The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has dismissed remarks by critics regarding the National Election Committee’s (NEC) decision to disqualify the Candlelight Party (CP) from the July 23 general election. The ministry described comments by “a handful of critics” as “misleading and politically lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Candlelight Party (CP) is officially out of contention for the upcoming July 23 national election after the Constitutional Council of Cambodia (CCC) upheld the earlier decision by the National Election Committee (NEC) to decline their registration. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) recently organised several meetings and discussions with the public and private institutions to ensure the effective and productive uses of the national budget in line with the economic policies master plan. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Senior Minister Ly Thuch, Chairman of NationaL Committee for ESCAP and First Vice President of the Cambodian Mine Action Authority, thanked UN-ESCAP for assisting Cambodia in drafting a NationaL Mine Action PoLicy which is the first time that UN-ESCAP has participated in mine action. Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

A key component of the enormous ING City satellite city south of Phnom Penh – Samdech Techo Hun Sen Boulevard – is nearing completion. It will also provide access to ING City – previously known as AZ City – which is being constructed on land lass='cambodia-color'>...

A package containing charred human remains was delivered to the Cambodia National Rescue Party office in Phnom Penh yesterday morning. Despite a seeming complete absence of hard evidence, some are convinced the remains – found on Saturday at a mountain in Kampong Speu – belong to lass='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn on Wednesday said the Japanese government had provided the Kingdom with $134.38 million in aid packages in the past 12 months – $19.42 million in grants and the remaining $114.96 million in loans. lass='cambodia-color'>...

More than 50 engineers employed by Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co. ltd. to work on a new Neak loueng Bridge in Kandal province protested on Wednesday over paying income tax of 10 percent and are threatening to go on strike again if their employer dose lass='cambodia-color'>...

Almost three months after four refugees arrived in Cambodia from Nauru as part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia, the Interior Ministry said on Friday that it had no plans to receive more refugees being held in the South Pacific island nation. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian developers are betting that casinos can make the tiny Southeast Asian country a bigger draw for high-spending tourists. The nation of 15 million people has more than 25 casinos, but most are small affairs in rough-and-tumble border towns that cater to hard-core Thai, Chinese and lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia will receive a concessional loan package of $53.3 million US dollars from Japan to restore the irrigation canal system and another $700,000 dollars grant aid to enhance education materials for minerals resources and topology department of the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), the lass='cambodia-color'>...

Government ministries were yesterday urged to continue their efforts in shifting responsibilities towards local authorities at an annual meeting to discuss ongoing decentralisation reforms, reforms one top official called key to the ruling party’s upcoming election hopes. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Interior Sar Kheng has sent a new set of procedures to local authorities aimed at speeding up the sluggish process of issuing new IDs. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Almost a year since the latest wave of Montagnards began arriving in the country, claiming to be fleeing persecution in Vietnam, the Interior Ministry said on Friday that all but 13 of them have been given three months to return home or face forced repatriation. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Immigration police rounded up nearly 80 Vietnamese migrant workers along with six European engineers at the construction site of a new Cambodia Beer factory in Phnom Penh on Monday afternoon because they did not possess work permits, according to an immigration official. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Technological innovation is playing a critical role in the development of the country’s economy by making business operate faster, a senior official at the Ministry of Commerce told a seminar last week. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Ministry held a ceremony to promote 119 generals on Tuesday, according to secretary of state Em Sam An, who presided over the meeting. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Sixteen years after the Ministry of Environment and conservation groups began to protect the Prek Toal wetlands on the western edge of Tonle Sap lake, the area has been designated a site of global importance. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian exports grew by 17 per cent last year, driven by increases in shipments of rice and footwear, with garment export growth easing to a little under 7 per cent, according to a new Ministry of Commerce report. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Information Ministry announced Monday that it would push back by two months a deadline for all 17 local television stations to broadcast only Cambodian-produced content during prime time. lass='cambodia-color'>...