Cambodian milled rice exports are gradually lessening their dependency on a single market by expanding their shipping destination in Asia, a sign insiders say is good news for the industry. Kim Savuth, president of the Federation of Cambodian Rice Exporters, told the Post yesterday that milled ...

Forty-four Number One and OK condom packers, out of work since their contracts ended on Sunday, protested outside the office of health NGO Population Services Khmer (PSK) in Phnom Penh yesterday, demanding “unpaid” seniority bonuses. Representative So Nita said the workers, four of whom have physical ...

Mondulkiri Department of Environment rangers arrested a man in Ror Nhor commune’s Koh Nhek district last Saturday on suspicion of illegally hunting wildlife. ...

Twenty-one families involved in a years-long land dispute in Kratie province’s Chhlong district, say they are struggling to make ends meet after losing their farmland and have received no compensation from the government. The families from Proma village, Kampong Damrei commune, had their land seized in ...

Rofi Osman, Member of the National Assembly, presided over a large-scale medical mission that saw 500 people from the Khmer Muslim community get free medical examinations. ...

Giant Ibis Transport has again delayed negotiations with 30 laid off union members who say they are owed years-worth of wages and benefits. ...

The Ministry of Education has announced that 140,000 people have so far registered for the MoEYs-E Learning programme within a week after its official launch. ...

Following Prime Minister Hun Sen’s order to accelerate Covid-19 vaccination drives across the country, progress seems to be back on track with the milestone of nine million adults vaccinated reached on August 28.   ...

Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) found an unexploded aerial bomb form the civil war era in the 1970s. The explosive device was uncovered by an excavator removing sediment from the river in Tonle Boun Muk near the Sokha Hotel in Phnom Penh and in front ...

Out of the ruling CPP’s 125 candidates for the national elections, at least 28 people — 22.4% — are related to someone else on the ballot, a review of the candidate list reveals. ...

Quarantine period has been extended to 21 days for Delta and Delta Plus variants, stressed Prime Minister Hun Sen in his statement on the current COVID-19 situation in Cambodia this morning. ...

Cambodia officially announced the creation of the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) to improve competitiveness, promote trade, and increase investment in the rice sector, according to comments from the Prime Minister. Board elections are expected to take place Mrch 24 and the chairman is limited to ...

The government is poised to reduce the price of electricity by 40 riel ($0.01) per kilowatt-hour for the industrial sector next month, said Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem on Tuesday. Insiders lauded the announcement but called on the government to improve the quality ...

Poipet town authorities have ordered a halt to construction and will conduct a site inspection after a partially built six-storey building collapsed during the construction of the first floor. ...

Dolphin conservation groups and government officials are expressing grave concerns over the decline in the number of dolphins present at the Chheu Teal trans-boundary pool of the Mekong River at the Laos-Cambodia border, saying that if this alarming trend is not halted, it will lead ...

A July sub-decree aims to improve the registration process for disabled people in order to receive government assistance, but most disabled people in the country have yet to benefit from the identification program that began registrations in 2020. ...

A proposed 150MW hydropower project on the upper reaches of the Tatai river in Koh Kong province’s northern Thma Bang district is looking more likely to happen, as the government strives to promote investment in the electricity sector and increase supply. Provincial deputy governor Sok ...

The Ministry of Tourism puts a target of at least a million foreign tourists this year, outlining the main tourism markets as Asean, South East Asia countries, US, France and UK. ...

A senior investment official has reiterated a request for Japanese investors to ramp up their commitments to the Cambodian market, recommending a Thailand or Vietnam “Plus One” business approach, amid a government-spearheaded push towards deeper integration into regional and global supply chains. ...