A group of local and international NGOs are urging the World Bank to include a program for helping the thousands of families evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood as part of the plan to start funding new projects in Cambodia. ...

Chea Mony, the Free Trade Union president who announced in July that he was stepping down from his post, has said the union does not yet have the money available to hold a congress to vote in a new president. ...

Amid what some meteorologists have dubbed a “Godzilla-like El Niño”, drought conditions during Cambodia’s scheduled monsoon season have significantly worsened from what last year were termed historically bad levels, a new report from the Ministry of Agriculture shows. ...

More than five months after being appointed as the U.N.’s new special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, Rhona Smith will make her first official visit to the country later this month, according to the government’s Human Rights Committee. ...

A new private-sector energy development is in the pipeline for Koh Rong Sanloem Island with the goal of bringing clean and reliable electricity 24 hours a day to the remote location. ...

Although more Omicron variant infections are reported, Cambodia’s tourism sector recovery shows no sign of slowing down, with a sharp rise in the number of tourists during the New Year 2022 celebrations. ...

Following the celebration and influx of tourists during the Khmer New Year, Cambodia has recorded an increase in weekly tourists last weekend, as the country moves toward the recovery of its tourism sector. ...

A new book by the Asian Development Bank reveals one in five informal workers in Cambodia lost employment due to the pandemic, with women workers hit harder than men. ...

In an effort to strengthen and boost the efficiency of administration in the capital and provinces, the government has added new members through a sub-decree issued on June 30. ...

A new expressway, that will link the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh with Vietnam, begins construction today. ...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are expected to apply for a loan from the newly formed SME Bank of Cambodia to expand their production lines but first, they want to see the end of COVID-19, according to the vice-president of Cambodia Chamber of Commerce. ...

For the 30th consecutive day, Cambodia has unearthed zero new COVID-19 positive cases while one of the two remaining in hospital was treated and discharged Monday. ...

On 21 February ​2020, the Ministry of Health released an announcement on the outcome of the third meeting of the new Coronavirus Response Team. Acccording to the announcement, the Ministry of Health has established 9 measures to prevent the spread of several corona viruses. ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on​ “Disaster preparedness and emergency response policy and administration”. This bilingual new topic page gives a quick overview of disaster preparedness and emergency response policy and administration, together with the related contents such as laws, sub-decrees, ...

On 15 November 2021, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a notification on the procedure for Cambodian trainees to work in Japan in accordance with the new border measures of the Government of Japan. The Government of Japan has decided to allow foreigners, ...

Cambodia dispatched a new batch of 346 peacekeepers to join a United Nations peacekeeping mission in the war-torn African nations of Mali and South Sudan on Monday. ...

CP Laos and CP Cambodia are investing a combined Bt250 million to set up a new silo for maize in Cambodia and a new feed-meal plant in Laos to strengthen CPF’s integrated agricultural-industrial business as the Asean Economic Community (AEC) approaches. Most recently, the company ...

When London-based real estate investor Sanjay Dhir heard about Cambodia from his Indian partner Manoj Varma, he took a trip here in October 2010 and stopped by the roadside to meet the operators of a portable rice mill. He knew then that Cambodia was ready for ...

The wages of 400,000 civil servants from 39 government ministries are to be paid via a new electronic banking system due to be rolled out next month. Secretary of State for the Ministry of Economy and Finance Chu Kim Leng announced the new payroll system on ...

The CPP-controlled Permanent Committee of the new National Assembly has approved a $25-million budget to cover the Assembly’s costs for the coming year, despite the continued absence of nearly half the 123-member body’s elected lawmakers. The opposition CNRP’s 55 lawmakers-elect have been boycotting the Assembly since ...