During the Management of Residual Explosive Remnants of War (MORE) Symposium in Siem Reap this week, attendees were invited to a demonstration at a live minefield only an hour north of the town. Despite indications that the 2019 treaty deadline would not be met and ...

The Education Ministry on Monday defended a pro-CPP speech delivered to some 1,500 students at a university in Phnom Penh on Sunday, reasoning that the school did not breach the ministry’s new directive against political activity at academic institutions because classes had finished for the ...

A new inter-ministry prakas is planned that controls and ensures the safety of bus passengers using the Kingdom’s growing bus network, and may include monitoring the behaviour of drivers and companies prior to granting licences, Cambodian officials said. Bus companies are now controlled by Ministry of ...

On 20 September 2021, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a notification on the national online job and productivity fair 2021.The national online job and productivity fair 2021 will run for 2 days, November 4-5, 2021. ...

On 30 August 2021, the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued a press release on His Excellency Sok Chenda Sophea, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister and Secretary-General of the Council for the Development of Cambodia, and His Excellency Masahiro Mikami, Ambassador Extraordinary and ...

The Council of Ministers or the Cabinet for the seventh legislature of the National Assembly yesterday approved three legal documents, one national strategy and two reports during its second plenary session, presided over by Prime Minister Hun Manet at the Peace Palace, said a senior ...

Representatives from the Cambodian Confederation of Unions (CCU) and the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (CATU) – along with trade unions and associations working in the labour sector – announced their intention to celebrate the 137th anniversary of International Workers’ Day on May 1, with ...

Cambodia earned $324 million from the exports of natural rubber and rubber articles in the January to June half-year (H1) period of 2023, an increase of 42.1 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the latest trade data of the General Department ...

Cambodia earned $164.111 million from the export of “furniture, lighting signs, prefabricated buildings” in the first four months of 2023, down 28.82 per cent year-on-year from $230.544 million and down 52.01 per cent half-on-half (compared to July-October 2022) from $341.97 million, according to provisional Customs ...

Ministry of Interior officials announced yesterday that three more villagers accused of involvement in a “secessionist plot” in Kratie province turned themselves in and confessed their guilt on Saturday, taking advantage of the prime minister’s offer of immunity for those who agree to act as ...

Like most millennium-old structures discovered in the forests of Cambodia, the locals had known all along about this one. Jarai minority villagers in this remote spot in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district not only knew about it, but they revered the red-brick temple, using it as a ...

Cambodia has offered the license for the United Kingdom’s Prudential Company to invest the life insurance in the kingdom. The announcement was made during the meeting between UK ambassador to Cambodia Mark Gooding and deputy prime minister and minister of economy and finance, his excellency Keat Chhon in Phnom Penh. “Ministry granted the approval for ...

Social work, long-established in developed countries but unheard-of in Cambodia, could be set to change the face of child protection in the country as interest in the field grows. Last week, a hundred potential social workers from around the country came to Phnom Penh for an ...

Plan International Cambodia has launched a three-year project to help young children living in remote and disadvantaged areas in Ratanakkiri and Stung Treng provinces receive education and health care services. ...

Villagers in Stung Treng province have rejected a new compensation offer from the firm building the divisive Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam. ...

Representatives for the 200 Cambodian families suing U.K. sugar firm Tate & Lyle for allegedly profiting off of their stolen land say they have rejected the firm’s latest offer to settle the dispute and are looking forward to their first court date, set for October. The ...

One of four new mining exploration permits, advertised publicly this week, is within the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary map, coordinates reveal, sparking concern among activists and community members about the strength of the forest’s recently-acquired protected status.In the first public tender of fresh exploration licenses ...

The government has instructed the owners of all venues providing Internet and telephone access to the public to install security cameras on their premises to record the identity of users in an effort to crack down on terrorism and cyber-crime, states a government directive obtained ...

Unions meeting on Friday arrived at an estimated cost-of-living salary for garment workers ahead of minimum wage talks, one remarkably similar to the monthly wage they’ve demanded two years running, though suggested the final number they push for will be higher. ...

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Matrade and the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce, said Malaysian International Trade and Industry minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed. ...