Starting today Cambodia celebrates its achievements in adopting renewable energy with a series of events as part of Clean Energy Week 2019. Clean Energy Week 2019, held on Nov 1-7, is Cambodia’s biggest convention on clean energy with more than 30 events taking place across the capital. Students, energy developers, energy experts, and property developers […]

Is it finally coming to an end? For almost a decade, Phnom Penh’s City Hall and the Cambodian government have issued almost annual rebukes of the services provided by Cintri, a private-firm that in September 2002 was given an exclusive 47-year contract to manage trash collection in Phnom Penh. Each day, Phnom Penh produces about 3,000 tonnes […]

Economic growth in Cambodia is constrained by a lack of appropriate policy for electricity access and energy security. Only 50 per cent of Cambodia’s population had electricity access in 2016. Remarkably, by 2019, the number of households connected to grid electricity grew to almost 80 per cent. The challenge, however, remains for rural areas where certain remote […]

Last Saturday, 50 young entrepreneurs and students took part in a global competition to address the urgent issue of climate change. For in depth analysis of Cambodian Business, visit Capital Cambodia . Phnom Penh’s Impact Hub played host to the contestants, along with the Delegation of the European Union for a one-day hackathon designed to stimulate […]

Votey is 24. She has been born into a world, at the beginning of a mass extinction. Three years ago, she trekked through forests to promote eco-tourism communities in Cambodia as a Young Eco-Ambassador, and a member of the UN Youth Advisory Panel. In 2017, she launched Green Lady Cambodia-Vietnam with two friends to introduce […]

(Phnom Penh): Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen allowed Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia Masahiro Mikami to pay a courtesy visit at the Peace Palace this morning. During the meeting, the Ambassador stressed that Japan continues to cooperate with Cambodia, including in promoting political, economic, cultural and other bilateral cooperation.   He stressed that the two countries’ […]

A lush tropical nation of some 15.3 million inhabitants, Cambodia is one of the most biodiverse countries in Southeast Asia. To date, over 8,000 species of plants, more than 800 species of fish and 500 bird species have been recorded across Cambodia, from the forest highlands to the mangrove wetlands near the country’s coast. However, recent economic […]

With plans for cross-border electricity grids growing in the region, Laos is banking on hydropower exports to earn revenue. But a recent deal to also sell coal power generated in Laos to Cambodia has sparked environmental concerns over this trade. Last month, Cambodia’s state-owned utility firm Electricite du Cambodge signed a 30-year deal to buy […]

Cambodia’s ranking in the latest global energy sustainability survey has improved dramatically, indicating that the Kingdom’s efforts to solve its energy woes and providing an adequate power supply are making headway. For in depth analysis of Cambodian Business, visit Capital Cambodia . This also means that Cambodia, which suffered a crippling power problem a few months […]

This year has been rough for the 70 million people who call the Mekong River basin home:  a severe drought rocked the region for months before yielding to deadly flooding. The Mekong slowed to its lowest level in recorded history, knocking the world’s largest freshwater fishery—Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake—out of balance. The drought hurt the region’s fishing and farming […]