Phnom Penh capital was crowned No. 1 as the most popular tourism destination in the third weekend of September, receiving 69,404 or 23 percent of the registered visitors in the period, said the Ministry of Tourism in a report released yesterday. ...

A campaign organised by Cambodians has led the country’s first vice-president of the National Assembly to urge Australia to back down from its bid to resettle refugees there. Kem Sokha said in a letter to the Australian Ambassador to Cambodia, Alison Burrows, that the deal to ...

The Kingdom exported 9,379.29 tons of sesame last year, according to a report from The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, with Vietnam buying The lion’s share. ...

Forty NGOs from around the world have called on the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague to begin preliminary examinations into claims that Cambodia’s “ruling elite” were accused of committing crimes against humanity. On October 7, British lawyer Richard Rogers submitted ...

The Council of Ministers has approved a draft budget for 2023 of 39,206,205 million riels, or $9.6 billion, a 13 percent increase on 2022. ...

Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia (UYFC) of Siem Reap yesterday kicked off an eight-day Christmas and New Year celebration aimed at boosting tourism in the province. ...

Phnom Penh Governor Khuong Sreng confirmed that the Capital Administration will not allow any educational institution that does not properly comply with the Code of Conduct in reopening of schools in the context of Covid-19 of the Ministry of Education, while public and private schools ...

No mistake was made when former Anco Brothers executive Heng Chheang and his wife, Tep Kolap, were arrested last year, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday. Pin Vannak, a defence lawyer for the couple, had argued they had been arrested illegally because the Phnom Penh municipal court ...

Cambodia is projected to have the second fastest-growing economy in Southeast Asia over the next two years, the World Bank said in a regional economic update last week. Gross domestic product is forecast to expand 6.7 per cent next year and 7 percent in 2014. That ...

About 500 of the 600 garment makers at Meroson Cambodia Co Ltd went on strike yesterday, accusing the Taiwanese-owned firm which exports T-shirts to North America of using them as “slave labour” Chey Sovan, vice-president of the Cambodian National Confederation for Labourers’ Protection, said that the main reason ...

While the World Trade Organisation yesterday lauded Cambodia’s economic achievements since joining in 2004, officials pointed to the lack of much-needed financing for the Kingdom’s burgeoning trade sector. Cambodia lacks the capacity to finance the manufacturing and agriculture exports that would allow the country’s industries to ...

With a mixture of hope and hard-earned scepticism, environmentalists from around the country will today get an opportunity most had never dreamed possible: an audience with the prime minister. About 500 civil society activists have been invited to Phnom Penh for the first National Forum ...

The government and its foreign donors are preparing for Their next high-level aid meeting Wednesday, Their first sine The government surprised donors in August 2011 by indefinitely suspending The meetings, citing The global financial crisis. However, officials at The Finance Ministry and The Council for The ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) broke ground yesterday on a $12-million tower being funded by The casino company NagaCorp that is set to take more than two years to complete and has drawn concern from election groups. At a ceremony that took place on National Assembly ...

The Cambodian People’s Party is prepared to make sweeping changes during its fifth government mandate, including improving The often-criticised judiciary and prioritising social justice, a government spokesman said. This “period of reform” would see deep-seated changes across a number of ministries in response to grievances expressed ...

Cambodia’s economic productivity is in trouble, struggling with an inability to turn a youthful population into a skilled workforce and stunted by an over-reliance on agriculture, according to a new World Bank report. In Cambodia and Vietnam, diversification of labour from the farming sector contributed to ...

On 23 February 2021, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries issued a press release regarding the price of agriculture products, including mangoes which are fluctuated seasonally and depended on the size of supply and demand. To expand the market, the Ministry of Agriculture has ...

The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts will investigate on a scene where religious rituals have held by The Vietnamese on The Bokor Mountain, in Kampot province. This measure happened simultaneously after The Seventh Commission of The National Assembly summoned The minister to clarify on ...

More rainfall, from low to heavy, is expected throughout the country from Aug. 15 to 21 along with thunder, lightning and gusts. ...