The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday kept its projection for Cambodia’s economic growth rate at 7.2 percent this year and 7.3 percent next year. ...

20 Cambodian workers, who were rescued recently in Indonesia, will return home Wednesday afternoon, said a senior official. Kuong said the repatriation of the Cambodian workers is arranged by the Cambodian Embassy in Indonesia in collaboration with International Organization for Migration (IOM). Following a request ...

Cambodia’s National Assembly will soon amend its internal rules in order to formally recognize a “minority leader” in this legislative body, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday. However, the minority leader will not have the real power as the prime minister since the title ...

Cambodia Bayon Airlines (CBA), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China, is ready to operate domestic flights in Cambodia later this month, the company said Monday. The MA60 aircraft will be mainly utilized to fly domestic routes within Cambodia. “Flight operations are scheduled ...

An excavator operator clearing a patch of land in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district had a surprise run-in on Friday with six pythons, which broke cover as his machine moved onto their wetland habitat, according to a local official. ...

Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Wednesday announced the creation of a recurring annual $5-million fund to help Phnom Penh and every provincial capital clean up their trash-strewn streets, especially outside homes and restaurants. ...

In many parts of northeast Asia and Europe train travel in the 21st century is a safe and fast cross-country mode of transport. In South and Southeast Asia, riding the rails is frequently frustrating and sometimes dangerous with derailments and fiery crashes. Impoverished Cambodia has ...

Police in Svay Rieng province said Wednesday that they had yet to identify any suspects in the armed robbery of a mobile-payment kiosk and currency exchange business in Romeas Hek district that left one man dead. ...

Two companies collecting commission from tourist-boat operators on the Tonle Sap lake in Siem Reap province have been closed down on orders from Prime Minister Hun Sen, according to the provincial governor. ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday expressed his deepest sympathy to China and members of the bereaved families in a passenger ship mishap in central China’ s Hubei province on Monday. ...

Cambodia exported 243,025 tons of milled rice in the first five months of this year, representing a 63.9 percent increase on the 148,262 tons recorded the year before, according to a report from the Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export Formality. ...

Cambodia and Thailand are targeting to boost bilateral trade to more than US$5 billion in 2015, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported. In the first quarter of 2015, bilateral trade between both countries reached over US$1.6 billion. ...

The Authority for Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap (APSARA) will build a $10 million hospitality center in Siem Reap, home of Angkor Wat temple. ...

Eighteen families in a remote region of Koh Kong province have been ordered to move, in order to make way for the development of a Chinese-funded luxury tourist outpost. The families received notice on June 5, ordering them to leave their homes within one month. ...

Cambodia has deported 700 illegal immigrants in the past six months, the ministry of interior said on Thursday, as the detention of Vietnamese border guards who disguised themselves as local police to spy on a meeting underscored Phnom Penh’s difficulty in controlling its borders. ...

Cambodia welcomed some 1.6 million foreign tourists in the first four months of 2015, a 4.5 percent rise compared with the same period last year, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said Friday. ...

Cambodian Health Minister Mam Bunheng on Sunday called for more blood donations since the Southeast Asian country saw only 4 out of 1,000 people donate their blood. ...

With Phnom Penh’s parking situation in “disarray,” City Hall has agreed to allow a Cambodian-Japanese joint venture to test a paid-parking scheme next month in an effort to reduce the number of parked cars clogging the capital’s streets, according to company officials. ...

It is a simple solution to a wildlife water shortage. During the annual dry season [November through April] in a protected forest in eastern Cambodia, wildlife scientists hired local workers with shovels to dig out accumulated sediment from six remote and dried-up waterholes. The result: During ...

The Health Ministry has drafted Cambodia’s first-ever law to control the sale and consumption of alcohol, which imposes a minimum legal drinking age of 21 and would fine retailers who sell liquor to anyone underage. ...