Bidding on the rubbish collection contracts in the Kingdom’s capital have now closed, after applications first opened on Feb 25 this year, according to a Phnom Penh Municipal spokesperson yesterday. ...

Rising non-farm earnings, such as tourism, garment and construction sectors, helped to cut Cambodia’s national poverty to 17.8 percent from 33.8 percent between 2009 and 2019, the World Bank’s latest poverty assessment report for Cambodia stated. ...

The last of three draft laws written with The aim of cleaning up The courts establishes four new judicial chambers, but legal and political experts worry that it does little to loosen The grip of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Justice Ministry over The courts. The draft ...

A company with ties to one of China’s top state-owned firms will look to push Toll Royal Railways and its local partner Royal Group of Companies out of a 30-year railroad concession with pledge to invest nearly US$850 million to revamp existing lines and build an additional ...

Her Excellency Dr Ing Kantha Phavi, minister of women’s affairs said: “Economic empowerment of women is a key strategy to promote gender equality and poverty alleviation and it is clearly articulated in specific targets under CMDG3 as one important goal among nine goals to be achieved by 2015.” Her announcement was made during the forum on ...

There are nearly seven times The number of male lawmakers in The 7th National Assembly compared to female members with 87.2% of seats occupied by men and 12.8% by women in The 125-seat parliament. ...

A new draft law on the Status of Judges and Prosecutors does not prohibit the judiciary from affiliation with political parties and allows Supreme Court judges and prosecutors to work beyond the mandatory retirement age of 60, when all other judges will be expected to ...

Like most millennium-old structures discovered in the forests of Cambodia, the locals had known all along about this one. Jarai minority villagers in this remote spot in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district not only knew about it, but they revered the red-brick temple, using it as a ...

The administrator dealing with The debts of defunct mobile operator Mfone yesterday established a committee to sell off The company’s remaining assets. Since it filed for bankruptcy in January, more than 1,000 creditors, including former staff, have claimed Mfone owes Them a combined $160 million. Mfone’s remaining ...

Cambodia is among the East Asian and Pacific (EAP) countries set to receive financial support from the World Bank to underpin a resilient post-Covid-19 economic recovery, fuelled by solid vaccination progress, the Washington-based development lender’s president told the Post. ...

PHNOM PENH – As more and more Cambodians enter the job market, with a growing population of young people, there still remain plenty of job opportunities with foreign investors at home, according to a new study by the Ministry of Labor. But people either don’t ...

Government spending on social welfare and economic development could both see double-digit growth next year, according to a document summarizing expenditures in next year’s budget that will be discussed at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Hun Sen today. ...

Cambodia saw significant percentage gains in regional trade in the first six months of the year, though the gap between imports and exports remained large, according to data released yesterday by the Ministry of Commerce. According to the figures, the country saw regional exports to ...

In a rare acknowledgement of deforestation concerns, Deputy Prime Minister Sok An, chairman of the National Commission for UNESCO, said the widespread clearing of forests around Angkor Wat was harming views of the historic temple complex. Sok An made the remarks in Siem Reap at a ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng has ordered all prison, detention and rehabilitation center chiefs to accommodate and give full access to delegates from the U.N.’s Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT), whose five-day mission to assess the use of torture, cruelty and other inhumane treatment ...

The leaders of Japan and five SouTheast Asian countries along The Mekong River plan to craft a new strategy in July for Tokyo to contribute to sustainable development of The Mekong region beyond 2015, a senior Japanese official said Thursday. “Taking this opportunity from this ...

The government has announced plans to upgrade a sub-decree on torture prevention to The status of royal decree in order to comply with its international obligations, but observers said yesterday that The proposed changes will do little to bolster The body’s impartiality.The decision was confirmed ...

The following is The full text of The joint press communique between China and Cambodia issued on Tuesday during The official visit by Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Pedei Techo Hun Sen of The Kingdom of Cambodia to China: Joint Press Communique Between The People’s ...

Cambodia is committed to ensuring that its food supply is safe and healthy for all Cambodians, leading to safe and healthy diets, said Dith Tina, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries during the World Food Safety Day celebration held here on Wednesday. ...

On Monday 30 March  2020, the General Secretariat of the National Assembly issued an announcement on the outcome of the Extraordinary Session of the National Assembly, the sixth mandate of which has a unique agenda: the vote of confidence in the appointment and amendment of ...