The autumnal equinox will occur this year on september 23. The phenomenon, which signifies an equal duration of day and night due to the Earth’s position in its orbit around the sun, happens twice a year in september and March. At these times, the sun ss='cambodia-color'>...

Foreign minister Prak sokhonn urged international NGOs to respect Cambodia’s Law on Accounting and Auditing, noting that less than 50 per cent of them have submitted their required annual financial reports. While presiding over the opening of the third round of consultative meetings with foreign NGOs ss='cambodia-color'>...

Timber, monkeys, orchids, sand: Cambodia’s protected areas and natural resources continue to be a lucrative source of income, in spite of all the promises (and international funding) to protect them. Above all else, the hunger for land has consumed Cambodians and foreigners alike, triggering a constant ss='cambodia-color'>...

During a three-day visit to Cambodia, UNICEF’s East Asia and Pacific Regional Director Debora Comini met with ministry officials and development partners to enhance efforts to end violence against children and end unnecessary family separation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite the rapid digitalization of Cambodia’s economy and society, many online citizens continue to struggle with digital illiteracy – particularly vulnerable groups exposed to online discrimination and fraud. As digitalization efforts increase, experts are urging the government to implement laws that protect social media users and ss='cambodia-color'>...

A few years ago this scene would have played out in China. More specifically, it would have played out in a Chinese coastal region to which millions of rural folks had arrived looking for work. A huge hangar, piles of fabrics of all colors at both ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Advance Communications Ltd, operating under the brand qb, is in talks to either merge with or acquire Thai majority-owned Mfone, a senior government official said yesterday. The talks come amid recent speculation that operators in Cambodia’s oversaturated telecommunications market would have to consolidate in order ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen received the Leadership and Good Governance Award from the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) on Tuesday at the 2nd Asia-Pacific summit at the Peace Palace in the capital. The award was presented by UPF co-founder Hak Ja Han Moon after delivering her ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Civil service released a letter on Thursday addressed to senior leaders of all institutions in the Kingdom announcing a change in the retirement age of civil servants. In compliance with Article 26 of the Law on social security Fund, civil servants, regardless ss='cambodia-color'>...

Although US buSineSSeS acroSS ASEAN have expreSSed a poSitive inveStment outlook towardS Cambodia and the other memberS of the regional group, they are unSure of how to take advantage of the free-trade agreement with China, inSiderS Said at the firSt-ever ASEAN-US BuSineSS Summit, which kicked SS='cambodia-color'>...

International tourist arrivals into Cambodia have soared in the past year, with arrivals into siem Reap up 30 per cent in the first eight months of 2012 over the same period the previous year. The tourist industry was hit hard by the global economic crisis in ss='cambodia-color'>...

An unnamed Chinese investor will put nearly Us$400 million into a 300-megawatt coal-powered plant in Kampot province, officials said yesterday. The plant, slated for a November groundbreaking, will provide power for the Kampot special Economic Zone, the nearby Prey Nob oil refinery in Preah sihanouk province ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tourism authorities are concerned that the role of siem Reap’s Cambodian tour guides catering to Korean tourists is being usurped by interpreters, with the tour guides being relegated to mere porters. This is mainly due to the lack of tour guides who can converse in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

This month’s eviction of villagers in Kratie province that resulted in the death of a 14-year-old girl was one of many such violent incidents over land that have erupted in Cambodia in recent years. But what set the May 16 violence apart was a word: ss='cambodia-color'>...

Less than a week after Prime Minister Hun sen called for land to be returned to villagers embroiled in land disputes, a Pursat province villager has been summonsed by the court in a scenario many see as all too common in these disputes. Kuch Veng, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Banteay Ampil district, Oddar Meanchey province – The families of Beng commune have new neighbors: a battalion of Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldiers building a military base inside one of 13 pockets across the province aiming to be the first forest-based carbon trading scheme ss='cambodia-color'>...

Less than 36 hours after Wang Zia Chao provoked a strike by destroying two photos of the late King Father in front of hundreds of Cambodian garment workers, the Chinese factory manager was booked, charged and convicted by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, which last ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has won an arbitration case in a World Bank court, successfully countering a $300 million claim made by a U.s based company over a failed power plant project dating back to 1996. According to a statement from the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism on Wednesday finalized its 5-year strategic plan to attract at least 1.3 million Chinese visitors by 2018. speaking at a seminar on Cambodia tourism marketing strategy targeting China, so Visothy, director of the Tourism Ministry’s Marketing and Promotion Department, said that currently ss='cambodia-color'>...

Audits of the voter list which claimed that up to 1 million people could lose their right to vote in the July 28 national election were attributed to an “unavoidable margin of error” due to many citizens not having national identity cards or a permanent ss='cambodia-color'>...