The Ministry of Rural Development yesterday called for increased investment to expand access to sanitation facilities in rural Cambodia as well as more awareness about the link between low rates of access to toilets and high rates of communicable disease. Cambodia ranked at the bottom of ...

Cambodia’s rice production and exports will likely continue to grow this year and next year despite low milling rates, buoyed by strong demand from China, according to a report from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In the report released last week, the USDA ...

A senior official at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction appealed yesterday to institutions, private companies and related parties to help increase public housing for low and middle income families. In the first annual national forum on housing yesterday, Chhan Saphan, a secretary ...

The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology said that some areas in the Kingdom would be hit by a storm next week, especially the coastal provinces. Water Resources Minister Lim Kean Hor said that a high pressure system would have a weak influence on Cambodia and ...

The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology warned on Saturday of potential flooding from the remnants of tropical storm Haima, which killed at least 13 people in the Philippines and battered southeast China last week. Water Resources Minister Lim Kean Hor told the public and authorities ...

The mortality rate for children under the age of 5 in Cambodia has fallen by 64 percent since 1990, with the most marked decrease noted over the past decade, according to a Unicef report released yesterday. The report, Committed to Survival: A promise Renewed, lists Cambodia ...

Cambodian officials have refused to establish a specialised bank for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) despite experts saying the sector needs aid in order to compete efficiently with ASEAN economic integration in 2015. Hang Chounnaron, secretary of the Ministry of Economy and Finance said Cambodia would ...

Myanmar Airways International (MAI) will resume its regular flights between Yangon and Cambodia’s two main international airports in early December after they were suspended for about three months. MAI started a twice-weekly schedule to Siem Reap in late February, but suspended the route over the last ...

Cambodia’s inflation rate decelerated to 3 percent last year, down from 4.9 percent in a year earlier, Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) Chea Chanto said Saturday. “This is a remarkable drop and the 3-percent rate last year is low and controllable,” he said ...

The Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday released a draft policy to strengthen the agriculture sector by educating farmers on how to gain greater access to markets and increase their productivity by using sustainable farming methods. The Agriculture Extension Policy, drafted in cooperation with USAID, aims to ...

Cambodian farmers are at high risk of being affected by climate change due to low levels of awareness, education and adaptation, with women particularly vulnerable, a study released yesterday says. The study, which surveyed farmers in the provinces of Battambang, Kampong Thom, Takeo and Prey Veng, ...

Public and private sector representatives have urged the Cambodian government to fast-track policies to foster a more “formalised”, compliant and productive small- to medium-size enterprise (SME) sector. Chea Serey, director general at the National Bank of Cambodia said the high cost of regulatory compliance, a ...

Cambodia was ranked higher than other CLMV countries (Cambodia, Lao, Myanmar, Vietnam) for the readiness of private and state-owned organisations to deal with external economic changes, according to the Change 2015 Readiness Index released by KPMG. The international auditing firm’s report shows that Cambodia was the ...

Lawmakers yesterday passed a rent control law for low-income earners and students, prohibiting landlords from increasing rent for two years once a contract is signed and allowing tenants to scrap a lease agreement without notice. The law, which sailed through the National Assembly with 102 of ...

Newly appointed Ambassador of Russia to Cambodia Anatoly Borovik has pledged to further boost the trade relations and investment between the two countries, which are currently at a low level.   ...

The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology issued a warning that Cambodia will be affected by the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone, a low-pressure system, from September 22-26 along the Dangrek mountains. ...

Retail fuel prices have been gradually increasing in recent weeks, adding another burden for low-income households whose finances have been hit hard by Covid-19. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has told the Ministry of Economy and Finance to speed up the preparation of the budget to address the pension inequality of low-paid civil servants and veterans. ...

Citing low bilateral trade volume, Myanmar and Cambodia are expediting talks on two draft agreements to raise trade cooperation. Cambodian commerce minister Pan Sorasak recently called on the two sides for more discussions on economic and trade progress “within the regional and bilateral frameworks aimed ...

Officials and trade experts discussed a new draft law at a conference in Phnom Penh yesterday that would allow the government to protect exporters against competitors abroad that engage in price dumping, or selling products at an extremely low price. Speaking on the sidelines of the ...