Locally-owned KLP.T Transportation Co Ltd’s new multi-purpose port and logistics centre just east of Kampong Chhnang town is expected to provide a substantial boost to Cambodian freight movement, particularly of agricultural products from the provinces bordering Tonle Sap Lake to international markets. ...

The state-owned Small and Medium Enterprise Bank of Cambodia Plc (SME Bank) has disbursed more than $432 million in loans to at least 3,260 SMEs, to keep them from going under during the height of the Covid-19 crisis, and subsequently to help them reopen and ...

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina expressed his admiration for this year’s fishing season haul, which has seen fishermen catching up to three tonnes of fish in less than an hour, something he credits to the government’s efforts at preventing illegal fishing and ...

Cambodia will not follow in other countries’ footsteps in imposing any additional restrictions towards arrivals from mainland China, amid concerns that soaring Covid-19 cases there could drive the emergence of new and potentially more dangerous variants of the novel coronavirus, Prime Minister Hun Sen affirmed ...

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina expressed his admiration for this year’s fishing season haul, which has seen fishermen catching up to three tonnes of fish in less than an hour, something he credits to the government’s efforts at preventing illegal fishing and ...

A Ministry of Justice official said that a Commercial Court could be established and put into action as soon as 2024. Addressing the February 2 “AmCham Business Law Conclave: Critical Updates That You Need to Know for 2023” in Phnom Penh, justice ministry secretary of state ...

Cambodia has sought partners to raise about $30 billion of investment funds to implement 150 hard and soft infrastructure projects that the government has classified as priorities to place in the Comprehensive Intermodal Comprehensive Master Plan (CIT-MP) for the next ten years, said a release ...

Cambodia is looking for partners for the development of a planned airport in Mondulkiri province south of Sen Monorom town after PowerChina International Group Ltd (PIG) withdrew during the Covid-19 crisis and subsequent negotiations with other foreign companies fell through, according to a senior civil ...

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training remains unable to find a solution to the labour dispute between NagaWorld and its dismissed employees, while civil society organisations call on the ministry to end its role as mediator and for the use of existing legal mechanisms ...

Since 2018, the government has provided cash support to more than 356,000 female factory workers who gave birth. More than $35 million was shared with the mothers of over 358,000 children, said Ith Samheng, Minister of Labour and Vocational Training. ...

Cambodian goods exports to Vietnam amounted to $491.180 million in the first two months of 2023 – surging by 36.12 per cent over the same time last year – accounting for 45.28 per cent of bilateral trade, jumping up by 7.30 percentage points year-on-year, according ...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has announced a partnership with Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the Ministry of Environment to launch the Public-Social-Private Partnerships for Ecologically-Sound Agriculture and Resilient Livelihood in Northern Tonle Sap Basin (PEARL). ...

Children make up nearly 35% of Cambodia’s population, and 48.7% of these children (ages 0-17) live in multidimensional poverty. Children have the right to an education, but many schools in Cambodia are structurally and hygienically inadequate.  ...

The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) is preparing to inject a budget of nearly $450 million to improve healthcare services, covering up to 9 million people across the country as well as other public services, especially the poor and vulnerable families which are in line ...

Business people and investors who wish to receive ‘special benefits’ as part of the newly launched special programme to promote investments in Preah Sihanouk Province can file their applications now before the Preah Sihanouk Investment Promotion Working Group, according to a statement issued by the ...

A meeting to negotiate the new minimum wage for next year for the garment, travel goods and bag industries will start today with 51 representatives of the National Council on Minimum Wage (NCMW) from the government, along with workers and employers representatives, according to a ...

Greg Bem and Penhleak ChanOn September 25-26, ODC representatives Penhleak Chan and Greg Bem attended TechCamp Phnom Penh at the Royal University of Phnom Penh’s Cambodia-Korea Cooperation Center. Part think tank and part networking party, TechCamp brought minds from all sectors to work together and ...

About 100 residents of Kampong Speu’s Omlaing commune will accompany five fellow villagers to the provincial court today after  receiving summonses last week. ...

Battambang provincial forestry officials intercepted a large load of illegal luxury timber being transported in a government-plated car on Monday night. ...

Residents of Wat Damnak village, just one kilometer from Pub Street, still resort to burning their rubbish when trash collection is slow.  ...