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'>...

As the harvest season of Cambodia’s most important crop kicks off, a crisis is looming as both rice farmers and millers face crippling capital shortages and a promised industry lifeline has yet to materialise. Industry experts said yesterday that these small farmers desperate to pay their ss='cambodia-color'>...

Under Cambodian law, the right to organize is supposed to be ironclad. No employer, government agent or citizen may impede union activity. Inside the walls of Cambodia’s largest special economic zones (sEZs), however, In These Times’ reporters saw a system designed to tightly control the workforce by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Commune offices around the country are bracing for a surge in voter registrations over the Pchum Ben holiday that could become a make-or-miss moment in building the foundation for upcoming elections. After nearly a month of registrations, the National Election Committee reported on Tuesday that 3.5 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has called on the United Nations to join an investigation into the beating of two CNRP parliamentarians last Monday, expressing serious doubts the Cambodian People’s Party-led government could conduct an independent inquiry into an incident it was almost immediately ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 150 villagers, enraged by the conviction and imprisonment of three of their community representatives, yesterday destroyed the gates of Ratanakkiri Provincial Court, bursting into the courtroom only to find that the three men had already been sent to jail.The representatives – Chroeung Touch, Em ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a milestone for Cambodia’s nascent mining industry, the government has issued the first commercial mining licence to Mesco Gold, giving the Indian mining firm a green light to extract and process ore at its gold project in Ratanakkiri province, industry sources said yesterday. The landmark ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has announced plans to upgrade a sub-decree on torture prevention to the status of royal decree in order to comply with its international obligations, but observers said yesterday that the proposed changes will do little to bolster the body’s impartiality.The decision was confirmed ss='cambodia-color'>...