The Ministry of Economy and Finance on Monday sought to explain a recent hefty increase in taxes imposed on heavy transportation vehicles, saying it was prompted by a need to support infrastructure maintenance expenditures and cover the elimination of taxes on vehicles smaller than 150cc. ...

The government will prune superfluous “deputy” manager roles from the state bureaucracy’s many branches by restricting the number of people able to hold the title from the ministerial level down to kindergartens and hospitals. ...

A high-ranking police official yesterday bemoaned Cambodia’s lack of capacity to fight cybercrime, just a week after the government’s announcement of a new Anti-Cybercrime Department prompted fears of an online clampdown on dissent. ...

The Ministry of Public Function has begun conducting a census of teachers in Cambodia ahead of a planned salary increase, officials said yesterday. ...

A bilateral investment agreement between Cambodia and Hungary will be sent to the National Assembly floor this week after it gained approval from the Council of Ministers on Friday, according to spokesman Phay Siphan.   ...

On 04 July 2016, The Ministry of Women’s Affairs led a special meeting with representatives from 15 line ministries and civil society organizations to boost the implementation and monitoring of the Second National Action Plan to Prevent Violence against Women, the key national policy to address intimate ...

Nearly 2,000 people have been deported from Cambodia – the vast majority of them Vietnamese – in the first nine months of 2015, according to new government figures.From January through September, 1,919 people were expelled from the Kingdom, and 90 per cent of those thrown ...

The international market for surrogacy is proving to be very resilient in the face of legal and social disruption. Now that India, Nepal and Thailand have banned international clients from using local surrogates, clinics and brokers are shifting their business to Cambodia. ...

The General Department of Identification issued some 2.8 million identification cards between January and October as part of an effort to bring a new generation of cards to some 10.9 million Cambodians by 2017. ...

Cambodia’s telecom regulator will strip the operating permits of more than 30 private companies licensed to provide internet and Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) services unless they can demonstrate that they are commercially active and operating in accordance with their licensing agreements, a telecom official said yesterday.Im ...

Cambodia on Friday released a TV spot to promote the “code of conduct” for tourists visiting the famed Angkor Wat Temple in northwestern Siem Reap province. ...

Cambodia’s badly overcrowded prison population leapt by nearly 20 per cent in the first 10 months of this year, government data show, raising serious health concerns.The figures, released by the Interior Ministry’s general department of prisons yesterday, show that there were 17,522 prisoners in jails ...

Cambodia is quietly reducing troop numbers on the contentious shared border with Thailand in Preah Vihear province.Citing the current good relations with the Kingdom’s western neighbour, Ministry of Defence spokesman Chhum Socheath yesterday said members of three units had been ordered to leave the border ...

The Cambodian government collected more than $760 million dollars in tax revenue during the first quarter of this year, an increase of more than 90 percent compared to the same period last year, according to a report released yesterday by General Department of Taxation (GDT). ...

On 25 April 2017, Ministry of Environment officially lunched the lexicon of climate change in Khmer, in both printed and electronic version. To download the app for mobile, Please find the CCLexicon in Appstore (For iOS) and Play Store (For Android). To view through website, Please ...

The government has lashed out at the U.S. and E.U. over their criticism of the detention of five current and former rights workers in Cambodia for more than a year, adopting the language of its critics by calling their statements “politically motivated.” ...

The Ministry of Interior is moving forward with a plan to revoke official documents from 70,000 individuals living in Cambodia, claiming they were “improperly” issued and mistakenly confer citizenship on “immigrants” – many of whom are ethnic Vietnamese born in Cambodia. ...

A memorandum of understanding meant to beef up protections for Cambodian maids in Malaysia is still on hold after Malaysia’s human resources minister said he was not aware of the agreement, according to Malaysian media. ...

The Minister of Public Works and Transportation announced yesterday that the railway line connecting Phnom Penh to the airport is 50 percent complete. Sun Chanthol said the project from the Phnom Penh train station to the airport is half finished and added that trains are on ...

In another sign of Cambodia’s deepening affinity with China, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s book on governance, which showcases the leader’s ruling philosophy, has been translated into Khmer to be used as a guide for the Kingdom, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday. ...