At the inauguration ceremony of the Heart Surgery Centre II – named Kantha Bopha-Sihamoni Monineath – at Kantha Bopha I Children’s Hospital in Phnom Penh on Thursday, King Norodom Sihamoni said he and Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk had donated $1.2 million towards its construction. ...

Ever since the dissolution of the main opposition, the Cambodia National Rescue Party, the progressive Grassroots Democracy Party has found itself between a rock and a hard place. Many have called for them to boycott an election that is no longer fully democratic. As one ...

On September 18, 2018, Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction issued a press release on field inspection of illegal coastal land reclamation in Prek Treng beach, which located in Village 4, Otres Commune, Stung Hao District, Preah Sihanouk Province, for the land to ...

On 6 March 2019, the Ministry of Mines and Energy published an press release on a news article of Phnom Penh Post on “Ethnic cultural centre in land dispute” which posted on page 8, released on Wednesday, 06 March 2019. In the news article, quoted ...

Hundreds of hectares of forest in Siem Reap and Kampong Thom provinces have been destroyed by a fire that raged on Monday and Tuesday, according to provincial authorities. The blaze, which authorities said was caused by human negligence, destroyed both natural forest and state-administered forest ...

On 3 April 2019, the United Nations in Cambodia issued a press release on the third policy dialogue focused on economic diversification and debt management in connection with the Belt and Road initiative (BRI) in Cambodia. The  policy dialogue engaged senior representatives of the Royal ...

On 02 August 2019, the government of Japan has agreed to provide USD 310,777 to AAR Japan under the framework, the Grant Assistance for Japanese NGO projects.  The Grant Contract has been singed between H.E. Mr. Horinouchi Hidehisa, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to ...

Some 30,000 palm tree seeds were planted on Monday along a 10km stretch of National Road 7 leading to the Cambodia-Laos border in Stung Treng province. The seeds were planted on both sides of the road between post markers 040 and 042, the Stung Treng ...

The Dara Sakor International Airport, which is now being built in the southwestern province of Koh Kong, will be ready in the next three years, according to the Minister of Aviation. ...

The recent move by Cambodia and Laos to make a pact with China on how to settle the South China Sea dispute amounted to them interfering with the domestic affairs of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), said former ASEAN Secretary-General Ong Keng ...

Trade-related labour provisions, such as ones that address labour relations or minimum working conditions for employees, do not harm business or make trade provisions less popular, according to a study released today by the United Nations labour agency. ...

His Majesty, King Norodom Sihamoni of the Kingdom of Cambodia, departed this morning for a 3-day official visit to Laos PDR at the invitation of Lao President Choummaly Sayasone. ...

Transparency International’s 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks Cambodia as the ‘Most Corrupt’ country in Southeast Asia. Cambodia score was 21 out a possible 100 points, which is the same as the country’s score in 2014. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday evening met with Cambodian compatriots from around the United State, Canada, France and Germany at New York, according to a post on Prime Minister Hun Sen’s official facebook page.   ...

Revenue from ticket sales to foreign tourists visiting Cambodia’s famed Angkor Wat Temple reached 43.3 million U.S. dollars in the first nine months of 2015, up 0.24 percent year-on-year, according to a news statement on Friday. ...

A new survey released by Cambodia’s Social Affairs Ministry on Thursday showed that the number of residential care institutions in the country’s five key provinces increased to 267 last year, up 92 percent from only 139 in the year before. ...

Revenue from ticket sales to foreign tourists visiting Cambodia’s famed Angkor archaeological park reached 20.3 million U.S. dollars in the first quarter of 2016, up 2.5 percent compared to the same period last year, according to an official statement on Friday. ...

High-rise apartments are springing up across Cambodia’s capital, part of a property boom led by expat demand, while developers are also betting the country’s growing middle class will shed a traditional distaste for “living on top of each other”. ...

Current assets in Cambodia’s banking and financial institutions had risen to 25.6 billion U.S. dollars by June 2016, an increase of 21.3 percent in the last 12 months, according to the biannual report of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), or the central bank, on ...

Ten union representatives were yesterday suspended from the Southland garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district after more than a thousand workers went on strike to protest the factory’s decisions about time taken off for voting in Sunday’s commune elections. ...