On 30 August 2021, the Ministry of Health issued a press release on prerequisites in requiring for permission to provide COVID-19 home care services.The Ministry will allow private health services licensed by the Ministry of Health to provide home care services to COVID-19 patients under ...

On 23 February 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on security and defense in the Indo-Pacific region.His Excellency Prak Sokhon, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, addressed the roundtable on “Indo-Pacific Security and ...

​On 18 May 2022, Council for Development of Cambodia has post a press release on the Joint European Strategy for Development Cooperation with Cambodia 2021-2027 on its social media site. This meeting was attended by high-ranking and technical government officials from 29 line ministries and ...

Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology Thor Chetha and Kampong Speu provincial governor Vei Samnang conducted an inspection of the flood-affected area in Kong Pisei district’s Snam Krapoeu commune. They also distributed humanitarian aid from the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) provincial branch to 120 affected ...

An International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) delegation to the Kingdom of Cambodia led by Jyotsna Puri, Associate Vice-President of the Strategy and Knowledge Department, and Reehana Raza, Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, met key officials, including Prime Minister Hun Sen, to discuss ...

Last month, the government has approved five renewable energy projects totalling 520 MW to increase power supply to the national grid. The latest to hit the energy circuit is Royal Group of Companies that sealed the deal with Panna Energy, Samaiden Energy and Management Venture ...

In a spirited effort to revitalise a crime-ravaged landscape, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Cambodia – alongside USAID Morodok Baitang, the Mondulkiri provincial environment department and Keo Seima district authorities – embarked on a rejuvenating mission on June 19. They began the resurrection of the Sre ...

The Siem Reap Angkor International Airport (SAI) is set to begin its operation on October 16 and the new airport can receive huge aircraft from the United States and Europe, facilitating direct flights for international tourists visiting the Kingdom of Wonder, a press release by ...

SokChendaSophea, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, engaged here on Dec. 14 in a friendly discussion with H.E. Ms. Melissa A. Brown, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, during the latter’s working visit to the ...

Senior official of Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) said on 16 January 2024 that as the host of Ottawa Conventionin 2024, Cambodia is ready to welcome delegates from 164 country and other international institutes in November at Siem Reap province. ...

Rural energy cooperative in Cambodia. Photo by Nomade Moderne, taken on 23 March 2006. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0The electricity distributed in Cambodia is partly generated within the country and partly imported. For many years, local generation was on a relatively small scale, and was ...

Cambodia flood, 2011. Photo by European Commission, taken on 11 October 2011. Licensed under CC BY 2.0Storms, flooding and lightning strikes are the major causes of death and property damage from natural disasters in Cambodia, while drought causes severe hardship, especially for farmers. In a ...

About 70 residents from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak lake met with Daun Penh district governor Sok Sambath yesterday to discuss the first phase of a new drainage system around the lake area that will protect against floods, a villager and municipal official said. ...

Former Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha is to remain in jail while awaiting his trial after the Appeal Court on Tuesday (Mar 27) upheld the decision of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to extend his pre-trial detention by an additional six months. ...

The Senate on Monday approved a controversial set of laws on citizenship, claiming the draft would improve the process by which foreigners applied for Cambodian citizenship. However, watchdogs and social media users criticised the move, saying it would make gaining citizenship too easy. ...

The rights group, HRW, had called for the release of Uon Chhin and Yeang Sothearin, two Radio Free Asia reporters who were jailed on treason charges for allegedly continuing to work for RFA after it had left the country under government pressure. ...

Some 116 organisations and associations have urged Cambodian officials to dismantle the new inter-ministry working group that was recently set up to monitor social networking sites, claiming it is an “abuse on the rights and freedom of expression via the internet”. ...

The National Assembly on Thursday unanimously approved a proposed amendment to Article 45 of the Law on Political Parties in a move that could pave the way for former senior opposition leaders banned for five years to return to the political stage. ...

The Medical Laboratory of the Pasteur Institute in Cambodia has become the first medical laboratory in the Kingdom to be awarded ISO 15189 accreditation, following a six-year quality improvement initiative to meet international standards, laboratory deputy director Cheng Sokleaph said on Thursday. ...