The government has granted private companies the right to develop about 65,000 hectares of land in wildlife sanctuaries, national parks and on public reserves since January 1, data from a human rights group reveals. Ouch Leng, land reform project coordinator for the Cambodian Center for Human ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on the 134th of International Labour Day said more 2.1 million people including workers, employee, and public officials have received benefits from the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) since 2008. ...

Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) yesterday announced that developing countries which are eligible, like Cambodia, will be able to get trade preference through the United Kingdom’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) from January 1. ...

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on December 4 said it had issued final registration certificates to five investment projects worth more than $121 million and which are expected to generate 1,334 jobs. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has instructed the Ministry of Health to issue guidelines on measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 during the upcoming Water Festival from October 30 to November 1. ...

More rain is expected to come across Cambodia, from Wednesday, Aug. 26 to Sept. 1, according to the new weather forecast released this morning by the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology (MOWRAM). ...

Cambodia’s three international airports handled 1.9 million air passengers in the first six months of this year, a 67.5 percent decrease from 6 million air passengers last year.​ ...

Alarmed over the number of Covid-positive passengers coming in via Malaysia and Indonesia, the government is temporarily suspending flights from both countries from August 1 until their infection rates  decline. ...

As revenues have soared, the General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia (GDCE) has opted not to impose new value-added taxes (VAT) on select agricultural equipment in policies set to take effect on January 1, next year. ...

The Kingdom’s real economic growth is expected to recover by 4 percent in 2021 following a contraction of 3.1 percent in 2020, according to a report from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF). ...

More than 1,900 public and private institutions, restaurants, hotels and factories were registered to implement a QR Code “Stop COVID” to increase the efficiency and speed of prevention and control of the spread of the COVID-19 virus. ​ ...

The Ministry of Health yesterday announced that it will start vaccinating people in Cambodia with the Sinovac vaccine from today after 1.5 million doses  purchased by the government arrived in Cambodia from China on Friday. ...

Over 1,500 floating houses and fish farming cages have been dismantled and evacuated from the rivers in Phnom Penh, according to Phnom Penh municipal police spokesman San Sok Seyha. ...

The European Union (EU) has pledged €1.7 billion (about $2 billion) to the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) with an objective to help reform education system in 90 countries around the world including Cambodia. ...

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and South Korea was worth $552.1 million in the first seven months of this year, growing by nearly 11 per cent on a yearly basis from $498.75 million, according to the Korea International Trade Association (Kita). ...

The number of households nationwide with access to clean water reached 1,091,869 last year, up by 11.80 per cent from 976,621 in 2020, according to the Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation. ...

Approximately $2.295 billion was collected as customs revenue in 2021, about 97.1 percent of the yearly plan, according to the data from the General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE). ...

About 1.5 metric tons of pork carcasses were seized by Thai Livestock and customs Sunday. The pork had been allegedly smuggled into Thailand’s eastern border province of Sa Kaeo from Cambodia, Thai media  PBS World reported. ...

Cambodia exported $1.81 billion worth of products to Japan in the first 11 months of last year, a year-on-year increase of 11.4 percent, according to the data from the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) yesterday. ...

Small and Medium Enterprise Bank of Cambodia Plc (SME Bank) has released nearly $234 million to 1,981 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in various sectors across the country through SME Co-Financing Scheme II (SCFS II) from mid-August last year to July this year, according to ...