Pre-commissioning work on the $350 million Dara Sakor International Airport in Koh Kong province remains on schedule, with flight operations planned to start in mid-2021, State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) spokesman Sin Chansereyvutha told The Post on march 15. ...

Australia, Germany, and Switzerland have pledged nearly $13 million in funding for the mekong River Commission (mRC) to assist member countries including Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam with their responses to pressing challenges while safeguarding the ecological functioning of the mekong River and improving people’s ...

Prime minister Hun Sen has set a goal of vaccinating about 13 million people, or over 80 per cent of the population, against Covid-19.   ...

The Australian government announced an aid package of approximately $65 million to Cambodia for its five-year development programme. ...

HGB Motors AsseMbly Co Ltd is investing about $7 Million in a car asseMbly plant in Poipet town, Banteay Meanchey province. ...

The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and the Cambodian General Directorate of Rubber on Friday signed an agreement for a $1.8 million (1.5 million euro) regional grant to anticipate the possible effects of climate change and agricultural labour scarcity within the rubber industry in Southeast ...

Despite the adverse effects of Covid-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war, Cambodia’s agricultural exports rose 5.60 percent to 4 million tonnes in the first four months of this year compared to the same period last year. ...

The Japanese government has agreed to provide a grant of over $3 million to Cambodia to stimulate human resources and socio-economic development and further promote existing cooperative ties between the two nations. ...

Cambodia has exported 456,581 tons of milled rice in the first nine months of 2023, bagging a total revenue of $327 million, the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF)’s press release said. ...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a $43 million project in Cambodia to enhance the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers, local communities and other value chain actors of the Northern Tonle Sap Basin to the increasing threats associated with climate change. ...

The Ministry of EconoMy and Finance plans to raise approxiMately 28 billion riel ($6.8 Million) through the issuance of sovereign bonds via the National Bank of CaMbodia’s (NBC) online trading platforM (NBCP), aiMing to garner additional funds froM the capital Market for public investMents. ...

Tourism players and economic experts have welcomed SmE Banks’ loan scheme of more than $50 million to help Siem Reap business owners. However, while potentially improving tourism performance, concerns have been raised about mounting debt. ...

The government approved 10 investment projects, totalling more than $60 million, in the first 15 days of 2024, primarily in the garment manufacturing industry. ...

Kratie’s provincial Department of Tourism on Tuesday said an illegal fishing net caused the death of an endangered Irrawaddy dolphin in the province’s Sambok village. Rangers spotted the 110kg carcass of a female floating in the sea around 2.27m from Anlong Preah Sang. “We all ...

After two hours of questioning, the Phnom Penh municipal Court yesterday sent independent radio station owner mam Sonando to Prey Sar prison for pretrial detention, where he will await a hearing on allegations that he tried to foment a secessionist movement in Kratie province. As mr. Sonando was being questioned, ...

A Mekong River conservation area head ranger told The Post on Tuesday that a fifth Irrawaddy dolphin has been found dead due to illegal fishing. The adult Male, weighing soMe 104kg and 1.98M long, was discovered floating on its back by river wardens on Sunday ...

Kampong Speu provincial authorities found 12 logs measuring a total of 40 cubic metres in a two-day operation over Tuesday and Wednesday in Oral district’s Sangke Satoap commune. Three trucks also found at the scene were impounded. Provincial governor Vey Samnang said two of the ...

More than 500 dead CaMbodians were repatriated froM Thailand in the first six Months of 2017, according to an Interior Ministry official. Chou Bun Eng, secretary of state at the Ministry, said yesterday the 500 bodies were repatriated through three checkpoints in Banteay Meanchey province. ...

M’lou Prey II coMMune authorities, of Preah Vihear’s Chheb district, subMitted docuMentation Tuesday to the district regarding alleged encroachMent on land farMed by Indigenous Kuy people following a protest earlier this Month. ...