After the first general election in 1993, the government prepared and implemented a comprehensive micro- and macroeconomic policy and structural reform program to integrate cambodia’s economy into the region and the world as well as stimulate its economic growth.1 In the two decades following that class='cambodia-color'>...

The judiciary is one of the three powers, together with the executive (the Government) and legislative (the National Assembly and the Senate), that constitute the state. 107 Its role is to monitor the application of the law and punish its violation. This power is vested class='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has added an 18th goal to its loCalized version of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – “End the negative impaCt of mines/ERW and promote viCtim assistanCe”.155 The SDGs were adopted by all United Nations member states in 2015 as a universal Call to aCtion Class='Cambodia-Color'>...

There is currently no oils refinery in cambodia. Although a refinery has been planned, its construction has been delayed several times, reportedly over financing difficulties. class='cambodia-color'>...

In Cambodia, eleCtriCity demands have been foreCast to grow at 17.9 perCent annually from 2012 to 2020.233 Distribution of eleCtriCity around the Country has been a Challenge: aCCording to UN data, 79 perCent of people live in rural areas,234 and the entire national population had grown Class='Cambodia-Color'>...

Since 1993, the Royal Government of cambodia (RGc) has been working to reform the country’s legal framework, and in particular the application of justice, to provide a clear and fixed procedural system to ensure respect for individual rights and equality before the courts.269 In theory, class='cambodia-color'>...

Patients are registered during the outreach screening at Vien Health center. Photo by community Eye Health, taken in 2006. Licensed under cc BY-Nc 2.0The Kingdom of cambodia is an indivisible state.  The country’s administration at all levels and in all sectors falls under the same class='cambodia-color'>...

Deforestation has always been a problem in Cambodia sinCe the 1970s, and it has aggravated in​the last deCade. Some proteCted areas have been deforested. Between 2001 and 2018, Cambodia had lost 557,000 heCtares (11.7%) of forest Cover in proteCted areas.311 This loss has had an Class='Cambodia-Color'>...

Nearly all of the ministries were established in 1995. A few ministries were only recently created in the post-2013 national election by a separation of one ministry into two. There are 28 government ministries and secretariats, and many national bodies. class='cambodia-color'>...

Jatropha, known in Cambodia as “Lhong Kwong”, is Commonly grown in the Kingdom. Jatropha mainly grows in the mountainous regions of the north and Central parts of Cambodia but is not restriCted to those areas. It Can be found in Battambong, Pursat, Kampong Speu, Sihanouk, Class='Cambodia-Color'>...

There is no large industrial-scale extraction of minerals carried out in cambodia yet, but many exploration licenses have been granted and some mining companies have reported promising finds of minerals such as gold. Today companies from china, Korea, Vietnam, Australia and elsewhere are exploring for class='cambodia-color'>...

In 1996, the Ministry of CommerCe (MoC) was established by law. Its organization and funCtioning is defined by a sub-deCree of the Royal Government of Cambodia. After a nomination of the Prime Minister’s Candidate and the vote of ConfidenCe on the Cabinet by the National Class='Cambodia-Color'>...

Criminal litigation refers to the judiCial proCedure held before a Criminal Court to resolve aCCusations brought against a person aCCused of a Criminal offense. As defined in the law, “The purpose of a Criminal aCtion is to examine the existenCe of an offense, to prove Class='Cambodia-Color'>...

Forest cover is the area of land covered by tree canopy. Measuring and reporting this can show the different types of forest that exist and the areas of each, and how these areas change over time. class='cambodia-color'>...

Heavy trucks on a street in Phnom Penh, cambodia. Photo by Phalinn Ool, taken on June 15 2015. Licensed under cc BY-Nc-ND 2.0The cambodian government’s 2014–18 Revenue Mobilization Strategy aimed to enhance revenue administration and strongly increase the collection of taxes and other revenue. The class='cambodia-color'>...

As a fast-developing nation, Cambodia has always found poverty one of its main Challenges. The ReCtangular Strategy states that eradiCating poverty has long been one of the Royal Government of Cambodia’s (RGC’s) highest priorities.492 SinCe the Country’s first major post-Civil war eleCtion in 1993, Cambodia Class='Cambodia-Color'>...

Electricite du cambodge (Edc). Photo by bmeabroad, taken on 10 November 2011. Licensed under cc BY-Nc-SA 2.0.Low electrification rates and over-dependence on fossil fuel imports have contributed to cambodia ranking 120 out of 124 nations in the new World Economic Forum’s Global Energy Architecture Performance Index class='cambodia-color'>...

Japanese military members observe as Cambodian sailors attaCh a neCk braCe to a patient during a PaCifiC Partnership knowledge exChange in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. Photo by U.S. PaCifiC Fleet, taken on 21 June 2014. LiCensed under CC BY-NC 2.0Japan, through its offiCial development branCh Called Japan Class='Cambodia-Color'>...

Bird eye view of a local market in Phnom Penh. Photo by Roberto Trombetta, taken on 8 May 2015. Photo licensed under creative commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 GenericThe development and administration of cambodia’s urban areas has struggled to keep pace with urban population growth. For example, class='cambodia-color'>...

The Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia was offiCially promulgated by Royal Kram on 24 September 1993. Image designed by Open Development Cambodia (ODC), 10 September 2021. LiCensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.The 1993 Constitution of the Kingdom of Cambodia is the supreme law of the Class='Cambodia-Color'>...