On 13 July 2021, Embassy of Japan in the Kingdom of Cambodia issued a message of H.E. Mr. MiKAMi Masahiro, Ambassador of Japan to the Kingdom of Cambodia, on the provision of vaccines.The Japanese Government has announced it will provide approximately one million doses of ...

Santa Clara UniversityLegal Research intern, Jun – Jul 2013Matt is from Santa Clara University School of Law in the USA. He came to ODC after his first year, and he prepared a draft briefing paper on Cambodia’s legal framework for investment, as well as a ...

The Kingdom of Cambodia is a constitutional monarchy. The king is the head of state for his lifetime but does not govern. ...

Extractive industries include mining and mineral sectors, natural gas and oil exploration, petroleum refineries, and quarrying for construction resources such as sand, stone, and gravel. Cambodia’s extractive resources have gone largely untapped, while these resources are geographically identifiable.The government considers extractive industries a potentially important ...

In a lush, gated compound 12 kIlometres south of central Phnom Penh, the young mInds that wIll one day lead CambodIa are beIng shaped – or at least that’s what one phIlanthropIc foundatIon, whIch Is InvestIng mIllIons of dollars In a unIque, long-term project, hopes. “When ...

The InternatIonal Court of JustIce yesterday unanImously declared that Its 1962 judgment awardIng the Preah VIhear temple to CambodIa also gave the KIngdom sovereIgnty over the promontory that the temple sIts on. But whIle the announcement was InItIally greeted as a resoundIng vIctory by some In ...

China National Cereal, Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) is the latest mainland Chinese company to sign a deal to export Cambodian rice. COFCO is one of a number of Chinese companies that have signed similar deals with their Cambodian counterparts, but  direct rice exports to China ...

For 53-year-old farmer Ros Mao, it’s not just the early bird that catches the worm. The Takeo province farmer has raised millions of earthworms for eight years in Tram Trak district, selling the slimy red creatures and using the manure they create to grow his ...

IndIa Is fInancIng the constructIon of a US$70 mIllIon transmIssIon lIne to brIng electrIcIty from hydroelectrIc projects In Laos to CambodIa, accordIng to IndIan Chamber of Commerce PresIdent DebasIsh PattnaIk. SpeakIng yesterday after the offIcIal launch of the IndIan Chamber of Commerce In CambodIa (ICC), PattnaIk ...

About 600 garment factory workers continued their strike in Phnom Penh yesterday, setting car tires alight to protest what they said were unfair salary cuts but factory representatives and labor officials described as a normal tax on income. “The factory told us that they cut our ...

Construction of the US$100 million Kampot sea port had been further delayed by rain, materials not being available and incomplete preparations, a local investor revealed yesterday. Vinh Huor, president of the Kampot Special Economic Zone, (KSEZ) said of the delay: “We are preparing to be better, ...

Manufacturing activity in China and across a wide swath of Asia slowed in May, heightening fears that the turmoil in Western economies is dragging down one of the few remaining engines of global growth. Two purchasing managers indexes for China fell in May, briefly rattling investors ...

Hun Sen, the prime minister of Cambodia, has said allowing the construction of a spate of casinos on the border was part of a “secret strategy” to protect the country’s territory from its neighbours. in a five hour speech addressing border demarcation issues with Vietnam, he ...

In the latest bId for an Increase In garment-Industry wages, Free Trade UnIon (FTU) presIdent Chea Mony yesterday called on the Garment Manufacturers AssocIatIon In CambodIa (GMAC) to come to the table and dIscuss a $120-per-month mInImum wage. A few days after CambodIan ConfederatIon of UnIons ...

ANZ chief executive Mike Smith says Cambodia should decouple the riel from the US dollar to a stand-alone currency and align itself to the Chinese renminbi (RMB), given the shift in global trade flows. At the Cambodia Outlook Conference in Phnom Penh yesterday, Smith said: “i ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday urged tour bus operators to respect the traffic law following a recent spate of bus crashes that have killed Cambodians as well as foreign tourists. “Please, respect the land traffic law,” Mr. Hun Sen said during a speech at the inauguration ...

About 600,000 workers in the lucrative garment and footwear industries, roughly 95 per cent of the sector’s work force, will soon take home an extra US$10 a month, the Ministry of Labour said yesterday. Barely an hour after a protest involving garment workers at the capital’s ...

The U.K.-based coffee chain Costa Coffee will join the mix of few coffee shops in Phnom Penh when it opens its first branch in Chamcar Mon district next month, representative of the international branch said yesterday. Rami Sharaf, CEO of RMA Cambodia, which represents international brands ...

PHNOM PENH – As more and more Cambodians enter the job market, with a growing population of young people, there still remain plenty of job opportunities with foreign investors at home, according to a new study by the Ministry of Labor. But people either don’t ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said more investment in agriculture was needed to ensure that Cambodia can process its crops and add value to agricultural produce being exported abroad. Speaking at the inauguration of a new cargo port in Kandal province, Mr. Hun Sen said there was an ...