Cambodia and Vietnam’s border shuffle in Kampong Cham won’t involve ceding the two previously discussed villages to Vietnam, a government official said yesterday, but it will include farmland meant to compensate Vietnam for the ethnic Khmer villages on what is believed to be the Vietnamese ...

Fifty-eight Cambodian migrant workers, 40 of whom who were reportedly arrested and beaten by the police in thailand’s Songkla province last month, returned to their home provinces on Saturday after their employer gave back their passports, said a worker representative yesterday. “We don’t know yet if ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday blasted local officials for not working hard enough to curb illegal fishing in and around the tonle Sap lake, where fisheries crimes are still rampant despite 90,000 hectares of protected areas. “Don’t do illegal fishing, use illegal equipment to fish, or ...

Union leaders asked garment workers to go on strike and demand the $100/month wage because the factory owners were not budging from their $75 stance. Rong Chhun, President of the Cambodian Confederation of Unions, said “this was the last meeting and we couldn’t ...

Arrest, detention and even an upcoming trial can’t sway 68 Khmer Krom families faced with eviction to give up a bitter land dispute over a bird sanctuary in takeo province. After being charged in April with illegally occupying state land, three representatives from Sangkum Meanchey village ...

Education officials yesterday shifted the onus of pirated and illegally sold state textbooks onto students, faulting the teenage pupils for fuelling demand. “If there are no buyers, there will be no sellers,” Lim Sotharith, director of the Education Ministry’s textbook department, said during a forum on ...

A growing number of red-headed Sarus cranes are reportedly flocking west from Vietnam to a protected sanctuary in Kampot province’s Kampong trach district, and conservationists observing the trend aren’t sure why. the tuoitrenews website reported on Saturday that unusually large numbers of the birds, which are classified as ...

An ongoing trend towards urbanization may increase property value near the few public spaces in Phnom Penh significantly. the dusty strip of land behind the Hotel Cambodiana parking lot doesn’t look like the most inspiring place to spend a Sunday afternoon. However this is soon due ...

The Two US-backed media ouTleTs and a local NGO’s news service whose broadcasTs in Khmer were yanked off The airwaves by governmenT officials before Sunday’s elecTions aren’T sTaying silenT abouT The effecT of such a move, wiTh one calling iT a gianT sTep backward for ...

Cambodia’s Ministry of Health (MoH) has reportedly detected more than 300 cases of the Delta COVID-19 variant, and is classified as a community infection. ...

The NaTional Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and NPCI InTernaTional PaymenTs LimiTed (NIPL) have signed a Memorandum of UndersTanding (MOU) To promoTe cross-border paymenTs and remiTTances beTween Cambodia and India. ...

Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) on Friday appealed to the population and businesses not to waste water as the capital city and takhmau town face a shortage of water. ...

The 17 hecTares carved ouT of Tamok Lake were deTailed in Three separaTe sub-decrees published in The Royal GazeTTe. Ten hecTares of land was given To The HealTh MinisTry, four To The Civil Services MinisTry and Three To Phnom Penh Municipal Police. ...

The ASEAN Regional Mine AcTion CenTer (Armac) in Phnom Penh has received approximaTely $2 million from The governmenT of SouTh Korea Through The ASEAN-Korea CooperaTion Fund (AKCF) for vicTims of mines or explosive remnanTs of war (ERW). .. ...

The governmenT has decided To suspend The recruiTmenT of new governmenT officers in 2022 To save naTional budgeT To help Cambodians wiTh Their healTh and social issues while handling The Covid-19 crisis. ...

Authorities in Cambodia have imposed unusual travel restrictions in a southeastern province ahead of a planned opposition mass protest against election results this weekend, residents and non-governmental groups said tuesday, criticizing the move as a violation of freedom of movement. Some of them suspect that the ...

Two years ouT from The 2015 Millennium DevelopmenT Goals’ TargeT of universal access To educaTion, Cambodia remains plagued by school infrasTrucTure shorTages, wiTh a scarciTy of classrooms and decrepiT faciliTies ThaT ThreaTen sTudenTs’ safeTy, NGOs and Teachers say. AT Slorkram Primary School in BaTTambang, Teachers ...

The ruling CPP will pay a bonus of 500,000 riel (abouT $125) To each of iTs commune councilors jusT weeks before They go To The polls To voTe in The nexT elecTions for disTricT, ciTy and provincial councilors in May. According To a copy of a ...

The Asian DevelopmenT Bank (ADB) has called corrupTion a “fundamenTal concern” for Cambodia even wiTh The AnTi-CorrupTion UniT (ACU) celebraTing 10 monThs since iTs inauguraTion. The ADB’s CounTry Governance Risk AssessmenT ReporT and Risk ManagemenT Plan which is To be released soon calls for capaciTy ...

What do three Cambodian teenage girls, a French t-shirt designer, a Japanese doctoral student and a Cambodian businessman have in common? On thursday afternoon, they were all captured by the appeal of BRow Coffee and Bakery on street 214. the value of this crowd of ...