Provincial and border police in Banteay Meanchey province caught a crocodile on Wednesday night while on flood patrol along the river, prompting officials to warn people living in flood zones along rivers to be on the lookout for the toothy interlopers. Officials are looking into ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government plans to reduce its foreign debt and raise capital through the issuance of bonds, a representative of the Ministry of Economy and Finance has unveiled. “Increasing local borrowing instead of foreign borrowing will improve the country’s trade balance and current account,” said Vong seyvisoth, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Eleven new chemical bomb sites have been discovered by the Cambodian Mine Action Centre in Prey Veng province. The sites are in an area that was formerly part of svay Rieng province prior to its transfer to Prey Veng in 2013. Deputy svay Rieng provincial governor Toch ss='cambodia-color'>...

Alleged illegal logging and timber exports continue to happen in the Prey Lang forest, while drug trafficking in the area is also on the rise, according to the latest Prey Lang Com-munity Network (PLCN) report yesterday. The fifth monitoring report on the forest’s status from April ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a tributary in Phnom Penh’s Phum Prek Toal district that flows into Boeng Tompun, a mountain of plastic, garbage and waste has built up to the point where it stifles the water from flowing. Embattled residents who live next to the pile of waste ss='cambodia-color'>...

 In the lead up to June’s commune elections, sguon samean, a former sam Rainsy Party commune chief, say that she is hopeful that people will vote for her again.“I believe in my people. I have hope in my people since they trust me and they ss='cambodia-color'>...

Addressing the delegates, Chea serey, director general of National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), stressed the role and importance of digital finance initiatives in broadening financial inclusion. she said digital finance could be a “game changer” for Cambodia’s nascent financial sector as it enables financial service ss='cambodia-color'>...

In Popel commune, Takeo province, some seven commune councilors from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party are going to vote in the senate election, which will take place on February 25. The election will take place without the main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, which gained more ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Ministry on Friday warned guesthouses and clubs that they will face the law if they do not step up their efforts to ban illegal drugs use in their facilities. As part of the ministry’s ongoing campaign against drugs, the ministry said it has ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union yesterday adopted a set of conclusions condemning “recent worrying political developments and the continuing deterioration of democracy” in Cambodia, though some politicians expressed regret about a missed opportunity to take concrete measures. The conclusions, passed by the European ss='cambodia-color'>...

Preah Sihanouk provincial authoritieS and relevant departmentS have aSked buSineSSeS and tour operatorS in Sihanoukville to enhance the city&rSquo;S beauty and prevent Sewage from flowing into the Sea, while warning of adminiStrative meaSureS for thoSe failing to comply.&nbSp;A notice concerning order at Ochheuteal Beach waS SS='cambodia-color'>...

A Social AffairS MiniStry delegation iS in Thailand to diScuSS the poSSible conStruction of a tranSit centre in Banteay Meanchey province&rSquo;S Poipet city SpecialiSed in facilitating the return of human trafficking victimS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

PTT, Thailand’s largest oil and gas conglomerate said it plans to conduct a feasibility study on petrochemical and oil refinery projects in three AsEAN countries – Cambodia, Indonesia and Myanmar, according to Dow Jones Newswires. Pailin Chuchottaworn, PTT chief executive said, however, that Indonesia and Myanmar ss='cambodia-color'>...

Provincial forestry administration officials in Ratanakkiri have dismissed allegations of illegal logging by community residents and chalked the deforestation up to legitimate clearing. A cursory examination of the land in question yesterday seemed to back the company’s claims, Ly sophan, a team worker at the provincial ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian authorities announced yesterday they would release six Laos who were arrested in Cambodia last Thursday on suspicion of illegal logging, provided that Laos cooperates with broader border negotiations in stung Treng province’s siam Pang district, where the men were arrested. svay Nhoun, a stung Treng ss='cambodia-color'>...

TTY director-general Na Marady, a well-known Cambodian tycoon, has been accused of owing money to farmers from whom he bought potatoes on credit more than a year ago in Memot district’s Koki and Kompoan communes in Kampong Cham province. The villagers complained on Friday that Na ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and Vietnam’s border shuffle in Kampong Cham won’t involve ceding the two previously discussed villages to Vietnam, a government official said yesterday, but it will include farmland meant to compensate Vietnam for the ethnic Khmer villages on what is believed to be the Vietnamese ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia planned to allocate 3. 1 billion U.S. dollarS, in equivalent to 19.8 percent of the country&rSquo;S GDP, for national expenSeS in 2013, a 12.9 percent riSe year-on-year, finance miniSter Keat Chhon Said Friday. Speaking to reporterS after a meeting at the National ASSembly, the miniSter SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Kratie Provincial Court yesterday issued a search warrant for the home of Chum Vuthy, a man who allegedly trades in luxury wood, in Kratie City, provincial police said. Mr. Vuthy had been transporting a load of illegal lumber from stung Treng City to Vietnam and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The families of six maids from Kampong Chhnang province who left to work in Malaysia have filed complaints with human rights group Adhoc after losing contact with the women for more than two years, rights workers said yesterday. soum Chankea, Adhoc’s provincial co-ordinator, said the complaints ss='cambodia-color'>...