A $258 million cement factory in Kampong Speu, approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on August 24, is expected to raise the nation’s cement production capacity to more than 10 million tonnes per year. ...

Prime Minister Hun Manet yesterday announced the official launch of the Pentagonal Strategy–Phase I and the key measures for the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) to be implemented in the next five years to transform Cambodia into a high-income economy by 2050. ...

The El Niño, La Niña, and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Forecast indicates that the El Niño event developing remains high until early 2024, typically causing warmer conditions in the region. ...

Say Samal, Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, has urged provincial authorities to expedite the issuance of land titles to people who have volunteered to move out of Angkor Archaeological Park Area in Siem Reap province. ...

When investing in stocks, investors can expect some of their assets to generate a dividend payment, a sum of money paid by a company to its shareholders out of its profits. Dividends are typically paid annually, but they can also be paid quarterly or monthly. ...

Extreme heat and flooding could erase $65 billion in apparel export earnings from four Asian countries by 2030, as workers struggle under high temperatures and factories close, research from Schroders and Cornell University showed on Wednesday. ...

Hun Sen, President of the Supreme Privy Council of His Majesty the King, has encouraged the Japanese investors to invest in Cambodia’s two key areas, including the establishment of factories for raw material processing, and advanced technology such as car assembly plants, production of electronic ...

More efforts are needed to enhance cooperation between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in industrial and supply chains for accelerated regional development, government officials and industry experts said during the 20th China-ASEAN Expo, or CAEXPO. ...

Global rice prices hit a 15-year high in September, rising 30 percent year-on-year (YoY), according to an investor’s note by BMI, which quoted the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) All Rice Price index report. ...

A senior education official has announced plans to introduce the New Generation School (NGS) curriculum in eight additional public schools across Phnom Penh and various provinces thanks to a partnership with the East Asia Management University (EAMU). ...

New Minister of interior Sar Sokha has requested that officials in his ministry examine the possibility of lowering the prices of Cambodian passports, noting that current prices are relatively high. Speaking to officials at the Ministry of interior on September 4, Sokha said the move would ...

From April 1 to September 5 of 2023, the government allocated almost $1.5 million in cash transfers to nearly 35,000 factory workers whose contracts were suspended. Many of the suspended workers have returned to work. ...

The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and industry (PCCI), fostering collaboration in agriculture and the advancement of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). ...

Cambodia has called for enhanced international partnerships to tackle pressing issues in the Mekong basin, such as declining water levels, reduced fish stocks and the reverse flow into the Tonle Sap Lake. ...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) managIng director KristalIna Georgieva urged ASEAN leaders to Invest In International cooperation as well as growth-enhancIng reforms to fully recover and contInue on the pre-pandemic path to prosperity amid a global economic slowdown. ...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and partner organisations launched a digital skill capacity building project in the education sector to provide a digital education which will contribute to the Kingdom’s human resource development. ...

Cambodia and Australia inaugurated a new Food innovation Partnership on September 22, aimed at assisting agri-food small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing products that meet food safety standards and broadening their market reach. ...

Cambodia has received $140 million in loans from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to boost labour development to transform the country into a technology-driven, knowledge-based industrial economy while enhancing public service delivery by local administrations through public finance and decentralisation reforms. ...

The Ministry of Environment, in collaboration with the Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is holding a four-day workshop from July 12-15. ...

International fuel rates have started to fall back as India and Iran look to step up Russian crude imports, In a downward trend likely to be fuelled by cooperation between the trio of countries on reducIng the pressure of the oil price crisis, economists have ...