmental challenge facing Phnom Penh. The seminar heard examples from 10 countries – Cambodia, Columbia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Mongolia, the Philippines, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rattanakiri provincial authorities were urged by a National Assembly commission yesterday to take swift action against illegal gem mining, which they blamed on infrastructure damage and tax revenue loss. speaking after a meeting with provincial authorities at the provincial hall, opposition member Heng Danaro said the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Community representatives, civil society organisations and opposition members have urged the government for more urgent action to resolve land disputes following the release of annual data showing that all 24 provinces were affected in 2014, with hundreds of cases still unresolved.The call came at yesterday’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Civil servants will see their salaries raised again from January as part of incremental annual pay increases scheduled through 2018, the government announced yesterday.Next year’s raise will mean about 200,000 civil servants will have their basic salaries increased by 12 per cent from the current ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen used a speech to the U.N. General Assembly on saturday to call on developed nations to fulfill their pledges to commit at least 0.7 percent of their annual income to foreign aid.speaking at a summit on the U.N.’s development goals, Mr. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two military police officials and a tractor driver in Preah Vihear have been accused of beating a timber hauler and injuring a female bystander following an argument over an alleged $200 shakedown.On Tuesday afternoon, four men from Tbeng Meanchey district’s Pou commune who were hauling ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials in Ratanakkiri province are preparing to take action against an illegal mining site that is said to have been operating since at least 2006 as part of ongoing efforts to reform the sector.Hun Bunthan, director of the province’s Mines and Energy Department, said that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has called on local authorities and government ministries to be ready to distribute water to farmers around the country due to the ongoing shortage in the Kingdom’s reservoirs. He added that if people had trouble contacting local authorities, individual farmers should ss='cambodia-color'>...

A $10.5 million toll road along Veng Sreng Boulevard will Start charging driverS aS of December 1, according to a WedneSday announcement by the Phnom Penh Municipality.The toll road, built by private contractor Phnom Penh Tollway, will aim to reduce congeStion in one of the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Even comparatively small patches of human intrusion into contiguous forestland disproportionately saps forests’ ability to trap harmful carbon, a recent study has shown, a finding that suggests Cambodia’s government may be underestimating the environmental damage caused by logging and development.so-called “forest degradation” – unlike typical ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sao Sokha, the commander-in-chief of the military police, haS ordered hiS unitS to crack down on illegal gun ownerShip, pledging to reSign hiS poSt if he iS unable to reduce the prevalence of armS. Speaking at the Royal Gendarmerie&rSquo;S annual meeting on Monday, he ordered SS='cambodia-color'>...

At a conference on the topic of the environment yesterday, civil society groups repeatedly raised the risk of natural disasters and hazards that Cambodia will face if the effects of climate change are not adequately addressed. The one-day conference in Phnom Penh sought to find solutions ss='cambodia-color'>...

Claiming that district authorities destroyed their crops with bulldozers in February to evict them from their land, villagers representing 25 families from Oddar Meanchey’s Anlong Veng district yesterday petitioned the National Assembly to grant them land titles. Village representative sat Borath said the area is ss='cambodia-color'>...

National Road 3 is to be widened to four lanes under a government development scheme financed by a Chinese loan. speaking yesterday in a meeting with garment workers at Vattanac Industrial Park II, which is on National Road 3, Prime Minister Hun sen said the upgrade ss='cambodia-color'>...

Estimates suggest that 0.38 percent of Cambodians have contracted TB, an alarming statistic for a country still recovering from decades of conflict. This rate shows an improvement from the early 2000s, when up to 1.5 percent of Cambodians had the disease. Even so, villagers who live far ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials in Cambodia and China’s Guangdong province are cooperating to establish trade using yuan instead of Us dollars, part of the two countries’ increasingly close economic relationship. The suggestion to use yuan directly, instead of using Us dollars as an intermediary currency, was made by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has announced his support of a planned waterway taxi service and encouraged those in charge of the project to ensure its launch before the Khmer New Year. speaking at a river festival in Kandal province’s Takhmao city on saturday, Mr Hun sen ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Transport has started checking trucks traveling along National Road 6 to ensure they conform to legal size and modification requirements, it announced this week. According to a post on the ministry’s Facebook page, mobile inspection teams were deployed in Kampong Cham province to ss='cambodia-color'>...

A villager and a CNRP councilor have been detained in a long-running land dispute in Kampong Thom province’s Prasat Ballangk district.A team of police and officers from the provincial forestry administration on Friday demolished the homes of 17 families living on three hectares of disputed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday that siem Reap is in need of a new airport to tackle the rising number of visitors to the area.Last week Cambodia reached an $880-million agreement with China’s Yunnan Investment Holding Ltd which allows the state-owned company to manage ss='cambodia-color'>...