Pan Sorasak, Minister of Commerce, met with Dr. Sarah Taylor, Ambassador of Canada to the Kingdom of Cambodia to enhance cooperation between the two countries and promote some priority areas. ...

Forty new factories received permission to operate in Cambodia during the first three months of this year, while 54 factories have applied for licenses and 21 are currently undergoing renewal procedures, according to a report released yesterday by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. ...

Fourteen companies have been added to a Ministry of Environment watchlist for purportedly failing to live up to their investment promises. the companies include firms owned by some of the country’s wealthiest and most politically connected land barons, such as Mong Reththy and Sok Kong. ...

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected about 956.76 billion riel ($239.19 million) in tax revenue in January, up 14.74 per cent compared to The same period last year. This is a positive step towards its target of collecting more than $2.885 billion by year’s end, ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng told an audience of university graduates on Tuesday that recent efforts to clean up the education system would extend to his ministry to combat claims that the civil service is plagued by nepotism. ...

During the ASEAN Tourism Forum 2022 in Sihanoukville, Thong Khon, Minister of Tourism of Cambodia and Sandiaga Salahudin Uno, Minister of Tourism and Innovation of Indonesia inked a memorandum of understanding on tourism cooperation, especially to promote direct flight connections between the two countries. ...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) has set out four agricultural policies to boost The economy of farmers and improve The agricultural sector in Cambodia. ...

Defence Minister Tea Banh’s son has been appointed a deputy governor of Siem Reap province by Prime Minister Hun Sen. Major General Tea Seiha said he had not been told about the appointment officially so could not give a date for when he would take up ...

A moratorium on the movement of chickens, dead or alive, has been put into effect in a commune of Prey Veng’s Ba Phnom district after a chicken sample tested positive for A1H5N1 bird flu, the provincial Department of Agriculture, Forests and Fisheries said today. ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde pledged Monday to continue providing technical assistance to Cambodia for financial and fiscal reforms. Speaking during a meeting with Cambodian Economy and Finance Minister Aun Porn Moniroth, Lagarde hailed Cambodia for sound macroeconomic management and fruitful cooperation ...

The National Bank of Cambodia’s (NBC) recent two-pronged prakas on capital buffers and The capital adequacy ratio (CAR) of banking and oTher deposit-taking institutions, which aims to provide a clearer classification system for assets, is poised to strengThen The industry and enhance risk resilience, local ...

Cambodia’s National Police spokesman, speaking in a recent video, has urged police to stop hiding crimes from the public, lest they encounter unspecified “problems”.In the undated video, which surfaced on Facebook on Saturday, national police spokesman Kirth Chantharith can be seen speaking at a podium ...

The General Department of Prisons has dismissed a report made by rights group Licadho which claimed There are violations of basic human rights in The Kingdom’s prisons. ...

Cambodia’s Ministry of Interior on Tuesday reported 2,716 cases of criminal offences in 2013, up 1 percent from the 2,743 cases recorded a year earlier. In a report released during its annual conference, the ministry said felonies dropped by 6 percent on year to 790 cases ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says closer cooperation between statistics-producing agencies in Cambodia is “essential” to improve The quality of macroeconomic statistics. ...

Cambodia Post Bank Plc achieved another significant milestone on Monday after the General Department of Taxation of Cambodia allowed the financial institution to collect taxes. ...

Cambodian importers and buyers of the Kingdom’s travel goods to the US are now required to pay import duties as the latter’s Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) preferential tariff system expired on December 31 and is awaiting renewal by Congress. ...

A senior Interior Ministry official has urged police to take tough action against Chinese nationals committing crimes in the Kingdom. Speaking during a meeting with police officials yesterday, General Sok Phal, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Interior, said that immigration police had ...

A senior Ministry of Interior official said condition in prison cells across the nation have improved while the management of detainees is safer and more secure. ...

Cambodia’s footwear and travel goods exports dramatically increased in the first nine months of this year, thanks to tariff privileges they received from the US under its Generalised System of Preferences (GSP). ...