Telecommunications company Xinwei (Cambodia) Telecom Co Ltd, operating under the CooTel brand, officially launched in Cambodia yesterday, being the first operator to offer 4G technology in the country, a company statement released yesterday said. “CooTel strongly believes it will be successful in entering the Cambodian market ...

Officials involved in negotiating compensation offers between the developers of the Lower Sesan II dam and affected villagers have kept a portion of the money paid out to 12 families for themselves, according to an official. Duong Pov, Stung Treng provincial administration director, claimed that a ...

A plantation company with its sights set on a community forest long used by local ethnic minority Jarai in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district arranged a meeting with more than 200 villagers this week to try to persuade them to sign over the woodland. Representatives of the Heng ...

One of two Phnom Penh families involved in a long-running land dispute with a powerful real estate tycoon accepted the businessman’s latest compensation offer during negotiations Tuesday brokered by the Housing Rights Task Force, though the other family has continued to hold out. The two families, ...

In a first for the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), a listed bond were traded on the secondary market on November 24, data from the bourse show. As a result, South Korea-owned Phnom Penh Commercial Bank Plc’s (PPCBank) first bond offering (PPCB23A) on the CSX saw ...

Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Hang Chuon Naron said the ministry’s long-term goal is to establish at least one technical high school in each province and require each young person to have acquired at least one professional skill. There are currently 18 technical educational ...

More than 1,000 people from civil society organisations and community groups have gathered for a three-day “People’s Assembly” in Phnom Penh to express their views and offer agenda items that it would like the Cambodian government to submit to the ASEAN leaders who would attending ...

On 26 August 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press statement of the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia responding to the end of mission statement of Prof. Vitit Muntarbhorn.The spokesperson ...

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) plans to offer free healthcare to new target groups under a new programme. The first and largest group includes vendors and those who work in related informal jobs, like street vendors. He added the other target groups include digital ...

On 13 June 2018, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation released a press release to inform the public that the Kingdom of Cambodia was elected as a member of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for one year term 2019. In ...

On 05 July 2016, at Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) has a MoU signing to renew the agreement between the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) and Metfone, the Kingdom’s leading telecommunications company, to provide free internet to schools nationwide with the attendance ...

On 06 April 2017, Save Cambodia’s Wildlife (SCW) has released a press release on its website about “Study: Impacts of ELCs on the forest and livelihoods & SCW’s action”. In the end of 2016, SCW in cooperation with lecturers from the Royal University of Phnom ...

Local and international NGOs, universities and government institutions on Monday began the annual international “16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence” campaign demanding the elimination of all forms of violence against women. National Police spokesman Chhay Kim Khoeun said there was no recorded figure in ...

Residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak and Borei Keila neighborhoods yesterday sprinkled a concoction of chili, salt and black rice into flames of a small fire in front of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to “curse” the court officials they accuse of unjustly charging and ...

PHNOM PENH—In its home country, the Cambodian riel has long played second fiddle to the U.S. dollar—but a new stock exchange and government de-dollarization policies could bolster it in coming years, policy makers and experts say. Dollars change hands with greater frequency than riel in the ...

Like many developing countries, Cambodia’s mainly agricultural society is changing fast, driven by urbanization and falling fertility rates. As young workers move to the cities, older people are staying back in the villages, where they have little support. Although former civil servants and soldiers get ...

The Open Development Cambodia (ODC) Team recently had the privilege of attending the United Nations High-Level Political Forum 2023 in New York City. This global event serves as a platform to discuss and accelerate the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic while emphasizing the full implementation ...

Demand for low-quality white rice from African buyers has forced Thai exporters to purchase additional stocks from Cambodia and Vietnam to meet orders because domestic rice is in short supply due to government buying scheme, traders said on Wednesday. The price of 25 per cent broken grade Thai ...

Unions and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) are unlikely to walk out of their final minimum wage meeting today with an agreed-upon increase for workers, industry insiders said yesterday. Both parties have reaffirmed their respective positions: GMAC secretary-general Ken Loo said yesterday that “nothing’s ...

Minister of Posts and Telecommunications So Khun said Wednesday that the government’s decision last week to order all mobile phone firms to stop offering generous top-up bonuses came after one of the market’s competitors complained to the ministry. Ian Watson, CEO of Mobitel, denied complaining ...