Following a three-hour debate at the National Assembly, lawmakers passed a draft law approving the $2.5 billion the government spent in 2010. During the debate, CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap presented a 10-page document that he said justified the $2.5 billion in spending, which was 25 percent ...

Canada is keen to sign an investment protection agreement with Cambodia to boost trade between both countries following the visit of Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion to the Kingdom last Friday. ...

Two workers from a garment factory in Kompong Speu province who were charged with a slew of crimes following their attempt last month to break away from the only union operating at their factory were released from jail on Friday, a court official and union ...

US investments in Cambodia increased 15-fold last year, due mainly to the construction of a new Coca-Cola plant in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone, according to a statement from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...

Cambodia exported products in equivalent to 2.49 billion U.S. dollars to the United States in the first eleven months of 2012, down 1 percent from 2.52 billion U.S. dollars it exported at the same period a year earlier, the report of the U.S. Department of ...

A district-level Environment Ministry official on Thursday retracted comments he made last week when he claimed proper monitoring of logging inside Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary was impossible because his ministry did not know the boundaries of private land concessions in the protected zone. On November ...

A group of investors from Israel showed their interest in investing in cassava in Cambodia, according to a statement by Ministry of Commerce. Chanthol expressed his support for this cassava investment project and recognized the importance of advance technology in agriculture production and processing to ...

The government’s apparent unwillingness to take seriously evidence of continued large-scale illegal logging orchestrated by The Try Pheap Group is “disappointing”, Global Witness said yesterday. A report released last week by The UK-based group titled The Cost of Luxury detailed evidence, collected during an eight-month covert ...

The draft Law on Food Safety is now being studied by The Council of Ministers and is expected to be approved before The end of The year, government officials said. Tech Seak Ngon, general department of customs and excise deputy director, yesterday told a press ...

The Goldman Environmental Prize winner Ouch Leng, president of The Cambodian Human Rights Task Force, has been awarded The Asia Game Changer Award for 2017 from The Asia Society. Mr Leng will go to collect The award in New York on November 1 with eight ...

The UN’s special rapporteur for human rights yesterday told Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn that Cambodia is The top ranking country in terms of freedom of expression in The Asean region, but must improve in oTher areas of human rights which have been raised by The ...

When Chinese and Vietnamese tourists will flock into Cambodia’s Siem Reap province for Lunar New Year, heightened demand for accommodation may make things tough, insiders say. Ang Kim Eang, president of the Cambodian Association of Travel Agents, said that while many Chinese and Vietnamese tourists will ...

ambodia is working with UNESCO to form an International Coordinating Committee for the Safeguarding and Development of the Historic Site of Preah Vihear (ICC-Preah Vihear), Deputy Prime Minister and Cabinet Minister Sok An said Tuesday. Speaking during a meeting with South Korean Ambassador to Cambodia Kim ...

The “façade of media freedom” in The Kingdom “collapsed” last year, with journalists reporting a sharp drop in Their hopes for independent press, according to The results of a new survey launched yesterday. The Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) study surveyed 75 journalists from ...

The Indian government has contributed $50,000 to The Khmer Rouge tribunal’s annual budget requirements.Neth Pheaktra, spokesman of The Extraordinary Chambers in The Courts of Cambodia, said yesterday that India gave $50,000 to The national side of The tribunal for its operations in 2018. ...

Community representatives, civil society organisations and opposition members have urged the government for more urgent action to resolve land disputes following the release of annual data showing that all 24 provinces were affected in 2014, with hundreds of cases still unresolved.the call came at yesterday’s ...

More than 200,000 families – about 1,000,000 people – have been added to the Ministry of Planning’s poor family list following the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus. ...

The time it takes to export goods has fallen 40 percent according to The UN. SouTheast Asia has seen an improvement in The average time it takes for trade procedures to be completed, dropping to 19 days, though this is still three times longer than ...

The president of The Philippines, a major Asean claimant to portions of The South China Sea, says The country wants The right to solve its problems on The world stage. But Asean leaders on Tuesday sought to downplay his remarks and said They did not ...

Dr. Ly Thuch, Senior Minister and First Vice President of the Mine Authority, on September 21, at the office of the Mine Authority, chaired an inter-ministerial meeting to prepare for the 3rd Global Conference on Assistance to Mine Victims, Anti-Personnel and Explosive Remnsnrs of War, ...