Dozens of representatives from at least 100 recently evicted families accused of illegally occupying state land in Kratie province traveled to Phnom Penh on Monday morning to petition Prime Minister Hun Sen for his help getting their land back. The families say local authorities have been ...

After the development company 7NG completed the violent eviction of more than 1,400 families from Phnom Penh’s Dey Krahorm community in 2009, it set its sights on the adjacent White Building. The historic apartment block, which was built as a low-cost housing project under then Prince ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday appealed to rice millers and paddy buyers not to lower prices and to secure better rates for farmers facing difficulties in the early harvest season. The Cambodian Rice Federation (CRF) said the low prices were due to an influx ...

National Assembly president Heng Samrin will on Saturday lead a senior delegation to the 28th annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF) in Canberra, Australia, said the assembly’s secretary-general Leng Peng Long. Peng Long said the 28th meeting of the APPF would take ...

The Kingdom recorded about 80 casualties caused by landmines and explosive remnants of war across the country last year. This is an increase of more than 30 percent compared to 2018. According to the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority report issued yesterday, from ...

The World Wide Fund (WWF) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have expressed support for the Chinese government which has imposed a ban on wildlife trade as it is suspected of being behind the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus infection. The WCS also called on ...

Thousands of government and opposition supporters have hit the streets in Cambodia to drum up last minute support ahead of this Sunday’s election. Election monitors are fanning out across the country to ensure a free and fair vote. Koul Panha, Director of Comfrel Cambodia’s Committee for Free ...

A consortium of election NGOs had banded together in a bid to push through a Campaign Finance Law that would put a ceiling on political party campaign spending ahead of next year’s national elections, representatives said yesterday. The NGO Working Group on Political Finance has embarked ...

Assemblyman Bill Nojay, R-Pittsford, is wanted for questioning in southern Asia as part of an investigation into a $1 million fraud complaint, theCambodian press reported this week. In a July 7 letter, a local Cambodian prosecutor summoned Nojay and three others to appear for questioning in ...

Outspoken female MP takes battle to Hun Sen’s ruling party as Cambodia goes to the polls. She is brave, eloquent and defiant in a country where government critics have been detained, imprisoned and sometimes killed for speaking out. Now Mu Sochua, Cambodia‘s leading female opposition MP, ...

The opening weekend for the official launch of two new iPhone models in Cambodia hit a few bumps when the Kingdom’s two authorised iPhone resellers faced supply-side issues.Telecom company Smart, one of the two licensed resellers, was forced to turn away customers who had pre-booked ...

The Japanese government will provide a $3 million grant to help Cambodia fight marine plastic pollution and promote a responsible cycle of using, reusing and recycling all forms of plastic waste.​The grant will fund an anti-waste project to be implemented by the Ministry of Environment, ...

KE, which is part of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, has teamed up with the Cambodia-Australia Agricultural Value Chain programme (CAVAC), devoted to improving the resilience and competitiveness of Cambodia’s agriculture sector. They are  providing funding assistance to qualifying agro-processing small and medium enterprises ...

 On 18 December 2020, Japanese Government has agreed to provide Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects, KUSANONE, US$392,371 in total, for constructing road in Koh Kong province, rehabilitating irrigation system in Kampong Chhnang province and strengthening agricultural Cooperatives in Mondulkiri province. H.E. Mr. MIKAMI ...

Initial construction of a nearly $30 million tourism infrastructure project on Preah Sihanouk province’s Koh Preus Island is “about 70 per cent complete”, according to an official with the developer. Heng Thou, construction site manager of Angela Real Estate Co Ltd (ARE), told The Post that ...

On November 4, 2021, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a notification on public holidays during the Water Festival. All workers can take paid leave during the upcoming Water Festival for three days, November 18-19-20, 2021. ...

Cambodia kicked off the new academic year of 2021-2022 for all grades on January 10, with all students required to implement the “new normal path in education” in the context of Covid-19. This came after two years of remote learning and disruptions to regular classroom ...

On 10 February 2022, the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications issued an announcement on the King Technologies CO., LTD. (Opennet), an Internet Service Provider, has yet to perform its revenue share duty to the state.Ministry of Economy and Finance and the Ministry of Post and ...

An inter-ministerial committee tasked with combating fisheries crimes at Tonle Sap Lake has issued a five-point action plan designed to preserve it as a natural resource for long-term public interests. The committee, led by Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina, finalised the plan during ...