Wholesalers and retailers of bankrupt Cambodian telecommunications company Mfone are seeking compensation for their stock of the mobile provider’s obsolete scratch recharge cards. Wholesalers say the issue is also affecting retailers’ confidence in purchasing recharge cards of other providers, and is slowing sales. Pann Chesda, general manger ...

Vietnamese enterprises are increasingly investing overseas, especially in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia, it has been announced. Elsewhere in the region, the Viet Nam Rubber Group has invested in growing rubber plantations in Laos and Cambodia since 2007 and aims to own 100,000 hectares by ...

Cambodia’s Tourism Ministry said about 231,000 Chinese visited Cambodia in the first six months of the year, up 55 percent over the previous year. Cambodia received 334,000 Chinese visitors in 2012, up 35 percent year-on-year, Xinhua news agency quoted the ministry saying in a report. Kong Sopheareak, ...

Australian green energy company Star 8 has designed a solar-powered tuk-tuk and is in the process of building a factory in Cambodia to make the vehicles, according to a report in Australian newspaper The Age. The vehicles’ makers said the tuk-tuks will cost between A$2,000 (US$1,865) ...

A British conservation group says its hidden cameras have taken photos of a wild cattle species in an area in Siem Reap province where it was previously thought to be extinct. In a statement released Wednesday, Fauna and Flora International said the cameras recorded six individual ...

Cambodia continues to shoulder a disproportionate percentage of the world’s tuberculosis victims, with a higher prevalence rate of the extremely contagious respiratory disease than anywhere outside of South Africa, according to the World Health Organization. With the assistance of free screenings and free treatment, the Kingdom ...

The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) has issued nine points of its policies for upcoming local council Election which will be held on May 18, 2014. According a statement issued on Saturday, the policies included a promise to increase the monthly salary to 1,000,000 riel or ...

Some 3,000 workers protested in front of a garment factory in Prey Veng province Monday, calling for larger bonuses and better working conditions, according to unionists and factory representatives. Employees of the Chinese-owned Komchay Mear Trading factory, which produces clothing for U.S. brand Gap, have been ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Thursday announced plans to raise salaries of commune and village officials in an effort to close the gap between earnings of high- and low-ranking civil servants. The draft sub-decree, which will see wages of commune chiefs rise from 300,000 riel per ...

In a tumultuous period for the garment industry, the year 2020 brought the closure of 129 factories in the Kingdom, affecting over 70,000 workers while 112 new factory openings created more than 20,000 jobs. ...

The Ministry of Planning has identified new lockdown-affected 59,000 households totaling over 190,000 people who are eligible for cash assistance from the government. They also include those whose members have either died or contracted the virus. ...

More than 1,000ha of land has been granted by the Koh Kong provincial administration to the Ministry of National Defence to establish a development zone project to improve the livelihoods of people   ...

The General Department of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) reported that as of mid-February, roughly 20,000 people had enrolled for TVET programmes nationwide, while the target for all of 2023 is around 60,000. ...

In 2022, the Fisheries Administration (FiA) referred more than 120 cases to court and worked with authorities to crack down on nearly 3,000 cases of offenses across the country, issuing a total of over 310 million riel ($75,000) in fines. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said that the government has increased monthly social security assistance for retirees, veterans, as well as disabled persons from 690,000 riels to 770,000 riels since January this year. ...

The number of posts involving child sexual assaults from Cambodia last year was discovered to be around 220,000, which is still a problem even if it is down more than 100,000 cases from 2021. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Tuesday that the government will provide allowances to 32,000 factory workers, including 26,000 women, who have lost their jobs due to factory suspensions amid declining orders. ...

The Cambodia Kantha Bopha Foundation have announced the launch of its annual “10,000 riel, 10,000 donors” campaign on May 29. The campaign, which gives philanthropists of all levels the chance to support the foundation’s five hospitals, will run for 30 days. ...

Setting a minimum price for paddy is one of the campaign promises that the Pheu Thai party made to its supporters during the recent election campaign in Thailand before it was elected to power. Now it’s a matter of waiting to find out whether this ...

UK-based BIW automotive company on Friday signed a US$2 billion join venture investment with ACICA Automotive (Cambodia) to build a factory in Preah Sihanouk province for a Cambodian-made vehicle within the next three years. The agreement was made between BIW’s director Robin Bowyer and ACICA’s Group ...