For 70-year-old Chan Shay, the choice between working through old age and a retirement in poverty is an obvious one. Shay, a cyclo taxi driver in Phnom Penh, said that while he dreams of retiring to his home in Takeo province, in reality he can see ...

Cambodia’s local authorities will receive a pay bump of up to 60 per cent starting this month, the government revealed yesterday. A commune chief will now get 400,000 riel (about $100) per month, up from 300,000 riel ($75); first and second deputy commune chiefs will get ...

Cambodia’s draft law of anti-money laundering bill has been approved today at the Council of Ministers meeting chaired by Prime Minister Hun Sen. ...

The Ministry of Planning has identified 20,000 more poor families in The country, bringing The total to over 580,000, while over 420,000 of Them have received The government’s cash assistance. In The meantime, many social security cards from families not deemed to be poor have ...

The Ministry of Environment has said concerns over Phnom Penh’s air quality are being fuelled by “fake news” on social media sites by companies aiming to promote The sale of air quality testing kits.​​ “There has been a lot of fake news claiming that air ...

Foreign diplomatic missions in Phnom Penh say they are closely watching the handling of the cases of human rights monitors and a national election official charged and jailed on Monday in connection with a sex scandal being prosecuted against an opposition leader.    ...

The government may recognize The more than 100 Montagnard asylum seekers in The capital as refugees, a senior official at The Interior Ministry has said. ...

Officials from the ministries Of social affairs and urban planning met with the Disability Action Council (DAC) on Monday to discuss issuing a prakas to standardise long-promised handicap accessibility in public buildings, according to a Facebook post by DAC. ...

Cambodia attracted 333,900 Chinese tourists last year, a 35 percent rise compared with 247, 200 Chinese visitors in a year earlier, according to a report of the Ministry of Tourism on Tuesday. “We see a steady rise of Chinese tourists to Cambodia from year to ...

While more Japanese companies are flocking to Cambodia for investments in recent years, they are more diversified, ranging from restaurants to manufacturing industries and electronics. Yoshihito Katsuo, first secretary in charge of trade at the Japanese embassy in Phnom Penh, told Kyodo News on Friday that ...

Members of the government, military and civil society met on Monday to form a working group to undertake security reform and reporting. the working group will have 26 members from a wide spectrum of government and nongovernment agencies to produce policy recommendations to Cambodia’s leaders. the formation ...

Nine more Montagnard asylum seekers crossed into Ratanakkiri on Tuesday, bringing the total number hiding in the province’s O’Yadaw district to 32, a police official said Wednesday. ...

A United Nations human rights expert has called for a speedy solution to the situation of the Montagnards from Vietnam still hiding in the forests of northeastern Cambodia, after crossing the border to escape alleged persecution. About 13 of the 50 Montagnards—Christian indigenous people from ...

Exports of garment and footwear products achieved solid growth during the first half of the year, expanding by 9.3 percent. According to the Ministry of Commerce, exports from the country’s garment industry were valued at $3.7 billion during the first six months of the year. ...

Cambodia yesterday urged Asean member countries to jointly combat the spread of substandard and counterfeit medicines which are endangering people’s health and welfare and affecting economic growth in the region. Defence Minister General Tea Banh, representing Prime Minister Hun Sen, made the call during the 14th ...

The United Nations Office Of The High Commissioner for Human Rights on Monday published a batch Of communications held with The Cambodian government since June last year, showing that The international body has voiced its concern about a range Of issues from The arrest Of ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has fiercely defended his right to grant economic land concessions after issuing a moratorium on the leases in May, pointing to a loophole in the ban which exempts ELCs that already had in principle approval. Hun Sen attacked the Post and the ...

By the age of 17, Chan Chonreasmey was yet to have a conversation with another person—not with her mother, not with her father, and certainly not with any other children. Two years ago, Ms. Chonreasmey was enrolled in the Maryknoll Deaf Development Program’s (DDP) education ...

Factory workers should get a reduction or exemption from paying income tax as the deductions are forcing them into poverty, the Free Trade Union (FTU) wrote in a letter to Finance Minister Keat Chon. ...

The Council of Ministers has ordered licences granted to private companies to log and collect timber from social land concessions (SLC) and state-owned land revoked, following years of allegations that some companies were exploiting The permits to carry out illegal logging. The council on Monday released ...