As nations meet at the 2012 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Doha today, the greenhouse-gas emissions gap is widening, according to a report by the UN Environment Program (UNEP) released  last week. Keeping the global average temperature rise below two degrees Celsius requires that action ...

The United Nations Security Council should immediately refer The situation in Myanmar, including The widespread and systematic abuses against ethnic Rohingya, to The international Criminal Court (ICC), Human Rights Watch said today. Keep reading ...

Revenue from the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority – the first listed company on the Cambodian stock exchange – will be cut 800 million riel ($200,000) per year as the company implements a concession plan to lower water prices. the plan was passed after the government ...

Ouch Nob, an electrician, was killed while working at the Russei Chrum Kraom river hydropower construction site. Last week two Chinese nationals also working at the site died. China Huadian Hong Kong Limited has agreed to pay the victim’s family $4,700 in compensation. ...

The Cambodian rice sector is set to lose its duty-free export status to The EU today – its major rice market – after The European bloc decided to impose tariffs on rice from Cambodia and Myanmar to curb a surge in such imports. ...

Angelina Jolie-Pitt met with Prime Minister Hun Sen at the Peace Palace on Thursday to discuss her upcoming movie “First they Killed My Father” and a conservation area in Battambang championed by the actress, a spokesman for the prime minister said.  ...

Though Cambodia’s access to information law has been in the works for over a decade, participants at a seminar on the law yesterday said that they’re optimistic that the time is finally right for it to actually come to fruition. ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has yet to charge two suspects arrested for Their involvement in an illegal organ trafficking syndicate. Phnom Penh anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection bureau chief Keo Thea said The court will continue to question The pair today. ...

The 13-month investigation into five current and former human rights workers known as The ‘Adhoc 5’ has ended, a court spokesman said on Wednesday, paving The way for a trial in a case widely condemned as being unjust and politically motivated. ...

The steep increase in Angkor Wat ticket prices on February 1 did not discourage tourists from visiting The country’s chief tourist draw, as some feared, but it also did not reap any significant material gains for The government coffers, new data shows. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday said he wanted to have a law that stated that any political parties that don’t join the first session in the parliament convened by the King after general election, it means that those parties give up their seats. ...

After Phnom Penh City Hall announced last month that bus stations must be moved outside the city by next year, a Thai company put forward a proposal on Tuesday to invest in bus parking lots on the city’s outskirts, according to the municipality. ...

Marine conservation experts have revealed the extent of marine megafauna catch by small-scale fisheries, in Thailand for the first time.the Newcastle University study provides the first-ever estimate of the annual catch of marine megafauna species, including rays, sharks, sea turtles, dolphins, and dugongs, in Thailand’s ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday sentenced a woman to 15 years in jail for convincing her two cousins and a neighbor to sell Their kidneys in Thailand last year. ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced a woman and a man to 10 years in prison each on drug-trafficking charges after Their arrest in Sen Sok district last year. ...

Date: June 8, 2018 Venue: Vientiane, Lao PDR Myanmar’s Hydropower Developers’ Working Group (HDWG) will hold a business meeting to discuss updates from sub-committees working on issues related to Concession Agreements and Power Purchase Agreements, procurement and environmental and social issues. Members will also hear from a representative from ...

Open Development Thailand’s programmes support the open movement in Thailand and the Mekong region through making data and objective information accessible and useful to all people in the country. Our programmes aim to build strong data constituents who can act to level the playing field ...

The Foreign Affairs Ministry has issued a statement highlighting Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn’s participation during The 52nd Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting in Bangkok last week. ...

Three Bulgarians staying on tourist visas were tried at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday for allegedly trying to steal money from an ATM machine in the city. ...

Election observers are urging the National Election Committee to move quickly on updates to the voter registry, as commune elections in 2017 approach. ...