Philippines Vice President Jejomar Binay says Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen supports the signing of agreements between Manila and Phnom Penh in rice trading and in fighting transnational crime. Cambodian officials have also expressed interest in launching direct flights between Manila and Phnom Penh. ...

The Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) is hoping to turn a select group of garment workers into muckrakers by offering a journalism program through The Voice of Democracy news outlet. Free of charge, The course will last until October and have a firm focus on ...

The Cambodian Rice Federation held a press conference yesterday to allay fears drummed up by local media that fake rice is being distributed in The Kingdom.Rumours began to surface this week when a reporter with local news site Khmerload published a story claiming to have ...

The government is planning to revise The Kingdom’s investment laws this year to draw more foreign direct investment as The country adjusts to The fast-changing regional and global landscapes, according to Secretary General of The Council for The Development of Cambodia (CDC) Sok Chenda Sophea. Speaking ...

Blackouts in Phnom Penh will no longer be a problem after an energy source near Sihanoukville starts providing an extra 50 megawatts of coal-fired power to the city next month, the director-general of Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) said. Keo Rottanak said by mid-June at the latest ...

Cambodia’s Royal Group of Companies is in negotiations to purchase a satellite from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation for its telecoms operations in Cambodia, Cambodian Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said Wednesday. Tycoon Kith Meng currently owns the kingdom’s largest mobile phone operator, Mobitel. ...

Booyoung Co., a mid-sized South Korean conglomerate, said Tuesday that it broke ground for one of the largest housing projects in Cambodia, a project Cambodia hopes to spur foreign investments. Booyoung said it will build 40 apartments and seven residential and commercial complexes on 2.7 square ...

Japan-based Mizuho Bank (MHBK) has signed an agreement with two well-established banks in Cambodia that is designed to help Mizuho leverage a wider range of financial services when dealing with Japanese clients. The memorandum of understanding was inked on Friday in Phnom Penh between Mizuho’s president ...

Canadia Bank said on Thursday it was investigating how two fake $100 notes were allegedly given to a customer who cashed a check. The customer, Eam Sopheap, a human resources manager at The Cambodia Daily newspaper, said he received two fake $100 notes from a teller ...

Cambodia’s foreign ministry Monday condemned Thailand’s military for two shooting that it claimed left two Khmer nationals dead and one injured since Sept 28. ...

Kompong Thom provincial authorities have threatened to shut down two NGOs who have been providing free legal education to poor villagers in the province, accusing the groups of fomenting rural unrest against private investors. the NGOs, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights and the Natural ...

In the 15 days of February 2024, the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) decided to issue certificates for the registration of 22 qualified investment projects with a total investment capital of more than $444 million. This is according to the report from the ...

The United Kingdom Trade and Investment Office would establish a permanent branch in Phnom Penh in The expectation that economic ties between The two countries would continue to grow, Cambodian and UK Officials said yesterday. Bilateral trade has risen by 300 per cent during The past ...

As scheduled, Khmer  Krom citizens gathered Monday in front of French embassy in order to present their petition which asks the VN embassy’s spokesman to apologize for his comment over Khmer Kampuchea Krom territory. Some 500 students, monks, and citizens were led by leaders of Federation ...

The Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, Chea Sophara, and a senior MP, Khun Haing, have been appointed NALDR president and deputy, respectively, following an order signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on December 13 and announced on Thursday. ...

The Kompong Speu Provincial Court on Saturday charged three men with illegally establishing an armed force, illegally using weapons and wearing fake military uniforms after They were arrested for operating a fake roadside checkpoint to extort money from loggers, officials said on Sunday. ...

A senior official at the Commerce Ministry and the secretary-general of the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) were both silent yesterday regarding a letter sent to the ministry by garment buyers on Friday, urging the government to intensify its investigation of last month’s triple ...

The court investigating The murder of a journalist has questioned a notorious former Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) colonel, who was last heard of serving a 10-year prison sentence for attempted murder, a court official said yesterday. The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court has this week questioned a ...

Some 140 Japanese investors arrived in Cambodia yesterday to meet with local government leaders and other stakeholders in an effort to boost economic cooperation between the two countries. According to the Japanese Embassy in Cambodia, the delegation arrived in the country yesterday afternoon, following a visit ...

A day before Prime Minister Hun Sen publicly called for the arrest of Mam Sonando, the Beehive Radio station director hosted a fiery broadcast from the Hague, where lawyers were trying to launch a case against the premier in the International Criminal Court. Just under three ...