Professor Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate who is considered the founding father of microfinance, urged an assembled crowd at the Royal University of Phnom Penh yesterday to start thinking about creating so-called social businesses. “Charity money goes, and does wonderful work, but it doesn’t come back,” ...

The NaTional ElecTion CommiTTee has expressed concern over wheTher The InTerior MinisTry will be able To issue enough new biomeTric idenTiTy cards – which ensure voTer names aren’T duplicaTed – in Time for iT To regisTer voTers ahead of The 2017 commune elecTions. The issue, among ...

SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia—In this quiet beach town, Lim Loeung says she spends up to 80 hours a week gluing soles onto shoes at a factory that does work for companies including Japanese sneaker-maker Asics Corp. 7936.tO +0.95% the factory believes Ms. Lim is at least 18 ...

Cambodia’s legal and policy framework provides little opportunity for citizens and civil society organisations to have a say in public financial management at the national level, said a study by NGO Forum which was released on tuesday. ...

Over the past 22 years, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has distributed 1,356,396.16ha of land to 487,157 households, including members of the armed forces, border police officers and poor people. ...

The NaTional Bank of Cambodia (NBC) will proceed wiTh anoTher aucTion process for The MinisTry of Economy and Finance (MEF) To borrow abouT $50 million from invesTors for The second Time of The governmenT’s plan of issuance for a longer period of Time of repaymenT ...

One of three women shot during a protest outside the Kaoway Sports factory in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet town on February 20 accused deposed town governor Chhouk Bandith of the crime yesterday, but told a judge she hadn’t been sure until seeing a media report ...

Four men were granted bail by Pursat provincial court on Saturday after they were caught illegally transporting 11 timber logs in Phnom Kravanh district on thursday. Provincial Department of Agriculture director Lay Visith on Sunday said provincial forestry administration officials sent the four to court ...

A ToyoTa SUV and The load of illegally logged luxury wood found inside iT on Monday belong To The wife of a disTricT police chief in Tbong Khmum province, according To local officials, who say They have no inTenTion of Taking acTion againsT The couple. “We ...

Nget Khun, a 76-year-old known to some in Cambodia’s capital as “Grandma Mommy,” hasn’t had a quiet retirement. A World Bank spokesperson said the bank is in discussions with the government about “how to support the country’s development in a way that benefits all Cambodians.” ...

Local private airline Aero Cambodia intends to launch domestic chartered flights by the end of this year once it receives approval from the government. the airline is preparing to apply for its air operator certificate from the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) and hopes to ...

Beginning this year, all public schools will be required to conduct regularly scheduled forums designed to function as a sounding board between teachers, parents and students, officials said yesterday. the meetings will encourage dialogue about what is and isn’t working in Cambodian schools, Education Minister Hang ...

The Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone has 77 TenanTs from nine counTries and 80 per cenT occupancy, buT high elecTriciTy cosTs and corrupTion remain a drag on profiTs. The main issue is elecTriciTy cosTs, says PPSEZ chief execuTive Hiroshi UmaeTsu. “If [elecTriciTy] goes from 19 ...

Cambodia’s Ministry of tourism (Mot) have said that the kingdom is ready to welcome the return of Chinese investors and tourists, saying that their presence is vital for its tourism and socioeconomic development. ...

USAID Morodok Baitang and Olam Outspan (Cambodia) Co., Ltd. have reached a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the promotion of non-deforested value chains in KeoSeima district, Mondulkiri province. ...

Faced with the rapid loss of vast tracts of forest across Cambodia, local communities have begun to fight back, and a growing number of villagers are now organizing their own aggressive forest patrols in order to save the forests on which they have relied for ...

Living in a compact space is just a part of university life, especially for students who come from the provinces to study in Phnom Penh. While the city keeps building an abundance of international-standard complexes, almost none of these are realistic choices for students, many ...

Chen Qun squinted into the morning sunlight as she walked out of the customs and immigration office in Bavet, a small border town that serves as one of the main gateways for land travel between Cambodia and Vietnam. “I have no friends in Sviey Rieng so ...

On 02 February 2023, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) and the Ministry of Post and telecommunications (MPtC) issued a notification on the provision of a temporary Bac II certificate for the exam session on 05 December 2022 with the QR Code standard ...

Hundreds of villagers patrolling Prey Long forest for illegal logging discovered and burned more than 370 cubic meters of wood during the first four days of their campaign, an organizer said yesterday. About 400 villagers from Kompong thom, Kratie, Stung treng and Preah Vihear provinces who ...