Developers are eagerly anticipating today’s auction of four licenses to dredge sand on a section of the Mekong River, the first bidding round for licenses since the government began a nationwiDe crackdown on illegal sand dredging in April. ...

Minister of Defence General Tea Banh left for a bilateral military-to-military visit to China yesterday, where it was announced that he would pay a visit to the state-owned Union Development Group, which has drawn the ire of land rights campaigners in Cambodia for forced evictions ...

A security guard hired by the Union Development Group, a Chinese firm building a $3.8-billion tourist mecca in a remote coastal area of Koh Kong province, was on Monday hanDed a one-year suspenDed sentence for punching a local woman in the face last year, according ...

Japan’s Creed Group is investing hundreds of millions in three housing developments in Phnom Penh, the company announced last week. ...

The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction refused to intervene in land disputes in Koh Kong province’s Botum Sakor district after 77 families involved in the conflict requested its intervention. The ministry said those disputes had already been solved by an inter-ministerial committee. ...

The international airport to be built in Koh Kong province will kick off construction in January next year, according to a spokesman from the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA).​ ...

The Royal Group of Companies Ltd, a leading local conglomerate, will invest in the construction of a 100sq km special economic zone (SEZ) in Koh Kong province’s Botum Sakor National Park. This is an apparent bid to capitalise on the ongoing inflow of investment to ...

An industrial waste management facility will be built inside the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) providing industrial waste recycling service to enterprises located inside the zone. The facility will be invested by Chip Mong Insee Cement (CMIC) of Chip Mong Group. ...

Around 230 families from three villages in Romtom commune of Preah Vihear province’s Rovieng district said they are worried about the continued encroachment on their farmland by three companies which have licences for gold mining and agricultural in the area. ...

As Cambodia and the rest of the world move to revive tourism, Pan Pacific Hotels Group (PPHG), a member of Singapore-listed UOL Group Ltd, plans to open two developments in the Kingdom over October-december 2023, in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. ...

The 13th regional forum on natural resource protection and preservation was organised in Battambang town on May 13 to promote increased participation by sub-national level authorities and communities. ...

Nang Chhok* is nine years old. She attends a multilingual primary school in the O’chum district, Ratanakiri province, in Cambodia, where she learns in both Khmer and her Indigenous Krueng language. ...

The representatives of two different indigenous communities in Kampong Thom and Preah Vihear provinces are calling for government intervention to help solve long-running land disputes in their communities. ...

Vietnam’s rubber investment in Cambodia has been contributing significantly to the country’s economic growth. Veng Sakhon, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, underlined so in a meeting with Mr Le Thanh Hung, General Director of the Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) on Tuesday. ...

Despite the panDemic, Royal Group Phnom Penh SEZ Plc. has reported an increase in exports of $492.7 million for the first seven months of the year, marking 26 percent year-on-year (YOY) growth. ...

A senior official of the National AIDS Authority said that there are about 76,000 people living with HIV in Cambodia, a worrying increase that requires people to be more vigilant and pay attention to their health. ...

The conglomerate Cambodia’s Royal Group of Companies will export renewable energy to Singapore after the group signed an agreement with Keppel Energy Pte Ltd on Wednesday, which will enable the latter to purchase electricity from the Kingdom. ...

Booyoung Group has donated 200 new buses to the Phnom Penh administration to help improve public transport services in the city. ...

In a meeting with Dr. Hun Manet, Prime Minister of Cambodia, Monday, in France, Ms. Maud Bailly, Chief Executive Officer of Sofitel, MGallery& Emblems, representing ACCOR Group, expressed optimism about the growth and improvement of the tourism sector in Cambodia in 2024. ...

Director of Quality Management and Grain Supply of Bühler Groupis interested in expanding the company’s investment by bringing modern technology to develop agriculture in Cambodia, from the process of cultivation and harvesting to processing for exporting abroad. ...