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Cambodia has sustained far fewer deaths due to natural disasters than any other country in the region this year, deputy secretary general of the National Committee for Disaster Management Ross Sovann said on Friday, at a workshop coinciding with Asean Day of Disaster Management. ...

On the first day of his trial on Friday, opposition senator Hong Sok Hour—who was charged with forgery and incitement in August for posting a video to Facebook that showed a fake border treaty with Vietnam—denied having fabricated the document, saying that he found it ...

A senior investigator at rights group Adhoc has warned that regional economic integration will lead to a flood of Cambodians migrating elsewhere in search of jobs that pay better than those at home. ...

Police arrested three people and confiscated about 1 kg of methamphetamine pills in a raid in Kompong Chhnang province on Saturday afternoon, the latest case in a year that has seen nearly three times as many meth busts as in the same period last year, ...

The Ministry of Education has given a local education NGO $370,000 and one year to implement a pilot project aimed at replacing a long list of informal payments required of students at a Phnom Penh high school with a merit-based payment system that rewards high-performing ...

As negotiations over a new minimum wage for the garment sector continued on Friday, union representatives agreed to temper their demands in exchange for concessions from manufacturers. ...

The Russian Federation is seeking more cooperation with Cambodia in the fields of investment, information exchange, and heritage preservation. ...

This year’s celebration of ASEAN Day for Disaster Management (ADDM) and International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) will be hosted by Cambodia on Oct. 9-10, aiming to raise people’s awareness of disaster risk reduction. ...

SET-listed Rojana Industrial Park Plc (ROJNA) will build an industrial park in Cambodia to tap growing investment in the neighbouring country expected after formation of the Asean Economic Community (AEC). ...

The number of people arrested for drug-related crimes in Cambodia has increased by 153 percent in the first nine months of 2015, a senior police official said on Saturday. ...

Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries need to do more to curb human trafficking, a leading human rights advocate says. Yet Asean was formed for the countries in the region to help each other with such issues, Lim Mony said. Trafficking in the region should ...

With the recent gesture of North Korea’s leader reaching out to China, Russia, and South Korea, there are questions whether the reclusive country is really looking at the possibility of opening up to the world. ...

Depending on the season, organic vegetable farmer Sem Chantha could be growing spinach, cauliflower, lettuce or collard greens on her six-hectare plot of land in Cambodia’s Kampong Speu province. The Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC) supports Cambodian farmers with training and ...

Revenue from ticket sales to foreign tourists visiting Cambodia’s famed Angkor Wat Temple reached 43.3 million U.S. dollars in the first nine months of 2015, up 0.24 percent year-on-year, according to a news statement on Friday. ...

Phnom Penh Municipal Court has rejected an appeal from an opposition senator to be released from trial detention on bail. At least 10 other activists and supporters of the Rescue Party have been similarly arrested, charged and detained in recent months, as the two sides ...

A few weeks ago, OPP.Today explored the issue of why Singapore developers want to strengthen overseas sales, after repeated government market cooling measures have hit both foreign and domestic demand for Singapore property. What is clear is that Singapore developers are looking for new sources ...

The Khmer Solidarity Party (KSP) yesterday brushed aside rumors that disgruntled members of the Beehive Social Democratic Party (BSDP) were trying to join it. ...

The Cambodia Rice Federation on Wednesday announced strict penalties for exporters who mix Cambodian rice with low-quality rice from other countries after receiving complaints that some exporters have been using the method to increase profits. ...

The Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce on Thursday convened a meeting with eight major oil companies to urge them to slash oil prices as global prices have declined. ...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) will finalize its assessment over the companies which have been granted economic land concessions (ELCs), in October, as the ministry has announced to reduce the period of ELC investment to 50 years from 70-99 years, said a ...

The long-exiled leader of the “People’s Power” movement, Sourn Serey Ratha, returned to Cambodia on Thursday, following a pardon for the crime of treason by King Norodom Sihamoni in July. ...

The projection of National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on the country’s economic growth this year is slightly lower than that of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), according to the State News Agency-AKP.   ...

Cambodian authorities on Wednesday refused a request for asylum made by nine Vietnamese Montagnards who had traveled to Phnom Penh to ask for help, and whose presence in the country had previously gone unreported. ...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) will finalize its assessment over the companies which have been granted economic land concessions (ELCs), in October, as the ministry has announced to reduce the period of ELC investment to 50 years from 70-99 years, said a ...