Garment factories run the risk of having their cargo confiscated by U.S. customs authorities if they continue using pirated computer software in their administrative operations, and may be prosecuted under a law that requires all manufacturers to use licensed digital software, according to a local ...

As the booming construction sector attracts more rural Cambodians to seek employment in the capital, the different working conditions between high-rises in urban areas and borey developments have factored into varying degrees of earning potential and living standards.According to estimates by the Ministry of Land ...

When activists Mom Sakin and Sorn Siyan took a stand against illegal logging in Kratie province last month, they were allegedly threatened with violence and lawsuits from officials. “Powerful people who wanted to intimidate us shot their guns into the air to prevent us from going ...

The number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) registered at the Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology, and Innovation rose to 43,974 in 2022, a slight increase of 1.6 percent compared to a year ago. ...

The US “pivot to Asia,” which will be punctuated next week with the Cambodian visit of US President Barack Obama, will likely put Cambodia in a tough spot in the region, caught between the renewed focus of the United States and the increased influence of ...

On a dusty highway on the edge of this port city, thousands of young women and a few hundred young men block evening traffic as they stream out of the New Star Shoes factory. ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng told an audience of university graduates on Tuesday that recent efforts to clean up the education system would extend to his ministry to combat claims that the civil service is plagued by nepotism. ...

A cameraman for national television broadcaster TVK was arrested on Saturday on direct orders from Deputy National Police Chief Mok Chito for using a fake police license plate and illegally possessing a police uniform and handgun, officials said Sunday. ...

The Ministry of Interior’s information technology department has issued a warning concerning an online fraud called “Romantic Scam”, which it said has already claimed victims. ...

In a recent book launch at CamTech University in Phnom Penh, former commerce minister Pan Sorasak hailed the release of RCEP: Part 1: Geo-Political, Geo-Economic and Legal Analysis. ...

More than 100 tonnes of fake, expired and illegal products with banned chemical substances were destroyed on Thursday in Kampong Speu province on the orders of Interior Minister Sar Kheng. Kheng said the counterfeit products, which included food and beverages, were imported, mostly from the ...

Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei is to attend the inauguration of a tractor assembly in Cambodia next week, according to the Belarusian Telegraphic Agency. “There are plans to discuss a wide range of issues of the bilateral agenda with the emphasis on the prospects of ...

IBM reaffirmed its commitment to the Cambodian market through a two-day event from 5 to 6 October in Phnom Penh which it demonstrated technology solutions for companies and governments of all sizes. With the potential market in Cambodia, IBM targets to set up its full ...

When Sim Sok Toeur, 32, returned from study in Australia last April, he did so with a vision for Phnom Penh’s skyline. For Sok Toeur, a scholarship to study overseas granted him a better quality of education than was possible in Cambodia – even though ...

Japanese auto parts maker Yazaki Corp. opened a wire harness factory in Cambodia on Monday, which President Yasuhiko Yazaki said will create about 600 jobs in the country immediately. The $24 million plant is in Koh Kong Province about 270 kilometers southwest of Phnom Penh. ...

The Philippines’ Department of Agriculture (DA) is working on the details of a technical cooperation agreement with the Kingdom of Cambodia. Specifically, the agreement would promote technical cooperation and information exchange in food and agriculture, said DA Secretary Proceso Alcala, who met with Cambodian Agriculture Minister ...

The Philippines’ Department of Agriculture (DA) is working on the details of a technical cooperation agreement with the Kingdom of Cambodia. Specifically, the agreement would promote technical cooperation and information exchange in food and agriculture, said DA Secretary Proceso Alcala, who met with Cambodian Agriculture Minister ...

Companies that have seized land, confiscated livestock and destroyed homes and property have gone unpunished, the UN special rapporteur for Cambodia has said. Surya Subedi, professor of international law at Leeds University, said all the communities he had met raised the issue of misconduct by ...

JS Global (Cambodia), a Phnom Penh-based organization that aims to promote trade between Cambodia and other countries, is importing rice milling machines, manufactured by Dong Yang Industries. Dong Yang Industries, a Korean company established in 1955, has developed its own technology since 1990 to manufacture ...

The establishment of the Media & Information Literacy Network Cambodia (MIL-KH) is an important step towards providing problem-solving and critical thinking skills to young Cambodians to help them safely use digital communications, according to Oung Chanthol, executive director of the Women’s Media Centre of Cambodia ...