Cambodia is at risk of “getting left behind” if it doesn’t invest more in a digitally skilled workforce as local companies look to improve their business process and customer experience through “digital transformation”, according to a panel discussion on an industrywide survey. ...

The Ministry of Tourism is moving to restore the devastated tourism sector by preparing a so-called travel bubble plan to gradually receive international tourists, even if the Kingdom is seeing a rise in new cases of COVID-19. ...

Airline passengers who are diplomats and officials of international organisations holding Type A and B visas for travel to Cambodia are exempted from paying Covid-19 testing fees, said the Ministry of Health in its latest adjustment of rules on Wednesday. ...

As the deadline draws close for commercial banks and microfinance institutions to send back smaller dollar banknotes to the National Bank of Cambodia without a service charge, businesses are seeing an increase in the use of the riel transactions with no real complaints from shoppers. ...

Hard on the heels of the hardship of the global COVID-19 pandemic, which has left hundreds of thousands unemployed in the manufacturing and tourism sector, Cambodia’s industry is now struggling with the challenge of heavy flooding, which is particularly harming the  agriculture sector. ...

The Ministry of interior is warning citizens not to take part in social justice protests.​ It issued a press release on Monday saying members of the groups Khmer Thavrak and Mother Nature Movement had been carrying out activities not registered at the ministry, which is required ...

The Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) is currently going over its first-ever initial public offering (IPO) eligibility review application for a company to list on its Growth Board since the secondary board was launched in 2015, its vice-chairman Ha Jong-weon told The Post on December 14. ...

From recycled bicycles to second-hand mannequins, thrift shops push quirky finds to the limits which in the past has split perceptions. However, as consumer demands continue to shift, a combination of factors has exponentially spurred the pre-owned goods market, trend analysts say is only set ...

Royal Group of Companies Ltd chairman Kith Meng has announced that the development of 70km of concrete roads on Koh Rong Island is about 30 per cent complete, with construction having begun in mid-July and proceeding on schedule since then. ...

Agriculture brought the Kingdom $4.037 billion in exports alone during 2020. Products grown included cassava, mangoes, bananas and peppers among many other agro-products. However, farmers are now branching out to less common but more profitable crops – and vanilla is among them. ...

An outbreak of avian influenza (bird flu) in Battambang province’s Ek Phnom district has killed around 1,300 chickens from one location, officials said. ...

Toronto-listed Asia Green Biotechnology Corp (AGB) has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Prek Leap National institute of Agriculture in Phnom Penh (Prek Leap) to advance production techniques of medicinal and commercial crops. ...

The prolongation of the Covid-19 outbreak has led to a delay in a feasibility study of building a waste-to-energy (WtE) plant with at least 50MW of total electricity generating capacity near Phnom Penh, according to Ministry of Mines and Energy spokesman Victor Jona. ...

Cambodia continues to face a multitude of challenges as digital payments and solutions graduate from a niche business to a key segment in the Kingdom’s development strategy, according to National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) assistant governor Chea Serey on March 17. ...

Tax revenue from Cambodia’s casino industry cratered in 2020 as Covid-19 prompted the government to tighten entry restrictions, limiting the number of international visitors to the Kingdom, according to a Ministry of Economy and Finance senior official on March 21. ...

On 23 March 2021, the Ministry of Health issued an announcement on the death of a 62-year-old Cambodian woman who died from COVID-19 at Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital. The woman who died had lived in Steung Meanchey commune, Meanchey district, Phnom Penh. ...

On 19 March 2021, the Ministry of Health released an announcement on the death of a 46-year-old Cambodian man who died from COVID-19 at the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital. The man who died had lived in Boeung Salang commune, Toul Kork district, Phnom Penh. ...

Svay Leu district forestry administration office in Siem Reap province has given a month’s notice to the owners of homemade tractors impounded last week for transporting illegal timber. Authorities warned that if no action was taken the administration would take the case to court. ...

On 26 February 2021, the Ministry of Tourism released an announcement on the suspension of gym businesses inside and outside hotels across the capital and provinces to prevent further transmission of COVID-19 in the community transmission event on 20 February 2021. ...