Phnom Penh - Three Cambodian handicraft makers, all from the northeastern Ratanakiri province, have received awards for best design of indigenous handicraft products. The winners were announced during a ceremony on Wednesday, October 5, which marked the closure of the Indigenous Designers of the Year Competition.

Phnom Penh - A forum on climate change in Cambodia ended on Wednesday with an unambiguous reminder:  act together or face disaster from the global warming.

Phnom Penh - A multi-donor trust fund on Tuesday awarded US$2 million to eight projects designed to help mitigate the threats of climate change to development and rural livelihoods in Cambodia.

PHNOM PENH – Cambodia opened the second conference on climate change on Monday, with officials from the government and UNDP stressing the need for coordinated efforts to tackle the impacts of climate change.

Nouv Nuan lost her crops in Kompong Thom province, in central Cambodia, after Typhoon Ketsana swept through in 2009. She remembers the storm that wiped out her family’s livelihood. “Our wet season farming got flooded. It was as if we were drowning in a deep well, and we couldn’t swim or climb up,” she recalled.