Cambodia may be on the verge of a new era in human rights protection, an independent United Nations human rights expert declared today, adding that while the political momentum in the country was headed in a “positive direction,” a strong human rights infrastructure was still ss='cambodia-color'>...

A four-story crack in the south-facing side of Phnom Penh’s aging “White Building”—which first appeared in early February as a pile driver broke up earth inside an adjacent construction site—widened over the weekend, shortly after a meeting between worried tenants and the firms behind a ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new US$10.9 million grant from the&nbSp;Bill & Melinda GateS Foundation&nbSp;will fund a three-year project by international development NGO&nbSp;EaSt MeetS WeSt&nbSp;(EMW) to improve Sanitation and hygiene among the poor in rural Cambodia and Vietnam. According to EMW, the program SeekS to combat the negative effectS of SS='cambodia-color'>...

Toll Group has informed the Cambodian government that it will suspend all railway operations and lay off half of its Cambodian staff at the end of the month, according to a source familiar with the situation. The Australian logistics firm, which in partnership with Royal Group ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new USAID-funded malaria project in Myanmar will draw on prevention, treatment and containment modelS developed in Cambodia, and underScoreS the emergence of cloSer relationS between WaShington and Naypyitaw, health officialS Said yeSterday. The US$24 million project will expand the effort to contain drug-reSiStant malaria, which SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday told the Ministry of Justice to re-check pardon applications from convicted robbers and drug dealers, saying that recidivism is a big problem in the Kingdom.The premier’s statement, made in a speech on Koh Pich, follows a turbulent weekend rife with ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 200 villagerS from Preah Vihear province gathered at Prime MiniSter Hun Sen&rSquo;S reSidence in Phnom Penh on ThurSday to deliver a petition Seeking a reSolution to their long-running land diSpute. They alSo Sought the&nbSp;releaSe of 13 villagerS&nbSp;who had been detained Since January 19 for SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Preah Vihear Provincial Court has dropped all charges against eight ethnic Kuoy villagers who were in a land dispute with the Hengfu Group sugar Industry Co Ltd since 2014. Wednesday’s decision was made by the judge who tried the case on June 10. The eight ss='cambodia-color'>...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Cambodia’s resident representative, Nick Beresford, said yesterday solar technology is moving fast, is far cheaper than carbon-based energy and provides clean electricity. He said the UNDP is working with the Ministry of Mines and Energy on projects to ensure ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Mines and Energy has announced a 2023 target date for the electrification of the Kingdom’s rural villages. Victor Jona, director-general of energy and spokesman for the Ministry of Mines and Energy, said the 2023 target date will see electrification having been delivered ss='cambodia-color'>...

Independent financial information provider Credit Bureau (Cambodia) Co Ltd (CBC) scooped an award for “Excellence in Consumer Credit Reporting”, CBC said in a January 5 press release. UK-based “reputed international business magazine” Global Business Outlook (GBO) honoured the locally-owned CBC for its “exceptional performance” in Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

A local salt producer says that her company’s exports have been stuck in stasis by the COVID-19 pandemic and tough competition among local producers is making things even tougher. Thaung Thyda, the founder of Thaung Enterprise, says her company was focused on exports but with ss='cambodia-color'>...

Most of the 329 families from seven villages with crops planted on state land in the Chamkar Barang area of Tuol Prich commune in Kandal province’s Ang snuol district have refused to accept the inter-ministerial settlement policy that seeks to relocate them to make way ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Minister of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected 11.402100 trillion riel ($2.781 billion) in tax revenue in 2021, 24% more than the plan of $538 million. However, this revenue is slightly less when compared to the same period of year 2020 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Manet said last saturday that he along with the top officials from public and private sector institutions promoted various sectors of Cambodia’s economy during 18 bilateral and multilateral meetings out of the 34 on-the-sidelines meetings during the 43rd AsEAN summit and Related ss='cambodia-color'>...

The nearly 160 per cent surge in investment capital behind a slew of new large-scale investment projects outside of Cambodia’s special economic zones (sEZ) reported for the first half of 2022 has fanned optimism for a boom in production and exports – underpinned by favourable ss='cambodia-color'>...

Trade unions are working to educate construction workers and their employers on the benefits of the Kingdom’s social protection systems. Various stakeholders met on March 3 for the final review of the 2023-2027 occupational safety and health master plan, while one union revealed that less than ss='cambodia-color'>...

South Korean-owned SPHP (Cambodia) Co Ltd&rSquo;S under-conStruction $231 million, 80 megawatt (MW) Stung PurSat I hydropower dam iS Scheduled to be commiSSioned and operational in 2026, according to PurSat provincial governor Khoy Rida. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The value of Cambodia’s total goods exports in the first half of the year reached $11.464 billion, up more than 0.75 per cent on an annual basis from $11.379 billion and up nearly 3.25 per cent from $11.104 billion in the second half of 2022, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thor Chetha, Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology, highlighted the Ministry’s priority of strengthening the forecasting system, early warning system, and early warning to vulnerable people to be vigilant as needed to reduce natural disasters and economic losses, and urged the Asian Development Bank to ss='cambodia-color'>...