The construction of a shoe factory in Kampong speu province’s Kong Pisei district has been suspended after local authorities ruled it has not been following technical standards. Officials in the Kingdom are scrambling to inspect completed and under-construction buildings to avoid collapses similar to what ss='cambodia-color'>...

Security will be heightened acroSS the Kingdom on WedneSday, eSpecially in the capital and around the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, in preparation for Kem Sokha&rSquo;S treaSon trial. The former preSident of the Supreme Court-diSSolved Cambodia National ReScue Party (CNRP) waS arreSted in September 2017 and SS='cambodia-color'>...

Rangers removed 266 snares from the Chhay Areng protected area in Koh Kong province’s Thma Bang district last week, saving wild boars that are most vulnerable to them and many other animals, said Wildlife Alliance Cambodia. Posting on its Facebook page on Tuesday, it said: ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government on Thursday slammed a report that described the Kingdom as highly corrupt. Government spokesperson Phay siphan dismissed the latest Transparency International (TI) report as “just an advertisement of NGOs to promote their own interests”. Released on Thursday, the report puts Cambodia near the bottom ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mondulkiri Provincial Court on Tuesday charged a man who allegedly set traps resulting in the deaths of several species of wild animals in srepok Wildlife sanctuary. Deputy prosecutor Mam Vanda yesterday identified the accused as Hok Vann, 19, from Koh Nhek district’s Nang Khy lik ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Centre for Human Rights said that a number of provisions in the Kingdom’s legal framework do not fully comply with international human rights standards and fundamental freedoms.​​ The 50-page report entitled “Protecting Fundamental Freedoms: A desk review of domestic legislation and its compliance ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s exports to the Us were worth more than $5 billion last year, a sharp year-on-year increase. The latest data from the Us trade office shows that Cambodian exports to the world’s largest economy skyrocketed last year, growing by 40 per cent to reach $5.36 billion. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Switzerland will donate $6 million to Support demining work in Cambodia and clear all mineS in the country by 2025, itS ambaSSador announced on WedneSday.&nbSp;During a meeting with MiniSter of Foreign AffairS and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn, SwiSS AmbaSSador to Cambodia Helene Budliger Artieda Said SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen’s nephew Hun To has emphatically denied all allegations published by Australian newspaper The Age about his involvement in a heroin-trafficking and money-laundering syndicate targeting Australia. Hun To, whose wife and children reside in Melbourne, Australia, told the Post yesterday that he plans ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia representative for the world’s largest shipping company said exports from Cambodia to Europe grew by more than 60 per cent during 2011, but have since weakened. “Rice exports grew a lot during 2011 and a lot of it went to Poland and France,” ss='cambodia-color'>...

The private sector and industry professionals were engaged yesterday in the first consultation with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government in an effort to understand the factors affecting Cambodia’s economy, and ultimately determined that human capital, infrastructure, innovation and regulatory issues as the key areas ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Prey Lang Community Network, which works to protect Cambodian forests, has been selected by UNDP for an Equator Prize, for outstanding community organizing. In an interview with VOA Khmer, the group’s spokesman, seng sok Heng, says the government is “inactive” in protecting Cambodian forests, some ss='cambodia-color'>...

The lack of consultative process on three draft laws has set a worrying precedent for future key legislation, according to the United Nations special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, surya P. subedi. “For many years in my capacity as the special RapporteurI ss='cambodia-color'>...

SamSung SmartphoneS are dominating Cambodia&rSquo;S crowded mobile phone market in termS of market Share and the number Sold, company repreSentativeS Said yeSterday. “For the Smartphone induStry in Cambodia, we are abSolutely dominant. That meanS we Stand aS number one in termS of market Share, baSed on SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun sen will soon meet with heads of the gasoline importing companies to discuss the gasoline price in Cambodia, according to the state news agency-AKP. Cambodia has currently eight big petroleum companies and distributors including sOKIMEX, TELA, PTT (Cambodia), CALTEX, Bright Victory ss='cambodia-color'>...

Protests over construction of the controversial Xayaburi hydro dam project in northern Laos could spread from Thailand to Cambodia as communities along the Mekong River begin to feel its negative effects, an International Rivers programme director said yesterday. About 70 Thai villagers who rely on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia recorded 14.8 million mobile internet subscribers, accounting for 90 percent of the population, by May 2020, down 2.36 percent compared to May last year, according to a Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) report on Monday. In contrast, the number of fixed internet subscribers increased by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian total export values amounted to $5.9 billion, a year-on-year increase of 11.7 percent in the first five months of this year. The value of Cambodia’s total imports amounted to $8.1 billion,  a decrease by 1 percent in the same period, compared with 2019, according ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the context of COVID-19, Germany donated $16 million to Cambodia for health projects that include complementing the Ministry of Health’s initiative to help the poor who cannot afford to pay for hospital treatments and fight against the coronavirus. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has issued a sub-decree establishing the Tuolporn Taley Boeung sne Multiple Use Area covering 3,557ha in one town and three districts of Prey Veng province.​ The sub-decree’s stated purpose is to ensure the preservation of the natural beauty, ecology, biodiversity, environment and culture while ss='cambodia-color'>...