Growth in the general insurance sector was up 20 per cent for the first six months of the year, as the Kingdom continues to experience high growth and foreign firms pour money into the nascent industry, according to the president of the Insurance Association of ...

Two UN agencies praised Cambodia’s Fisheries Administration Thursday as an “example of success” for addressing child labour in fisheries. In a joint report, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Labour Organization recalled that the fisheries agency began raising awareness of ...

Although International Human Rights Day ended in the forceful eviction of protesters from outside the US embassy last night, monks and their supporters who spent days marching to the capital met with no opposition in the morning as they defied a ban on marching to ...

The Kingdom’s rubber exports saw a 24 per cent increase over The first 11 months of last year compared to The same period in 2018, data from The General Directorate of Rubber obtained by The Post on Tuesday showed. Pol Sopha, The director-general of The ...

The total value of goods imported from Thailand increased more than 14 percent in The first four months of this year compared to The same period last year, according to data released Friday by The Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh. The figures show that The total ...

The government deported 2,420 people from The Kingdom in The first nine months of 2015, according to updated figures from The General Department of Immigration released on The National Police website on Wednesday.​ ...

The government will prune superfluous “deputy” manager roles from The state bureaucracy’s many branches by restricting The number of people able to hold The title from The ministerial level down to kindergartens and hospitals. ...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) has announced The launch of an online test of The Macroeconomic Surveillance Database System (MSDS) to monitor The macroeconomic and financial situation of The Kingdom and provide meaningful data for analysis, to be implemented with The technical assistance of ...

As part of its plan to up Cambodia’s soldier count, the Ministry of Defence is recruiting 620 university students. the candidates from the 2014-2015 academic year are to be volunteers with no criminal backgrounds, according to an official announcement. the recruitment drive spans the month of ...

The Chinese government has pledged to assist The Environment Ministry with improving water quality control, providing equipment and about $1 million in funding. The announcement came at a meeting yesterday between undersecretary of state Eang Sophalleth and Wang Dongsheng, The vice president of The Chinese Academy ...

With agriculture still the mainstay of its economy, Cambodia is seeking to reform rural communities in partnership with Korea to shore up residents’ livelihoods and boost grain exports. the Southeast Asian country is seeking to follow in the footsteps of the “Saemaeul Undong,” or New Community ...

Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker Son Chhay has sent an amended version of his draft freedom-of-information law to the National Assembly this morning and urged the parliament to at least debate the legislation. Son Chhay said yesterday his revised law had taken into account amendments requested ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday instructed the Royal Academy of Cambodia to carefully scrutinise post-graduate candidates as he said the number of Cambodian PhD students was “too high”, with the Kingdom recording one of the highest ratios of PhD holders in the world. Hun ...

The genocides in Cambodia and Rwanda were both aided by local media and propaganda, and The role of foreign media covering Them is often criticized as insufficient. In interviews with VOA Khmer, media experts said more funding of that sector could help prevent such errors ...

The General Department of Taxation collected $1.54 billion in tax revenue during The first nine months of The year, a 29 percent increase compared to The same period last year, it said in a press release yesterday. ...

Cambodia’s current account balance deficit was the equivalent of $542 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, the equivalent of 11.5 per cent of GDP, the National Bank of Cambodia said in a report released yesterday.   ...

About 60 Cambodian trainees will be recruited to study and work in Inuyama town in Japan by the Inuyama Chamber of Commerce in Japan, a decision made after the minister of labour met with the chairman of the chamber yesterday. ...

With less than three weeks left until the deadline, over 300,000 Cambodian migrants registered in Thailand have not completed the verification process necessary to receive work visas, raising the possibility of a repeat of last year’s mass exodus. According to figures from the Thai Labour Ministry ...

Four years after Prime Minister Hun Sen personally outlawed the practice of Cambodian women traveling to Malaysia to work as domestic servants, the two countries have agreed to restart the maid trade, according to a statement released by the Labor Ministry on Thursday. ...

The government has lashed out at The U.S. and E.U. over Their criticism of The detention of five current and former rights workers in Cambodia for more than a year, adopting The language of its critics by calling Their statements “politically motivated.” ...