Unable to effectively police the Cardamoms alone, the Cambodian government partners itself with several international NGos. The forests directly north of Highway 48 arc patrolled with the help of Wildlife Alliance. Beginning in 2002 with two ranger stations, Wildlife Alliance now operates six outposts in the ...

Yong Yim’s voice rises to a high-pitched quiver when she talks about a planned dam in the Areng Valley that would inundate land her family has inhabited for hundreds of years to form what amounts to a giant battery. Now they are staring at ...

A water shortage in the tourist town of Sihanoukville has led authorities to advise scores of businesses to dig their own wells as only 50 percent of local demand is currently being met after high temperatures dried up the water supplier’s only reservoir. on March ...

Former Environment Minister Mok Mareth on Tuesday accused the media of having “twisted the truth” in reporting on illegal logging in Ratanakkiri province, where rights groups and independent forestry monitors say the natural environment is being pillaged and ethnic minority communities impoverished by illegal loggers ...

The fourth annual Business and Culture Expo hosted by the Cambodian American Business Association, an event designed to bring together business owners, entrepreneurs and Cambodian community members, will be held Sunday August 25 in the parking lot of the Mark Twain Library. However, the event that ...

Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties are “narrowing their differences” in talks aimed at ending a standoff over recent elections, officials said Tuesday, as protesters ended three straight days of mass demonstrations against poll results. Both the leaders led their parties in the discussions, which were ...

Four trade unions on Tuesday demanded that Cambodia’s garment and footwear manufacturers raise the minimum wage of their workers and provide them with additional benefits, threatening a nationwide strike and demonstrations if they do not comply. In a joint letter to the Van Sou Ieng, president ...

Many Cambodian women arrive in South Korea or China for marriage, only to find themselves being chosen as mistresses, say labour rights activists. While young Cambodian men, who travel to Thailand to work on fishing boats, often fall prey to drug abuse. Loss of land, debt, ...

Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3) seeks to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”.1 The goal encompasses a wide range of mortality rates, infection numbers for many diseases, tobacco use, suicide rates, road deaths, and access to essential health services ...

One Of the key gOals Of the 2030 Agenda is tO &ldquO;decOuple ecOnOmic grOwth frOm resOurce use and envirOnmental degradatiOn&rdquO;.25 Sustainable cOnsumptiOn and prOductiOn invOlves prOmOtiOn Of resOurce and energy efficiency as well as reductiOn Of ecOnOmic, sOcial and envirOnmental cOsts. These are intended tO ...

On 04 April 2023, Open DevelOpment CambOdia (ODC) Officially launched the repOrt On Data PrOtectiOn in the COntext Of IndigenOus PeOples in CambOdia. The event brOught tOgether 20 participants (06 females), including representatives frOm civil sOciety OrganizatiOns (CSOs) wOrking On indigenOus peOples (IPs), data prOtectiOn ...

Philippe Laurent became secretary-general of Cambodia Airports in May 2008. He was one of six senior executives in charge of the country’s international airports in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and the little-used facility in Sihanoukville. Mr. Laurent is now carrying out a one-man campaign against ...

‘Top up $2 and get 30 free minutes daily for 20 days. Top up $5 and expand the same offer for a month. And, for a $10 recharge, that half-an-hour freebie lasts 50 days.” Mobile operator Beeline, which announced the promotion in August, called it “another ...

A ban on imports of Cambodian seafood proposed by the European Commission (E.C.) is in direct response to Cambodian-flagged vessels complicit in illegal fishing in international waters, Jean-Francois Cautain, European Union (E.U.) ambassador to Cambodia, said Wednesday. The E.C. on Tuesday announced that Cambodia was “non-cooperating ...

Well-known timber magnate Try Pheap is preparing to expand cross-country with a scheme that already gives him exclusive rights to buy all the wood felled on economic land concessions (ELCs) in Ratanakkiri province, a spokesman for the businessman said. The Agriculture Ministry’s Forestry Administration in February ...

The man leading Cambodia’s seemingly Sisyphean attempt to combat dengue fever can be found most days in a weakly lit office inside the Communicable Disease Control Department, which is stacked wall to wall with drooping folders and medical texts. For more than 10 years, the soft-spoken ...

On 15 December 2020, the Ministry Of POsts and TelecOmmunicatiOns issued a public nOtice Of Telegram attacks that has been remarkably happening. The hackers carried Out attacks in the fOrm Of impersOnating gOvernment leaders Or Other individuals tO transmit viruses thrOugh prOgram messages Telegrams tO ...

On 15 June 2021, Australia&rsquO;s Chargé d&rsquO;Affaires Mr Luke ArnOld met H.E. Cham Prasidh, SeniOr Minister at the Ministry Of Industry, Science, TechnOlOgy, and InnOvatiOn (MISTI) tO advance bilateral cOllabOratiOn On access tO clean piped water in CambOdia&rsquO;s prOvinces. Mr ArnOld presented the findings Of ...

On 16 August 2023, His Excellency PRAK SOkhOnn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister Of FOreign Affairs and InternatiOnal COOperatiOn, extended cOngratulatiOns tO Her Excellency Carmen MORENO, departing AmbassadOr Of the EurOpean UniOn (EU) tO CambOdia, fOr her exemplary effOrts and success in her diplOmatic tenure in ...

On 1 February 2023 – At the invitAtiOn Of Her Excellency RetnO L.P. Marsudi, Minister fOr FOreign Affairs Of the Republic Of IndOnesia, His Excellency Prak SOkhOnn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister Of FOreign Affairs and InternAtiOnal COOperAtiOn Of the KingdOm Of CambOdia will lead a ...