Reports

Villagers digging up tree stumps to make furniture accidentally detonated an anti-personnel landmine in Oddar Meanchey province, killing a man and injuring his son and two others in the third fatal landmine explosion this year. Read more…

Phnom Penh, 13 January 2017 – Building on its financial support from 2013 to 2015, the Government of Switzerland has committed an additional US$3.5 million to Cambodia’s demining sector, from 2017 to 2019. The fund will…

Highlights Following a request from the Ministry of Education, WFP is supporting the School Lunch Programme for Full Day Classes which will be piloted in January 2017 in three selected schools in Angkor Thom district, Siem Reap…

Highlights Food distribution took place under the School Meals Programme during the first week of November for the new school year 2016/2017. Operational Updates WFP, in collaboration with the Council for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD) of the Royal…

Halo Cambodia celebrates staff who've helped clear half a million mines HALO has celebrated 25 years of humanitarian demining in Cambodia at the once-mined, UNESCO-listed Preah Vihear Temples. HALO held a event to recognise long-serving Cambodian HALO…

FOOD SECURITY SNAPSHOT Increased rains boost prospects for 2016 main season rice output Rice exports in 2016 forecast above last year’s level Rice prices increased seasonally in October Large numbers of people affected by the lingering effects of prolonged drought…

In Cambodia, the rainy season is usually from May to October. But this year, though it was nearing the end of the rainy season, a bout of torrential rain in mid-October caused severe flooding in the…

23 November 2016 – The United Nations-backed court set up to bring to trial those most responsible for crimes committed during Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime today upheld life sentences for two top former Khmer Rouge…

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (23 November 2016) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $117 million loan to the Governments of Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Myanmar and Viet Nam to enhance responses…

Highlights The new school year 2016/2017 will start officially on 01 November 2016. WFP Assistance WFP provides assistance to the most marginalised Cambodians living in food-insecure communities through the Country Programme (CP). The CP, launched in 2011, has been…