Soramitsu, a Japanese company riding the wave of blockchain-based products supporting digital payments, has landed several deals with central banks. ...

At the invitation of Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism of Lao PDR, Suanesavanh Vignaket, Sok Soken, Cambodian Minister of Tourism, led a delegation to attend the ASEAN Tourism Forum 2024, the 27th ASEAN Tourism Ministers Meeting and related meetings from 23rd – 27th January ...

More than 60 percent of rural homes in the Kingdom will have electricity by the end of this month and all villages in the country will no longer be engulfed in pitch darkness at night when they are connected to the national grid by 2020. ...

A Cambodian decree slashing the passport fee for would-be migrant workers to only $4 (about Bt 120) is expected to lead to an influx of workers from the neighbouring country into Thailand. Cambodian migrant workers who have just returned to Cambodia yesterday greeted the news with ...

Despite a noticeable increase in the number of factory registrations during the first nine months of the year, new job creation has declined, according to the latest government data. Figures from the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft released yesterday showed that 149 factories registered during the ...

The Bank of Thailand (BOT) on August 25 signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Exchange of Banking Supervision Information with The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), The regulator of financial institutions in Cambodia. The MoU provides a formal basis for banking supervisory cooperation between The ...

The number of people charged in land disputes across The country so far this year has already surpassed The number of charges in all of 2013 in what rights group Adhoc on Tuesday called an “alarming” increase in legal action against those wrapped up in ...

Drunk drivers could be fined $1000 under a new draft traffic law approved yesterday by The Council of Ministers. The legislation includes a raft of measures aimed at reducing The number of deaths and injuries on The roads. Among The draft law’s 92 articles are new ...

Cambodia imported more than 1.2 million tonnes of fertiliser and pesticide in 2019, a year-on-year increase of 9 percent, according to a report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ...

The Ministry of Labor issued a statement Friday claiming that The controversial draft Trade Union Law is aimed at protecting The rights of workers, after unions announced They would write to The ministry, The National Assembly and The European Union next week calling for The ...

Garment industry, Cambodia’s largest income maker, reported a 24 percent rise in exports in the first ten months of 2013, according to figures of the country’s Ministry of Commerce Thursday. the figures showed that the country exported garment products in equivalent to 4.76 billion U.S. dollars ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday denied giving the green light for a neighboring country to construct an electricity-generating nuclear power plant in Cambodia, saying it would be too dangerous. Senior Minister and Vice Chairman for the Council for the Development of Cambodia Sun Chanthol said ...

Forestry Administrative officials in Battambang province have again halted logging and clearing inside a community forest and are attempting to prevent student volunteers deployed by the Ministry of Land Management from demarcating land in already cleared areas, local officials said last week. ...

The Phnom Penh Municipality issued a statement yesterday accusing The Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions of violating Their agreement when a garment workers’ protest on July 11 turned violent. Some 20 garment factory workers from The Tai Yang factory had marched to submit a petition to ...

After months of standstill, unions and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) are expected to convene at the end of the month to discuss an expired memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at reducing the amount of strike actions in the country, union leaders said ...

More than 600 people, including 50 Buddhist monks, who have been affected by illegal logging across the country arrived in Koh Kong province yesterday ahead of a memorial service to be held today at the site where well-known forestry activist Chut Wutty was shot dead ...

Anti-eviction activists from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak and Borei Keila neighborhoods, dressed as white doves, protested yesterday in front of the Council for the Development of Cambodia, where the country’s donors were meeting with top government officials to discuss the country’s reform targets. Donning paper helmets ...

A group of NGOs released a statement Thursday calling on the CPP government of Prime Minister Hun Sen to begin its program of promised post-election reforms by ending the practice of overcharging for motorcycle parking outside of local markets. the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability-Cambodia, a ...

A coalition of international human rights groups on Wednesday issued a petition to press opposition CNRP leader Sam Rainsy and senior members of the government to publicly condemn and investigate the death threats against local rights group leader Ou Virak, following his criticism of comments ...

CAMBODIA National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem Sokha pledged his party’s foreign policy allegiance to the United States over China in no uncertain terms to top officials in Washington, last week, according to a summary of his meetings posted online. A document released by the US-based ...