ambodia’s 700,000 garment workers are among those most affected by exchange-rate costs. Their monthly salaries are paid in Us dollars, but most of their daily transactions are in riels. Moreover, because they send – on average – about 30 percent of their salaries back to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has highlighted his government’s achievements in building new infrastructure as part of a message to commemorate Khmer New Year.He said 15,376 kilometers of national roads and bridges have been built over the past year, including 12,100km of asphalt roads.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

A farmer died after being struck by lightning on sunday evening while herding his cattle home in Kandal province’s Khsach Kandal district.​ According to a report by the National Committee for Disaster Management, the number of deaths caused by lightning this year has risen to ss='cambodia-color'>...

A bridge being constructed over the Mekong River will connect the provinces of Kampong Cham and Tboung Khmum once completed.Nou Vannak, director of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport’s technical department, told Post Property that construction works had recently started, however no official announcement ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng yesterday called on the government to amend the law on nationalisation and immigration, while a report from the general department of identification revealed 1,518 foreigners were granted Cambodian nationality from 2014 to 2017. Presiding over the department’s annual meeting, Mr Kheng ss='cambodia-color'>...

Transport Minister sun Chanthol is to order all road construction companies to install signs at their worksites in an effort to avoid traffic accidents.speaking at the closing ceremony of the National Road safety Committee’s annual meeting yesterday, Mr Chanthol said he would order companies working ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee has released the official voter list for July’s general election, containing nearly 85 percent of eligible voters. The voter list contains 8,380,217 names out of 9,882,746 eligible voters, or 84.8 percent of those aged 18 and over. There will be 22,967 polling stations ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly’s Permanent Committee met to discuss a proposed lèse majesté law yesterday, as criticism of the law and draft constitutional amendments continued to mount. National Assembly President Heng samrin presided over the meeting, where it was decided to forward the draft law banning ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prey Lang Community Network will hold the annual Prey Lang ceremony in late March to commemorate and preserve indigenous identities and promote the forest’s potential. According to a PLCN press release on Tuesday, the ceremony and tree blessing will be held from March 26 to 27 ss='cambodia-color'>...

China is considering setting up an industrial zone in Cambodia and says it will announce new areas of cooperation with Asean nations in line with Cambodia’s industrial development policy. The issues were discussed on saturday when Commerce Minister Pan sorasak met Xu Ningning, executive president of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government collected $48 million from the casino industry last year, a rise of about 40 per cent compared with 2015. Ros Phearun, a deputy director-general of the Finance Ministry’s financial industry department, said that along with an effort by the government to improve tax revenue, ss='cambodia-color'>...

While Prime Minister Hun sen has publicly expressed his distaste for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which was dealt a critical blow by Us President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United states from the agreement, economists say there has been little visible progress in cementing ss='cambodia-color'>...

The influx of Chinese economic assistance into sri Lanka and Cambodia has raised questions regarding the intentions behind these massive loans. A 2016 International Monetary Fund report showed that Cambodia’s external multilateral public debt is now at Us$1.6 billion, while its bilateral public debt with ss='cambodia-color'>...

Less than a month before Cambodia goes to the polls, the country’s top election body on Wednesday acknowledged it had paid nearly $800,000 for indelible ink that its own tests showed could be removed using hair care products, an issue one opposition leader called a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two police officials – one the deputy police chief of Kandal’s Takhmao town and the son of Provincial Police Chief Eav Chamroeun – are the subject of a complaint filed with the Ministry of Interior by three people who allege they might have colluded to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The chairman of the National Assembly’s Commission on Legislation and Justice has called for a united effort to safeguard the rights and interests of indigenous peoples. Pen Panha said Cambodia paid attention to indigenous peoples in areas such as tradition, identity, land ownership, and rights to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite the widely condemned pre-election dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, the country’s only major opposition party, by the supreme Court earlier this month, the heightened risk of political instability is expected to have limited short-term economic spill-over effects, according to an assessment from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cabinet chief Phat Sikan waS elected aS the new preSident of the Beehive Social Democratic Party after the party held a congreSS on Sunday in Kandal province.&nbSp;Mr Sikan, 64, waS elected to lead BSDP at the congreSS in Kien Svay diStrict&rSquo;S Koki commune, attended by SS='cambodia-color'>...

Ratankkiri provincial authorities are trying to resolve a border dispute with Vietnam, urging the Vietnamese to reopen four recently blocked border crossings, according to National Police spokesman Kirth Chantharith. The conflict originated when Cambodia rejected Vietnam’s proposal to build four new, formal border checkpoints, only accepting ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s tourism sector earned $3.63 billion in revenue last year, an increase of 13.3 percent, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Tourism. Last year, international travellers visiting the kingdom spent 5.6 million, 11.8 percent more than in 2016, according to Kong sophearak, ss='cambodia-color'>...