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As the global economy continues to reel from the compounded crises of Covid-19 and Ukraine-Russia, Cambodia has not been able to go through them unaffected. The Covid-19 crisis has pushed Cambodia’s economy to negative growth for the first time in 2020 due to a sharp ...

The Zero-Snaring campaign has started after seeing considerable success in Stung Treng and Preah Vihear. ...

Cambodia’s government officials and conservationists said here on Saturday that the participation by local people and strict law enforcement are essential to ending the snaring crisis and wildlife trafficking in the Southeast Asian country. ...

Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng, Minister of Interior, instructed local authorities to have good relations with the people under their jurisdiction and assist them by meeting their needs. ...

We have the tools to end the “systemic marginalization” of persons with disabilities, the UN chief told the 15th Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on June 14. ...

At least 500 people have been ordered to vacate Phnom Samkos Wildlife Sanctuary in Pursat province immediately because they have encroached on protected land. ...

An estimated 202,708 people in Cambodia have received the 5th dose of the COVID-19 vaccine since the campaign vegan on June 9, 2022. ...

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) on June 16 announced the launch of the USAID Morodok Baitang – a new five-year, $24 million project at four conservation areas of Keo Seima, Lumphat, Siem Pang and the Cardamom Mountains to fight against climate change. ...

The Pasteur Institute of Cambodia (IPC) on June 15 signed a partnership agreement with the UN Industrial Development Organisation’s (UNIDO) Post Harvest Fisheries Development project (CAPFISHCapture) to strengthen the capacity of its testing laboratories towards achieving ISO 17025 accreditation.   ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) requested that the authorities investigate, and if necessary pursue legal action, against Kim Chanratana, a Cambodian-American living in the US state of Georgia.   ...

The Kingdom’s first Ford assembly plant was inaugurated on June 16 in Pursat province amid rising demand for brand-new vehicles among Cambodians. The facility is seen as a game changer for the domestic automobile industry, which could bring a wave of investors seeking to cash ...

Cambodia’s public debt is still relatively low as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), at nearly 25 per cent, compared to the 40-per-cent threshold, affording the government ample fiscal space to borrow to develop the country, experts have said.   ...

Small mud carps or “Trey Riel” (Henicorhynchus entmema and H. siamensis) are the most commercially important keystone species in Cambodia, according to Wonders of the Mekong project. ...

People not paying for solid waste management services face being publicly humiliated warned the Phnom Penh municipal government yesterday, adding that the new waste collection fee list was introduced in November 2021, but many residents and businesses have failed to implement it. ...

Japan Heart, an international paediatric cancer NGO, is holding a blood donation event in collaboration with AEON Mall Phnom Penh to help counter the acute blood shortages faced by patients in Cambodia and to raise awareness of the importance of donating blood to deal with ...

Techo Sen Institute of Public Works and Transport and China’s Chang’an University have reached a memorandum of understanding on technical cooperation of road construction and infrastructure development. ...

A group of 33 civil society organisations (CSOs) urged the intervention of Prime Minister Hun Sen to expedite the draft law on “access to information”. ...

The Ministry of Justice and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have signed an agreement to officially launch a five-year Technical Cooperation Project called “The Legal and Judicial Development Project (Phase VI)”. ...

China on Monday provided over 4.3 million US dollars from the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Special Fund 2022 to Cambodia for carrying out 13 projects in the kingdom. ...

The APSARA Authority organized a workshop on Management, Conservation and Development of Angkor Area and educated more than 300 students from the Royal University of Agriculture. ...

Owners of illegal structures built on Kampot province’s seafront and riverbanks were ordered by the provincial governor to remove them immediately or be taken to court. ...

The number of water connections in government buildings has risen by 12.54% to 878 in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period of last year, while the profit of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) has fallen slightly by 1.56% to ...

There are no positive monkeypox cases in the country but we are not keeping our guard down, as there is a rise in the number of suspected cases, said a top health official said yesterday.​​ ...

With the province being the second largest economic hub in Cambodia, the Preah Sihanouk Provincial Administration has put in place a number of plans to support the socio-economic and tourism sectors for quality and sustainable growth. ...