The National Election Committee (NEC) has prepared a budget of $43 million for the commune council elections scheduled for June 5, a decrease of almost 10 per cent from the 2017 elections.   ...

The classification of forests is set out in the Law on Forestry 2002. The law applies to both natural forests and plantations, and “defines the framework for management, harvesting, use, development and conservation of the forests in the Kingdom of Cambodia. The objective of this ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing on Baseline Survey on Mine/ERW (2009-2014) in both Khmer and English. Together with the website’s map explorer tool, we provide the details information about contamination locations of explosive remnants of war (ERW) and mines ...

The Thai embassy has released figures that show that exports to Cambodia have decreased slightly from $1.095 billion to $1.091 billion. Total trade between the nations has increased by 3.5 percent for during the first of the year when compared to last year. Cambodia has ...

Cambodia is going to conduct a population census in March next year, Minister of Planning Chhay Than said here on Tuesday. “We plan to spend 8.5 million U.S. dollars for the one-week census, which will be commenced from March 3, 2019,” he told reporters after a ...

The government’s plan to take a new $2 billion loan for next year’s budget will increase the debt burden to 31.5 per cent of the GDP next year, an analyst from credit rating agency Moody’s said, adding that it remained at a moderate level compared ...

The contribution of midwives to Cambodia’s maternal and infant health was praised by the government as the Kingdom celebrated the National Day of Midwife on Sunday. Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a sub-decree in 2008, designating May 5 as the National Day of Midwife – ...

Ten former Borei Keila residents who were relocated to a site in Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district known as Phnom Bat filed a petition with the Ministry of Land Management yesterday requesting they either be given $5,000 and moved back to Phnom Penh or be ...

Golden FX Link (Cambodia) has joined in the running to become a legally licensed firm to trade derivatives. With a registered capital of $5 million, Lawrence Kook, Director of Golden FX Link, said that the company received a license in principle from the Securities and ...

Socfin Cambodia, the local branch of a Europe-based international rubber producing company that currently operates a 7,500-hectare rubber plantation in Mondulkiri, has announced plans to open the doors to its first rubber factory next April, with an initial investment of $5.7 million, a company executive ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen says Cambodia can earn $5 billion a year from tourists by more than doubling foreign visitors to 7 million by 2020. Hun Sen told a tourism seminar Thursday that Cambodia would need to improve the quality of services and infrastructure for ...

About 4,000 workers from two garment factories protested in Phnom Penh  yesterday for better working conditions – but bosses told them their 7.5 hour working days and free meals meant they had it pretty good. The workers from SL Garment Processing (Cambodia)’s SL1 and SL2 factories ...

Hong Leong Bank Bhd (HLB) has received approval from Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce to open a wholly-owned, locally incorporated commercial bank in Cambodia. HLB said with a capital of US$37.5 million (RM116.2 million), Hong Leong Bank (Cambodia) Plc will commence operations in Cambodia within ...

In the first seven months of this year, the bilateral trade between Cambodia and the U.S. has reached some US$1.7 billion, up by 3.5 percent if compared to the same period in the previous year, according to the U.S. Trade Department’s figures. ...

Under the presiding of H.E. Say Chhum, an Acting President of Senate of the Kingdom of Cambodia, the permanent Senate committee schedules the 5th session Senate of 3rd mandate at 8:00 a.m., Thursday, June 12 to review and comment on the draft laws. ...

Giant Bicycles founder and chairman King Liu said on March 5 that Taiwan’s bicycle manufacturers are still competitive, despite the challenge from Cambodian competitors becoming stronger due to the country’s favorable tax policy. Bicycles exports from Taiwan were down 11.49% year-on-year in 2013, while exports ...

National mail service provider Cambodia Post reported a 10 per cent increase in 2014 revenues yesterday, as increasing consumer confidence boosted use of the once-fledgling service. The service provider, which was privatised in 2011, collected $5.19 million in revenue last year, up 14 per cent from ...

Cambodia’s trade volume with foreign countries was valued at $ 9.75 billion in the first six months of 2015, an increase of 9.5 percent from $ 8.9 billion over the same period last year, according to Chinese News Agency-Xinhua quoted the ministry of commerce’s statistics. ...

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China will continue providing $2.5 million in grant aid to Cambodia to support mine clearance for the whole of next year. ...