Dozens of patients with mental health disorders were admitted to the newly built Mental Health Rehab Centre in Kandal province’s Kandal stung district. The centre was established under the Ministries of social Affairs, Health and Interior. The three-hectare treatment facility was funded with a $500,000 budget ss='cambodia-color'>...

An international business conglomerate with roots in India and an Indian automaker are looking at partnering with the Cambodian government on a project that will strengthen the Kingdom’s public transportation system and make Cambodia a producer and exporter of electric buses. According to a press release ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly is drafting a law to take action against doctors and patients who collude with each other to cheat the National social security Fund into paying for false medical expenses. Chheang Vun, chairman of the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, Information and Media ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has asked Germany to buy some of the Kingdom’s carbon credits earned from preserving its natural resources. Interior Minister sar Kheng made the request during a visit to Germany which concluded yesterday, a ministry statement noted. It said Cambodia requested Germany to study the possibility, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sexual haraSSment in the workplace could have an indirect coSt to the garment induStry of up to $89 million per year, Said Care Cambodia&rSquo;S acting country director Jan Noorlander.&nbSp;Speaking at a BuSineSS of Women at Work forum yeSterday, Mr Noorlander Said the organiSation waS very SS='cambodia-color'>...

Ten men were caught engaged in illegal logging during a three-day patrol by the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) that began on Friday. This led a representative of the group to declare that illegal logging at the Prey Lang Wildlife sanctuary in Preah Vihear province ss='cambodia-color'>...

The first industrial park for small and medium enterprises in the Kingdom will open this October in Kandal province, just 12 kilometres from the centre of Phnom Penh. The sME Eco Park, referred to also as sME Cluster Zone by the developer, is located on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Today (Tuesday) marks the final day for the EU Commission for Trade to receive the opinions of the EU bloc’s 28 member-states before deciding whether to suspend the Everything But Arms (EBA) tariff preferences for Cambodia. However a unanimous decision will be required to withdraw ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has unveiled several measures to support local manufacturers and exporters in case the European Union (EU) decides to temporarily strip trade preferences from the country, according to China’s Xinhua News Agency. The Cambodian Ministry of Commerce issued a statement on February 12, saying that it ss='cambodia-color'>...

US-baSed SupporterS of Cambodia&rSquo;S former oppoSition party have launched a campaign to lobby US lawmakerS to Support legiSlation aimed at placing SanctionS on the Cambodian government. The activiStS are planning to call and petition lawmakerS to urge them to Support the Cambodia Trade Act and SS='cambodia-color'>...

Preah Sihanouk provincial authoritieS have announced they would not recogniSe the more than 200 familieS who had illegally built makeShift hutS and planted boundary markerS on State and private land at Rithy II village in Stung Hav diStrict&rSquo;S Keo PhoS commune. Stung Hav diStrict governor SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is currently among the fastest electrifying countries in the world, with coverage reaching 89.1 per cent as of the end of 2017, a newly published World Bank report says. The Kingdom has made significant progress in providing access to electricity, becoming one of four ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Koh Kong provincial court on Tuesday heard the case of spanish environmental activist Alejandro “Alex” Gonzalez-Davidson, who is accused of being an accomplice in “threatening to cause destruction, defacement or damage” and inciting others to do the same. Gonzalez-Davidson’s defence lawyer, sam Chamroeun, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Battambang provincial governor Nguon Ratanak oversaw the distribution of land titles on Tuesday following a 20-year-long land dispute between villagers and soldiers. speaking during the distribution in Bavel district’s Prey Preal village on Tuesday, the governor said the disputed land was divided into 51 plots ss='cambodia-color'>...

The director of the Natural Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organisation (NRWPO) requested the Ministry of Environment on Tuesday order an investigation into an alleged land grab in Phnom Oral Wildlife sanctuary in Oral district’s Trapaing Chor commune in Kampong speu province. NRWPO director Chea Hean ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government will spend some $4 million on the Land Allocation for social and Economic Development Project Phase II (Lased II) to benefit almost 600 families in Prasat Balang district’s Doung commune in Kampong Thom province. The land allocation is aimed at alleviating poverty in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty-three residents of Preah sihanouk province’s Bit Traing commune in Prey Nop district, who are entrenched in an eight-year land dispute, were urged on Wednesday by the Ministry of Justice to submit legal documents as proof of ownership to Preah sihanouk Provincial Court. “We do ss='cambodia-color'>...

A commune chief in Kandal province has denied local media reports that he and some 50 families colluded to secretly sell nearly 250ha of state-owned lake land in Prekbak and speandek villages, in Loeuk Dek district’s Prek Tonloap commune. The provincial Department of Land Management, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A series of quarterly reports from the National Bank of Cambodia raises questions about the government’s ban on timber exports, as they show that last year, more than $5 million in sawn timber was exported from the Kingdom. The latest report, released earlier this month ss='cambodia-color'>...

As many as 75,059 students or 66.21 per cent passed this year’s high school examinations. The figure is 2.37 per cent higher than last year, a Ministry of Education announcement said on sunday. The ministry said this year, the number students who received either an ss='cambodia-color'>...