From July 2018 to June 2022, One Window Service Office (OWSO) earned over $15 million from its provision of 185,482 services to the public. The update was shared by Mr Huot Hay, Deputy Governor of Phnom Penh in a meeting here in Phnom Penh early ...

The NGO Youth Resource Development Programme (YRDP) has launched a campaign to promote and lobby for the establishment of an “extractive industries fund”, with more than 100 youths from various universities participating. ...

Deputy Prime Minister Prak Sokhonn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation chaired the annual Informal ASEAN Foreign Minister’s Meeting (IAMM), held in New York City, USA on Sept. 22, on the sidelines of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). ...

The Ministry of Environment and environmentalists have express of the risk of loss of rare species amid government cooperating with relevant partners to launch the fourth “Zero-Snaring Campaign” in Mondulkiri province to protect the wildlife animal in the last protected areas. ...

Japan has granted a $383.22 million loan to Cambodia to expand and modernise Sihanoukville Port. ...

Police claim 19 Japanese nationals who were removed from a Sihanoukville compound last week were not held against their will and are being investigated for alleged criminal activity, according to National Police spokesperson Chhay Kim Khoeun. ...

The apex Cambodian business association’s leaders are convinced that their new representative office in the Sendai region will materially accelerate the Kingdom’s trade and economic relations with Japan, largely by tapping into the opportunities created by the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). ...

Cambodia welcomed more than 1.914 million international visitors in the first 11 months of 2022, up nearly 12-fold on-year, in an improvement largely attributed to effective pandemic management and the relatively early adoption of a “Living with Covid” approach. ...

Relatives of infamous Pheapimex CEO Choeung Sopheap received forest land in the center of Kirirom National Park, while a minister, tycoons and an apparent relative of first lady Bun Rany all received state land, according to official documents published in late December. ...

The Cambodian Special Economic Zone Board (CSEZB) and Cambodian Investment Board (CIB) of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) have approved 15 investment projects worth $218.3 million with plans to recruit more than 17,000 employees to produce various products at different places, according ...

Despite the dangers faced by the ever evolving COVID-19 virus with new strains still wrecking havoc across the region and fluctuating known cases in Cambodia, the take up of the 6th dose of the vaccine is still lagging. ...

French foreign trade minister Olivier Becht’s plans to visit the Kingdom from January 24-25 have been welcomed as a major step in improving economic cooperation between the two nations, including by a senior commerce official and a leader of the local business community. ...

The period for lodging official complaints with the National Election Committee (NEC) following the posting of the 2022 voter list and list of removed names is underway with a total of 53 complaints received to date through commune councils nationwide, according to NEC spokesman Som ...

More than one million vehicles had travelled on Cambodia’s first-ever expressway connecting the capital Phnom Penh and the deep-sea port province of Preah Sihanouk in the first three months since its inauguration on October 1 last year. ...

About 400 farmers and other agriculture stakeholders gathered in Siem Reap on Friday for the third Cambodian Sustainable Agricultural Summit, where they called for urgent measures to be put in place to bolster climate-resilient agricultural development. ...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) free trade pact and the bilateral free trade agreements (FTAs) will play a crucial role in attracting more foreign direct investments to Cambodia, Cambodia’s central bank said in a report released on Thursday. ...

Vietnam always supports Cambodia’s national construction and development, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen PhuTrong told President of the Cambodian National Assembly (NA)KhuonSudary, during a reception in Hanoi, Vietnam on Dec. 1. ...

The first Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia border friendship exchange is slated for mid-December in the tri-border area that comprises Ngoc Hoi district in Vietnam’s Central Highland province of Kon Tum, Laos’ Attapeu province, and Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province as well as in Kon Tum city. ...

The Asia Development Bank (ADB) in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) has successfully built a 20-hectare controlled landfill in Battambang province, aiming to serve 126,000 people in the community with the capacity to remove 100 tonnes of trash daily for ...

Prime Minister Hun Manet will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris and attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland in the third week of January, marking his first visit to Europe since taking office. ...