The Cambodian Investment Board under The Council for The Development of Cambodia (CDC) recently approved investment proposals for 11 more companies, creating 11,000 jobs. The companies will have a total investment of $57.3 million. Nine of These are in The garment, footwear and travel goods ...

The Ministry of Environment has told sub-national authorities to urge The public to be mindful when using fire to prevent incidents of wildfires. Wildfires caused by carelessness is punishable with five to 10 years in prison and a fine of 17-150 million riel ($4,250-$37,500). The ...

Though the Kingdom’s existing salt farms in Kampot and Kep produce enough salt to support domestic consumption, industry experts, however, are worried that a flood of the vital commodity from neighboring countries will spoil the market for Cambodian producers. ...

Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said yesterday that the government will not let opposition leader Sam Rainsy dodge a government ban on public gatherings by holding mass demonstrations during the campaign period before the May 18 district, provincial and city council elections. ...

If you’re planning to get away next week for Khmer New Year, it might be wise to keep an umbrella on hand. According to the government’s weather authority, the country can expect the lowest holiday temperatures for the past decade amid unseasonal lashings of rain. ...

The autumnal equinox will occur this year on September 23. The phenomenon, which signifies an equal duration of day and night due to The Earth’s position in its orbit around The sun, happens twice a year in September and March. At These times, The sun ...

A military officer convicted of fraud and sentenced to one year in prison in October is still em­ployed by the National Defense Uni­versity (NDU), the school con­firmed this week, despite the fact that the officer’s co-conspirator is now behind bars.   ...

From the start of 2020 through the end of the first semester of this year, the Ministry of Information has documented the publication of 4,657 fake news articles online and 170 of those cases were serious enough to merit being brought to the attention of ...

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected $1.68407 billion in tax revenue in The first half of this year, up $181.68 million or 12 per cent compared to The same period last year, it said in a press release. Issued at a meeting on The ...

Cambodia’s young, tech-enthusiastic population is a gateway to accessing the global market digitally, according to the ICT Federation of Cambodia, with its president – Steven Path – estimating that the information and communication technology sector is already nearing about $1 billion in sales. ...

University researcher Sok Touch yesterday took the government’s oft-used “colour revolution” narrative one step further by characterising practically every major political development since the 2013 post-election protests as part of one concerted attempt to foment insurrection in the Kingdom. ...

The Bar Association of The Kingdom of Cambodia on Tuesday wrote to local rights group Adhoc accusing its head of monitoring, Ny Chakrya, of flouting legal practice by ordering The NGO’s lawyers to hand over for examination all documents relating to cases They defend. ...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is to fund a major aquaculture development project as part of The US government international food security support programme called The Commercialisation of Aquaculture for Sustainable Trade (CAST). ...

The Council for The Development of Cambodia (CDC) approved a total of 134 investment projects with a cumulative investment value of $3.3 billion in The January-September period. ...

Phnom Penh municipal police have warned of tough action against owners of unregistered vehicles including cars, motorbikes and tricycles. In an announcement issued on Friday, the municipal police said that starting October 21, the authorities will stop and impound all vehicles travelling on the road ...

The COVAX Facility donated advanced refrigeration equipment to The Royal Government to boost The country’s vaccination storage capacity. ...

The Cambodia-Australia Consumer Protection Partnership will launch in 2021 with Australia having agreed to station a consumer protection technical official in The Kingdom following a request by The Ministry of Commerce. This will allow The sharing of expertise and experience towards The enhancement of work ...

The government expects to sign an agreement with French-owned Blue Circle to develop a wind farm project within The first half of The year, The director-general of The Ministry of Mines and Energy’s General Department of Energy Victor Jona said on Monday. ...

The Minister of Commerce (MoC) Pan Sorasak on Wednesday discussed strategies to strengThen The bilateral collaboration between Cambodia and The US as well as renew The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) for some of Cambodia’s products with a delegation led by Jason Smith, Chairman of ...

Cambodia’s chief regulator of the human resources industry, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MLVT), has officially commenced the application process for business enterprises operating in the Kingdom to apply for their respective ‘foreign employee quotas’ in 2025. ...