Droves of seafood sellers descended on the normally sleepy Kep province this past weekend, attempting to capitalise on a tourism festival set up to drive dollars to Cambodia’s coastal areas. But overcrowding and blocked roads pushed prices down and kept customers away, according to vendors. the ...

Cambodia has more labour forces than the jobs created every year. Hence, some students who have just graduated from the university can’t find jobs; they need some time to get jobs. Some young people have to sell their labour abroad. Despite the surplus of labour ...

China has signed an agreement to assist the Kingdom with judicial reforms and to share expertise in overhauling such systems, though one international expert yesterday cautioned that China shouldn’t be considered “a model for justice reform in Cambodia”. ...

A Swedish diplomat yesterday warned that the potential dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party could lead the Scandinavian country to rethink its relationship with the Kingdom, though she didn’t detail which actions were on the table. ...

This week marked The official kickoff of campaigning for The June 4 commune elecTions, wiTh Cambodians Taking To The sTreeTs To show supporT for Their favouriTe parTy decked ouT in T-shirTs, haTs and sTickers emblazoned wiTh parTy logos. ...

The MinisTry of Commerce has commiTTed To joining up wiTh The Thai Embassy in Cambodia To build a favourable business and invesTmenT climaTe beTween The Asean neighbours. ...

A Ministry of Interior directive requiring provincial approval for work done on commune halls prompted a thinly veiled threat from a ministry spokesman yesterday that a popular opposition commune chief could be arrested if she didn’t comply. ...

“The MosT Luxurious Home in Phnom Penh,” The placard reads, behind a glowing archiTecTural model of Sky 31, one of The ciTy’s many high-end condominiums under consTrucTion. ...

About the PartnershipODC and Save Cambodia’s Wildlife formed a collaborative partnership in October 2012 to produce the second edition of the Atlas of Cambodia. the new atlas, published in 2014, is the successor to SCW’s 2006 edition, updated to reflect Cambodia’s rapidly changing socio-economic and environmental ...

Training workshop on The basics of Geography InformaTion SysTem (GIS) and The use of QGIS (QuanTum Geographic InformaTion SysTem) was announced on The Open DevelopmenT Cambodia (ODC)’s plaTform and social media on 13Th July 2023 To call for The parTicipanTs To aTTend The workshop on ...

If it wasn’t already clear, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday let an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos know how he really felt about former U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration’s “pivot” to Asia. ...

The governmenT Through The MinisTry of Tourism is seT To give a major boosT To The counTry’s Tourism secTor To bolsTer The economy, said Prime MinisTer Hun Sen yesTerday. ...

The families of Two maids working in Malaysia asked Preah Vihear’s anTi-human Trafficking office and The human righTs group Adhoc yesTerday To inTervene on behalf of Their daughTers, whom They haven’T seen or heard from since lasT year, officials said. ...

Residents of Stung treng province who are facing eviction due to the Lower Sesan II hydropower project accused local officials yesterday of threatening to arrest them if they don’t refrain from hanging banners reading “Would rather die than leave” on their homes. ...

The Ream Naval Base’s upgrade projecT in Cambodia, which is aided by China, is legiTimaTe and doesn’T TargeT any Third parTy, said a spokesman for The Chinese Defense MinisTry on Thursday. ...

Rice futures jumped the most permitted by the Chicago Board of trade, advancing to a one- month high, as flood damage to crops in Southeast Asia boosted prospects for U.S. exports. Storms since September damaged 12.5 percent of paddies in thailand, the world’s largest exporter, and ...

Garment worker Ba Chhorvorn stands in the sweltering heat inside the small concrete brick room she calls home in Kandal province. Across the road is her workplace, a supplier to Levi’s and Gap, which her boss describes as the “five-star hotel of garment factories”. Worlds apart but ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen encouraged the public to help the country by drinking beer during the inauguration of the new $60 million Khmer Brewery factory in Phnom Penh yesterday. “Don’t forget, [if you] drink one bottle or one can of beer, how much will the state ...

Despite interest in participating in the stock market, confusion as to how and where to invest in the Cambodia Securities Exchange still persists among many Cambodians without close ties to or backgrounds in trading. After the much-anticipated and long-delayed launch of CSx trading last week, Soun Sokret, an ...

Opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha have been summonsed to appear at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for questioning in the wake of a weekend that saw their occupation of Freedom Park end with the abrupt, violent eviction of scores of demonstrators. In a summons ...