Amret Microfinance received a $10 million boost yesterday by a loan from German development bank KfW, according to a joint statement from the finance institutions. Chea Phalarin, chief executive officer of Amret Microfinance Institution, said yesterday that the new loan – equal to nearly double its ...

Ministry of Land Management officials have said that colonial-era buildings along Phnom Penh’s riverside could collapse as a result of damage received from construction next door. The buildings along The Sisowath Quay could be in an even more perilous position as a result of The ...

In the latest clarification from the government on the subject of it’s new private airliner, a senior aviation official said yesterday that the French-made Airbus A320 is not yet the property of Cambodia, as ownership documents have not been finalized. the 150-seat jet made its inaugural ...

Thailand and Cambodia are on a path towards the setting up of a special trade zone that will see the two neighbors actively trade cassava and corn. Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom revealed on Monday that the 4th Thailand-Cambodia Joint Trade Committee meeting, held last week, saw ...

Prasac, a leading micro-finance institution in Cambodia, had increased its registered capital from US$3.8 million to $20 million in preparation for its transformation into a commercial bank by 2014, the institution said yesterday. “the registration requirement of $37.5 million is a very small amount to ...

Cambodia needs increased investments, and for that, deeper regional as well as global integration is crucial, Moody’s Investors Service has said. The B2 sovereign bond rating is constrained by The small size of The economy, low per capita income and high level of dollarization while robust ...

On 21 January 2021, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued an announcement on the seniority payment before 2019, in 2020 and in 2021 for manufacturing enterprises. In this announcement, the Ministry informed the owners/directors of factories/enterprises, workers/employees of manufacturing enterprises who used Unifexed ...

Japan on August 15th loaned Cambodia a package of US$ 53.3 million for the West Tonle Sap Irrigation and Drainage Improvement and a grant aid of US$ 0.7 million to improve education equipment of the Department of Geo-Resources and Geotechnical Engineering of the Institute of ...

Many of the data transparency training participants have been using data in one way or another in their day-to-day work. they sign-up for the program to improve their ability to use data as a means of storytelling to a new level. Roeun Narith is the ...

There are nearly seven times The number of male lawmakers in The 7th National Assembly compared to female members with 87.2% of seats occupied by men and 12.8% by women in The 125-seat parliament. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has once again called on the people not to panic over the recent warning of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank over the risks of a global recession. ...

Cambodia is preparing three long-awaited laws aimed at restoring its widely criticized judicial system. However, two of the three draft laws obtained by VOA Khmer still need a lot more improvement, according to legal experts. the laws focus on codifying court jurisdiction, laying out guidelines for ...

More than 60 percent of rural homes in the Kingdom will have electricity by the end of this month and all villages in the country will no longer be engulfed in pitch darkness at night when they are connected to the national grid by 2020. ...

The Council for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), in collaboration with The UN World Food Programme (WFP), have launched a dissemination strategy for The SUN Business Network (SBN) – a key part of The global Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement – in a bid to ...

Officials have suggested that the 14 partner signatories to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) establish a trade secretariat in Phnom Penh. the agreement, which aims to boost economic development, came into force at the beginning Of 2022. ...

Phnom Penh, on 17th August 2016, The first meeting of Cambodia-Russia joint working group on cooperation in The use of atomic energy for peaceful purpose was organized in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, presided over by H.E. Say SAMAL, Minister of Environment and Chair of National Council for ...

Deputy Prime Minister Sok An has a stunning portfolio of positions within the CPP government. On Monday, CPP lawmakers once again appointed Mr. An as the Cabinet Minister for Prime Minister Hun Sen. He is also the chairman of the state-controlled Cambodian National Petroleum Authority and ...

Cambodia has been removed from the United Nation’s list of states not complying with Article 17 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). ...

On 22 March 2021, the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the National Bank of Cambodia issued a joint statement on the outcome of the meeting on real estate issues in Cambodia which aims to address the real estate sector challenges in the context of ...

On July 15 2021, Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the United Nations office and other International Organizations at Geneva issued a press release on Cambodia’s progress in the field of human rights highlighted at the human rights council. the Human Rights Council ...