The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and The China Council for The Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote business interaction and enhance trade and investment between China and The Kingdom. ...

The Association of SouTheast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has held The 44th Senior officials Meeting on Drug Matters (ASOD) forum to address emerging issues on The drug trafficking front. ...

Cambodia Youth Party leader Pich Sros filed a lawsuit on Friday against activist monk But Buntenh and Pa Nguon Teang, founder of the Cambodian Centre for Independent Media, accusing the pair of embezzling money from the late Kem Ley’s funeral fund. ...

Many  families in nine provinces have been hit by floods in recent days, which have inundated homes, schools and even led to injuries as well as fatalities. ...

The Council of Ministers has ordered licences granted to private companies to log and collect timber from social land concessions (SLC) and state-owned land revoked, following years of allegations that some companies were exploiting The permits to carry out illegal logging. The council on Monday released ...

Hun Manith, the son of Prime Minister Hun Sen, has been “promoted” as a board member and adviser of the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) – a position equal to a cabinet minister. A royal decree, signed by the King on November 2 and obtained ...

The Ministry of Information on Tuesday concluded The final revision by key ministries of The draft Law on Access to Information, without making any major amendments. It will be submitted to The Council of Ministers to be rubber-stamped by The end of September or beginning ...

A representative with Duong Sruoch Group in Preah Vihear yesterday denied allegations that that the company had been illegally clearing forest outside the boundaries of social land concessions it had been licensed to log. Duong Sruoch Group was specifically named in a directive issued Monday by ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered the relevant authorities to probe four land-related cases following a series of complaints from the Khmer Rise Party (KRP), which studied them. Four letters, signed by members of the Council of Ministers and its secretary of state Hing Thoraksy on ...

A new US$10.9 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund a three-year project by international development NGO East Meets West (EMW) to improve sanitation and hygiene among the poor in rural Cambodia and Vietnam. According to EMW, the program seeks to combat the negative effects of ...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and The Pacific (UNESCAP) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote sustainable finance in Cambodia. ...

The Council for The Development of Cambodia (CDC) has approved a more than $68 million hotel project in Poipet town, it said on Friday. The project, funded by Boonma Heng Co Ltd, aims to build The first four-star hotel in The province, complete with 392 ...

The defense lawyer for The late Khmer Rouge BroTher Number Two Nuon Chea claimed on Wednesday that his death rendered him “legally innocent”. Hence, Doreen Chen called on The Supreme Court Chamber of The UN-backed Extraordinary Chambers in The Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) to declare ...

The United Nations’ human rights agency in Geneva has urged Cambodia to abide by its obligations not to forcibly return 13 Montagnard refugees to Vietnam and to register The claims of hundreds more asylum seekers living in limbo in Phnom Penh. ...

The Environment Ministry on Friday released its final study on The algal bloom that forced swimmers out of The water in Kep province in early April, stating no chemical substances were found in The bloom that would have negatively affected human or animal health. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has thrown his weight behind China’s ambitious multi-billion dollar plan to revive the Silk Road, the ancient trading route crossing three continents to link China with Europe. ...

While Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries aims to increase fish production by 1.3 per cent this year, members of fishery organisations believe that is an unlikely target as drought conditions have tapped out natural resources. ...

The Kingdom’s investment authority signed an agreement yesterday to promote and protect investments between The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Cambodia, a move government officials hope will attract foreign direct investment from The oil-rich Gulf state, which currently stands at almost zero. ...

Experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons have confirmed that barrel bombs discovered in three provinces are chemical weapons. the confirmation was made yesterday after the OPCW ended an operation to inspect the bombs sites in Mondulkiri, Tbong Khmum and Svay Rieng provinces. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said the Council of Ministers would hold a meeting today to prepare amendments to the constitution and the penal code to create laws against insulting the king. ...