At least 92 per cent of the Kingdom’s agricultural input suppliers use digital payments in their businesses while 45 per cent use e-commerce, a new study found. The research, entitled “Digital Challenges and Opportunities of Agricultural Input Suppliers in Cambodia”, was compiled by the Centre ...

On 05 March 2021, the Ministry of Tourism issued a press release on the implementation measures for those who refuse to follow the quarantine procedures. To strengthen the prevention of COVID-19 transmission in the community, the ministry will take additional legal measures against those who ...

Around 230 families from three villages in Romtom commune of Preah Vihear province’s Rovieng district said they are worried about the continued encroachment on their farmland by three companies which have licences for gold mining and agricultural in the area. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has allotted an additional 1.5 billion riel ($368,000) to four provinces bordering Thailand for support of returning migrants in quarantine. Meanwhile, more than 7,000 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in the first five days of the campaign by the ministries of ...

The government has opened its first phase of providing a subsidy to 275,747 workers from 513 factories involved in the manufacturing of garments, footwear and bags in Phnom Penh, Kandal  province and Sihanoukville. ...

The Botum Sakor district authorities in Koh Kong province are continuing to investigate cases involving hundreds of people illegally encroaching on more than 15ha of state land. District governor Hak Leng said on July 6 that the land in question has been allocated from the protected ...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) fell 50 percent Jan-May from the same period in 2020, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Investment projects for the first five months of 2021 were valued at $825 million, a 59 percent drop from results for the same ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said there was a strong possibility that he would travel to Myanmar to meet with Min Aung Hlaing, chairman of the ruling State Administration Council (SAC), in Naypyidaw to find a solution to the country’s ongoing crisis so that it could ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) has urged migrant workers in Thailand who had their names on the voter list to return to the country to vote for the upcoming Commune Election after the NEC last week ruled out the request from some political parties to ...

Agriculture minister Veng Sakhon and Asian Development Bank (ADB) executive director Anthony McDonald on May 27 discussed the needs of some development projects in the agricultural sector in which the Metro Manila-based multilateral lender could potentially provide financial support, according to a post on Sakhon’s ...

The Cambodian-Chinese merchandise trade totalled $10.579 billion in the first 11 months of 2022, up 6.31 per cent year-on-year, with imports from China accounting for an 89.51 per cent share, up 3.29 percentage points from the same time in 2021, according to the General Department ...

A business associate of the prime minister’s daughter has received 67 hectares from the state on the rapidly filling Boeng Tamok lake in Phnom Penh. Boeng Tamok, one of the city’s last lakes, has been doled out to tycoons and officials’ family members in recent years, ...

Japan has promised to further increase its support to the Kingdom in its successful digitalisation and technological advancement journey. This came as Prime Minister Hun Manet held talks with Japanese Premier Kishida Fumio as part of the ‘Asean-related summit meetings’ held in Jakarta last week. ...

The private sector in Siem Reap’s tourism industry is optimistic that the new Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI), set to officially open in early December, will boost international tourist numbers. The rise is anticipated despite the currently low numbers of international arrivals, a lingering effect ...

At the beginning of 2021, three waste collection companies – Mizuda Sanitation Cambodia Co Ltd, Cintri Cambodia, and 800 Super-GAEA (Cambodia) Co Ltd – signed contracts with the Phnom Penh Municipal Administration and began operating in their respective areas. As of November, the three firms ...

Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Hang Chuon Naron issued a proclamation on November 22, 2021, to establish the Institute of International Studies and Public Policy of RUPP where students can study in the Vietnamese Language Department and obtain a bachelor’s in Vietnamese studies, Vietnamese ...

 Access to information and open budgets play a crucial role in promoting good governance and social accountability in Cambodia. Social accountability profile page was designed to provide information on budget at the sub-national level, sub-national administrative, education, and healthcare services. Read more  ...

The military personnel — primarily in charge of protecting the Cambodian prime minister — were seen to be managing the outflow of trees being transported by workers but also blocking access to the cleared forest. They detained five VOD journalists and four activists in the ...

After graduating from college, Yue Xiduo, a man born in the 1990s, joined a tire company in the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone, Preah Sihanouk Province, Cambodia. The man said he chose to work here because the special economic zone is an important project for a ...

Hong Kong-listed casino operator and developer NagaCorp Ltd, known for its flagship NagaWorld integrated resort in Phnom Penh, on June 4 announced that it has moved the $3.5 billion Naga 3 project’s planned completion date from September 30, 2025 to exactly four years later, in ...