The People’s Court of the southern province of Tay Ninh handed a death penalty to a Cambodian drug trafficker during a trial on July 31. ...

The Ministry of Labour announced yesterday that thousands of Cambodian workers can register to work in South Korea through the Employment Permit System (EPS). ...

China is donating an additional 300,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine to the Cambodian military, Minister of Defence General Tea Banh said yesterday. ...

Cambodia will dispatch more than 300 Blue Helmets to join the nation’s peacekeeping mission in the Republic of Mali in mid-September this year, according to General Sem Sovanny, director general of the National Centre for Peacekeeping Forces (NCPF). ...

Phnom Penh will continue to be a central service hub in the region with a population of six million with an expanded  radius of 100 km by 2035. ...

UN officials commended Cambodia’s all-out Covid-19 vaccination campaign as the latest batch of vaccines provided through Covax – a global initiative aimed at ensuring equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines – arrived at Phnom Penh International Airport on the evening of October 22. ...

Monday being the first day for the administration of booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine to adolescents aged 12 to 18 received less than encouraging result as less than 50,000 turned up to get their shots. ...

Cambodia imported road vehicles worth $977.4 million in the first 10 months of 2021, up by more than eight per cent from $901 million in January-October 2020, according to Ministry of Commerce data. ...

Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are gathering in Cambodia for their first meeting of the year, with discussions on Myanmar, among other issues. ...

Dr. Hun Manet, Prime Minister of Cambodia, this morning defended the decision on the monthly minimum wage for the garment workers of $204. ...

Siem Reap province, home to the famous Angkor temples, welcomed 1,242,854 tourists in the first seven months of this year, an increase by 890.17 percent compared to the same period of 2021. ...

Striking workers planned to set tyres aflame today outside a garment factory that supplies JC Penney in the capital’s Por Sen Chey district, union officials said yesterday on the sixth day of the strike at Hong Kong-owned Win Shing-tex Cambodia Co Ltd. Ath Thorn, head of ...

The London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (Locog) plans to investigate allegations that a Cambodian factory producing Olympic merchandise for Adidas is not paying workers a sustainable living wage, a spokesman for Locog said yesterday. The investigation is a response to an article published Saturday ...

As Barack Obama prepares for the first visit by a United States president to Cambodia this month, the country is reportedly preparing for him too — by hiding street children from sight in Phnom Penh While the government has tidied its streets, protesters have begun camping ...

On 26 November 2020, the Embassy of Sweden in Phnom Penh issued a press release on its government’s decision to close its office in Phnom Penh by the end of 2021. In this press release, the embassy also noted that the activities of the Ministry ...

The body of a deceased Covid-19 patient was finally taken by his relatives to his hometown in Tbong Khmum province after hundreds of villagers in Prek Khsay Kor commune of Prey Veng province’s Peamro district refused to bury him in the cemetery behind their village ...

According to the report on Cambodia Forest Cover 2018 issued on December 2020 by the Ministry of Environment (MoE),1 Cambodia has conducted eight national forest assessments in 1958/65, 1992/93, 1996/97, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2016, and 2018. The forest cover assessment from 1958-1965 has not ...

On 14 November 2021, the Ministry of Health issued a notification on allowing passengers who have had fully COVID-19 vaccine to enter Cambodia without quarantine. The Cambodian government has decided to allow passengers who have been fully vaccinated to enter the Kingdom of Cambodia without ...

Police said on Tuesday that they will pick up members of a Facebook group involved in the “Clean Fingers Campaign” that promotes a boycott of next month’s national elections. However, police merely planned to “educate” the group for now, but warned that if the group ...

The government has reclassified 35 hectares of state land in Phnom Penh as state-private land to be developed by a private company, a sub-decree seen by Khmer Times showed yesterday. In accordance with the sub-decree, signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen in September, the government converted ...