South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering won a $120 million deal from a Japanese retail giant Aeon Co. to build a shopping mall in the Kingdom of Cambodia, a deal that is expected to help the Korean engineering company that has been focusing on plant construction diversify lass='cambodia-color'>...

A $20 million resort being developed on Krabey Island off the coast from Sihanoukville is about 70 percent complete and will open on schedule in mid-2017, according the Ministry of Tourism. Tourism Minister Thong Khon told Khmer Times that the island development was progressing as planned, lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is still among the 10 most at-risk countries in the world for money laundering and terrorist financing, despite being one of two countries that saw the greatest improvements, according to an annual global index released Tuesday. lass='cambodia-color'>...

National Road 5 which connects Phnom Penh to the border with Thailand at Banteay Meanchey will soon be expanded to strengthen Asean’s trade connectivity between Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday assistance from the Japanese government to improve National Road 5 will lass='cambodia-color'>...

The ministry yesterday used National Dengue Campaign Day to announce that there were 1,133 reported dengue cases in the first 24 weeks of this year and just one fatality, compared with 2,447 dengue cases and five deaths in the same period last year. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Ministry will send a delegation to Nauru Island this month to interview another four asylum seekers who are considering resettling in Cambodia, a spokesman for the ministry said yesterday.   lass='cambodia-color'>...

The inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Cambodia witnessed solid growth in the first half of this year due to strong funds flowing into the financial and real estate sectors, said a central bank report. It said this was despite the agriculture and garment lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Defence Ministry has announced that the United Nations has ranked Cambodia 29th among 122 countries that have sent peacekeeping forces to conflict areas around the world. last year, the UN ranked Cambodia as 32nd for the most troops sent abroad. Cambodia also ranked 17th lass='cambodia-color'>...

Three hulking Chinese warships docked in Cambodia Wednesday for a four-day visit, as Beijing parades its naval prowess alongside its staunch Southeast Asian ally. China is the largest investor in Cambodia and has pumped billions into the economy while asking few questions about its abysmal lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Telecom Regulator of Cambodia yesterday said that the Kingdom’s plan to launch its first satellite is still being studied after the Defence Ministry denied media reports that it will be sent into space in 2021. TRC spokesman Im Vutha yesterday said that the project lass='cambodia-color'>...

A senior military official said on Sunday that the Ministry of National Defence had found almost 100 military personnel with the title “oknha”. He told The Post that the ministry was preparing procedural formalities to enable the oknha to choose between keeping the honorific or lass='cambodia-color'>...

Security officials were again exhorted yesterday to protect the “legitimate government” and block any “colour revolution” that threatens it in a meeting of senior Royal Cambodian Armed Forces staff to discuss work conducted over the first six months of the year.     lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of National Defense announced on Friday that it is seeking more than 400 candidates to join the military in 2017. The announcement stated that the ministry was seeking both male and female candidates to work in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). Candidates must have lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s modest navy is ap­parently a point of sensitivity for its commander, who on Wednesday said he would seek to acquire two warships from China to prevent neigh­boring countries from “looking down” on his fleet. lass='cambodia-color'>...

At least 700 applicants have signed up to join the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF), with the successful recruits to be trained to operate new Chinese-built artillery, a senior military source said yesterday.   lass='cambodia-color'>...

Civil society groups and anti-corruption experts have urged Cambodia’s government to open an investigation into why Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana was named in the so-called Panama Papers. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Royal Cambodian Armed Forces commander-in-chief Pol Saroeun yesterday told hundreds of the Kingdom’s top military brass to be more like Prime Minister Hun Sen and join the information age via smartphones and social media. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) yesterday held its second liquidity-Providing Collateralised Operation (lPCO), making 40 billion riel ($9.89 million) available to financial institutions in an auction in which repurchase agreements, or repos, were signed for 8.4 billion riel ($2.07 million). lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Central Bank announced on Monday that it exchanged 3.76 billion of old and worn Khmer riel banknotes (equivalent to $930,091) to new notes during its “loving Riel Notes”, campaign which lasted five days during the Pchum Ben holiday. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The government will recruit more than 12,000 civil servants and teachers and an additional 20,000 service contractors for 2017, according to an announcement by the Ministry of Public Function. lass='cambodia-color'>...