Cargo volumes at Cambodia’s two largest ports increased steadily during the first three months of the year, signalling stability in the Kingdom’s economy, port officials say. Data from Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (SAP), Cambodia’s largest shipping dock, showed more than 860,000 20-foot-long shipping containers passed through the ...

Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) are intra-state legal mechanisms which encourage foreign investment. This is particularly so as they provide foreign investors with Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms to enforce investment protections through international arbitration against the host state before a neutral tribunal. Cambodia has signed over ...

Wah Seong Corporation Bhd’s strategy to develop a portfolio of renewable energy and power plants in the region is taking off after it inked an agreement with Cambodia. The company said on Monday its indirect subsidiary had signed a power purchase agreement with Baitang (Kampuchea) Plc ...

Prime minister Hun Sen will be automatically nominated as the new president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party but not clear for whom will succeed him as the new vice president. The CPP will hold its congress on June 20, 2015 to elect new president ...

Cambodia Airports, the longstanding concessionaire of Cambodia’s network of 3 international airports unveiled a 20-year development and investment program for the international airport in Sihanoukville. ...

Cambodia’s economy remains strong despite the Feb. 20 community outbreak of COVID-19 and the lockdown of Phnom Penh capital and Takhmao town of Kandal province in April. ...

Prime Minister Hun Manet departed Cambodia on the morning of September 14 for his first official visit to China, where he is slated to attend the 20th China-ASEAN Expo and meet with other leaders. ...

About 20 families and traders living and selling around Phnom Sampov asked the relevant authorities to help resolve the compensation according to the market price in exchange for relocation as authorities claim that their move is to rehabilitate the site for tourism. ...

The National Assembly closed their plenary session yesterday, which began in October 2022, receiving almost 20 complaints and it vowed to resolve them before the upcoming national election. ...

Heng Sour, Minister of Labour and Vocational Training, on Nov 20, thanked the Japanese company for continuing to provide human resource training to JVC Technical Institute on vehicle repair and maintenance skills, including a project to train the capacity of Cambodian trainees in Japan through ...

USAID’s Harvest program is helping Cambodia’s farmers. Photo by USAID, taken on 09 December 2013. Under the license CC BY-ND 2.0.The country has achieved remarkable sustainable growth, however, poverty and food security remain the challenges. The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has acknowledged that to ...

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 ...

A representative of Mirea Apparel Factory in the capital’s Meanchey district had promised that more than 500 “agitated” workers would receive a month’s worth of back pay tomorrow, a union official said yesterday. Free Trade Union executive officer Um Lina said that factory representatives had also ...

Two female garment workers who were shot last month during a protest at a Svay Rieng province special economic zone (SEZ) filed a complaint with the provincial court yesterday accusing former deputy Bavet City Governor Chhuk Bundith of attempted murder. Bun Chenda, 21, and Nuth Sokhorn, ...

More than 600 chickens in two villages in Banteay Meanchey province have been culled following the death of a girl from bird flu three weeks ago. The four-year-old died on July 20, only 10 days after showing symptoms of the disease, according to a joint ...

At least 50 garment factory workers fainted over the past two days in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district, bringing the number of workers who have fainted in the district in August to 60, workers and union members said yesterday. N Tuesday, workers from Heart Enterprise Cambodia ...

Authorities in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district have ordered a land excavation company to stop digging an enormous quarry in Prek Kampoes commune that villagers claim has damaged surrounding rice paddies. Last Wednesday, about 100 villagers blocked National Road 2, burning car tires in protest against the ...

As dignitaries marked the groundbreaking of a project to improve Phnom Penh’s defenses against flooding yesterday, a complaint had already been filed against the project’s contractor for impeding a public road. The Japanese government is putting $46 million into a new phase of the city’s flood ...

Cambodia is close to a deal that would ship as much as 20,000 tonnes of milled rice to Indonesia, according to sources familiar with the matter. Thon Virak, director of state-owned rice exporter Green Trade and chairman of Federation of Milled Rice Exporters Association, said Green ...

Cambodia is close to a deal that would ship as much as 20,000 tonnes of milled rice to Indonesia, according to sources familiar with the matter. Thon Virak, director of state-owned rice exporter Green Trade and chairman of Federation of Milled Rice Exporters Association, said Green ...