Rains, accompanied by thunder, lightning and gusts, were forecast from May 31 to June 6, 2023, according to an announcement on new weather forecast released by the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology (MOWRAM) this morning. ...

The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) on Monday released a proclamation to collect and compile real estate data in four new towns of three different provinces in Cambodia by providing tax exemption to owners who have immovable properties registered with the General Department of ...

Sun Chanthol, Deputy Prime Minister and First Vice-Chairman of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) Monday called on relevant ministries to examine the possibility of optimising the Investment Project Application (IPA) by reconciling data with the CDC’s new system to improve convenience in ...

Authorities plan to provide land to around 70 families who have agreed to leave Phnom 1500 for a new location this August, while 50,000 saplings are being planted to restore the forest and create a natural tourism destination. ...

From September 2023 to August 2024, in the first year of the 7th-mandate the Royal Government of Cambodia, the Council for Development of Cambodia (CDC) granted licences to 391 new investment projects and production expansion projects with a combined capital of over $7.5 billion. ...

A small community of houses sit on the edge of a tranquil stretch of river in Kampot, where ecotourism project Trapaeng Sangkae Community Fisheries has breathed new life into the area, offering residents an extra form of income while helping to conserve this delicate riverine ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its World Economic Outlook for April 2024 revealed Cambodia’s new GDP figures by taking 2014 as the base year for the calculations instead of 2000, showing the economy 35 percent larger than previous GDP calculations indicated. ...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) on Tuesday led a high-level delegation to participate in the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum 2024 held in New York city – aimed at strengthening the skills and capacity of Cambodian young people ...

The governments of Australia and France have congratulated Prime Minister Hun Sen on his election victory, becoming the first key Western donors to do so since the official election results were released on September 8. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also offered his congratulations to Hun Sen ...

BATI DISTRICT, Takeo province – At a farming school here last week, 150 poor agricultural workers gathered to celebrate graduating a two-month training course. The new group of educators will now set out with their newly acquired skills to help transform the country’s poorest rural ...

Residents of Phnom Penh on Wednesday expressed boredom and disbelief as Prime Minister Hun Sen passed his previous record-breaking five-hour speech on border demarcation last year with a more than six-hour-long monologue on government reforms he says are planned. Evoking images of elaborate self-criticism sessions the ...

Following a complaint from the Free Trade Union (FTU) over the Ministry of Labor’s refusal to register 10 local branches of its organization, a ministry official said Wednesday that the constitutional right to freedom of association has been suspended until a new trade union law ...

Most garment factories did not open for business Thursday, choosing to extend the Khmer New Year holidays—which officially ended Wednesday—rather than face industrial action in the form of a planned nationwide stay-at-home strike. However, a number of workers interviewed Thursday said they kNew nothing about the ...

Cambodian authorities have charged nearly half as many villagers in land dispute cases in the first three months of this year as they did in all of 2013, a local rights group said Thursday, adding that most of the rows stemmed from government-granted land concessions. Following ...

The Ministry of Environment will relocate its offices to a plot of land near NagaWorld Hotel and Casino in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district after its planned new headquarters in Meanchey district were declared too far from the city’s center by the new environment minister, ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen publicly castigated the Kampong Thom provincial governor in a speech on Saturday for allegedly claiming a large portion of land and saying it was needed for the local office of the Cambodian Red Cross, an agency lead by Hun Sen’s wife, Bun ...

On 08 June 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on the Cambodia-UAE Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement will help elevate the bilateral relationship to a new height.Both sides expressed deep satisfaction at the flourishing bilateral relationship and shared optimism ...

THE government expressed disappointment yesterday with the World Bank’s announcement that it had halted new country loans due to the ongoing land dispute at Boeung Kak lake in Phnom Penh and vowed to raise the issue with the bank’s executive board. “We are very dissatisfied ...

Representatives from German, Finnish and Canadian development agencies were awarded honorary medals by Minister of Land Management Im Chhun Lim on Wednesday for their work in the country’s land sector. The awards ceremony comes just weeks after it emerged that the World Bank had frozen ...

Destruction of Cambodia’s forests is one of the biggest threats to the country’s ability to effectively deal with the effects of climate change, the UN warned in a new report to be released today. Cambodia is one of the most vulnerable countries in the region ...