A few years ago, Banteay Srei district of Siem Reap province wasn’t receiving much attention from citizens or tourists. ...

Cambodia is one of the most biodiverse countries in Southeast Asia. Biodiversity supports Cambodians ecologically, economically and culturally. It plays an important role in providing ecosystem services and economic development to achieve the Cambodian Millennium Development Goals including poverty reduction. ...

Defending the fact that the leadership has remained largely the same in the sixth mandate of the government, Prime Minister Hun Sen said reforms were more about improving job efficiencies. Several analysts have begged to differ, however, saying reforms won’t make much progress under an ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday said he didn’t care whether the international community endorsed next year’s elections – the legitimacy of which critics have questioned amidst a crackdown on the opposition – raising concerns the Kingdom could find itself isolated if world powers decline ...

Restoration of the Angkor temples won’t be the only thing talked about at a meeting in Siem Reap today – the living conditions of more than 100,000 villagers residing at the heritage site is also on the agenda. “the villagers should live harmoniously with the temples,” ...

About 30 residents from Phnom Penh’s Srah Chak commune protested in front of their Russian Boulevard houses Monday, demanding that City Hall issue them land titles. Some of the protesters wore CPP t-shirts while others held banners with pictures of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his ...

Globally, an estimated 2.5 billion people don’t have a bank account, but many own a cellphone, fuelling a race to turn these phones into bank books for the ‘unbanked’ to store cash, manage their accounts, make purchases and send and receive money – part of ...

Phnom Penh Commercial Bank will offer “wedding loans” to newlyweds, a product based on a similar borrowing practice is South Korea. the majority-owned South Korean bank will set aside more than US$1 million for start-up families that don’t want their parents shelling out savings for new ...

Cambodian authorities’ ban on community forest patrols didn’t stop an environmental group from returning to Prey Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary over the weekend, where they found hundreds of felled resin trees that they say are vital for the local community. ...

Construction is due to start shortly on a socially responsible sun-glass case and cleaning cloth factory in Siem Reap. Pactics produces 40 per cent of cases and cloths for the larget sun-glass factory in the world, Luxottica, which has brands including Ray Ban, Oakley and ...

The governmenT’s NaTional CommiTTee for DisasTer ManagemenT (NCDM) fails To meeT regularly and is void of an annual budgeT To cover iTs operaTions while mosT of iTs sTaff members are ToTally unaware of Their job descripTion, according To a reporT released in March and funded ...

A total of $23 million has been given out to those affected by the closure of businesses in the tourism industry and garment factories due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

A new mobile medical treatment and care payment application developed by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), costing around $80,000, will be completed by November this year. ...

With Cambodia’s relief measures up for renewal later this month, it has come to light that the Government’s Covid-related assistance spending topped $335 million since the introduction of  payments to the financially vulnerable last June. ...

The governmenT has allocaTed some 140 hecTares of reclaimed land from The Tamouk lake, in Prek Pnov disTricT norThwesT of Phnom Penh, To The JusTice MinisTry. ...

The MinisTry of Commerce and SwissconTacT, represenTing The Global Alliance for Trade FaciliTaTion (GATF), are Teaming up on a projecT To make iT easier for small- and medium-sized enTerprises (SME) To ship and receive small parcels inTernaTionally, according To The minisTry. ...

The governmenT aims To spend up To $50 million To hosT The ASEAN SummiT This year and anoTher $70 million for The upcoming Commune ElecTion process. The budgeT represenTs abouT 24% of The ToTal 2022 budgeT expendiTure plan. ...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance (MEF) Aun Pornmoniroth said on tuesday that the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) in the 7th legislature of the National Assembly (NA) will implement the Pentagon Strategy Phase I that concentrates on seven key areas of ...

From the start of 2020 through the end of the first semester of this year, the Ministry of Information has documented the publication of 4,657 fake news articles online and 170 of those cases were serious enough to merit being brought to the attention of ...