Cambodia’s embassy in Malaysia yesterday denied pressuring domestic workers from the Kingdom into renewing their visas, after rights groups told the Post last week that the embassy exploited a legal loophole to keep maids in the country. the statement came as a Malaysian employers association, which has observed the drafting ...

The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a new draft traffic law aimed at improving The safety of Cambodia’s notoriously dangerous roads, with only legislative approval standing in The way of The bill being passed into law. The draft law, which includes changes to 64 articles, ...

The Better Factories Cambodia programme has been renewed after a new, three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was agreed. The new agreement, aimed at furThering The initiative’s mission to improve working conditions in Cambodian garment factories, was signed by The International Labour Organization (ILO), The Cambodian Ministry ...

UNICEF and the NGO Save the Children jointly hosted a forum in Phnom Penh marking the 10th anniversary of the global launch of the “Children’s Rights and Business Principles”. these principles offer guidelines for businesses as they embed children’s rights into their business strategies and ...

Cambodia’s rice exports roughly doubled in the first nine months of this year compared with the same period in 2012, according to government data released yesterday. But the figures aren’t big enough to meet official goals for 2013. the numbers show that exports of fragrant rice ...

After experiencing decades of floods, Cambodia’s microfinance institutions say they no longer have problems disbursing loans during the rainy season, according to the head of Cambodia’s Microfinance Association (CMA). A survey issued early this year by a coterie of international aid organisations, including Oxfam, Care, PACT ...

As Thailand sells its rice reserves and reforms in Myanmar are rewarded with more access to markets abroad, Cambodia’s total exports of milled rice are on the decline, falling more than 10 per cent in the first quarter of this year compared with the same ...

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Laos is predicted to pick up after a recent series of key meetings between national leaders and prominent members of the business community, following a reported jump of roughly three-tenths last year over 2021. ...

Four hundred Cambodian women could be sent to Singapore  as soon as the middle of this year to work as maids  under a pilot scheme by the governments of Cambodia and Singapore. the Post has obtained an internal circular the Singapore Ministry of Manpower sent to ...

Malnutrition remains a challenge that threatens the lives of thousands of children and leads to annual economic losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, senior government officials and experts said yesterday. ...

The story of Cambodia’s microfinance sector has been one of successful evolution, evidenced by The growing number of lenders and Their continual development. Many microfinance institutions (MFIs) started as NGO-like entities, but The industry has come a long way. Today, There are 32 MFIs licensed ...

The Federation of Associations for Small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia is planning to propose that The government set up special economic zone (SEZ) for small and medium-sized sized enterprises (SMEs) so that They can work in clusters, saying this will enhance Their productivity, increase ...

Phnom Penh City Hall started installing 5,000 new road safety signs around the capital on Monday in an attempt to reduce accidents, according to officials. Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatevong took to Facebook yesterday, writing that a total of 615 signs had been installed along Norodom, ...

Dr. Tim Killeen, author of The Cardamom Conundrum, Reconciling Development and Conservation in The Kingdom of Cambodia, discusses his recently released book, which argues that Cambodia is well positioned to reap The benefits of ‘green development’. Why did you select The Cardamom Mountains as The area ...

Cambodia’s inflation rate had increased by 1.6 percent in November 2012 if compared with November 2011 due to moderate increases in food and petroleum prices, according to the latest statistics of the National Institute of Statistics (NIS) on Tuesday. the statistics said the total consumer price ...

Business owners in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district yesterday said they will not follow a government directive to close their businesses for eight days in observance of the second mourning period for the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk. the order, which was distributed on Sunday to ...

Cambodia needs $9 billion to be invested into 850 kilometres of roadways by 2020, according to a study by Henan Provincial Communications Planning Survey and Design Institute. From the Chinese province of Henan, officials from the state-owned engineering Institute went to great lengths yesterday to explain ...

On 21 January 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on the outcomes of the official visit of His Excellency Bui Thanh Son, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam, to the Kingdom of Cambodia ...

On 4th July 2023 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued The statement on barred from entering or remaining in The Kingdom of Cambodia of Cambodia of 22 members of The Oversight Board to Meta Platforms Inc. as PERSONA NON GRATA​ in The ...

On 01 September 2021, the Ministry of Economy and Finance issued a press release on the official launch of the Business Registration System on Information Technology Platform Phase 2 collaborated with many ministries and departments. It was officially launched on September 01, 2021 at 9am, ...