Increasingly closer ties between Phnom Penh and Beijing are spurring a rise of Chinese investment into the Kingdom, with businesses from the world’s second-largest economy now taking a closer look at Cambodia’s agricultural sector, Chinese officials said during a press tour last week to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s population of spotted Indochinese leopards will be extinct by 2018 unless action is taken to deal with the “snaring crisis” in Mondolkiri province, where the few remaining leopards live, according to the author of a forthcoming paper on the issue.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Environmental DNA collection could be a “silver bullet” for tracking and protecting critically endangered fish in the Mekong, according to a new report.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Australian mining firm Emerald Resources is preparing to commence first-pass test drilling on its O’Rman prospect in northeastern Cambodia, where soil assays from augur samples have indicated the presence of gold mineralisation, the company said in its latest quarterly report.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen arrived in New York yesterday for a series of meetings, with making demining a key UN development goal at the top of his agenda. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of workers fainted at a garment factory in Kompong Chhnang province on Friday after seeing one of their colleagues have a seizure, which they feared was caused by an electric shock from her sewing machine, a police official said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The investigating judge involved in ongoing legal proceedings against human rights activist Ny Chakrya has said a warrant for the man’s arrest is under consideration after Chakrya failed to respond to a subpoena to appear in court yesterday. However, Chakrya’s employer, rights group Adhoc, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

The rate at which the population of Irrawaddy dolphins in the Mekong River is declining has dropped dramatically in recent years, although more dolphins must be protected into adulthood to save the species from extinction, according to a new report released Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s foreign minister defended the country’s judiciary before a group of diplomats Thursday, addressing an arrest warrant issued last week for opposition leader sam Rainsy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Vietnamese woman imprisoned on child sex trafficking charges in 2009 received a humanitarian royal pardon last month, but only after she had been dead for more than a month, the rights NGO Licadho said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Senate SpokeSman Mam Bun Neang iSSued a Statement Monday deScribing aS “Shameful” the deciSion by the chamber&rSquo;S 10 oppoSition SenatorS to boycott the day&rSquo;S vote in proteSt of the arreSt warrant iSSued for oppoSition leader Sam RainSy. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Forty young environmental envoys began training on December 5 to become Young Eco Ambassadors, tasked with raising awareness of the need to protect the environment. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than $15 billion exited Cambodia in illicit capital flows over the past decade, stripping the economy of money that could have been used for development, a new report showsA staggering amount of money was funnelled out of Cambodia in shady transactions over the past ss='cambodia-color'>...

In recent years, Cambodia has seen a surging number of small and medium-sized businesses, driven by young entrepreneurs. As of 2011, there are estimated 530,000 sMEs in Cambodia, but many lack access to capital to build strong and innovative businesses.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

In an effort to identify and address “key barriers that impede the realization of children’s rights in Cambodia,” the Cambodian government and UNICEF Cambodia officially signed a new Country Program Action Plan yesterday, entering a three-year partnership that will cost an estimated $65 million, according ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s civil servants and security forces must be politically neutral, and will be if the Cambodia National Rescue Party takes power after the 2018 election, acting opposition leader Kem sokha told supporters in Banteay Meanchey on saturday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian and U.S. military perSonnel on Monday kicked off a joint military exerciSe dubbed “Angkor Sentinel 2016,” aimed to Strengthen bilateral military tieS and cooperation. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Malaysian-owned sunway Hotels & Resorts will spend $223 million in a redevelopment and expansion plan on its hotels in Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam within three years, according to Malaysian media. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Human rights group Licadho has criticised the Cambodian Telecoms Law that came into effect in December of last year, saying it “poses a severe threat to freedom of expression”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The construction by the Thai military of a miniature replica of the Preah Vihear temple complex has been met with consternation by the government. ss='cambodia-color'>...