Participants at the Asean Peoples’ Forum have called on regional leaders to halt plans to construct two controversial hydropower dams in Laos and Cambodia because of the large number of people who will be affected and the lack of public consultation. The forum in Phnom Penh, ss='cambodia-color'>...

After a week of global media reports dissecting Cambodia’s relationship with China, Prime Minister Hun sen had apparently had enough yesterday – lashing out at the media and analysts he termed “crazy” in what proved an unexpected conclusion to the 20th AsEAN summit. The premier spent ss='cambodia-color'>...

Considered one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the effects of climate change, the Royal Government of Cambodia is taking major steps to improve its resilience and reduce its disaster risk with support from the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. To ss='cambodia-color'>...

Preah Sihanouk provincial authoritieS on Sunday Sent eight people to court for blocking National Road 4 and uSing violence againSt authoritieS in a land diSpute in Prey Nop diStrict&rSquo;S Bit Traing commune. Four police officerS and two commune Security guardS SuStained injurieS when the proteSterS SS='cambodia-color'>...

More than two-thirds of senior officials at the General Command Headquarters of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) have decided to relinquish their oknha titles to maintain their roles in the armed forces, an RCAF official said. Of 61 senior officials, 45 relinquished their title ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of international business associations representing garment, footwear and travel goods buyers have called on the government to improve labour and human rights conditions in the Kingdom in the face of possible preferential trade agreement changes by the United states and European Union. In February, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday called on garment factory workers to understand why the hike in the minimum wage next year is not as high as previous raises. The government has increased the wage for next year by $8, a decrease of $4 when compared to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen advised people on Monday not to be irrationally afraid of rabies to the extent of flocking to get vaccinated against the disease, and rendering institutions unable to provide timely services. The prime minister’s call came during the 7th National Clean City ss='cambodia-color'>...

SenatorS yeSterday unanimouSly agreed to paSS the National Strategic Development Plan of 2019-2023 worth $57.7 billion in capital.&nbSp;In order for the budget plan to be finaliSed, it will need to be reviewed by the ConStitutional Council and approved by the King. The vote waS held SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) has committed to raising the Kingdom’s rice exports to one million tonnes by 2022, its president song saran said on Wednesday. The comment was made at the strategic Plan 2020-2023 Consultation Workshop, which was attended by CRF members, ministry representatives, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fearing that community forests will be unprotected during next week’s Water Festival, 10 communities in Preah Vihear province on Tuesday vowed to patrol their community forest themselves while relevant authorities are busy preparing for the annual celebrations. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Apsara Authority and Elephant Management Association has started transferring elephants in the Angkor area to Bos Thom community forest in siem Reap province’s sout Nikom district in a bid to stop the animals from being used to ferry tourists around.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Renaissance Minerals, a subsidiary of Australia-listed Emerald Resources, is expected to begin extracting gold in Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province next year, according to a high-ranking official at the Ministry of Mines and Energy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia exported more than $7.97 billion worth of garment, textile and footwear (GTF) products in the first nine months of this year, up 13.18 per cent year-on-year from $7.044 billion, a report from the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Customs and Excise ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian officials have defended the government’s record on the forestry sector, despite the publication this year of several substantive reports alleging that deforestation is accelerating due to policy failures. In response, sophalleth echoed previous comments by the prime minister, insisting that once deforested land is ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Ministry of Interior immigration official at the centre of a long-running land dispute in a gem mining district of Ratanakkiri spoke out for the first time yesterday, just days after 200 villagers protested what they termed their illegal eviction.The villagers from Bakeo district’s Keh ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government will scrap its poorly regulated and grossly inefficient estimated-tax regime, which covers mostly small enterprises, and bring all businesses in the Kingdom into the fold of its more-stringent “real” tax regime, leaked documents show.In an unpublished addendum to the 2016 national budget obtained ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has called environmental activists objecting to the construction of hydropower dams in Cambodia “extreme” insisting that such developments would benefit millions of people.His remarks came on Wednesday during the inauguration of a dam located on the Tatay river in Koh Kong ss='cambodia-color'>...

While local petroleum prices have dropped by nearly a quarter of their value since the start of the year, companies operating in the Kingdom’s highly competitive transportation sector insist they have not been able to convert lower fuel costs into higher profits – even when ss='cambodia-color'>...

In recent months Prime Minister Hun sen has made an effort to show that the government has a handle on the voracious deforestation that has ravaged the country’s forests over the years. Yet his speeches and decrees have done little to slow down, much less stop, ss='cambodia-color'>...