The Royal Government has increased its investment in education to more than $800 million by this year to improve the quality of education in Cambodia. ...

Cambodia and Australia are willing to further strengthen their banking and financial cooperation, especially in the field of green finance and financial knowledge. ...

Cambodia and Singapore will further strengthen and expand their bilateral cooperation in the fields of politics, trade, economy, defence, security, energy and Tourism. ...

USAID head Samantha Power has expressed her appreciation for Cambodia’s efforts to reduce communicable disease statistics, as well as maternal deaths and those of babies and children under five. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has granted for more land concessions in Mondolkiri province. The concessions total more than 38,057 hectares. Pacific Lotus Joint stock received 9,014 hectares; Pacific Pearl Joint Stock received 9.614 hectares; Pacific Grand Joint Stock received 9,656 hectares and Pacific Pride Joint ...

The national carrier Angkor Air will launch a regular flight service on December 14 between Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, said Quang Dinh, assistant to the CEO of Cambodia Angkor Air, yesterday This will be the first time that Sihanoukville, the nation’s main coastal destination, will receive ...

A director and a former director of recruitment company Champa Manpower Group were sentenced in absentia to seven years’ jail yesterday for detaining three female workers in Phnom Penh last year. Chaing Sinath, presiding judge at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, ordered that company director Sos ...

The Free Trade Union (FTU) yesterday filed a complaint with Labor Minister Vong Sauth on behalf of nearly 4,000 garment workers in Kompong Chhnang province against Chinese-owned M&V International Manufacturing Ltd, alleging that they had been forced to work on International Women’s Day, which is ...

Cambodians working in Thailand may soon feel a little more at home if the Thai government approves a proposal to start broadcasting two Cambodian television channels. TVK Director General Kem Gunawadh said that Information Minister Khieu Kanharith made the pitch at a meeting Wednesday with the ...

Construction on Sisowath Quay by Vattanac Company has damaged an entire block of buildings after soil was removed from the site in order to shore up the sides with concrete. 11 families have been asked to move temporarily while the situation is remedied. The Foreign ...

Cambodia, the current ASEAN chair, has called for stronger financial cooperation among its member countries to promote economic growth. The main agenda is to ensure that Southeast Asia is on track to meet an ambitious goal of transforming in three years into a European Union-like ...

Maybank will bet on what it said was Cambodia’s low bank-penetration rate for future growth as it transitions from a branch of its Malaysian parent into a locally incorporated subsidiary. With 34 licenced banks operating in a market with US$4.07 billion in loans in 2011, analysts ...

Nine villagers were injured and about 270 homes damaged when a storm ravaged Kampong Thom province’s Sandan district on Friday, police said yesterday. Sandan district governor Sim Vanna told the Post that gale-force winds and heavy rain had swept across the region, leaving a trail of ...

China has provided a $2.5 million grant to the government to support the demining activities of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre. According to a CMAC statement issued on Thursday, China granted the aid under the China-Aided Cambodia Landmine Elimination Project, which will run until May 2019 ...

The government is to add millions of dollars to its budget for drugs against HIV and its opportunistic illnesses for its battle to reduce and eliminate infections. A government official confirmed that the budget for the drugs would rise to $4.5 million from 2018 to ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said that the government has spent millions of dollars on more than 40,000 pregnant female workers this year. During a speech to workers in Kampong Speu province, Mr Hun Sen said that about 42,000 female garment workers have delivered about ...

Speaking at a gathering of 27,444 workers from 24 factories in Kampong Speu province’s Kong Pisey district, Hun Sen cited a recent incidence in which around 700 workers from Chim Li Cambodia blocked National Road 4 in Por Sen Chey district to demand severance packages ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Monday hailed Cambodia’s prosperity, praising its “hard-working” and “skilful” people for rebuilding the Kingdom. The 94-year-old leader was speaking to university students, government officials and diplomats at the Royal University of Phnom Penh as he began a three-day visit, ...

Political fugitive Sam Serey, long wanted by the Cambodian government for allegedly operating a “terrorist” group, was arrested in Bangkok on Wednesday for an immigration violation, with the Cambodian government submitting a formal request for his extradition on Thursday. Serey, founder of the dissident group ...

Public buses in Phnom Penh are to get free Wi-Fi in the pilot phase of an operation to increase convenience for passengers. Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, which operates the buses, says it will cooperate with the Space Media company to install Wi-Fi routers for ...