Dai-ichi Life Insurance will become the first Japanese life insurer to establish a presence in Cambodia, setting up a representative’s office in the capital Phnom Penh this month. ...

The Indigenous Peoples and Forestry Network (IPFN) yesterday released a statement praising The government’s ongoing purported crackdown on illegal logging, but saying far more needs to be done. ...

Cambodian women play an important role in the agricultural sector, especially as the nation’s economic conditions continue to force many men to seek work overseas, according to experts. ...

More than a dozen Montagnard refugees are set to depart from Cambodia for the Philippines today, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).   ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) yesterday changed its procedure for resolving complaints that allege some registered voters are Vietnamese by holding brief, private hearings to speed up The process. ...

King Norodom Sihamoni yesterday oversaw a tree planting ceremony in Kandal province to mark the 27th Arbor Day, pleading for all citizens to protect the country’s forests. ...

Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sar Kheng has urged political parties, politicians and activists to refrain from making controversial comments in the run-up to the commune elections. ...

Almost 100 workers at the KKN factory in the special economic zone in Koh Kong province’s Mondul Sima district fainted on Tuesday morning while working.   ...

A pension scheme for people working in the private sector will be launched later this year, according to an official from the National Social Security Fund.   ...

Two more families have accepted compensation to leave the Borei Keila area to make room for development, as the long-running land dispute creeps ever closer to an end. ...

Some 100 physicians from the Phnom Penh Municipal Referral Hospital staged a protest on Tuesday after their superiors planned to sell the current hospital building. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said that he would like to see the stronger economic and trade cooperation between Cambodia and Brunei. And Cambodia want to increase the rice export to Brunei. ...

A private clinic aiming to provide medical care to factory workers in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (SEZ) will open this month, the health centre’s managing director said yesterday. ...

The Thai prime minister would be holding talks with his Cambodian counterpart today to strengThen bilateral relations between both nations in order to be prepared for The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). ...

Seven newly appointed Cambodian ambassadors have been officially charged with leading membership drives for the ruling CPP in the countries to which they have been assigned, a party spokesman said Friday. ...

The Food and Agriculture Organisation has announced a new guide to assess child labour in agriculture and The impacts that various development programmes can have. ...

Breaking his long silence on the case, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on police to bring to justice the former Bavet town governor and convicted gunman Chhouk Bandith. ...

Banteay Meanchey Governor has requested the Japanese-Cambodian Association to attract Japanese investors to do business in the province. ...

Mobile payment company Wing was in talks on partnering with a US technology firm that plans to assemble Android tablets in Cambodia, in what could be another step away from the country’s staple manufactured good – garments. Although a final partnership agreement had yet to made ...

The Bunong ethnic community in Mondulkiri province’s Bou Sra commune on Friday sought Pich Chreada district hall’s assistance to probe several land plots located within The Phnom Nam Lear Wildlife Sanctuary that They suspect have been grabbed for private ownership. However, officials said that should ...