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 ...

Cambodia has pinned hopes on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement and bilateral Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) to boost its exports of garment, footwear and travel (GFT) goods. ...

Seven sellers of fake shampoo have been detained for questioning at the Kampong Speu provincial police station after being arrested this week while plying their sub-par wares at the Chbar Mon town market. Seoung Savuth, deputy police chief of anti-economic crime in the province, said police ...

A national legal aid system is imperative and must be established to offset a widening gap between those who can afford justice and those who cannot, the representative for the U.N.’s office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Cambodia said on Friday. In ...

The Government, through The Ministry of Interior, has published The Strategic Plan for The Promotion of Territorial Administration, Security, Public Order and Social Security 2024-2028 to support The implementation of The Pentagonal Strategy-Phase 1 to achieve The set goals, objectives and vision. ...

A new project aimed at reducing violence against women in the Kingdom was launched yesterday at the Hotel Cambodiana. ...

Cambodia’s inflation rate increased by 4.2 percent in the 12-month period to October, with food prices accounting for more than half of the rate, according to data released Monday by the National Institute of Statistics. the monthly inflation rate grew from 3.4 percent in August to ...

The Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation has told The Rabbit School, a local NGO that educates autistic students, to move its operations from government-run National Borei for Infants and Children (NBIC) to a new premise, school director Hun Touch said. The ministry’s ...

The senate election is set to be held  on February 25 next year. ...

Toyota assembly plant at Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone will be inaugurated in 2024. ...

The Ministry of Health announced an updated roadmap for The management of blindness and its prevention. The plan aims to reduce blindness among The populace to 0.35% from The present rate of 1.2% by 2030. ...

A five-day trade fair for Vietnamese products kicked off on Koh Pich in Phnom Penh yesterday, coming on the heels of recent government figures that show declines in bilateral trade and investment between Cambodia and Vietnam. ...

The National Committee for The Management and Development of Coastal Zones is taking action against an unnamed company accused of reclaiming parts of Prek Treng beach in Preah Sihanouk province. ...

A U.S.-based Pentecostal ministry with an extensive network of “orphan homes” in Cambodia will be investigated by the Ministry of Social Affairs after allegations of sexual abuse surfaced at one of its centers in Kratie province, though the organization will be allowed three months to ...

Amid fears of a potential reprise of anti-opposition violence that flared in October, a US Embassy spokesman yesterday called on the government “to ensure that no one is threatened, punished, or harmed in Cambodia” if a planned anti-Hun Sen rally takes place as scheduled next ...

Following the announcement of recent reforms to Cambodia’s customs department and Commerce Ministry, a revision of the country’s investment law is planned for next year, according to the secretary-general of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). Speaking to reporters at a workshop at the ...

Drug-resistant malaria is now widespread in Southeast Asia, seriously threatening global efforts to control malaria, a new study warned Wednesday. An analysis of blood samples from 1,241 malaria patients in 10 countries across Asia and Africa found resistance to the world’s most effective anti-malarial drug, artemisinin, ...

The Council for The Development of Cambodia (CDC) approved 75 investment projects worth US$5.5 billion between January and July, according to council statistics. This growth represents a 247 per cent, year-on-year increase in The value of approved investment projects, 60 of which were in The industrial ...