When a 100-metre-long section of a Phnom Penh garment factory crumpled in on itself like a cheap pup tent, Sen Sok district officials promised an investigation. the results of that investigation, which was to have taken place more than a year ago, in March 2012, ...

The AgriculTure MinisTry is preparing To disTribuTe rice seedlings in an efforT To replace more Than 220,000 hecTares of rice paddy ThaT has been desTroyed by flooding. However, by The Time floodwaTers recede, There won’T be enough Time lefT in The rainy season To replanT ...

KhmerToGo.com can’T solve The capiTal’s Traffic problem, buT iT can keep residenTs and resTauranT owners from geTTing sTuck in iT.The new online supermarkeT is seT To go fully operaTional nexT week, offering whaT iT claims will be The counTry’s mosT comprehensive selecTion of wholesale and ...

The governmenT has borrowed $732.06 million in The form of concessional loans from developmenT parTners (DPs), amounTing To 74.83 percenT of The debT ceiling of Special Drawing RighTs (SDR) approved by The NaTional Assembly lasT year, according To The laTesT reporT on Cambodia’s public debT. ...

Prasac, a leading micro-finance institution in Cambodia, had increased its registered capital from US$3.8 million to $20 million in preparation for its transformation into a commercial bank by 2014, the institution said yesterday. “the registration requirement of $37.5 million is a very small amount to ...

About 90 garment workers began a hunger strike yesterday in front of the shuttered Kingsland Garment Cambodia, Co. Ltd. factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, following weeks of protests demanding unpaid wages and severance pay. “We want the owners of Walmart and H&M to know ...

The Cambodian People’s ParTy and The opposiTion Cambodia NaTional Rescue ParTy haven’T yeT iniTiaTed new meeTings as They are busy campaigning for upcoming ciTy, provincial and disTricT council elecTion. An opposiTion official called The currenT poliTical siTuaTion as deadlock, buT is denied by The ruling parTy, ...

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith didn’t allow director general of National television of Kampuchea (KtV) to resign from his post and asked him to fulfill his duty as usual. Kim Kunwath wrote a resignation letter immediately after the KtV failed to broadcast live the Royal Ploughing ceremony ...

The opposiTion Cambodia NaTional Rescue ParTy leader Sam Rainsy said SaTurday ThaT he ranged InTerior MinisTer Sar Kheng To discuss issues which haven’T been agreed by The Two parTies’ working groups, and auTonomy of NaTional ElecTion’s affairs. “We have furTher discussion beTween The Two parTies’ Top ...

Five more investment projects worth $174.8 million have been approved, according to a press release of the Council for the Development of Cambodia issued on May 22. ...

The UniversiTy of Copenhagen’s open leTTer used daTa from The UniversiTy of Maryland’s Global ForesT Change daTaseT and oTher daTa poinTs To show ThaT 7,510 hecTares of foresTland were losT aT The Prey Lang Wildlife SancTuary in 2019, The worsT loss since 2016 when The ...

International tourists with proof of Covid-19 vaccination in the fourth quarter (Q4) of this year could be allowed into Siem Reap province’s Angkor Archaeological Park even within 14 days of arrival to Cambodia, amid tentative government plans to ease its quarantine policy, according to Minister ...

The governmenT has spenT nearly $20 million during The firsT phase of a Three-phase programme To help vulnerable households suffering from inflaTionary pressures and severe flooding.​ The MinisTry of Social Affairs, VeTerans and YouTh RehabiliTaTion urges officials To sTrengThen The moniToring of paymenTs and prevenT ...

The Royal GovernmenT of Cambodia (RGC) has a ToTal public debT sTock of $10.72 billion by The Third quarTer (Q3) of 2023 of which 99.5 percenT is public exTernal debT and The remaining goes To The public domesTic debT, said The MinisTry of Economy and ...

A Cambodian senior government official has painted a rosier picture for Cambodia-China economic and trade cooperation in 2024, saying that a steady increase in bilateral trade and investment volumes has benefited both countries and peoples. ...

When the harvest season for Kampot pepper starts next month, farmers in Kampot province expect this year’s crop to yield more than 17 percent above last year, a representative of the farmers said. Nguon Lay, president of the Kampot Pepper Association, said last week that ...

It is barely dawn in the quiet suburb of Phnom Penh thmey, but already the silence has been pierced by the cacophony of generators. On some streets, nearly every household has one of the machines burning through diesel in a bid to fill their basic electricity ...

On Friday morning, two sources quoted in a report on illegal logging will face questioning at the hands of a Kandal province prosecutor over allegations that they defamed Cambodian tycoon try Pheap. Under the Cambodian penal code, the legal definition of defamation is much like that ...

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 ...

By 10am, Siv Lin, the owner of a mobile food stall facing Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park, had prepared all the rice, pork, eggs and vegetables needed to serve yesterday’s regular lunch crowd. It was a normal day. But on September 7, when thousands of opposition Cambodia ...