Construction of a much-awaited seaport in the coastal province of Kampot began yesterday, with insiders saying the upcoming harbour will boost maritime transportation with Vietnam and Thailand and bolster the local tourism industry and the national economy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is facing the double burden of infectious and noncommunicable diseases, experts say, but the country can still prevent the problem from becoming “catastrophic” by implementing adequate measures and funnelling appropriate funding to tackle chronic illnesses. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ratanakkiri provincial prosecutor on Monday filed a complaint with the Appeal Court against a decision made by the province’s investigating judge, san Bunthoeun, to release a Vietnamese timber trader, a court spokesman said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Beng Per Wildlife sanctuary is symbolic of the country’s poor forestry management. Around 2,000 square kilometres (sq km) – around three times the size of singapore – is lost to illegal logging in Cambodia every year where wildlife sanctuaries – despite their name – ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) recent Us$60 million loan to Cambodia is set to boost the skills and competitiveness of its growing labour force as the country’s economy undergoes a key transition. Driven by garment exports and tourism, Cambodia’s economy grew by an average of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Royal Academy of Cambodia scholar sok Touch said Wednesday that his border research team has started inspecting markers planted along the 1,228-km frontier with Vietnam, visiting six colonial-era posts since last week as part of a process that he says will take two years. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hong Sok Hour&rSquo;S attorney on Monday Submitted a five-page legal document making the caSe for chargeS of forgery and incitement againSt the Sam RainSy Party Senator to be dropped by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Despite repeatedly claiming that China does not dictate Cambodia’s foreign policy, the government yesterday was lauded by Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo, who said China’s leaders and millions of Chinese people thanked Prime Minister Hun sen for backing Beijing on the south China sea ss='cambodia-color'>...

The elders of Banteay Village have a favorite comparison when discussing the temple perched above a floodplain on the outskirts of town. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has ordered jailed opposition senator Hong sok Hour and his defence lawyer to provide the imprisoned senator’s laptop as evidence to the court before 30 October. ss='cambodia-color'>...

On Nov. 13, Cambodia’s dictatorial prime minister Hun sen ousted opposition leader sam Rainsy, stripping him of his seat in parliament and calling for his arrest. These latest actions against Rainsy are representative of Cambodia’s long muddle through a sort of unfree democracy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen stood up for Cambodia’s energy policy yesterday at the inauguration of the stung Tatai hydropower dam in Koh Kong province, even going so far as to label opponents of hydropower technology “extremists”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian democracy regressed last year, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2015 Democracy Index, which indicates that the Kingdom is “on the cusp of the ‘authoritarian regime’ category”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The labor dispute between workers and employers at the Aerosoft summit Footwear factory in Battambang province’s sampov Laun district is still raging due to the company’s refusal to allow workers back to the factory at the provincial governor’s request. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A United Nations peacekeeper from Cambodia was injured in gunfire on sunday in Juba, south sudan, according to the Cambodian National Center of Peacekeeping Forces. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As another Cambodian maid who travelled to singapore under a pilot scheme between the two countries prepares to return home this week alleging labour rights abuses, recruitment agencies in Phnom Penh continue to look for more women to sign up for the overseas work. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Efforts to empower women at a sub-national level are drastically under-funded, according to research released yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has reclassified 34,000 square meters of state public land to state private land, clearing the way for the ministries and other authorities in control to sell or rent the properties for private development. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is one of the smallest and poorest economies in AsEAN. It accounts for only 0.7% of total regional economic activity and had the lowest GDP per capita in 2014 (Table 1). Only the Lao PDR has a smaller economy, and the next-poorest countries in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Residents of stung Treng province’s Preah Romkil commune are reluctant to express their concerns over Laos’s Don sahong hydropower dam since it was endorsed last month by Prime Minister Hun sen, despite the impacts of the dam already being keenly felt, activists and researchers said ss='cambodia-color'>...