A student who filed a complaint to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court against the city’s municipal and military police chiefs over the fatal police shooting at the SL Garment Factory protest on November 12 said Tuesday that the court has refused to investigate his complaint. Neang ...

Civil society groups held a workshop in Phnom Penh on Thursday in which government officials and lawmakers were invited to discuss post-election land grabs and land-based conflict, although the ruling CPP failed to turn up to the event. Though incidents of land-grabbing appeared to decrease ahead ...

The Chinese-owned Union Development Group in Koh Kong province is bulldozing swaths of its land concession, originally intended for a massive tourist resort, to plant cassava and palm oil trees instead, a CNRP lawmaker-elect said Monday. Son Chhay, lawmaker-elect and CNRP chief whip, visited the area ...

Representatives of some of the 3,000 families evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood in recent years said Thursday that municipal government officials, who were ultimately responsible for the mass evictions, told them they would be inviting the World Bank and NGOs to help compensate ...

When the National Election Committee (NEC) released its updated preliminary election results this Monday, confirming a narrow win by the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), opposition leader Sam Rainsy posted his reaction to the announcement on his Facebook page.  Rainsy questioned the release of the ...

On 4 August 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on the 0utcomes of the ASEAN Post Ministerial Conferences Sessions with the Republic of Korea, People’s Republic of China and Japan, and the 22nd ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ ...

On 23 July 2021, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation – Cambodia issued a press release on His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister PRAK Sokhonn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and His Excellency MIKAMI Masahiro, Ambassador of Japan to the Kingdom of Cambodia, ...

On 11 September 2023, the Ministry of Justice issued a public announcement on further development of the Criminal Record Digital phase 2 to provide faster services to the public. The Ministry is also working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to discuss ...

The Phnom Penh court on Friday ordered opposition Candlelight Party vice president Son Chhay to pay the ruling CPP 3 billion riel ($750,000) in damages, finding him guilty of defamation for saying that voting fraud occurred during the June commune elections. ...

On 3 February 2023, the Ministry of Justice issued a public notice on the launch of the first phase of the Criminal Record Digital from 6 February 2023 to facilitate the public requesting the digital trail application for access to comprehensive information and documentation requirements. ...

China has emerged as the world’s biggest importer of Cambodian milled rice, now accounting for more than half the market share – versus just 3% a decade ago – and is expected to further strengthen its dominance going forward. Insiders point out that traders who ...

Starting from 2001, work began on promoting the formation of a Cambodian Stock Exchange (CSE or CSX) as a means of supporting the economic system in Cambodia’s development. A stock exchange facilitates the buying and selling of stocks among investors. Dr. Bit Seanglim, Chairman of ...

Access to quality healthcare is fundamental to enhancing citizens’ livelihoods and advancing towards more sustainable growth and development in countries all over the world. Along with increasing public demand for better health infrastructure and adequate access to healthcare services, many countries face the need to ...

Sustainable Development Goal 6 has 8 targets and 11 indicators, which will be used to drive action towards achieving universal access to safely managed water and sanitation and appropriate management of water resources.73 SDG 6 recognizes that sustainably managing water goes beyond providing a safe water ...

As a part of the Global Week of Action to mobilize support for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ODC’s team spread word on its website, social media, and in person, at the launch of Prayuters Library in Preah Vihear province.Observers may note that while many ...

RationalIn 2018, the total number of registered Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) was 155,745. More than 90 percent of registered firms in Cambodia are SMEs. However, despite being vital to the socio-economy, 95 percent are not registered yet. By 2025, 80% and 95% of small and ...

Japan on August 15th loaned Cambodia a package of US$ 53.3 million for the West Tonle Sap Irrigation and Drainage Improvement and a grant aid of US$ 0.7 million to improve education equipment of the Department of Geo-Resources and Geotechnical Engineering of the Institute of ...

Ahead of elections 10 years ago, people across the country would hoard rice in case the vote sent the country spiraling into a state of turmoil. Businesses across the country would bide their time before making any major investments. And those who could afford to ...

As much of the country grapples with crippling floods, a comprehensive report on global climate change released yesterday predicts the situation could be poised to get even worse. According to the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, as the planet grows warmer, cyclones making ...

Some 9.5 million Cambodians who directly engage in agriculture must adopt new techniques in order to counter dynamic weather patterns caused by climate change, and the government must work with farmers to ensure that it happens, an agricultural conference was told last week. Flown in from ...