Year 2023 witnessed the spectacular emergence of Cambodia’s sihanoukville special Economic Zone (ssEZ) as a force to reckon with, as its enterprises hit 7.13 percent of the Kingdom’s total trade turnover, up from a mere 0.88 percent in 2013. In just nine months of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 100 people repreSenting more than 600 familieS from Kratie province&rSquo;S Snuol diStrict who have a land diSpute with the Memot Rubber Plantation Company returned home yeSterday after Sending petitionS to relevant miniStrieS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of 187 families in Kampong Chhnang province and Phnom Penh gathered at the Land Management Ministry and the Prime Minister’s cabinet office yesterday seeking help to resolve their years-long land disputes ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Japanese government has pledged its continued support for the Mekong River Commission’s ongoing efforts to improve irrigation facilities under a four-year $1.4 million project involving Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia granted 52 licences to casinos last year, bringing the total awarded to 150 at the end of 2018, thanks largely to a surge in gambling businesses in the Kingdom’s Preah sihanouk province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chinese company Jiangsu Lianfa Textile Co Ltd plans to invest in cotton in Pursat province to process fabrics and supply the Kingdom’s garment factories, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Industry Minister Cham Prasidh has said that villagers in Kratie province’s Chetr Borei district were poisoned after consuming water tainted with cyanide which was used for mining operations in Mondolkiri and Kratie province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fifty-nine families living in siem Reap’s slor Kram commune protested to urge the authorities to speed up the process of giving them land deeds, saying they have been waiting three years already. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has issued a new warning to telecommunications companies that have yet to deliver outstanding payments to the Kingdom’s ministries, giving regulators until the end of the month to settle their debts. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Visa Inc, the world’s leader in digital payments, experienced strong growth in Cambodia in 2017 with the number of Visa cards in the country increasing by 65 percent compared to the previous year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) said in its mid-year report the country’s real economic growth will average seven percent this year, with strong contribution from the agricultural, industrial and services sectors. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Singapore-baSed firm KriSEnergy, which operateS Cambodia&rSquo;S offShore Block A, iS now reviewing bidS Submitted by contractorS for integrated drilling ServiceS and a facilitieS platform. They were Submitted during the Second quarter. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Forty-two families living in sihanoukville’s Muoy commune, who claim to have a land dispute with a sihanoukville Autonomous Port official Chan Kang, have been given land plots by Preah sihanouk provincial authorities. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union is a key economic partner in Cambodia, with preferential access to European markets a key element of the Kingdom’s robust growth in recent years, said European Union Ambassador George Edgar. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Danish researcher Ida Theilade has been bestowed the University of Copenhagen’s Innovation Award 2018 for inventing a smartphone app that can prevent illegal logging and preserve forest resources in the Prey Lang forest. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Minister plans to meet with top officials from the country’s NGOs twice per year in an effort to address concerns raised by the groups and to gather recommendations for national development.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thirteen unexploded bombs left over from the civil war were unearthed when a villager was excavating soil to construct a toilet on Friday in Kampong Chhnang city’s Ba’ier commune, according to police. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In response to the latest riverbank collapse in Kandal province’s Mok Kampoul district on December 13, the most recent of a spate across the Kingdom, authorities have moved to prevent more from occurring. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A lorry discovered to be secretly transporting illegally logged wood on Monday was impounded by Kampong Thom provincial authorities, with the vehicle’s driver now in hiding, according to a provincial forestry administration official. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Japanese government has approved more than $250,000 to support the Khmer Rouge tribunal’s Legal Documentation Centre to conduct its outreach activities. ss='cambodia-color'>...