Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi’s four-day visit to three Southeast Asian countries has given new momentum to the strategic relations between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Cambodian experts said on Sunday, reported Xinhua. ...

The new Minister of Tourism Sok Soken has set out three strategic goals to achieve this vision to develop the tourism sector in Cambodia. ...

The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) will now embark on new Chinese-funded demining projects in three provinces after the completion of two missions. ...

The government has issued a new sub-decree allowing people to use expired ID cards to vote in the National Election on July 23. ...

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has announced the approval of nine new investment projects creating a total of 13,849 job opportunities for the locals. ...

Minister of Mines and Energy, Keo Rottanak, has declared Prey Lang a protected area, effectively prohibiting the issue of new licenses for mining companies. ...

Prime Minister Hun Manet has outlined five new strategies to promote reform of governance and the fight against corruption in public administration. ...

On Tuesday the European Union and the Cambodian government launched four new programs designed to promote sustainability and energy efficiency in the country, including a $53.1 million initiative to improve technical education. ...

Prime Minister Hun Manet welcomed the interest of Swiss company Bühler Group in introducing new technology into the Kingdom’s agriculture sector. ...

I visited the Cambodian Stock Exchange (CSX) last September in the heart of Phnom Penh. It had officially “opened” a few months prior but no companies were listed yet. The trading room was filled with new desks and computer monitors, waiting for someone to power ...

Phnom Penh, a city once fabled for its stately colonial buildings and boulevards, and its serene riverside setting, is becoming a city of glaring contrasts. An economy left in ruins by the years of war and violent revolution in the 1970s and 80s grew at a ...

SET-listed Group Lease Plc (GL) plans to acquire a microfinance company in Cambodia as part of its effort to boost overseas revenue to more than 50% by 2015. GL’s chief executive Mitsuji Konoshita said negotiations are nearly finalised and the acquisition will be made through ...

Philippine Airlines continues to pursue talks to form a new Cambodian flag carrier with local telecommunications, banking and property tycoon Kith Meng despite missing a deadline to close the deal for a second time this week, its top executive said. PAL president Ramon S. Ang said ...

In a bid to make Cambodia more business-friendly, the government will cut back on red tape and reduce industry membership costs, Sun Chanthol, the new minister of commerce, said yesterday. Speaking to representatives from the private sector at a conference at the InterContinental Hotel in Phnom ...

Cambodia is preparing three long-awaited laws aimed at restoring its widely criticized judicial system. However, two of the three draft laws obtained by VOA Khmer still need a lot more improvement, according to legal experts. The laws focus on codifying court jurisdiction, laying out guidelines for ...

On 28 December 2020, the Ministry of Commerce issued a press release on new E-commerce grants and training set to boost Cambodia’s small and medium enterprises. So far, 125 small and medium enterprises are set to gain grants and training in online commerce through a ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates a dataset on “Land cover in Cambodia (2015-2020)” by adding new interactive map layers of land cover in Cambodia from 2015-2020. This bilingual new dataset highlights 15 classes of land cover throughout Cambodia and allows it to download for purposes.=> ...

The opening of the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) was marked by a speech from Minister of Finance Keat Chhon, who urged three state-owned companies to speed up their initial public offerings. No companies, state-owned or otherwise are currently trading on the new market. Telecom Cambodia, ...

SACOMBANK yesterday announced the launch of its new subsidiary, the 100 per cent foreign-owned Sacombank Cambodia Plc, which is set to target the Kingdom’s rural population. The Vietnamese commercial bank plans to open branches throughout the country’s provinces to provide banking services to a larger cross-section ...

Money laundering and drug-related crimes continue to be a major challenge in Cambodia due to a lack of enforceable legislation, endemic corruption and limited resources, according a new report by the US State Department. According to the 2012 International Narcotics Strategy Report, Cambodia continues to be ...