Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh says Vietnam is willing to co-operate with Cambodia in terrorism prevention through exchanges and joint drills, Nhan Dan reported Wednesday. The official organ of the Communist Party of Vietnam said the offer was made at a reception in Hanoi Tuesday ...

Some 250 families in Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Sruoch district have sought intervention from rights group Adhoc to help resolve a land dispute involving a business they allege is headed by the son of former provincial governor Kang Heang. Families from three villages say Heang, who ...

Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (SAP) could be ready to list on the Cambodian Stock Exchange (CSX) by mid 2015, the head of the state-owned enterprise says. Lou Kimchhunn, director-general at the port said he is awaiting evaluations of the business’s 2014 performance from an independent accounting firm ...

The names of more than 900 prisoners have been put forward to receive pardons and sentence reductions during next month’s Khmer New Year festivities, officials said yesterday. The inmates were selected by the Ministry of Interior and their cases are now being assessed by the Ministry ...

Vietnam offered Friday the lower price for the additional rice supply that the Philippines will import to increase its buffer stock for the lean season, the National Food Authority said. NFA earlier invited Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam to supply an additional 250,000 metric tons of rice ...

Malaysia’s leading Insurance and Takaful Company Etiqa has started operations in Cambodia, allowing the local people to experience a fast and easy way to get insured. Etiqa has entered the Kingdom upon seeing the vast potential the local market has to offer, with 97% of ...

A local representative of controversial online start-up incubator Rocket Internet said the company would invest “millions” in Cambodia as it launched a new online retail store yesterday, in what market insiders call a trend toward increasing e-commerce in the Kingdom. The site, shop.com.kh is offered in ...

Cambodia is preparing to ink a deal that will see South Korea offer $1.5 billion in loans to further develop the kingdom’s energy sector and infrastructure. ...

A partnership between Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA) and Water.org aims to increase access to safe water and sanitation nationwide by offering incentives to finance the sector. ...

The Scaling Up Nutrition Network (SUN), which represents more than fifty national and international civil society organisations and the SUN UN network, which represents four agencies, offered their congratulations to the government for recent workshops held to promote breastfeeding and the introduction of increased maternity ...

The Securities Exchange Regulator of Cambodia (SERC) is actively seeking collaboration with relevant ministries and institutions to combat the illicit collection of public funds by unauthorised investors offering high returns. ...

More than 60 percent of mothers and young children in Cambodia are suffering from dangerously low levels of iodine in what a new study describes as a “serious public health problem.”   ...

Claiming the public knows little about successful reforms being made by government ministries, an international nonprofit released a study on Friday lauding the top three governmental efforts of this year. ...

The Environment Ministry is studying water samples from Preah Vihear province to find out what has been killing thousands of fish in the Stung Sen River, where villagers are reportedly blaming a sugarcane plantation. ...

High-ranking Laos officials said on Wednesday that the proposed Pak Beng hydropower dam will not have a major impact on downstream communities, claiming that they would take time to study its potential impacts. ...

The filling of Boeng Kak lake and the eviction of thousands of residents was necessary to root out the “prostitutes and terrorists” that were drawn to the area’s once-popular tourist zone, the Phnom Penh Municipality said in a statement yesterday. In a statement posted to its ...

Cambodia Tourism Marketing and Promotion Board, a joint institution between the government and the private sector, is studying a new strategy to attract more foreign visitors to the Kingdom, Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said. ...

Phnom Penh is studying the prospect of a toll highway to run from the capital to Phnom Penh International Airport, a dangerous stretch of road that kills many people each year. ...

An international study of the health of the world’s oceans compiled by more than 65 experts this week ranked Cambodia 179 of 221 countries surveyed, confirming the fragility of the Kingdom’s marine environment. ...

People with disabilities and their families in two Cambodian provinces – Kampong Cham and Tbong Khmum – experience significant psychological distress, endure discrimination and stigma and their rights “re-main largely unrecognised”, a new study has found. ...