Phnom Penh’s City Hall warned tobacco companies at a meeting yesterday to stop flouting a sub-decree that prohibits all forms of tobacco advertising, or else face closure or fines. The municipality said some companies were skirting the 2011 sub-decree by using more creative ways to sell ...

Six people across the country, including two young children, died in flood-related incidents yesterday, bringing the total number killed so far this rainy season to 17, according to government figures. Keo Vy, cabinet director at the National Committee for Disaster Management, said that fatalities were recorded ...

Cambodia experienced low inflation of around 1 per cent over the last three months thanks to a decline in oil prices, according to the latest data from the National Institute of Statistics. Inflation went from 0.8 per cent in January to 1.2 per cent in February, ...

Cambodia is poised to achieve its goal of exporting 1 million tonnes of rice annually by 2025, as indicated by the country’s rice exports reaching over 400,000 tonnes in the first eight months of the year. ...

A surge in land sales has helped tycoon Kith Meng’s Phnom Penh SEZ Plc (PPSP) to return to the black, posting $5.7 million net profit in the first quarter ended March 31 (Q1’23) after suffering a $680,743 net loss a year ago. ...

On 26 July 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on the outcomes of the ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference (PMC) 10+1 sessions with the dialogue partners on their official social media site.According to the press, His Excellency Deputy Prime ...

The Prime Minister of Cambodia, Dr. Hun Manet, stated that the vocational training policy for 1.5 million young people will focus on 10 areas and 38 professions. .. ...

Some 1.8 billion Khmer riel and US dollar digital transactions valued at $492 billion were recorded in 2023, which rose over 600 million from 1.1 billion transactions in 2022, the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) said on March 29. This significant increase, an economist opined, ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new dataset on “Forest cover in Cambodia (2015-2021)”. This dataset gives data focused on Cambodia’s annual forest cover range from 2015 to 2021.=> Please click here to go to “Forest cover in Cambodia (2015-2021)”. ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated a dataset on “Allocated land for social land concession” by added the two new map features in Pursat from the sub-decree no.339​ dated 23rd Nov 2023 and no.332 dated 16th Nov 2023. This dataset shows information about the land concession ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 07 new map features in Preah Sihanouk, Mondul Kiri, Preah Vihear, Phnom Penh and Takeo province. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 03 new map features in Koh Kong, Phnom Penh and Kandal province. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 03 new map features in Takeo, Battambang, and Kandal province. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties of some ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updated an existing dataset on “State land reclassification” adding 02 new map features in Mondul Kiri, and Preah Sihanouk province. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties of ...

Resolution continued to elude 17 former bus drivers for the Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation Company yesterday when a demonstration at the company’s headquarters was roughly dispersed by company security after the ex-staffers tried to block buses from leaving. Sambath Vorn, president of the union whose founding ...

At least six people, including three Cambodian migrant workers, were killed late on Monday when a condominium construction project north of Bangkok collapsed, according to news reports, officials and witnesses at the scene. Twenty-four people, at least one of whom is Cambodian, were also injured in ...

To get his teenage daughter and niece on a plane yesterday after 10 months of alleged abuse and forced marriages in China, Kim Vicheat* said he had to bury his family in debt because the Cambodian consulate refused to fund their repatriation. The two 19-year-olds told The ...

Following the detention this week of homeless children as young as 1 year old at Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey Speu vocational training centre, UNICEF yesterday called for an end to street sweeps and arbitrary detentions. Three people rounded up on Sunday said in separate accounts this ...

Unions representing garment workers have pledged to reignite protests if the minimum wage for the industry is raised to only $115 next year, a sum they say was offered by the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia during a meeting on Friday. The Labour Advisory Committee (LAC) ...

Due to discrimination, sexual minorities in the country face high poverty, bullying and elevated dropout rates, with the government’s ambiguous stance on LGBT issues worsening the situation, a UN report says. “Laws and policies in Cambodia are silent on LGBT people and rights,” states Being LGBT ...