According to a statement from the World Bank on November 22, to assist Cambodia in its efforts to strengthen water and sanitation services, the project will reach more than 175,000 people in the target provinces of Battambang, Pursat, mondulkiri and Kandal. ...

Almost 3.3 million people celebrated ringing in the new year, with Phnom Penh the most popular destination, according to the ministry of Tourism (moT). ...

Prime minister Hun manet has pledged almost $450 million to strengthen the country’s social protection system, with experts advising that transparency is essential in its delivery. ...

Cambodia garnered over $851 million from the export of jewellery and precious stones to the international market in 2023, represents a surge of 261% increase compared to 2022, as per the ministry of Commerce. ...

The state-owned Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia (CGCC), Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) and participating financial institutions (PFIs) signed an agreement on the $30 million Rice Export Guarantee Scheme (REGS) to help millers stockpile rice for milling, processing, exporting and making local value-added products. ...

Local chiefs in Stung Treng province claimed on monday that the mekong River has risen by almost 2m, submerging floating cabins at a local tourist attraction, while in Kratie province, a police chief said the water level has risen by 0.5m, flooding Kampi Resort. Preah ...

Demining experts from the Cambodian mine Action Centre (CmAC) on monday cleared two mark 82 (mk 82) bombs in two separate locations. In Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Sruoch district, a villager discovered one bomb buried about 8m below ground, while another was found over 4m ...

Cambodian mine Action Centre (CmAC) found an unexploded aerial bomb form the civil war era in the 1970s. The explosive device was uncovered by an excavator removing sediment from the river in Tonle Boun muk near the Sokha Hotel in Phnom Penh and in front ...

A TAXPAYER-FUNDED development project is mired in controversy after the Cambodian government launched a crackdown against land rights organisations critical of the compulsory resettlement of families. The Cambodian government has cautioned a small group of foreign organisations against stirring up unrest among those being forced off ...

The Ministry of InforMation has banned the broadcast of all KhMer-language prograMs by foreign radio stations for the entire 31 days of the pre-election caMpaign period and on election day, July 28, warning that legal action will ensue if stations fail to coMply. The ban, announced ...

Citing the provincial Department of Water Resources and meteorology, they said that on the morning of September 25, the water level in Stung Sen had reached 11.38m, approaching the emergency point of 11.50m. ...

The relations between Cambodia and the US have reached the highest level ever during the past 72 years, noted Prime minister Hun Sen while receiving former US Senator Donald m. Benton in Washington DC in the morning of may 11 (Washington DC time), on the ...

Garment factory workers on Saturday blocked Street 371 in Phnom Penh’s meanchey district for the second day and said they will continue their strike today unless factory managers give in to their demands. During Saturday’s strike action, more than 3,000 workers from the S.L. Garment Factory ...

Small and medium Enterprise Bank of Cambodia Plc. has approved loans to 346 tourism-related firms totalling $53.46m or 35.64 percent of the $150m budget, said a top official of the bank. ...

Cambodia exported bicycles worth approximately $527 million to international markets last year, up 27 percent from 2019. This establishes Cambodia as the No1 country in ASEAN and No5 globally for bicycle exports, according to data from the ministry of Commerce. ...

China has provided a grant of $2.5 million to support the Cambodian mine Action Centre (CmAC) ordnance clearance operations. The funds will cover operations for the 12 months of 2022, according to CmAC director general Heng Ratana. ...

The National Bank of Cambodia held five currency auctions from September 2-21 and sold $130 million on the foreign exchange (forex) market, meant to stabilise the riel’s fluctuations against the greenback, shore up economic activity during the ongoing health crisis and power a faster economic ...

Cambodia exported 5.93 million tonnes of agricultural products to 90 countries and territories in the first nine months of this year, the ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries reported on October 14. ...

Cambodia exported 174,100 tonnes of rubber valued at $265.8 million in the first nine months of 2021, surging by 48,300 tonnes (38.4 per cent) in volume and $111.6 million (72.3 per cent) in value over January-September 2020, the General Department of Customs and Excise reported. ...

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and South Korea reached $869.735 million in the first 11 months of 2021, an 8.805 per cent surge from $799.354 million in the same period last year, according to data from the Korea International Trade Association (Kita) posted at the weekend. ...