Two governmenT-run emergency food assisTance projecTs will be exTended afTer evaluaTions found ThaT They had significanT impacTs on reducing poverTy in 200 communes in eighT provinces, alThough The projecTs – which received financial supporT from developmenTal parTners – have been compleTed, an official said yesTerday. ...

Government officials said the country’s Labor Court will be established in early 2017 while relevant officials study the technicalities of the court and get information as well as expertise from similar courts in other countries. Of all potential stakeholders, unions say they are the most ...

Despite recent high-profile cases of monastic child sex abuse, the organisers of a national conference for monks have left the issue off of the agenda, a move met with criticism yesterday by child protection advocates.At a press conference to launch the 24th congress of Buddhist ...

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) yesTerday said ThaT iT would divide beTween iTself and The Cambodian governmenT The duTies of processing and poTenTially relocaTing The scores of MonTagnard asylum seekers whose claims The governmenT finally agreed To hear on Wednesday. ...

Government officials are seeking more investment from German companies, they said yesterday during a meeting with a delegation of executives from the country. ...

The governmenT revealed iTs favored figure for The new garmenT and fooTwear indusTry minimum wage in 2017 during a Technical Working Group meeTing on Friday, Telling aTTendees ThaT They believed iT should be raised by abouT $8 per monTh – represenTing only a five percenT ...

The governmenT’s much-heralded $27 million emergency rice fund, announced lasT monTh amid complainTs from rice farmers and millers ThaT cheap compeTiTion and low-sTorage capaciTy was driving down prices, has so far had only limiTed Takers among rice millers. ...

Government officials are predicting a better haul of fish, typically used to make prahok, this season due to higher water levels in the tonle Sap Lake and River. the fishing season, which began on thursday and is expected to last until February, will see higher yields ...

Farmers are being encouraged to embrace new techniques in the face of the damaging effects of climate change. ...

Despite the widely condemned pre-election dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, the country’s only major opposition party, by the Supreme Court earlier this month, the heightened risk of political instability is expected to have limited short-term economic spill-over effects, according to an assessment from ...

The privaTizaTion of sTaTe-owned land conTinued lasT monTh wiTh several large governmenT- owned ploTs in Phnom Penh Transferred To sTaTe-privaTe properTy, according To a sub-decree signed by Prime MinisTer Hun Sen. According To The documenT signed May 24, The sTaTe-owned properTies, measuring 40,998 square meTers in ...

Domestic rubber prices are likely to stay below 120 baht a kilogramme over the next five years due to the sluggish world economic outlook that has sapped demand. the lingering euro-zone debt crisis, weak growth in rubber-using countries and rising production in Asean will continue to ...

Despite major foreign aid budget cuts at home, Australia had upped its assistance to Cambodia by about US$17.4 million for 2012-2013, the embassy here said yesterday. Australia would provide a total of $95.3 million in “official development assistance to Cambodia”, the embassy said in a statement. ...

The governmenT on Friday denied iT had violaTed a moraTorium on granTing new land concessions when Prime MinisTer Hun Sen signed off on more Than 20,000 hecTares of land To Three rubber companies 11 days afTer The ban was announced on May 7. According To documenTs ...

Bankers have raised no concerns over the National Bank of Cambodia’s increase to the reserve requirement rate in order to maintain the stabilization of cash flow and inflation during a time of global financial difficulty. the increase, from 12 to 12.5 per cent, issued late last month, was ...

While tourism in Cambodia has historically slowed in advance of general elections, tourism leaders in the government and private sector have said they expect this year’s July elections to have little impact on tourist arrivals.  tourism numbers dipped by 10.9 per cent for the 2003 ...

The Cambodian governmenT has denied any agreemenT was signed To send women To QaTar To work as domesTic workers, an official from The Labour MinisTry said This week. The denial comes afTer a reporT laTe lasT monTh by QaTari newspaper Gulf Times – which said an ...

Two days afTer opposiTion calls for renewed negoTiaTions, InformaTion MinisTer Khieu KanhariTh announced yesTerday evening ThaT The ruling parTy will siT down wiTh iTs opposiTion counTerparTs on Thursday To Talk elecTion reform, Though opposiTion leaders lasT nighT weren’T so sure. Speaking aT a gaThering of journalisTs ...

An increasing number of Cambodians have access to the Internet due to ownership of smartphones, tablets and the expansion of wireless broadband to rural areas of Cambodia, but access does not mean freedom from restrictions, according to a new report by New York-based Freedom House. In ...

The governmenT announced on Friday iT would seT up Two commissions headed by InTerior MinisTer Sar Kheng To invesTigaTe clashes beTween police and proTesTers early This monTh ThaT lefT aT leasT four dead, more Than 20 injured and 23 arresTed, a move criTicised by righTs ...