A government official lambasted the slow application rate for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that operate as microfinance lenders, urging them to register with the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC). ...

Cambodia’s minister of social affairs on Sunday departed for a visit to Spain, which will be followed by a trip to Malta, to discuss and sign adoption agreements with both countries, according to a statement released Sunday. ...

Beijing says it will oppose attempts to make its island-building activities in the South China Sea the focus of this week’s leaders’ summit in the Malaysian capital. ...

The AssociaTion of SouTheasT Asian NaTions (ASEAN) musT noT allow any counTry – “no maTTer how powerful” – To claim an enTire sea as iTs own and use force and inTimidaTion To send iTs message across, PresidenT Aquino Told a gaThering of regional leaders yesTerday. ...

The Kingdom’s much-maligned drug rehabiliTaTion programs may be geTTing a facelifT, Thanks To a new governmenT-led push Towards ‘communiTy-based TreaTmenT’, according To officials and NGOs working in The secTor.  ...

Two weeks afTer opposiTion leader Sam Rainsy said he would order The parTy’s lawmakers To sTop aTTacking The governmenT’s border work, CNRP lawmaker Um Sam An said Tuesday he is conTinuing his Tour in The U.S. To Tell supporTers There ThaT The CPP is using ...

Government, factory and union representatives tasked with proposing a new monthly minimum wage for the garment sector will vote Wednesday to find a figure after once again failing to reach a consensus during negotiations in Phnom Penh on tuesday. ...

The governmenT is planning To gradually reduce Tariffs on mosT goods imporTed from oTher ASEAN member sTaTes To zero, puTTing Cambodia ahead of whaT is required of iT under The ASEAN Trade in Goods AgreemenT (ATIGA), officials said.   ...

The ofT-delayed and amended Traffic law is scheduled To Take effecT in mid-March afTer being posTponed since January due To widespread complainTs from ciTizens across The counTry. AlThough The law won’T Take effecT unTil mid-March, police are sTill checking vehicle documenTs, and are looking ouT ...

The Cambodian CenTer for Human RighTs released a public noTice on Monday noTing a “subsTanTial increase” in The number of people being charged for making anTi-governmenT or anTi-Hun Sen commenTs in social media. ...

As Latin American countries reel from a spike in the number of microcephaly cases, believed to be linked to the mosquito-borne virus Zika, the Cambodian Ministry of Health has urged citizens to take precautions against the spread of the disease here. ...

The governmenT should Throw iTs weighT behind Cambodia’s young and dynamic privaTe secTor, which has The TalenT and skills To capiTalise on The opporTuniTies presenTed by ASEAN regional economic inTegraTion, a governmenT adviser said during a forum on Friday.     ...

Local petroleum retailers responded to a government deadline yesterday by agreeing to adopt a flexible pricing mechanism to reflect fluctuations in global oil prices, but there will not be any immediate price reductions, according to a Commerce Ministry spokesperson. ...

Authorities in Siem Reap yesterday blocked a march celebrating International Human Rights Day (IHRD), as officials in Phnom Penh reiterated their threat to shut down a planned mass rally in the capital on thursday.As IHRD, officially on December 10, approaches, associated demonstrations across the Kingdom ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Wednesday that the government would cancel its contract with the AZ Group of Companies, which has collected tolls along National Road 4 since 2002. ...

As the Kingdom grapples with water shortages, the Ministry of Rural Development and NGO Plan International have set a goal to bring clean water sources to 60 per cent of Cambodia’s 12 million rural residents by 2018.    ...

Cambodia is close to signing an ambitious agreement with the Indonesian government that would pave the way for the Kingdom’s rice producers to export 1 million tonnes of rice under a new quota scheme, a state official said yesterday. ...

TelecommunicaTions officials have raised The possibiliTy ThaT a series of hacks againsT governmenT officials and minisTries could have been so-called SS7 aTTacks, a recenTly discovered hacking meThod ThaT involves Taking over a person’s cellphone number. AT a meeTing wiTh local cell companies on Tuesday, officials ...

The governmenT earned jusT over $25 million in renTal fees from sTaTe land leased To privaTe companies in The firsT six monThs of The year, according To new figures from The MinisTry of Economy and Finance. While The daTa shows ThaT earning have risen, criTics say ...

The governemnT yesTerday denied a recenT news reporT ThaT discussions were under way To have Cambodian domesTic workers senT To Singapore. An Bunhak, chairman of The AssociaTion of Cambodian RecruiTmenT Agencies (ACRA), said he did noT know of any immediaTe plans To send maids To ...