On​ 29​ April​ 2021,​ the​ Ministry​ of​ Tourism​ released​ an​ announcement​ on​ the​ temporary​ travel​ ban​ on​ all​ Indian​ nationalities​ and​ foreigners​ traveling​ from​ India​ aims​ to​ prevent​ the​ new​ variants​ of​ COVID-19​ virus,​ B1617. ...

On 09 September 2021, the Phnom Penh Capital Administration issued a notification on permission to reopen public and private educational institutions for all secondary and high schools in Phnom Penh from September 15, 2021 onwards.Phnom Penh Capital Administration has decided to reopen public and private ...

Most Cambodian university students have heard of their country’s fledging extractive industry. But with little access to information, few are aware of how revenue from this industry is being managed. Most of this information remains unavailable, and some are now voicing their concerns about corruption ...

Frontier and emerging economies such as Cambodia present companies with a specific set of challenges and risk, both real and perceived, beyond those found in more developed markets. A risk category getting ever- increasing attention is that of “social risk”, roughly defined as the risk of ...

Peering out over the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh from a sixteenth-storey private balcony at the new Bellevue Apartments, one could watch for hours as cranes swing back in forth over all the new developments on the west side of the water. “Phnom ...

The Vietnamese and Cambodian Government leaders yesterday chaired a ceremony inaugurating marker 314, the last one in numerical order on the countries’ land border. The marker is between My Duc commune, Ha Tien town, in the southern province of Kien Giang, and Russey Srok Khang Lech ...

Banteay Ampil district, Oddar Meanchey province – The families of Beng commune have new neighbors: a battalion of Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldiers building a military base inside one of 13 pockets across the province aiming to be the first forest-based carbon trading scheme ...

Every day, thousands of people drive past a big electronic billboard showing market data from the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), the first securities market in the Kingdom’s history. While waiting for the traffic light, those Cambodians who are interested can get a glimpse of the ...

Nearly all of Phnom Penh’s communes have voter registration rates in excess of 100 per cent, amounting to more than 145,000 additional names, with one commune topping the 200 per cent mark, an analysis of previously unseen government population data reveals. Further analysis of the already ...

In the course of a city’s development, especially a capital city, certain events serve as mile markers, raising their profile both regionally and globally. Few understand the changing views of Japanese investors toward Cambodia better than the upper management of boutique real estate consultancy AnnaCam ...

A dispute has erupted off the coast of Sihanoukville. On one side is the country’s aviation authority, backed by the local airport. On the other side are a couple of guys and a few flying boats. The State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) said yesterday that ...

Garment worker unions have tangled with factory owners over the unions’ plan to use the coming Khmer New Year holiday to launch a nationwide strike. A coalition of eight unions will send a letter today to the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) stating that workers ...

Government officials and union representatives met behind closed doors Thursday to start hashing out a better way to set the minimum wage for the country’s all-important but troubled garment sector at a workshop brokered by the International Labor Organization (ILO). But what was supposed to be ...

Environment Minister Say Sam Al met with private firms with land concessions last week to gauge their compliance with government rules and regulations, and adherence to their own contracts. Amid mounting local and international pressure, Prime Minister Hun Sen in mid-2012 ordered a freeze on ...

The World Bank recently ranked Cambodia 184th out of 189 countries for ease of starting a business, but you wouldn’t have known it at Phnom Penh’s recent Startup Weekend. Pitches for Cambodia’s first commercial organic chicken farm and for an app to connect tuk-tuk drivers to ...

“What law? No one has ever come to speak to me about that,” said 33-year-old Lim Vannak, scanning the large plastic buckets of corrosive acids she had lined up on the pavement of Phnom Penh’s Street 144 on a recent morning. Acid in the wrong hands ...

The National Assembly has produced its first code of ethics to ensure that all lawmakers work independently and humbly and uphold the country’s interest. Leng Peng Long, spokesman for the National Assembly, said yesterday said that the code of ethics approved earlier this month requires ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday ordered an end to all private land deals inside the country’s protected areas and warned local businessmen and officials against making such illegal deals. “all official paperwork in connection with natural protected areas is invalid,” he said while speaking at the ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has instructed the vaccination team from the Ministry of National Defence to accelerate its campaign and immunise the roughly 520,000 residents in the red zone and not to worry about a shortage as one million additional doses of vaccines are scheduled ...

On 26 April 2022, ActionAid issued a press release on one week campaign to celebrate the World Press Freedom Day 2022 under the theme, “Journalism Under Digital Siege”.The World Press Freedom Working Group, formed by 26 institutions including NGOs, journalists’ associations, and CSOs, have jointly ...