Improvements to Cambodia’s banking and finance sector are expected to come about as a result of the 2013 national budget, a Council of Ministers spokesman said. “We will dedicate resources to ensuring macro-economic stability,” spokesman for the Council of Ministers, Phay siphan said. These measures, in conjunction ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has issued a six-point message on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of International Children’s Day on June 1, Cambodian Children’s Day, also on June 1 and the 19th anniversary of the World Day Against Child Labour on June 12. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia will no doubt look to partners other than the Us and the European Union to bolster its economic growth as those key export markets continue to struggle, a senior International Monetary Fund official says. One way in which Cambodia would forge new and growing relationships with higher-income ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nine out of 10 LGBT students have experienced bullying in Cambodia’s schools, which hurts their future educational attainment and makes their lives harder, according to a report released yesterday by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia will receive a grant of US$3.3 million from the&nbSp;World Trade OrganiSation&nbSp;to Support rice milling, Silk production and development of the Department of International Cooperation, according to Heng Sovannarith, communication officer for&nbSp;Trade Wide Sector Approach. Sovannarith Said the MiniStry of Commerce would receive the grant from SS='cambodia-color'>...

Hospitality groups continue to call on the government to provide an exit strategy from the lockdown of the Kingdom’s bars, clubs and KTV’s – so struggling owners can implement business plans, but some are deciding to quit. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Tamao Zoological Park and Wildlife Rescue Center (PTWRC) and the Pursat provincial Fisheries Administration have released five smooth otters, six dark-grey monkeys and 250 lesser whistling ducks to protected areas in Raingtoel Commune’s Kaoh Ka’ek village in Pursat’s Kandieng district. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Tourism has launched the second phase of a skills development programme to promote human resource abilities in the Kingdom’s tourism sector. Pak sokhom, the Ministry of Tourism’s secretary of state, said that the programme will provide young people with vocational skills, create ss='cambodia-color'>...

Having a free-trade agreement (FTA) with more trade partners would help mitigate the Kingdom’s loss from the European Union’s partial withdrawal of the Everything- but-Arms (EBA) trade status in the future because the country has already completed one with China. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Agriculture and Rural Development Bank of Cambodia (ARDB) expects to receive an additional $30 million from the government for special-purpose loans to keep the Kingdom’s smaller businesses afloat amid the ongoing economic duress of Covid-19, according to the state-owned bank’s director-general Kao Thach. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Xinglan Maritime Energy Co Ltd’s (XME) $200 million 100MW onshore wind power project in Mondulkiri province has passed its feasibility study, promising a fresh gust of wind to swell the sails of the Kingdom’s burgeoning industry, the local Maritime Group said in a press release. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian banks must integrate automated payment processing, according to sabay Digital Corp’s co-founder Mike Gaertner. Its absence is a gaping hole in the Kingdom’s financial services. As a result, the Kingdom is notably left out of crucial consumer behaviour shaping the 21st century, including subscription ss='cambodia-color'>...

Preah Vihear province’s Kulen district administration is investigating a land dispute in Phnom Tbeng II commune’s Kdak village after a provincial court deputy prosecutor, Vuth savy, was beaten while leading a force to stop forest encroachment in the area on March 24. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 200 garment workerS gathered on May 10 on Veng Sreng Street in Stung Meanchey III commune&rSquo;S Damnak Thum Pir village in the capital&rSquo;S Meanchey diStrict to demand that the Phnom Penh municipal authoritieS help facilitate a 50 per cent reduction in monthly rateS for SS='cambodia-color'>...

With support of the European Union (EU), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture’s Fisheries Administration (FiA) launched a Value Chain Investment support (VCIs) programme yesterday aiming to support Cambodia’s small, medium and large enterprises in post-harvest fisheries. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of families have demanded Kampong speu provincial authorities expedite the distribution of 54ha of land in Daun Ath village in the province’s samrong district’s skuh commune after they claimed rich and powerful individuals conspired with commune authorities to change ownership by altering the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Institute of Diplomacy and International Relations (NIDIR) in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment organised a lecture on “Environment Policy and Management in Cambodia” for officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to assist them in understanding the link between ss='cambodia-color'>...

A nearly 64km stretch of National Road 21 connecting the Takhmao roundabout in Kandal province’s Takhmao town to the Cambodian-Vietnamese international border checkpoint between Chrey Thom and Vietnam’s Long Binh was formally inaugurated on March 23. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Candlelight Party has decided to adopt a seven-point policy plan in the run-up to the June 5 commune council elections. The decision came at the May 15 extraordinary congress of the party in Khmuonh commune’s Anlong Kgan village of the capital’s sen sok district. ss='cambodia-color'>...