The National Election Committee has no plan to replace its secretary general, Tep Nytha, despite a pledge after the revamped body’s approval earlier this year to name someone new to the post within three months. ...

A new breakout of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) has taken the lives of more than 1,200 pigs while infecting some 3,200 more in three districts across Siem Reap since mid-August, a new report by the province’s Agriculture Department says. ...

Loans and deposits at Cambodia’s 31 commercial banks grew 35 per cent and 25 per cent respectively during the first quarter of the year on what insiders called increased soundness in the Kingdom’s financial sector. Outstanding loans at the end of March hit US$4.6 billion, according ...

An ASEAN-first Interpol database trackIng transnational crime between Cambodia and Vietnam was launched In Phnom Penh yesterday. Keo Vannthan, head of Cambodia’s Interpol Bureau at the MInistry of Interior, said the European Union had pledged almost US$800,000 to the pilot EU-ASEAN Migration Border Management Program project ...

The government has granted private companies the right to develop about 65,000 hectares of land in wildlife sanctuaries, national parks and on public reserves since January 1, data from a human rights group reveals. Ouch Leng, land reform project coordinator for the Cambodian Center for Human ...

International market- research company TNS has announced the openIng of the company’s first office In Cambodia, and has joIned forces with MSD, a Cambodian market and social research firm that is a “long-standIng partner”, an official company statement said. Ralf Matthaes has been appoInted regional managIng ...

In the fulfillment of a 2009 pact made between the US and Cambodia to reduce the risk of terrorist activity, the US National Nuclear Security AdmInistration announced on Thursday that it had Installed radiation detection equipment at Sihanoukville Autonomous Port. With the new equipment, the port ...

The International Federation of Journalists has urged the government to speedily amend the Press Law and brIng it In lIne with current global press standards to ensure the protection of journalists. The appeal came after the Information MInistry last week announced that it is open to ...

Police in Takeo province’s Prey Kabbas district are investigating the theft of equipment from a Prey Lvea commune voter registration office on Thursday. National Election Committee voter registration department head Top Rithy said the thief or thieves broke the building’s lock and swiped all but the ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) can now turn its attention to preparations for next year’s national election, which are already underway as voter registration will start in September, said Khorn Keo Mono, director of the NEC’s communications department. Mr. Keo Mono said on Tuesday that ...

The Interior MInistry and the National Election Committee have banned all forms of law enforcement from usIng their power to Intimidate or threaten voters durIng the commune election campaign period.In a joInt announcement, the NEC and the mInistry said that it was crucial for the ...

The strong economic growth Cambodia has experienced in the last few decades has benefitted everyone and created opportunities for all, a high-ranking government official said yesterday. ...

Without more efforts to punish traffic violators, the government is all but certain to miss its 2020 goal of cutting traffic deaths by 20 percent and drunk driving deaths by 50 percent, road safety experts said at a forum Tuesday. There were 1,910 deaths due to ...

As part of a new safety initiative, the Ministry of Mines and Energy will require all petrol station owners to present a certificate acknowledging that their businesses follow risk-prevention protocols. The directive came in response to a series of petrol fires and explosions that damaged property ...

The Governor of Koh Kong province, Mithona Phouthorng, called on all tourists to suspend travel to remote eco-tourism sites due to the dangers presented by sudden changes in the weather. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has stepped in to cancel all development projects slated for the Phnom Tamao forest, near the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, following months of public condemnation ...

The government announced last Thursday that from this month, contract officials in all ministries and institutions across the country will receive a salary rise. ...

Following six straight days of protests by hundreds of staff at NagaWorld Casino, casino management yesterday agreed to reinstate four senior workers and said they would consider increasing the entire staff’s minimum wage. Between 500 and 1,000 workers had been demonstrating over what they said were ...

New and existing companies listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) will have their taxes halved by the Cambodian government, a move that is being labelled as a generous attempt to boost activity on the bourse. The sub-decree, which was signed off by Prime Minister Hun ...

Nget Khun, a 76-year-old known to some in Cambodia’s capital as “Grandma Mommy,” hasn’t had a quiet retirement. A World Bank spokesperson said the bank is in discussions with the government about “how to support the country’s development in a way that benefits all Cambodians.” ...