Floods that have ravaged much of Cambodia may lead to a long-requested extension of voter registration, a National Election Committee official said yesterday. Tep Nytha, NEC secretary-general, said the committee was debating whether to extend the 20-day registration period, which is set to end on October ...

FacebookTwitterEmailShareIn a recent article published in the journal PLOS Medicine, researchers performed a prospective, longitudinal study to estimate the proportion of outpatient consultations resulting in inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions in young children in three low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), Madagascar, Senegal, and Cambodia. ...

Construction will start next month on a project to build affordable public housing for the lower middle class, low-income earners and state workers. Urban Planning and Land Management Minister Chea Sophara said the price of a home in the project would be between $20,000 and $25,000. ...

The Phnom Penh Court of Appeal ruled Friday that Beehive Radio owner Mam Sonando should continue serving his 20-year sentence for sedition. On October 1, the radio station owner was sentenced to 20 years in jail and fined 10 million riel in relation to a ...

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has recently approved a 20-megawatt solar power plant project in Monorom commune, Svay Teap district, Svay Rieng province. ...

The Ministry of Environment will relocate its offices to a plot of land near NagaWorld Hotel and Casino in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district after its planned new headquarters in Meanchey district were declared too far from the city’s center by the new environment minister, ...

FacebookTwitterEmailShare“Handbook on Investing in Cambodia” has been launched as a practical guide for foreign investors looking for opportunities in the Cambodian market, with a particular focus on the 2021 Law on Investment. ...

PHNOM PENH: Malaysia expects to minimise its dependence on imports of animal feed and lessen the impact of the global food crisis by 2020 under the reciprocal investment policy, Agriculture and Agro-based Minister Datuk Seri Noh Omar said. One such initiative under the policy was the ...

Qatar Airways will add a stop in Phnom Penh on it [sic] Doha-Ho Chi Minh City route, 20 February, while Air France announced it will pull its Phnom Penh service in March. Qatar Airways will operate a daily service between Doha-Phnom Penh via Ho Chi Minh ...

Officials at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday questioned six men accused of using violence against authorities when protesters clashed with security forces near Phnom Penh’s Monivong Bridge in fighting that saw a 29-year-old man shot dead. The men were arrested Sun­day night, at the ...

Cambodia’s TTY Corporation Co Ltd signed a $20 million deal yesterday with the state-owned China Grain Reserves Corp to process and export rice to China. The deal between TTY Corp and China Grain Reserves Corp’s Guangzhou branch, called Sinograin, was sealed with an agreement to ...

Monks will spend days marching hundreds of kilometres to Phnom Penh from five provinces in the lead-up to Human Rights Day on December 10, the head of a dissident monk group said yesterday. Departing in groups of 20 from Kampong Speu, Kampong Thom, Kampot, Pursat and ...

Officials confirmed there were more than 20,000 participants at the job fair on Saturday organised by the National Employment Agency of the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training, which was held in an effort to educate job seekers about current opportunities. Sokkhon David, acting director of information ...

A team of ethnic minority Banong villagers in Mondolkiri province detained a group of Vietnamese men on Saturday, who they suspect of illegally logging inside their community forest, and have handed them over to local police. Khut Chanra said he was among about 60 fellow Banong ...

Migrant workers and students who have won scholarships abroad will now pay only a small tax fee for passports, according to a government sub-decree enacted this month that seeks to reprise a similar effort from 2008 widely perceived to have been ineffective. The latest sub-decree, signed ...

The value of imports and exports passing through the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) neared the $1 billion mark in the first half of this year, despite a spiralling third wave of coronavirus infections, dubbed the “February 20 community event”. ...

The Cambodian Veterans Association (CVA) last week delivered Prime Minister Hun Sen’s financial support of 80 million riel ($20,000) to assist 20 households in Phnom Penh who are CVA members and lost relatives to Covid-19. ...

The Japanese government Friday granted nearly $20,000 to repair and upgrade fascilities at schools in two provinces. ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday charged six men with assault and destruction of property for their role in clashes Sunday night between security forces, protesters and angry commuters, which resulted in a 29-year-old construction worker being shot dead. Sanh Samoeun, 28; Nguyen Thi Dek, ...

Government officials remained tight-lipped yesterday about progress in their investigation of the Feb. 20 shooting of three female garment workers during a strike and demonstration in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet city. On Feb 20, three women were wounded when a uniformed gunman opened fire at ...