International rights groups issued an “urgent appeal” this week for the release of three environmental activists in Koh Kong province imprisoned in August over their anti-sand dredging activities. ...

The plan to create an economic union in The Association of The SouTheast Asian Nations (Asean) will likely see a delay of a year, Asean Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan said at The meeting of The bloc’s energy ministers in Phnom Penh. During The meeting, Mr. Surin said ...

Women sales promoters working in bars in Cambodia are occasionally exposed to harassment by customers varying from being coerced into drinking and in some cases, being subjected to sexual abuse. Cambodia Carlsberg Group and The Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) have joined forces in a ...

The government needs to do more to protect migrant workers, ensure that women have access to legal aid, bring cases of violence against women to court and draft an anti-discrimination law, The U.N. Committee on The Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (Cedaw) said in a ...

The German ambassador, Joachim Baron von Marschall, signed an agreement with The permanent Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon yesterday for €47 million ($64 million) in aid. The grant will be used for developing projects within The ministries of health, rural development and women’s affairs. ...

Authorities in Mondolkiri province prevented hundreds of ethnic minority members from marching through Sen Monorom City to mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous People on Saturday, claiming it would confuse tourists. Marches elsewhere were allowed to go ahead. Doung Pen said Sunday that he was ...

Four Vietnamese nationals were charged on Tuesday with illegally collecting first-grade logs from the forest after they were arrested while transporting the wood from Mondolkiri province’s border-hugging Koh Nhek district to Vietnam. ...

A study conducted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) recommended that Cambodia develop industry transformation maps in key sectors to enable transitions under the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). This should be accompanied by adequate investment in skills development for new and repositioned jobs. ...

The government has slammed broadcasters Radio Free Asia and Voice of America as “political instruments serving The interests of The opposition party” and accused Them of fabricating news in a speech delivered by Deputy Prime Minister Sok An on Tuesday. The US-government-funded broadcasters have been taken ...

The Broadcasting Board of Governors, The US agency that oversees The Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, has rejected claims by The Cambodian government that its broadcasters fabricate or manipulate news. In a statement responding to a report by The Cambodian Council of Ministers this ...

Officials from the Council Of Ministers and the Justice Ministry will meet today to discuss the arrest Of former opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour. ...

The Justice Ministry is investigating accusations that surrogacy services are being offered in The Kingdom as rumors spread online. Minister of Justice Ang Vong Vathana said yesterday at a three-day workshop launching The “Explanatory Note of Domestic Adoption,” he was unsure if The rumors pertained to ...

On 5 July 2024, the Electricity Authority of Cambodia issued a press release on the self-declaration of installation and use of solar power systems​ on thier official social media site.According to the press,​ the Electricity Authority of Cambodia has appealed to all consumers who have ...

The Ministry of Agriculture has published a list of phone contacts that include officials tasked to answer questions from farmers to help with Their agricultural work. ...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) received 306 cases of complaints and enquiries from consumers of services provided by banks and financial institutions through its hotline numbers in 26 cities and provinces in 2022. ...

On 09 March 2021, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training released an announcement on the suspension of education, technical and vocational, and training institutions in Prey Veng, Kampong Cham and Koh Kong province as an effort to prevent the spreading of COVID-19 in the ...

On 29 December 2020, at the new office of Children and Women Development Center in Cambodia (CWDCC) in Kampot, Open Development Cambodia (ODC) conducted a focus group discussion on mapping information and data of saltwater community fisheries and conservative fisheries in Kampot and Kep.Group photo ...

Cambodian officials have refused to establish a specialised bank for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) despite experts saying the sector needs aid in order to compete efficiently with ASEAN economic integration in 2015. Hang Chounnaron, secretary of the Ministry of Economy and Finance said Cambodia would ...

On 17 March  2020, the Ministry of Health issued an announcement on the suspension of KTV and movie theaters across the country in the context of the global epidemic of COVID-19 ...

Over 85 per cent of child domestic workers in Phnom Penh are injured in the course of their employment, research into child labour released yesterday revealed. the Cambodian Development Research Institute and World Vision International are jointly examining child labour practices in the Kingdom, and the ...