Fishing communities along two of Cambodia’s principle rivers say their livelihoods are threatened by droughts that have reduced water levels and devastated fish numbers.“The Tonle sap is 3 metres lower than last year,” Long sochhet, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Fishing Communities, said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After two deaths to flooding in as many rainy seasons and another close call on Monday, villagers from Khva Village in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor District are demanding action. They say that the cause of the flooding is the extraction of soil nearby by a company ss='cambodia-color'>...

Experts are warning that the Lower Mekong Basin may soon face depleting fish stocks, further erosion of the coastline and rising salinity that will make rice fields uncultivable. An extensive, government- funded study by the Vietnam National Mekong Committee estimates the value of fish from ss='cambodia-color'>...

China and Cambodia agreed to boost their military ties following a meeting between their defense ministers on November 6 in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh. Though specifics of the assistance remain unclear, Banh, who is also a deputy prime minister, indicated that it includes telecommunications ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ), the private firm that operateS Cambodia&rSquo;S moSt developed induStrial park, will hold a bookbuild for inveStorS later thiS month for an initial public offering it hopeS will raiSe up to $11.6 million for expanSion and debt repayment, according to SS='cambodia-color'>...

In a bid to increase tourist arrivals and promote sihanoukville as a beach destination, Cambodia Airports, the private company that manages the Kingdom’s three international airports, announced yesterday that it will provide monetary incentives to airlines that bring in foreign visitors to the coastal city.speaking ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Stanford UniverSity Study conducted in Cambodia haS Shed new light on the natural introduction of the poiSon arSenic into groundwater &ndaSh; an eStabliShed problem in Cambodia that could be exacerbated by hydrological development, particularly damS, reSearcherS Say.According to a report on their findingS, publiShed SS='cambodia-color'>...

City Hall yesterday announced the preparation of infrastructure for a controversial road construction project in the Boeung Kak area near the Alserkal Grand Mosque, the largest mosque in the Kingdom, to avoid traffic jams and flooding in the area. The pilot project, inveiled in 2012, plans ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rhona Smith, the UN Special rapporteur for human rightS in Cambodia, will Start her 10-day viSit to the Kingdom today, with planS to meet government officialS, oppoSition party activiStS and civil Society workerS.&nbSp;Am Sam Ath, a Senior coordinator for rightS group Licadho, Said he waS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Education Ministry officials said yesterday that there will be greater participation by disabled children in schools, announcing a plan that would allow disabled youngsters to attend schools with the rest of the country’s children by early next year. Im Koch, a secretary of state for the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The chairman of the National Assembly’s corruption commission says a technical explanation from the Mines and Energy Minister over alleged irregularities in sand exported to singapore is not clear enough. The controversy over the sand exports emerged after about 50 NGOs asked the Ministry of Mines ss='cambodia-color'>...

After ignoring summonses for two months, a prominent timber tycoon accused of illegally trading luxury-grade wood in Mondulkiri province appeared at court to deny his involvement in the case.​ sam Ol was summonsed on October 12 to testify after the authorities’ anti-logging task force found ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. oil giant Chevron haS claShed with the former oppoSition leader of Cambodia over a requeSt to releaSe footage of the murder of prominent political analySt Kem Ley at one of itS gaS StationS in Phnom Penh laSt year, court documentS reveal.Chevron iS Seeking to SS='cambodia-color'>...

Tbong Khmum provincial officials have announced a crackdown on illegal checkpoints along the Vietnamese border, possibly in response to a purported warning issued by Prime Minister Hun sen to provincial Governor Ly Leng to monitor the transport of timber in the province. Local media reports contend ss='cambodia-color'>...

Reduced fees for the loading of containers of milled rice for export, fixed for the next two years, came into effect on Tuesday as part of government efforts to boost the rice sector’s global competitiveness. According to a letter signed by Economy Minister Aun Pornmoniroth, dated ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Labor Ministry says that it is investigating fresh allegations of widespread child labor at the country’s brick-making factories, but claims to have found no evidence as of yet. The ministry made the announcement on Friday, hours after the release of a new report by local ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prey Lang Community Network conservation activists in Kratie province have accused local officials of colluding with illegal timber transporters after authorities allegedly declined to intervene after being tipped off on sunday to stockpiles of logs thought to have been felled within a wildlife sanctuary.Ek sovanna, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has said he will join in with campaigning for his ruling Cambodian People’s Party ahead of local elections next week in an unexpected move for a leader who would normally stay out of the fray.Hun sen, who has been in power ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rural Development Minister Ouk Rabun has claimed all rural people would have clean water and sanitation in just seven years.“In 2025, all rural people will have sufficient clean water and sanitation and they will live in a good environment,” Mr Rabun said while presiding over ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty villages in Mondulkiri province are set to receive at least $10,000 each as a result of the $2.6 million carbon credit purchase by the Walt Disney Company in 2016, under a scheme meant to protect the Keo seima Wildlife sanctuary, officials said yesterday.​This would ss='cambodia-color'>...