A high-ranking National Assembly (NA) official announced yesterday at the NA’s consultative meeting with foreign ambassadors to Cambodia that the government spent $60 million to cover costs for the June 5 Commune ​Election, and that the election process was free, fair and just. ...

As of Jan. 4, at least 20,393 young people, 7,007 of them women, from poor and vulnerable families have registered for the Technical and Vocational Education and Training “TVET 1.5m.” ...

The project to electrify Cambodia’s river systems, which is expected to cost a total of $600 million over five years, received its first tranche of $120 million in funding. The funding came in from the commercial arm of a major multilateral bank. ...

1,300 hectares of land in Phnom Penh and Kandal province have been privatized and conceded to the LYP Group in order for them to be developed into a satellite city. LYP Group is owned by CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat. Prime minister Hun Sen signed ...

The W&D garment factory in the capital’s meanchey district has reported a loss of more than $1 million since its workers started their protests in December. The factory owner said it has also lost up to three major buyers out of its 10 overseas ones ...

More than 1,000 stalls and shops were destroyed in an over­night fire at a Market in Stung Treng City, causing about $1 Million in property daMage, local police said on Friday. ...

HLH Group, listed on the Singapore Exchange main board, on Thursday said it has awarded a construction project in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, to Yanjian Group (Cambodia) Co Ltd for about US$36.8 million. ...

The government will ask for more than $100 million in concessional loans from the Japanese government to begin building a new container terminal inside Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (SAP) early next year to handle the surging volume of containers passing through the port. ...

A refugee has reportedly arrived in Cambodia from Nauru under the Turnbull Government’s$55 million agreement. A Syrian man was said to be the seventh person to resettle to one of Asia’s poorest nations. Cambodian Interior ministry’s Refugee Department head Tan Sovichea said there were two refugees ...

Popular media outlets Radio Free Asia and Voice of America have become the latest to draw the attention of the government for allegedly not paying taxes, one week after a letter to the Cambodia Daily demanding more than $6 million in back taxes was leaked. ...

EZECOM and TelekoM Malaysia has [sic] signed a MeMoranduM of Understanding (MOU) Tuesday to install a subMerged cable systeM called the Malaysia-CaMbodia-Thailand Cable SysteM (MCT). A stateMent reported that CaMbodia’s leading Internet service Telcotech Ltd &Mdash; a part of EzecoM &Mdash; will sign the MOU with ...

ASX-listed Indochine Mining has coMpleted the first part of a A$26.3-Million capital raising, and has signed a deal with fellow-listed Capital Mining to dispose of an 85% shareholding in its wholly owned subsidiary, which owns gold assets in CaMbodia. Earlier this Month, the precious Metals developer ...

The Export-Import Bank of China (Exim Bank) on Wednesday signed up to provide a concessional loan of $121 million to Cambodia for irrigation system and power transmission line development. The agreement was inked between Cambodian Finance minister Aun Porn moniroth and visiting Chairman of the Exim ...

A huge haul of river sand dredged in Cambodia has been quarantined at the southern Indian port city of Cochin since its arrival in April despite a ban on sand exports instituted by Prime minister Hun Sen in 2009. India’s Deccan Chronicle news­paper reported on Tuesday ...

The local Sathapana Bank Plc has received $10 million from OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I, the first global emerging markets impact fund in Finland, allowing the bank to expand its loan portfolio to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SmE), and especially female entrepreneurs. ...

In light of ongoing disputes over working conditions in the garment sector, the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) released yesterday details on hundreds of factories it believes will offer greater transparency along the garment supply chain – from producers to buyers – and shine ...

The government and the US Embassy yesterday signed off on half the nearly $65 million the US is giving Cambodia in aid this year, more than two months after Cambodia cancelled a major meeting with its foreign donors that was scheduled for November. Held roughly every ...

At its party conference on Sunday, the Khmer Will Party (KWP) claimed its plan was to gather the support of three million former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) followers as it heads for the national polls on July 29. It also criticised the populist call, ...

The German government announced on Tuesday that following negotiations with Cambodian officials it has decided to approve a package of $34 million in loans and $32 million in grants to develop rural infrastructure and reduce poverty. A press release by the German Embassy urged Cambodia, ...

Phnom Penh’s much-maligned waste-collection firm Cintri yesterday used a meeting with City Hall to ask for help in collecting between $10 million and $20 million in unpaid fees it says it’s owed by residents in the capital. ...