The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MoEF) will scrap customs fees for rice exporters from May 1 in an effort to reduce production costs and boost Cambodia’s competitiveness in The sector, according to a letter obtained by The Post. “[The ministry] has agreed to eliminate charges ...

Cambodia had granted licenses to 157 domestic and foreign investment projects with a total investment of 2.28 billion U.S. dollars in 2012, according to a report of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on Tuesday. Domestic investors topped the chart among all investors last ...

Residents living in the Mekong River basin are expressing concerns over water degradation in the Mekong river and its impact on farming, aquaculture and the livelihood of the millions of people who live in the region. People from Cambodia, Thailand and Viet Nam’s Cuu Long (Mekong) ...

The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction collected more than 472 billion riels (approx. more than $115 million) in revenue to add to The national budget. ...

Thousands of Cambodian people visited and bought Thai products on Thursday at a large scale exhibition although simmering border spat between the two countries remains unsolved. “Even though border dispute is still going on, trade and investment ties between Thailand and Cambodia are still good,” Amparwon ...

The government plans to establish a national digital television platform and will release The 700MHz band to The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to help it develop The 5G network. ...

The Finance Ministry today reported The government has accumulated approximately $400 million in savings to be used during COVID-19 emergency cases in The Kingdom. ...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) signed a key agreement with The Ministry of Women’s Affairs on Monday in Phnom Penh for The upliftment of women in financial matters. ...

The judiciary has signed off on a new set of guidelines designed to regulate The work of prosecutors in many areas, including The rights of minors in The judicial system. Ouk Savuth, general director of The Court of Appeal, signed off on The guidelines on August ...

The Federation of Associations of Small and Medium-size Enterprise of Cambodia (FASMEC) will cooperate with The Thailand-based Mekong Institute to train master teachers in an effort to implement a small and medium enterprise (SME) cluster and export consortia in The coming years, according to officials. The two-day workshop ...

On 14 March 2023, the Ministry of Economy and Finance issued a press release on the second meeting of inter-ministerial committee to prepare a masterplan to develop Preah Sihanouk province into a model multipurpose special economic zone (SEZ)​ and discuss the results report of the ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng bemoaned Phnom Penh’s sewage infrastructure and criticised the Ministry of Environment for allowing untreated waste water to flow into the Mekong and Bassac rivers in unscripted remarks on Monday. ...

Department heads within the Interior Ministry must immediately begin enforcing a Royal Decree issued in October that prohibits civil servants from holding two government jobs at the same time, according to a letter issued by ministry Secretary of State Sak Setha last week. ...

The National Police have sent a proposal letter to Interior Minister Sar Kheng, asking him to stop customs officials from fining or confiscating vehicles with police license plates after five police vehicles were stopped and forced to pay an import tax last year, causing an ...

The draft of Siem Reap tourism development master plan for 2020-2035 will be finalised in October this year, and submitted to The Council of Ministers for approval. ...

Labor union leader expressed pleasure and welcomed the study of minimum wage for footwear and garment factory workers. However, he said that the workers will hold protest after the New Year. ...

Cambodia needed to invest in women to aid its development and integration into the ASEAN economic community, United Nations Under Secretary-General Noeleen Heyzer said yesterday. Heyzer, executive secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific(ESCAP), met with Minister of Women’s Affairs Ing Kantha ...

This week, Cambodia’s government ignored pressure from Europe and the United States and passed the NGO law. ...

The Association of Banks in Cambodia (ABC) and The Korea Federation of Banks (KFB) yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to expand and strengThen cooperation as well as provide support to South Korean investors, especially those in The banking sector who are now investing ...

Today, 23 June 2014, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights’ (CCHR) Trial Monitoring Project releases its first report assessing the adherence to fair trial rights at the Court of Appeal (the Report). This is the seventh report published by the Trial Monitoring Project, and the ...