ANZ chief executive Mike Smith says Cambodia should decouple the riel from the US dollar to a stand-alone currency and align itself to the Chinese renminbi (RMB), given the shift in global trade flows. At the Cambodia Outlook Conference in Phnom Penh yesterday, Smith said: “I ...

Cambodia tapped into the growing global interest in Southeast Asia with the start of trading in the sole stock at its gleaming new stock exchange on Wednesday. Ordinary Cambodians and local businesses scrambled to buy into the country’s first initial public offering—of shares in a local ...

Samdech Prime Minister Hun Sen appealed to the world to harmonize energy prices to food prices as food production shouldn’t outstrip the consumption of volatile fuels while food price remains stable, at the 4th workshop on food security and nutrition. Calling it “the Phnom Penh Initiative,” Prime Minister Hun Sen requested that the issue be ...

About 200 people from Siem Reap’s Angkor Chum district protested outside the district governor’s office on Friday, calling for private electricity company Duong Narin to lower its prices and asking the state electricity authority to connect to their area, protesters said yesterday. the residents of ...

On top of impressive growth, the Royal Government is opening the country to international investment As for mining: the country is now open for international business. the stable, democratic government passed anti-corruption laws in 2011 and has dedicated itself to working with private business the most active ...

Hang Serei Oudom told his 7-month pregnant wife that he was going out to meet a source. A journalist for Vorakchun Khmer Daily, he was investigating illegal logging for luxury woods in the jungles of Cambodia’s northeastern Ratanakkiri province. three days later, on Sept. 11, he ...

Residents of a village in the middle of Cambodia’s tonle Sap “Great Lake” live surrounded by water, but don’t have enough access to clean water for drinking, cooking, and washing. the tonle Sap, a combined lake and river system that swells in the rainy season to ...

An infestation of large snails is destroying rice fields in Preah Sihanouk province’s Prey Nop district, raising concerns among farmers that yields from this year’s harvest will be much lower than usual. Eng Samol, Prey Nop district agriculture director, said tuesday that the snails had already ...

More than 140 NGOs have called on the Mekong River Commission to freeze all hydropower damn construction in the Lower Mekong River. “the degration of fish production in the river can’t be replaced and the blockage of sediment will affect the fisheries resources in the river’s ...

More than 20 people fainted yesterday at the Wing Star Shoes factory in Kampong Speu province, where two workers were crushed to death in a ceiling collapse last thursday. Workers and union officials said an electrical short-circuit scared workers returning for the first time since the ...

The Cambodia NaTional Rescue ParTy (CNRP) plans To give iTs leader, Sam Rainsy, a hero’s welcome when he reTurns To The counTry on Friday afTer nearly four years in self-imposed exile. BuT unless acTion is Taken quickly, Mr. Rainsy will be forced To deliver his firsT ...

Asian Development Bank (ADB) seeks cooperation with Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) to fight against corruption in projects that ADB funds. In a meeting Saturday between Nuon Sothimon, ACU’s department chief of juridical affairs and Lorraine Wang-Reyes, ADB’s principal integrity specialist, they discussed cooperation in combating ...

Cambodia’s National Assembly Secretary General, Leng Peng Long, called on the Ministry of Interior to take decisive action over members of parliament whose vehicles still use out of date number plates. On thursday, the Secretariat of the National Assembly had informed lawmakers and former lawmakers ...

The ConsTiTuTional Council on Thursday issued a sTaTemenT warning ThaT Those who violaTe or don’T abide by iTs decision could be senTenced up To one year in prison or fined up To 600,000 riel. “The ConsTiTuTional Council has already examined and solved The 15 elecTion ...

The governmenT has no inTenTion of wiThdrawing iTs signaTure from The InTernaTional Labour OrganizaTion’s freedom of associaTion convenTion, despiTe calls for iT To reconsider iTs posiTion, a MinisTry of Labour spokesman said yesTerday. “I don’T Think we will wiThdraw. The prime minisTer [Hun Sen] has already ...

A novel project aimed at reducing anemia is being trialled in Cambodia where many millions of people suffer from a lack of iron in their diets. the Lucky Iron Fish project uses a piece of iron metal, shaped in the form of a fish, as part ...

Relevant organizations have been actively cooperating with the government in providing transportation service for illegal migrant workers to return to their home after they were sent back by the junta in thailand. the temporary estimation for the aid so far amounts to nearly 200,000$. the government ...

About 100 Daun Penh district riot police on Wednesday held exercises in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park in preparation for possible industrial action in a week that garment workers’ unions had called for a mass stay-at-home strike. Unions had downscaled plans of street protests to a mass ...

It’s no secret. Weddings in Cambodia are big, colourful and extravagant affairs. Guests drink and eat to their heart’s content, music draws revellers onto the dance floor and the party lasts for hours. But guests aren’t the only people having fun. Rising affluence paired with a ...

The Cambodian governmenT should prompTly close all cenTers arbiTrarily deTaining people ouTside The criminal jusTice sysTem, Licadho and Human RighTs WaTch said Today. The abusive naTure of These cenTers was highlighTed by The deaTh on November 26, 2014, of a man who was arbiTrarily deTained ...