The Ministry of social Affairs yesterday announced that it would form a committee to address the lack of services available to the homeless and mentally ill. Yesterday’s meeting was precipitated by the revelation this week by rights organization Licadho that two more residents at Prey ss='cambodia-color'>...

Australia has so far disbursed more than $3.5 million in aid to Cambodia as part of the agreement for its unwanted refugees to be resettled here, but the Interior Ministry’s spokesman is livid that the money has come into the country via development agencies rather ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Friday announced the creation of a committee tasked with putting an end to the rampant illegal logging and cross-border timber smug­­gling taking place in the country’s northeast.   លោកនាយករដ្ឋម ន្រ្តីហ៊ុនសែន នៅថ្ងៃសុក្រនេះ បានប្រកាស ការបង្កើតនៃ គណៈកម្មាធិ ការបញ្ចប់ ការកាប់ឈើខុសច្បាប់ ទោរទន់ រត់ពន្ធ និងជាកន្លែង ទទួលយក ឈើ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s central bank will temporarily suspend its eight-month campaign to bring informal moneylenders into its fold as it lacks the resources to review the mountain of registration applications it has received and needs time to tweak the licensing requirements, a National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) ss='cambodia-color'>...

An Indian company planning to extract 500 tons of rock per day from beneath Pheak village in O Yadauv, Ratanakiri this year has promised locals, again, that their digging will have little effect on the mine’s surrounding forest and homes, and that they will replace ss='cambodia-color'>...

The prime minister has selected 14 senior officials – all members of the ruling party – to probe the cold-case murders of three union leaders, including Free Trade Union (FTU) president Chea Vichea, though scepticism remains about the timing and motivation behind the new investigation.According ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the Kampong Phluk fishing village on the Tonle sap lake, home to thousands of families in siem Reap province, fishermen say their catch this year has been too poor to live on. Ning Ny, chief of Kampong Phluk commune, in siem Reap, said almost ss='cambodia-color'>...

An American horticulturalist is in Cambodia providing training in a unique farming method that proponents believe can improve food security in some of the country’s remotest regions.      ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s famed UNEsCO-listed Angkor Archaeological Park made a revenue of $44 million during the first nine months of the year from ticket sales to Angkor Wat. This represents a 2.5 per cent increase compared to the same period last year, according to an official report ss='cambodia-color'>...

The book-build and upcoming listing of the capital’s port operator has taken some of the wind out of the sails of the IPO plans Phnom Penh special Economic Zone (PPsEZ), but the industrial park operator has charted a new course and sweetened its dividend policy ss='cambodia-color'>...

The real estate market in the BKK1 area appears to be beginning to slow after years of accelerated growth as local investors look for more affordable alternatives within Phnom Penh.seng Bunna, CEO of Bunna Realty Group, said that while the history of BKK1’s foreign-oriented growth ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) hopes to export around 200,000 tons of milled rice a year to Indonesia, which is one of the biggest rice markets in Asean. This comes after the CRF announced late last month that it will not join the bid to ss='cambodia-color'>...

City Hall said villagers affected by the development project of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district would have two months to claim the certificate of land policy before it would stop assuming responsibility for losses, according to a statement ss='cambodia-color'>...

US inveStorS are eyeing opportunitieS in Cambodia&rSquo;S touriSm Sector, while the number of US viSitorS in the country remained low and iS declining, Said the MiniStry of TouriSm.&nbSp;Data from the MiniStry of TouriSm Said US viSitorS who travelled to the Kingdom accounted for only 3.7 SS='cambodia-color'>...

Some 100 familieS are left with no acceSS to clean water after fiSh were Spotted dead at their water SourceS &ndaSh; the O&rSquo;Droun and O&rSquo;KleS Klork StreamS &ndaSh; in Sambor diStrict&rSquo;S Kbal Damrei commune, Kratie province, O&rSquo;Por village chief Sok Yoeun Said on TueSday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Kampong Speu provincial authoritieS will once again allow Sok Chanly Co Ltd to mine marble in Oral diStrict&rSquo;S Trapaing Chor commune if the company payS a fine of 50 million riel ($12,500) after the authoritieS earlier detained five individualS who were caught mining without a SS='cambodia-color'>...

The 20 families had filed a complaint with the authorities against Company China Construction, which was legally authorised to build a 52-storey building in Chamkarmon district’s Tonle Bassac commune in Phnom Penh. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government had designated the Western siem Pang Wildlife sanctuary and siem Pang Wildlife sanctuary as one protected area, which is officially named as “siem Pang Wildlife sanctuary”. The newly designated area of 133,707.73ha spans across santepheap, Thma Keo and Prek Meas communes in stung Treng ss='cambodia-color'>...

Human and sex trafficking complaints had increased markedly this year, with police vowing to redouble their resources to fight the rampant crimes, officials said at a summit on Friday. Mok Chito, head of the General secretariat of the National Police Commissioner’s central judicial department, said 113 ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new report – 10 Years of the Better Factories Cambodia Project: A critical evaluation – has been released by Clean Clothes Campaign and Community Legal Education Center. started in 2001, the goal of the Better Factories program is to improve the working conditions in ss='cambodia-color'>...