The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has provided investigation training for officers of the General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance. ...

Military police in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district on Monday were duped into letting a detained immigration official walk free just hours after he was arrested for alleged involvement in the cross-border illegal timber trade, police said yesterday. District military police chief Sok Min said yesterday that ...

A draft law regulating the purchase and consumption of alcohol in Cambodia will, if passed, set the country’s legal drinking age at 21 years old, according to officials involved with the legislation, which many see as a tool to fight excessive youth drinking and drunken ...

Cambodia imported 1.4 million tonnes of petroleum in the first eleven months of 2013, down 2 percent from the 1.43 million tonnes a year earlier, the data of the Commerce Ministry showed Sunday. During the January-November period, the country spent about 1. 34 billion U.S. dollars ...

Some say City Hall’s scheme to improve public transport with a bus line is failing. One architect has a new plan, tried and tested throughout the developing world With the capital growing and incomes on the rise, rush hour in Phnom Penh is only getting worse ...

A primary objective of NatureLife Cambodia (NLC) is to build the capacity of committees of Community Protected Areas (CPA) and Community-Based Organizations (CBO) for effective site management. ...

The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) and the Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee (IMCC) Tuesday reviewed the final draft of the master plan to transform Preah Sihanouk province into a massive Multi-Purpose Special Economic Zone (MP-SEZ), before summiting to the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) for ...

Cambodia exported more than 545,000 tonnes of raw cashew nut in the first semester of 2024, an increase of 50 percent compared to the same period in 2023, said a report of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) on Wednesday. ...

Cambodia’s fisheries sector, a source of income and employment for approximately 33,000 individuals – predominantly women – faces substantial challenges in exporting its products to the EU. ...

Thousands of employees from two Taiwanese-owned factories continued striking for better working conditions yesterday. ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Friday via a Facebook voice message that the Chinese government has provided 1 million doses of COVID19 vaccines to the Royal Government of Cambodia to vaccinate 500,000 people. ...

A total of 206 factories have now been temporarily closed due to the ongoing Covid-19 community outbreak, with 1,673 workers known to have contracted the virus and over 17,000 additional workers currently isolated in quarantine, according to Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training spokesperson Heng ...

In a joint press statement released by Cambodia last night, Japan has pledged $428 million in aid and more COVID-19 vaccines to Cambodia. ...

Cambodia’s apparel exports to Japan have continued to grow for the second consecutive year in 2022, despite a dip in shipments in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022, the shipment increased to $1,201.698 million after a recovery in 2021. Notably, the exports recorded ...

Pursuant to the recommendation of Prime Minister Hun Sen, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training is co-developing a national policy on vocational training for 1.5 million young people in poor and vulnerable families with the Royal Government paying tuition fees and monthly stipends. ...

Minister of Environment Eang Sophalleth has expressed his hopes that by June or July this year, around one million saplings will be sufficiently grown, and will be ready for distribution to the public for planting. ...

Though it has refused calls to open new channels for migrant workers to vote in upcoming elections, the National Election Committee (NEC) has sent a letter to all Cambodian embassies appealing for citizens living abroad to return home to register for next year’s polls. But as ...

Dr. Hun Manet, Prime Minister of Cambodia, presided over the opening ceremony of the three-day France-Cambodia Business Forum, held at the Sofitel Phokeethra Phnom Penh this morning. ...

In a remarkable ten-year effort, Conservation International Cambodia (CI Cambodia) has restored approximately 600 hectares of the Tonle Sap’s flooded forest, a critical ecosystem within Cambodia’s largest freshwater lake. ...

Cambodia’s exports of garments, footwear and travel goods (GFT) increased by 16.89 percent in the first half of this year, compared to the same period last year, earning the country $6.15 billion, according to the trade data released by the General Department of Customs and ...