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As world fertiliser prices have steadily risen in recent years, many farmers have reduced their use. As a result, agricultural products have declined in quantity and quality, causing a global food crisis.

Bearing a delicate bunch of white lotus flowers and incense sticks, a middle-aged woman walks towards a gathered congregation. The crowd is hushed, burning incense before a glossy black statue of a deity, Preah Ang Dorngkeu.

In 1999, Lucky, a tiny baby elephant calf of just six months was rescued from the forest. Then she has spent more than 20 years living at Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre.

Despite being partially paralysed by childhood polio, Chay Thida loves to swim.

Despite being partially paralysed by childhood polio, Chay Thida loves to swim. “At first I thought that without the use of one arm and one leg I would never be able to, but I was inspired by videos of amputees and paraplegic swimmers. I thought to myself ‘I have one good arm and one good leg, so why shouldn’t I swim too?’” Thida, now 33, told The Post.

Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction Chea Sophara told residents in six villages of Banteay Srei district’s Preah Dak commune that the government has no plans to resettle those six villages, but the residents and the authorities must work together to prevent newcomers

In this sixth mandate, the Royal Government of Cambodia has set out the Rectangular Strategy Phase 4, making human resources development a top priority.

The Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) has requested the Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) to co-organise a meeting on land release non-technical survey (LRNTS) projects.

Chaterine Yap visited Cambodia as a tourist in July and as a chocolate lover she said she enjoyed the chocolate of local chocolaterie Wat Chocolate, which processes and makes the chocolate starting from the beans all the way to the bars.

Cambodia continues to create investment opportunities in a full range of areas for the vital economic growth engine that is the private sector, fine-tuning market economy regulations since far before its accession into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2004