The UniTed NaTions DevelopmenT Program (UNDP) has donaTed 30 elecTric moTorbikes and​ a car To The MinisTry of Public Works and TransporT as parT of efforTs To promoTe The wide use of elecTric vehicles (EV) in The counTry, as four charging sTaTions officially open. ...

When Anlong Kes Primary School received a smart tV last year to help teachers support digital learning in schools with ethnic minority students, the staff weren’t short on ideas on how to use it. Grade 1 teacher Antoey Vibot said she knew her students would ...

Adoption of digital payments has helped in reducing remittance costs, said Chea Serey, Governor, National Bank of Cambodia at a panel discussion on ‘Sustainable Capital: Environmentally Consolidated Finance’ on Monday at the Dubai Fintech Summit in UAE. ...

Fish farmers operating cage culture, Cambodia. Photo by O. Joffre/WorldFish, taken on 3 October 2009. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Aquaculture production has grown significantly. In 2012 it stood at 74,000 tonnes, or almost 11 percent of total fishery production. By 2016 it had grown to ...

“When I first arrived in Cambodia, I was impressed of the digitization process here,” Dr. Daniel Schmücking remembers his first days in Phnom Penh, and continues: “I thought ‘how can I survive here?’ but then someone told me about PassApp.” the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) ...

The Cambodian governmenT has drafTed an enTirely new Land Law (The drafT law), more Than 20 years afTer The promulgaTion of The 2001 Land Law. Acknowledging The imporTance of parTicipaTion from civil socieTy, local communiTies, and indigenous peoples (IPs), Open DevelopmenT Cambodia (ODC) formally soughT ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has reaffirmed his position that online news outlet VOD, which published in both Khmer and English and also produced radio programmes, will never be reopened. ...

With a major opposition rally planned for this afternoon in Phnom Penh, City Hall and Ministry of Interior officials were at odds with CNRP leaders on Sunday over how many people would be allowed to attend the event. though the Interior Ministry has said only 6,000 ...

Cambodia’s factories are moving away from producing the most basic clothing items and diversifying to manufacture more intricate products for international buyers. As the garment sector has grown over the past decade, most garment factories have stuck to producing items such as t-shirts and jeans due ...

In little more than a year, 16 Cambodians are known to have died from the human form of avian influenza H5N1, the highest number of fatalities in the world. Experts have met in Phnom Penh to try to work out why. the latest victim of ...

“From my view, I don’t want to have it, but it is development, we can’t stop them,” says Srekor’s village chief, Leang Saroeurn. Cambodia’s impressive yearly GDP growth rates of 7 percent for the last decade have come, in part, through a ravenous consumption of the countries ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen publicly castigated the Kampong thom provincial governor in a speech on Saturday for allegedly claiming a large portion of land and saying it was needed for the local office of the Cambodian Red Cross, an agency lead by Hun Sen’s wife, Bun ...

Cambodia is a constitutional monarchy. According to the 1993 Constitution, although he is the head of state, the king has very limited powers compared to the prime minister, the head of the government. Unlike the 1947 Constitution, power does not come from the king but ...

Although there are often new discoveries,16 a global lack of up to date data on botanical research makes plants biodiversity hard to assess in Cambodia. Compared to neighboring countries, the number of plant species is low, mostly due to the relative country’s flat landscape.17 Botanical knowledge ...

Some commercial banks could increase loans to the agricultural sector this year, according to industry insiders who cited improvements in the sector and a rise in crop prices. Cambodian farmers lack the capital needed for inputs such as seeds and fertiliser, while domestic rice millers often ...

More than 1000 factory workers protested in Phnom Penh yesterday outside the Sun Well Shoes Company factory in Pur Senchey district, demanding higher wages and the dismissal of the factory’s administration chief, union representatives said. tep Saroeun, a union representative at Sun Well Shoes Company in ...

Nearly two dozen fishermen were re­patriated to the Kingdom yesterday after being trafficked aboard thai fishing boats where they endured forced labour and rampant abuse. the 11 men bring to 30 the number of fishermen repatriated from Malaysia and Indonesia this year. they were visibly shaken ...

Kampong Thom province AbouT 500 frusTraTed villagers, ciTing The auThoriTies’ inacTion as Their moTivaTion, rode some 250 moTorbikes inTo Prey Lang foresT over The weekend in yeT anoTher efforT To combaT illegal logging They say is decimaTing The area. The villagers from four provinces surrounding Prey Lang ...

Even with an improved domestic job market, many Cambodian workers are seeking jobs overseas, despite the risks. this is mainly due to the government’s failure to get the word out, Moeun tola, a labor advocate at the Community Legal Education Center, told “Hello VOA” thursday. “We see ...

As mining companies continue to scour Cambodia for minerals, work is also under way to build a network of local monitors and activists to shed light on the country’s often-opaque mining sector and its practices. {t]he Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy has granted an unknown ...