SokChendaSophea, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, engaged here on Dec. 14 in a friendly discussion with H.E. Ms. Melissa A. Brown, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, during the latter’s working visit to the ...

Four African countries, South Sudan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Somalia, have asked the Cambodian government, through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), for the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) to help train deminers in each country. ...

The ASEAN-International Wholesale Market, locally known as the New Deum Kor Market, was officially inaugurated last week in a ceremony including Khuong Sreng, Governor of Phnom Penh, Wang Wentian, Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia, and other representatives and stakeholders of the project. ...

The Royal Government of Cambodia pledged to improve the working conditions of employees in the private sector with a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with ILO last week at the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training. ...

Cambodia’s foreign trade volume hit $31.18 billion in the first seven months of 2024, up 15% from $27.1 billion over the same period last year, according to an official report released on Saturday. ...

Phnom Penh International Airport experienced a significant increase in passenger traffic on Sunday, as thousands of travellers passed through the facility. According to the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA), the airport handled a total of 9,602 passengers on Sunday, citing that the figures represented ...

Cambodia has been a vocal supporter of the BRI since the initiative’s conception in 2013. The BRI will offer a new framework of cooperation between Cambodia and her neighbours, through the increased connectivity that will arise in the region once the work on the improved ...

Cambodia’s Minister of Defense Tea Banh on Monday dismissed suspicions that his government had reneged on accepting an offer from the U.S. to upgrade buildings at a naval base in Preah Sihanouk province because it plans to host Chinese military assets at the site. In a ...

Local and foreign dignitaries offered their condolences to the royal family on news of the death in Beijing yesterday of King Father Norodom Sihanouk, who led his country out of colonial rule in the 1950s and went on to play a leading role in the country’s ...

The share price of Grand Twins International, a manufacturer for U.S. athletic apparel brands, on Tuesday sank for the fourth straight day since it was listed on the bourse last week, signaling that its initial listing price was too high, industry analysts said. “The pricing of ...

Two new Asian airlines will begin regular flights to Cambodia this winter in an airlines sector increasingly dominated by regional passengers, a Cambodia Airports official said on Friday. Tiger Airways, a Singapore-based airline, will operate daily A320 flights between Singapore and Phnom Penh and Singapore and ...

More than 150 businesses and associations from around the world gathered on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich yesterday for the launch of the country’s annual food and hospitality exhibition. Two events, the International Food, Drinks and Wine Show and the Cambodian International Hotel, Restaurant and Catering Industry ...

Rights groups and the United Nations yesterday urged the Supreme Court to drop the case against two men widely believed to have been wrongfully convicted of the slaying of unionist Chea Vichea when it convenes this morning. Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun were re-arrested in ...

Three of the country’s largest unions on Wednesday added their voices to a global campaign urging member states of the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Governing Body, which Cambodia recently joined, to not revoke the option to go on strike as a fundamental right. ...

About two months after Phnom Penh-based Tonlesap Airlines suspended its chartered flights, the local carrier’s future seems as cloudy as ever. Vann Chanty, the director of air transport with Cambodia’s State Secretariat of Civil Aviation, said yesterday that the airline had not resumed operations and that ...

International tourist arrivals soared nearly 18 per cent in the first quarter in this year compared to the same period the year before, according to data from the Ministry of Tourism. The ministry’s official statistics report showed that Cambodia received 1,172,072 tourists in three-month period, compared ...

The Cambodian Youth Party (CYP) is urging the public to join a mass demonstration on October 10 against Vietnam, due to what they say is a continued encroachment by the neighboring country on Cambodian territory through two settlements currently under construction. In an announcement sent out ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen today leads a delegation of high-level officials to Laos for the start of the 29th ASEAN Summit. The event is considered of special import as it comes in the wake of a July international court ruling that determined the so-called “nine-dash line” ...

Three refugees who have agreed to travel to Cambodia are being housed in the Nauru detention centre before they are scheduled to fly out. There are currently just four refugees who have agreed to take up the Australian government’s resettlement offer in Cambodia, despite a large ...

International aid agencies based in Cambodia have rejected the Abbott government’s resettlement deal, saying it  is not appropriate for a country that has been accused of human rights abuses and has no refugee resettlement experience.​ A Cambodian delegation will meet with refugees on Nauru, the ...