As of January 24, the government has spent more than $930 million in cash support for poor and vulnerable households affected by Covid-19, with nearly 2.8 million people receiving payments. ...

Three days after winning the elections, Hun Sen has officially stepped down as Cambodian Prime Minister and handed over the premiership to his son, Hun Manet, announcing he had to “sacrifice his power” for the sake of continued peace. ...

TOURISM Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco stressed on Monday that Cambodia is an important partner for tourist development in the Philippines, with potential areas of partnership agreements focusing on heritage protection, management and monitoring. ...

More than 1,500 Cambodian People’s Party supporters in Kandal province’s Sa’ang district were summonsed by party officials yesterday to be thanked for voting for the party, during a meeting one villager claimed was tacit intimidation. According to a villager speaking on the condition of anonymity, invited ...

Union workers and leaders appeared divided yesterday on the question of whether to support the opposition party’s planned three-day demonstration at Freedom Park. Campaign promises from the Cambodia National Rescue Party to raise minimum monthly salaries to $150 seemed to have struck a chord with garment ...

Cambodia’s election authorities may be ordered to check key voting data to investigate opposition claims of widespread election irregularities in recent national widespread election irregularities in recent national polls, the country’s highest court ruled Thursday. The Constitutional Council said in a statement that it could call ...

The opening weekend for the official launch of two new iPhone models in Cambodia hit a few bumps when the Kingdom’s two authorised iPhone resellers faced supply-side issues.Telecom company Smart, one of the two licensed resellers, was forced to turn away customers who had pre-booked ...

Impending COVID-19 health measures and high levels of micro debt pose a serious concern for the approximately 2.4 million Cambodians with a combined outstanding debt of $8 billion, according to a World Bank report released this week. ...

The mixed results of the June 4 commune elections may have allowed both major parties to save face, but the opposition’s large gains show it has a serious chance of winning next year’s national election – and that could attract violent backlash from the government, ...

The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology yesterday announced that tropical storm Molave, currently causing havoc as it crosses the Philippines, will soon drop further rain on Cambodia, already suffering from devastating floods. Cambodia expects the impact of Molave from October 28 through 29, with ...

  After a slow year in 2010, demand for office space in Phnom Penh is beginning to rebound as occupancy levels in new and existing units increase, real estate experts said yesterday. However, it is still unclear whether or not there is enough demand to fill ...

Civil society groups from Thailand will boycott a meeting between NGOs and regional government representatives at this week’s ASEAN summit because their country’s delegate “does not represent Thai civil society”, a spokeswoman said yesterday. Premrudee Daoroung, a representative of Thai civil society groups, said her country’s ...

Speaking at the official launch of the National Strategic Development Plan 2019-2023 in Phnom Penh, Mr Hun Sen said steps to increase the power supply are ongoing and apologised for any inconvenience caused if blackouts do occur. ...

The National Assembly is preparing to discuss the “people’s proposal” to oust Cambodia National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem Sokha from his position as the assembly’s vice president, a ruling party lawmaker said yesterday.Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker and parliamentary spokesman Chheang Vun said that Monday’s ...

As activists from Prey Lang forest received the prestigious Equator Prize in Paris on Monday, another, parallel network was asserting itself in Kampong Thom province – one with close ties to the security forces and local governor.The Prey Lang Forest Community Network (PLFCN), funded by ...

Opposition spokesman Yim Sovann said yesterday that if any of the CNRP’s more than 400 new commune chiefs who won office on Sunday cannot follow through on the party’s campaign pledges, they will “give up” their positions.Sovann said the Cambodia National Rescue Party had made ...

A rights group has raised concerns that up to 100 Cambodian migrant workers at a Thai seafood processing factory will be stranded abroad in less than a week without any income because they cannot afford to pay a passport fee demanded by their employer. Of the ...

With its campaign for subnational council elections well under way, the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party is putting forth an optimistic message about its prospects in the vote, even going so far as to predict that ruling party voters will bolster its share of the ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday suggested eventually extending a controversial new provision banning dual nationals from sitting on the National Election Committee (NEC) to also apply to the National Assembly and executive branch, but said there is no pressing reason to do so. Speaking at ...

Former Prime Minister Pen Sovann claimed Monday that he has been barred from entering the U.S. because of an assistant who overstayed his U.S. visa more than a decade ago, and paid a visit to the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh in an effort to ...