Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday announced that the government has plans to have a functioning social security system operational in the country by 2025, including universal health care, unemployment insurance and old-aged pensions. ...

The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a national budget for next year that calls for more than $6 billion in spending, The largest increase ever proposed for The Kingdom, with big boosts for education, defence and The arts. ...

Plans for a new airport investment have been unveiled in Koh Kong province, southwest of Phnom Penh. The district currently has two airports – one under construction and anoTher which has been abandoned for years. The government agreed to The investment for The new airport ...

Agreements for two Japanese official development assistance (ODA) projects for Cambodia were recently signed at two separate ceremonies One ODA project amounts to US $53.3 million loan for the West Tonle Sap Irrigation and Drainage Rehabilitation and Improvement Project. the other project involves a US $700,000 ...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the extractive industry, including some projects expected to be approved before the end of the year, now equals $1.3 billion, making it one of the most valuable economic sectors in the kingdom, according to data from the Ministry of Mines ...

Camcontrol revenues for the first nine months of the year hit US$7.9 million, surpassing the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s revenue goal of $6 million for the year. Kong Putheara, director of the Ministry of Commerce’s statistics department, this week said the unexpected growth came from ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...