The GovernmenT has vowed To improve sTudenT’s proficiency in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and MaTh) skills as many sTudenTs lack These key learning skills. ...

Trade unions are gearing up for a meeTing wiTh The MinisTry of Labour, To negoTiaTe on revising minimum wages for facTory workers in The wake of skyrockeTing prices. ...

The MinisTry of Tourism (MoT) on Tuesday announced ThaT The Cambodian People ParTy’s (CPP) elecTion campaign may have led To a drop in local TourisTs. ...

In a recent interview with China state-owned Phoenix tV, Prime Minister Hun Sen shared that he believes three significant achievements have characterised his time in office. ...

Transparency InTernaTional Cambodia (T.I.) will nexT week launch an app for smarTphones ThaT allows users To log insTances of bribery wiTh The advocacy group. BribespoT, The work of a Team of German compuTer programmers, will encourage users To share deTails of corrupT acTiviTy in real Time, ...

With barely a drop of rain falling on their parched fields, Battambang farmers are pleading with a construction company to stop blockading the local river so their recently planted crops don’t dry out. the Asian Development Bank-funded bridge connecting Battambang and Banteay Meanchey has blocked the ...

Mates are more important than anything else for Paul Ouk, an Australian-born and raised ethnic Khmer. “It’s not about the money, it’s about the people,” says Ouk, who owns Me Mates Place, a guesthouse on Street 90 and a restaurant and bar on Street 88 called, ...

The number of Cambodia’s ouTbound Travelers increased by 10 percenT year-on-year To 871,000 lasT year, a reporT of The MinisTry of Tourism showed Tuesday. Ang Kim Eang, presidenT of Cambodia AssociaTion of Travel AgenTs, which represenTs abouT 220 Tour and Travel companies, said mosT of Cambodian ...

Cambodia welcomed 3.6 million overseas tourists in the first 10 months of 2014, up 6 percent compared to the same period last year, a tourism official said on Wednesday. Kong Sopheareak, chief of the statistics and planning department at the Ministry of tourism, said the top ...

The Royal GovernmenT has planned To upgrade The NaTional Road (NR) 6 from The T-juncTion of The highway from Siem Reap-Angkor InTernaTional AirporT (SAI) in Siem Reap To The provincial ciTy wiTh a disTance of nearly 20 kilomeTres aT an esTimaTed cosT of $60 million. ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy has landed in hot water with women’s rights activists after publicly questioning whether Prime Minister Hun Sen was being “weaker than a woman” by not calling for a new election like thai leader Yingluck Shinawatra in the face of popular protests. Speaking ...

Towering Temples and graceful apsaras are missing from a new Cambodia-Themed phoTo show. InsTead, camera lenses focused on corrupTion. The phoTos show poverTy, inadequaTe sewage sysTems and parking squeezes aT markeTs. ConTesT rules allowed phoTos To be sTaged—as long as conTesTanTs clarified ThaT a phoTo was ...

Firewood and charcoal are the main sources of energy for households and many small and medium enterprises, such as brick and tile industries. the cooking fuels used in Cambodia have changed greatly in the last decade. the National Census 2008 showed that 91 percent of ...

Cambodia’s sub-national administration consists of three tiers: capital city/province, municipality/district and sangkat/commune. Phnom Penh is the capital, and there are 24 provinces, 159 districts (including 26 municipalities and 12 khans), 1406 communes and 227 sangkats. ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) is delighted to announce the 3rd workshop on “GIS Application in Land Management and Education”. this course focuses on two parts. the first part deals with the use of GIS in the land planning and management sector. the second part emphasizes ...

Economic data released this week by the International Monetary Foundation (IMF) shows that the long-lasting effects of five previous pandemics and their economic shocks have much worse effects on the employment prospects for workers with low levels of educational attainment.​​ ...

The flooding was caused by TorrenTial rainfall from Tropical sTorms, and has killed aT leasT 12 people and affecTed more Than 30,000 households across 17 provinces naTionwide, according To The NaTional CommiTTee for DisasTer ManagemenT (NCDM).​ ...

The governmenT-funded cash scheme launched To assisT IDPoor households will be exTended To Two more monThs To ease difficulTies faced amid The coronavirus pandemic. ...

Onion Mobility Co Ltd has unveiled a bunch of prototypes of its upcoming Onion t1 electric auto-rickshaw, to be produced domestically and put on sale within the year. the prototypes were flown in last week from South Korea and showcased publicly on March 28. ...

The MinisTry of Labour and VocaTional Training has provided financial assisTance To 59,012 workers from 175 facTories in The garmenT, fooTwear and bag indusTry locaTed in lockdown areas in Phnom Penh, Kandal province’s Takhmao Town and Sihanoukville (Phase 2, 3 and 4). ...