Electronic equipment supplier Eltek Valere Ltd. filed a complaint Wednesday with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court against mobile operator Mfone, demanding the company pay the $3.7 million it owes to Eltek from a previous GSM contract, a lawyer for Eltek said. ...

Social work, long-established in developed countries but unheard-of in Cambodia, could be set to change the face of child protection in the country as interest in the field grows. Last week, a hundred potential social workers from around the country came to Phnom Penh for an ...

The number of new HIV infections in Cambodia nearly doubled over The past decade—The greatest increase in Asia—while less than a third of Cambodians living with The virus are receiving medication to slow its development, according to a report released this week. ...

The exploitation of women who work as beer promoters is soon to be exposed in a report that is going to be released by Care Cambodia and The Solidarity Association of Beer Promoters in Cambodia. The report will include first had accounts and interviews of ...

Set to open next year, Cambodia’s first cable-stayed bridge is now more than 70 per cent complete, according the government. Chhim Phalla, director of the Ministry of Public Work’s Department of International Cooperation, which is overseeing the Neak Loeung Bridge and improvements to National Road 1, ...

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has defended its decision not to pay a survivors’ pension to The family of a teenager killed in a ceiling collapse at The Wing Star Shoes factory in Kampong Speu province last May. On The anniversary of The collapse on ...

On 21 October 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on the outcomes of state visit to Cambodia by President of Timor-Leste.His Excellency President JOSE MANUEL RAMOS-HORTA and Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN, Prime Minister of ...

Corruption is weighing on businesses, and the avenues to address it are limited, according to Cambodia’s leading employer association. At a joint conference with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Cambodian Federation of Employers (CAMFEBA) in Phnom Penh yesterday, the employer representative called on the ...

The Interior Ministry’s general department of immigration began its “census” of ethnic Vietnamese people living in Cambodia on Sunday, with Sok Phal, The department chief, touring Pursat province villages along The Tonle Sap lake. Pursat provincial police chief Sarun Chanthy said that General Phal and a ...

The Kingdom’s 27 casinos are set to generate about US$20 million in tax revenue for The government in 2011, a 25 per cent year-on-year increase, according to The Ministry of Economy and Finance. At least one government official, however, said The lack of a regulatory regime ...

Government officials have agreed to speed up the delivery of land titles promised to some 1,500 families in Kratie province after about 200 of them, angered by the months-long delay, protested outside their local commune office Monday. the protesters said they had their land measured in ...

Customs and Excise Department officials are complaining that a promised salary bonus meant to serve as an incentive to avoid corruption has yet to be doled out, even though the program began last June. the initiative, managed by the Ministry of Economics and Finance, was supposed ...

The World Bank has debarred Cambodia’s CDW Construction Co Ltd for three years for fraudulent practices relating to The Ketsana Emergency Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Project. Announced in 2010, The $40 million project aimed to restore transport as well as water and sanitation services to The tens ...

Cambodia’s nine phone service operators plan to establish an independent body to debate issues within the industry, according to a statement yesterday from the Telecommunications Regulator of Cambodia (TRC). Forming the Association of Telecommunications Operators in Cambodia, or the ATC for short, was agreed upon in ...

On 25 January 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on Her Excellency Dr. Adaljiza Albertina Xavier Reis Magno, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, will pay an official visit to the Kingdom ...

Dozens of protesters called Monday for the release of Cambodian activists arrested during a bloody crackdown last month, as a prison official said several of the detainees were on hunger strike. the brief rally was held outside the Ministry of Justice and the Appeals Court to ...

An abundance of illegal crocodile smugglers operating without a license and exporting animals to Vietnam has led to the price of crocodiles dropping by more than half compared to the same period last year, breeders said yesterday. Loun Nam, president of the Crocodile Feeder Association, ...

Teenage pregnancies are hindering Cambodia’s development as young mothers are unlikely to finish school and therefore lack job opportunities, government and U.N. officials said at the launch of a global report on adolescent pregnancies on Wednesday. “the Ministry of Women’s Affairs acknowledges that adolescent pregnancies have ...

A second deadly car accident in as many days has claimed the lives of more Cambodian migrant workers fleeing Thailand in the wake of last month’s military takeover. At least two undocumented Cambodian workers were killed while driving through Thailand’s Chonburi province to get to the ...

The Kingdom’s growing agricultural sector is leading to more loans and deposits at microfinance institutions. The small-scale lenders also credit The boost in Cambodia’s agro-industry for declining non-performing loans rates. The MFI’s lending totalled $51 million to 4,900 borrowers at The end of June, whiles ...