Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday sang the praises of Cambodia’s first gold medallist in 44 years – suggesting Sorn Seavmey’s achievement was the “only thing Cambodia can brag about” – as the Kingdom’s Olympic Committee warned of bogus Facebook accounts in her name soliciting money. After ...

ambodia is working with UNESCO to form an International Coordinating Committee for the Safeguarding and Development of the Historic Site of Preah Vihear (ICC-Preah Vihear), Deputy Prime Minister and Cabinet Minister Sok An said Tuesday. Speaking during a meeting with South Korean Ambassador to Cambodia Kim ...

The South Korea-based Universal Peace Federation (UPF) said Prime Minister Hun Sen should be a role model for world leaders because of Cambodia’s successful Covid-19 vaccination drive which has seen over 90 per cent of the target population aged 6 and older vaccinated. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has said pressure alone will not address the deeply rooted causes of conflict between the two Koreas. In order to seek peace on the Korean Peninsula, he proposed the “Two States Towards One Nation: One Peninsula, One People, One Culture” initiative ...

Amid strong domestic demand, moderate inflation and continuing improvements in trade, the ASEAN+3 region – encompassing the 10 bloc members and China, Japan and South Korea – is expected to maintain robust economic growth this year despite uncertainties in the global outlook. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday urged the economic leaders of the Asean bloc to go through with a plan to double a bailout pool, funded largely by China, Japan and South Korea, to prevent future financial crises in the region. Opening the Asean Finance ...

Though it has refused calls to open new channels for migrant workers to vote in upcoming elections, the National Election Committee (NEC) has sent a letter to all Cambodian embassies appealing for citizens living abroad to return home to register for next year’s polls. But as ...

The ASEAN+3 (China, Japan and South Korea) Summit was held here on Monday to discuss measures and actions to further enhance cooperation in the future. The Summit was made between the leaders of the ten-country ASEAN led by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and the leaders ...

About 3,000 Chinese in Huang clan from around the globe gathered here Wednesday to bridge closer ties among Huang families and to visit Cambodia’s attractive tourism destinations. Speaking at the opening of the 11th World Huang Clan Convention 2nd Session, Cambodian Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh, ...

Cambodia’s largest financial institution, Acleda Bank, has been adopted into the World Economic Forum’s group of Global Growth Companies (GGC), an exclusive club made up of some of the world’s fastest-growing medium-size firms. The WEF yesterday announced that 20 companies from the Asia-Pacific region had been ...

Cambodia is closer to inking trade deals with developed economies despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Seang Thay, a spokesperson at the Ministry of Commerce, told Khmer Times yesterday that the free-trade agreement (FTA) negotiations between Cambodia, South Korea, China and ...

A 35 year old American female became Cambodia’s 301st COVID-19 positive victim. She was found to be infected after arriving from the United States via Seoul, South Korea on Wednesday, 4 November. ...

Onion Mobility Co Ltd has unveiled a bunch of prototypes of its upcoming Onion T1 electric auto-rickshaw, to be produced domestically and put on sale within the year. The prototypes were flown in last week from South Korea and showcased publicly on March 28. ...

The Ministry of Health purchased one million SD Biosensor Covid-19 rapid test kits from South Korea, with its shipment arriving in the Kingdom on Saturday through coordination by the Cambodian embassy there. ...

The National Road 48 reconstruction and improvement project, which connects the coastal provinces of Preah Sihanouk and Koh Kong, will break ground at the beginning of November with a budget of more than $78 million under concessional financing from South Korea. ...

The website of the International Ship Registry of Cambodia (ISROC), a private company based in South Korea that bought the rights from the government to register foreign vessels under the Cambodian national flag for $6 million, is no longer operating. The shutdown means that foreign vessels ...

Cambodia saw significant percentage gains in regional trade in the first six months of the year, though the gap between imports and exports remained large, according to data released yesterday by the Ministry of Commerce. According to the figures, the country saw regional exports to ...

The number of foreign visitors arriving in Cambodia jumped 14.1 percent to about 16.2 million in the first seven months of this year compared to the same period last year, according to data released Friday by the Tourism Ministry. Vietnam accounted for the largest number of ...

China has become Cambodia’s biggest investor, putting some $8.8 billion into the country over nearly two decades, according to online data from the government’s lead investment agency. Those investment numbers, from the Council for the Development of Cambodia, from 1994 to 2011, do not take into ...

Samdech Prime Minister Hun Sen said this week that he will talk with Chinese leaders especially his Chinese counterpart PM Wen Jiaboa about finance to build 300-500 km rural roads in the country in contribution of helping poverty reduction and living conditions of the local ...