By the time Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon closed the first session of the Cambodian securities Exchange yesterday morning, shares in Phnom Penh Water supply Authority, the Kingdom’s first domestically listed company, were just shy of soaring 50 per cent. Institutional and retail investors traded 487,110 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Minister of Education has revealed the government’s 8-point education policy which will become the Cambodian People’s Party’s (CPP) strategy to improve the country’s education system. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Women’s inclusion and empowerment in Cambodia’s burgeoning financial sector is crucial for the Kingdom’s economic growth, said delegates yesterday at a regional economic forum. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A heightened global profile for the opposition CNRP since last year’s disputed election has brought with it a new challenge: balancing multiple foreign relations. The party’s campaign to delegitimize the CPP government has taken on multiple faces over the past nine months as opposition leader sam ss='cambodia-color'>...

The German government on Wednesday signed up to provide 64 million U.s. dollars to Cambodia for two-year projects in health, rural development, governance reform, and education. According to a press release after the signing ceremony, 27 million U.s. dollars would be allocated to health, 26.5 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s trade volume with foreign countries amounted to 15.9 billion U.s. dollars last year, up 18 percent compared with 13.4 billion U.s. dollars in a year earlier, according to the report of the Commerce Ministry on Wednesday. The country had exported products in equivalent to 6.9 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Asia Atlantic Airlines, a Thai airline owned in part by Japanese tourism firm HIs Co, will launch scheduled flights between Cambodia and Japan this september, according a statement published by the airline on June 26. As of september 2, Asia Atlantic will run three weekly flights ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia saw a trade deficit of 1.32 billion U.s. dollars in the first six months of this year, according to a Commerce Ministry’s report on Thursday. The country’s total imports and exports were valued at 7.62 billion U.s. dollars during the period, up 20 percent from ss='cambodia-color'>...

With a rapidly rising population exacerbating the country’s existing infrastructure, the Asia Development Bank (ADB) has highlighted in a new study the Cambodian government’s failure to install effective planning policies in its most densely populated urban centres. The ADB estimates that, driven by work opportunities and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Li’s visit comes at a time when Cambodia’s government, under Prime Minister Hun sen, is facing rising pressure from the United states and the European Union over its human rights record. Both have threatened sanctions in response to a ruling by the nation’s top court ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen’s Facebook page surpassed 1 million likes yesterday, earning him a spot in the country’s top 10 most-liked pages on Cambodia’s most popular social network. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s ambassador to Asean on Friday rebuked his U.s. counterpart for comments she made on the country’s human rights situation, asking her to refrain from “criticizing Cambodia inappropriately.” ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty-four officials from the Interior Ministry’s fire department have been ordered to join the ruling Cambodian People’s Party’s local working groups operating in Battambang province.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s suppression of human rights poses a serious threat to Cambodia’s democratic progress, visiting members of the European Parliament’s human rights subcommittee warned on Friday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

China on has handed over medical equipment worth $2.5 million to Cambodia’s Preah Ket Melea military hospital, underpinning China’s growing role as the country’s major military donor and defense partner. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Investment in the garment and footwear sector, one of Cambodia’s economic pillars, is growing at a slightly slower pace in 2019 compared to last year, according to an official from the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC).​ The deceleration is likely the result of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

An agreement was signed between Cambodia’s Constructors Association (CCA) and the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction two days ago, to tighten enforcement on construction companies here in making them meet industry standards. The ministry’s head, Im Chhun Lim, said that Cambodia’s construction and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of InveStigation (FBI) haS agreed to Cambodia&rSquo;S requeSt for greater aSSiStance aS it attemptS to “crack down” on U.S.-baSed diSSidentS, according to the National Police CommiSSariat webSite. A delegation led by National Police Chief Neth Savoeun returned Saturday from a three-day viSit SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is one of only two economies worldwide to have declined in global value chain (GVC) participation since 1995, according to the World Trade Organization’s latest study. The WTO’s World Trade Report 2014, released Monday, shows Cambodia’s overall percentage of GVC participation – one country’s contribution ss='cambodia-color'>...

Woori Bank, South Korea&rSquo;S Second-largeSt bank in termS of aSSetS, iS vying to purchaSe a 50 per cent Stake Cambodia&rSquo;S largeSt microfinance inStitution, PraSac, the company&rSquo;S CEO confirmed yeSterday. SS='cambodia-color'>...