On 07 December 2020, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport issued an announcement on the postponement of the High School Diploma Examination dated 21 December 2020 to mid-January 2021. the decision was made due to the uncertain situation of the impact of the 28 ...

The Ministry of Culture steamrolled 300,000 bootlegged DVDs Monday in its annual celebration of efforts to stamp out piracy. But at DVD shops across Phnom Penh, where pirated movies are sold for $1.50 or less, owners said They see little threat to Their businesses. ...

Fifteen people from Siem Reap yesterday delivered a petition to Prime Minister Hun Sen’s cabinet claiming they were left out of a recent land-titling drive in their village, though local authorities said the group had only settled in the area once the titling began. ...

A parliamentary commission leader wants Cambodia’s tourism ministry to manage revenue generated by the country’s iconic Angkor Wat temple complex, amid concerns that the government is losing money by retaining a private company to oversee ticket sales. A quasi-government group, Apsara Authority, which is responsible ...

A day after a bipartisan election reform committee put the neutrality of the armed forces into a list of proposed areas of reform, Defence Minister Tea Banh reiterated that the armed forces would not tolerate opposition supporters calling for Hun Sen to step down. ...

The Permanent Mission of Cambodia to The United Nations dismissed The comments made by UN Human Rights spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan who urged The government “to review The charges” of The 10 MoTher Nature environmental activists as it was “highly prejudicial” against The integrity of Cambodia’s ...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has condemned The use of fake high school certificates to sit for entrance exams for medical courses and called on The authorities to take legal action on those involved. ...

Malnutrition remains a challenge that threatens the lives of thousands of children and leads to annual economic losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, senior government officials and experts said yesterday. ...

Efforts by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to restore the living standards of families evicted by its railway rehabilitation project continue to fall far short of expectations, and urgent action is needed if the bank is to comply with its own safeguard policies, according to ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday personally backed the review of government contracts with private waste removal companies, two weeks after the Council of Ministers signed an order indicating they will review the capital’s contract with garbage collector Cintri. ...

With 10 days remaining until a government-imposed deadline for the U.N.’s human rights office to either sign a new agreement to operate in the country or close down, there is no sign that the two sides have come any closer to reaching a deal. ...

Export to Vietnam climbed more than 57 per cent year on year in the first quarter of 2012 as farmers looked for alternative destinations for products that went to Thailand last year. the primarily agricultural exports to Cambodia’s eastern neighbour were worth US$201.5 million, up from ...

The atmosphere in Phnom Penh 20 years ago today was one of jubilation and optimism as Then-Prince Norodom Sihanouk signed Cambodia’s new Consti­tution into law and reclaimed The throne as King. The promulgation of The Constitution—which marked The end of The U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia’s ...

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training is working for The signing of MOU for Cambodian laborers to work in Arab Emirates, Minister Ith Samheng said. ...

Maina Kiai, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on the freedom of assembly and association, met with a Foreign Affairs Ministry official Thursday and raised concerns about the government’s blanket ban on gatherings in Phnom Penh. His visit wraps up today, and a thematic report he will issue ...

Hundreds of demonstrators marched through central Phnom Penh yesterday morning calling for a controversial refugee resettlement deal between Australia and Cambodia to be scrapped. While the protesters echoed human rights concerns that have been repeatedly made about the scheme, an undercurrent of xenophobia was also present. After ...

The World Bank has revised its growth prediction for Cambodia upwards to 7 per cent for 2013, from its January prediction of 6.7 per cent, a revision it attributes to The performance of The Kingdom’s agriculture, tourism and garment sectors. Cambodia’s outlook is generally positive, according ...

Like many developing countries, Cambodia’s mainly agricultural society is changing fast, driven by urbanization and falling fertility rates. As young workers move to the cities, older people are staying back in the villages, where they have little support. Although former civil servants and soldiers get ...

Many female garment workers still do not know their rights and work in unsafe and substandard conditions, a new study has found. ...

Dozens of military police were deployed in Phnom Penh on Wednesday as about 80 truck drivers rallied outside the General Department of Cus­toms and Excise demanding tax breaks and for right-hand drive vehicles to be legalized, an official said. ...