The Laboratory of Environment and Food Safety (LEFS) at Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC), is now accredited for food microbiology testing, enabling it to further assist food processing businesses to identify potential food safety hazards and improve the safety and quality of food products. ...

Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan emphasised the pride of the Vietnamese and Cambodian Parties and States in young generations at a reception for a visiting delegation of the Cambodian Union of Youth Federations in Hanoi on October 25. ...

The Department of Culture and Fine Arts of Kampong Chhnang province is making 100 kites to dedicate to the wind god at a traditional event that Cambodians hold on December 8. ...

A Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) official said at least 2,000 people from Candlelight (CP), currently the country’s second-largest party, have joined the ruling CPP, just days after the latter was warned of supposed links to former opposition leader Sam Rainsy. ...

Free entry offered to expats who have completed two years of residency at Angkor Archaeological Park got a rousing welcome from the hospitality sector. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced that all Covid-19 preventive measures, including mask wearing and rapid tests at various establishments, are now officially lifted following zero new cases of transmission in recent days, including the Khmer New Year. ...

The National Employment Agency (NEA) of the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training is gearing up to hold a job forum in Village 5 of Sihanoukville’s Commune IV on April 26, with around 1,000 jobs at large private firms on offer. ...

The community in Kampong Sralao 2 commune of Chhep district said that at least 200 hectares of forest land were destroyed by a group of people from other provinces. ...

Officials have suggested that the 14 partner signatories to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) establish a trade secretariat in Phnom Penh. The agreement, which aims to boost economic development, came into force at the beginning of 2022. ...

As the 2023 national election is approaching, the International Relations Institute at the Royal Academy of Cambodia (RAC) and the Club of Cambodian Journalists (CCJ) held a two-day training workshop to highlight the key role of the media in the poll. ...

A crowd of around 30 activists gathered at the base of Phnom Penh’s namesake Wat Phnom hill Wednesday before embarking down National Road 5 on a more than 200 kilometer journey by foot to Pursat province to promote social justice and morality. ...

Vietnamese and Cambodian ministries, agencies and localities will coordinate in building and perfecting legal frameworks and cooperation mechanisms to facilitate collaboration between border provinces, as agreed at a conference in the south western province of Tay Ninh on April 25. ...

A series of contracts have been implemented by 40 communities and six production groups, including a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a microfinance institution to guarantee payment at harvest time to 2,236 farming families. ...

Some 122 nearly extinct Royal Turtle babies hatched in an artificial sandbank at the Koh Kong Reptile Conservation Center (KKRCC) in southwest Cambodia’s Koh Kong province so far this year, said a KKRCC’s report on Tuesday. ...

Prak Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia, will lead a delegation to pay an Official Working Visit to Japan from January 21 to 24, at the invitation of his Japanese counterpart Hayashi Yoshimasa. ...

Vietnam and Cambodia agreed to continue maintaining high-level exchanges, consultations, and bilateral mechanisms in the coming time at the 20th meeting of the Vietnam-Cambodia Joint Committee on economic, cultural, scientific and technological cooperation in Hanoi on March 21. ...

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina advised students studying economics at CamEd Institute to keep an open mind about what to study and which expertise to acquire, encouraging them to consider agribusiness. ...

The Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) has set export targets for the nation at 750,000 tonnes of milled rice in 2023 and one million tonnes by 2025. This represents an over 50 percent increase compared to the export figure in 2022. ...

Rice output in East and South Asia is forecast at 695 million tonnes for the latest season, one percent below the record in 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) said Monday. ...

Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) saw a one percent year-on-year (YOY) uplift in revenue for the month of June, coming in at $3.6 million following a continued decline in the first five months of the year. ...