Two workers from a garment factory in Kompong Speu province who were charged with a slew of crimes following their attempt last month to break away from the only union operating at their factory were released from jail on Friday, a court official and union ...

US investments in Cambodia increased 15-fold last year, due mainly to the construction of a new Coca-Cola plant in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone, according to a statement from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...

Cambodia exported products in equivalent to 2.49 billion U.S. dollars to the United States in the first eleven months of 2012, down 1 percent from 2.52 billion U.S. dollars it exported at the same period a year earlier, the report of the U.S. Department of ...

A district-level Environment Ministry official on Thursday retracted comments he made last week when he claimed proper monitoring of logging inside Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary was impossible because his ministry did not know the boundaries of private land concessions in the protected zone. On November ...

A group of investors from Israel showed their interest in investing in cassava in Cambodia, according to a statement by Ministry of Commerce. Chanthol expressed his support for this cassava investment project and recognized the importance of advance technology in agriculture production and processing to ...

The government’s apparent unwillingness to take seriously evidence of continued large-scale illegal logging orchestrated by The Try Pheap Group is “disappointing”, Global Witness said yesterday. A report released last week by The UK-based group titled The Cost of Luxury detailed evidence, collected during an eight-month covert ...

Ministry spokesman Mao Hak said yesterday that seasonal rains are expected to taper off in mid-November, with cooler winds sweeping into the Kingdom from Siberia and Tibet, promising a “winter” even cooler than last year’s, in which some areas saw temperatures as low as 18 ...

The Goldman Environmental Prize winner Ouch Leng, president of The Cambodian Human Rights Task Force, has been awarded The Asia Game Changer Award for 2017 from The Asia Society. Mr Leng will go to collect The award in New York on November 1 with eight ...

The UN’s special rapporteur for human rights yesterday told Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn that Cambodia is The top ranking country in terms of freedom of expression in The Asean region, but must improve in oTher areas of human rights which have been raised by The ...

The draft Law on Food Safety is now being studied by The Council of Ministers and is expected to be approved before The end of The year, government officials said. Tech Seak Ngon, general department of customs and excise deputy director, yesterday told a press ...

ambodia is working with UNESCO to form an International Coordinating Committee for the Safeguarding and Development of the Historic Site of Preah Vihear (ICC-Preah Vihear), Deputy Prime Minister and Cabinet Minister Sok An said Tuesday. Speaking during a meeting with South Korean Ambassador to Cambodia Kim ...

Police have warned coffee lovers there could be a couple of bad batches circulating and percolating in Phnom Penh after a raid on a fake coffee enterprise in Sen Sok district’s Khmuonh commune yesterday. officers arrested four men during the joint operation in Banlar Sa Et ...

The “façade of media freedom” in The Kingdom “collapsed” last year, with journalists reporting a sharp drop in Their hopes for independent press, according to The results of a new survey launched yesterday. The Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) study surveyed 75 journalists from ...

The Indian government has contributed $50,000 to The Khmer Rouge tribunal’s annual budget requirements.Neth Pheaktra, spokesman of The Extraordinary Chambers in The Courts of Cambodia, said yesterday that India gave $50,000 to The national side of The tribunal for its operations in 2018. ...

Community representatives, civil society organisations and opposition members have urged the government for more urgent action to resolve land disputes following the release of annual data showing that all 24 provinces were affected in 2014, with hundreds of cases still unresolved.the call came at yesterday’s ...

The president of The Philippines, a major Asean claimant to portions of The South China Sea, says The country wants The right to solve its problems on The world stage. But Asean leaders on Tuesday sought to downplay his remarks and said They did not ...

Dr. Ly Thuch, Senior Minister and First Vice President of the Mine Authority, on September 21, at the office of the Mine Authority, chaired an inter-ministerial meeting to prepare for the 3rd Global Conference on Assistance to Mine Victims, Anti-Personnel and Explosive Remnsnrs of War, ...

Foreign Minister Prak Sokhon defended Cambodia’s position on the South China Sea issue during a press conference at the Foreign Ministry yesterday, denying accusations that the Kingdom’s opposition to any joint Asean statement in support of the Philippines was tied to large loans and grants ...

On 6 August 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on the outcomes of the Friends of the Mekong Ministerial Meeting on 5 August 2021, via conference. On 5 August 2021, H.E. Prak Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister, Minster of ...

More than 100 young people gathered yesterday in Phnom Penh to discuss the benefits and pitfalls of social media in Cambodia.At the youth forum, which focused on “Politics in the Digital Age”, youths, monks, politicians and NGO leaders spoke about the increasing importance of social ...