The Anti-Corruption Unit met with visiting staff of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria last week to follow up on the Fund’s allegations that a former government health official had collected some $350,000 in bribes to manipulate mosquito net contracts. ...

Around 150 villagers in northwestern Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province have blocked a Chinese concession holder from clearing land they say was reserved for grazing their cattle, an official from a nongovernmental organization and a local commune chief said Wednesday. ...

After a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama that was dogged by protests from Vietnamese exiles and expatriates, the head of Vietnam’s Communist Party said Wednesday that human rights were a top concern of the authoritarian, one-party country. ...

Youth vocational training may be the key to curbing migration and combating poverty in Cambodia’s most vulnerable communities, according to child welfare NGO Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE), which is helping to roll out a technical skills program for high school dropouts. ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday sought to reassure Cambodia’s neighbors that the country’s ever-closer ties to China were part of a foreign-policy strategy that posed no threat to the country’s allegiances with “friends” in Asean and the West. ...

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said UN was unable to find the 1:100,000 scale maps produced between 1933 and 1953 by the Indochina Geographical Service, but indentified the maps that may be of interest to Cambodia. ...

In its latest published accusation of public graft, the Anti-Corruption Unit on Wednesday posted to its website anonymous claims that the heads of the National Military Police’s training center in Phnom Penh had been taking hefty bribes to secure enrollment, promotions and oth­er benefits. ...

A new highway connecting Thailand and Cambodia is 70% complete, according to the Department of Highways. ...

Domestic salt production can supply domestic demand this year, relieving Cambodia of the need to engage in imports according to Kampot province’s department of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation. ...

The National Assembly, Senate and the Parliamentary Center of Asia (PCAsia) have partnered to strengthen the capacity of officials in parliament through training. ...

Three villages in Kampong Speu province were flooded and some 30 hectares of rice fields have been damaged by floodwaters. ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on November 24 expressed his hope for expanded trade ties between Cambodia and Vietnam. ...

Cambodia and Vietnam have convened a meeting to discuss a possible reopening of some border gates between the two countries. ...

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and the United Sates was valued at about $6.35 billion in the first ten months of 2021, a year-on-year increase of 40 percent. ...

With the EU rolling back import tariffs on long grain white rice from Cambodia and Myanmar, market participants expect a rise in shipments from Cambodian exporters who were however still skeptical due to continued high freight rates. ...

ASEAN-India Tourism Ministers have set a joint plan to find ways to better use digital technology for the development of ASEAN tourism and to continue to strengthen cooperation to restore ASEAN-India tourism. ...

The Ministry of Health on February 17 reported 444 new Covid-19 cases, 14 of which were imported and all were confirmed to be the Omicron variant. ...

The Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, which represents the the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community (ASCC) this year, will organise three key virtual meetings on March 28-30. ...

Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol suggested that the ministry leadership study the possibility of appointing women as deputy heads of departments throughout the country in order to further promote gender equality. ...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade pact and the Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) have injected a new impetus into the Cambodia-China trade, a Cambodian official said on Thursday. ...