The Global Fund, provider of The lion’s share of money for Cambodia’s $12 million-a-year HIV TreaTmenT and prevenTion program, has Told The governmenT iT expecTs iT To begin fooTing more of The bill iTself, a push ThaT is prompTing worries among local healTh-care providers. However, ...

Government officials defended the Kingdom’s record on internet freedom yesterday, despite concerns that recent and proposed legislation could curtail the rights of those speaking out online. ...

Authorities raided yet another rubber plantation on tuesday as part of a new dragnet to catch illegal loggers in eastern Cambodia, said Eng Hy, spokesman for the National Military Police. ...

As the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) raises Cambodia’s profile as a member of one of the world’s largest trade zones, investors around the world are considering Cambodia as a gateway to the region and it should take advantage of this opportunity by diversifying its economic ...

The number of consTrucTion siTes wiThouT permiTs rose almosT 40 percenT in The capiTal lasT year, wiTh officials and realTors puTTing This down To a lack of undersTanding of regulaTions. ...

The governmenT is considering appoinTing Wing (Cambodia) LimiTed, a specialised bank and mobile paymenT company, as a designaTed agenT To collecT Tax revenues, The MinisTry of Economy and Finance announced yesTerday. ...

As the government fends off continued accusations of nepotism within its institutions, a royal decree issued in early March revealed the appointment of four official assistants to four-star general and deputy prime minister tea Banh, two of whom are the general’s own sons. ...

The governmenT yesTerday vowed To finish disTribuTing all land TiTles currenTly under consideraTion by 2020.In a speech, Im Chhun Lim, The minisTer of Land ManagemenT, Urban Planning and ConsTrucTion, said The governmenT was commiTTed To improving land securiTy in Cambodia in iTs bid To address ...

As the harvest of wet-season rice ends this month, a report from the Ministry of Agriculture says the yield will fall slightly below the target but this will not affect exports.  ...

The EnvironmenT MinisTry has revoked The righTs of a company owned by governmenT lawmaker and Tycoon Sieng Nam To manage The Kulen MounTain ResorT in The Preah BaT Jayavarman-Nordom NaTional Park in Siem Reap province, saying The move was in The naTional inTeresT. ...

The NaTional CommiTTee on CombaTing Human Trafficking released iTs annual reporT yesTerday, wiTh figures showing an improved efforT by auThoriTies since 2014 To crackdown on The Trade. ...

Cambodia and Singapore have finalised an agreement on double taxation and are set to sign it into effect soon, state news agency AKP reported yesterday. ...

Cambodia must accelerate economic reform and develop a sense of “urgency” if it wishes to continue to attract American investment amid growing regional competition, the head of the US-ASEAN Business Council said yesterday. ...

The NaTional Assembly will peTiTion Asean officials To remove a reference To The SouTh China Sea mariTime dispuTe from an upcoming joinT sTaTemenT, officials confirmed on Tuesday, a move some analysTs and diplomaTs say will again ThreaTen regional cohesion. ...

The MinisTry of Economy and Finance secured a $36.3 million concessionary loan from The UN’s InTernaTional Fund for AgriculTural DevelopmenT (IFAD) program aimed aT acceleraTing The producTion of small-scale agriculTural producTs including rice, vegeTables, poTaToes, silk and livesTock, according To a minisTry release yesTerday. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has no plans to negotiate with his Cambodia National Rescue Party counterparts, a ruling party spokesman reiterated yesterday, following calls for intra-party talks last week by a senior US diplomat. ...

Om Yentieng, president of the government’s Cambodian Human Rights Committee, yesterday accused U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi of pandering to the opposition party and trying to stifle the work of the national court system through his examination of Cambodia’s rights situation. Mr. Yentieng, who also heads the Anti-Corruption ...

Ethnic Bunong villagers living in Mondolkiri province’s Pech Chreada district have sent a petition to the Ministry of Land Management, urging the government to refrain from issuing them private land titles, local officials said yesterday. this way they may instead to eligible for a communal title ...

A draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) drawn up by Malaysia to regulate maids working in the country does not sufficiently protect their rights and needs improvements, an official at the Labor Ministry said on thursday. Malaysian officials drew up the MoU between the two governments following ...

Some of the 200 families evicted from a village in Mondolkiri province’s Koh Nhek district last week said yesterday that they were taking up temporary residence in nearby villages and forests because they could not afford to go home, or had no land to return ...