The Ministry of Commerce has intensified its decentralisation policy and shifted its responsibility for issuing certificates of origin (COs) to provincial commerce departments, it said on Monday. To promote the Kingdom’s agricultural exports, the ministry announced a pilot launch from November 1 in three border ss='cambodia-color'>...

With no immediate cause ascertained for the death of an Irrawaddy dolphin calf in the Mekong River in stung Treng province, conservationists on sunday requested the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) to investigate further. The dolphin was found floating on the river on saturday in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Startup AdviSerS (CSA) iS Set to launch itS Cambodia Startup Handbook aS a tool for the Kingdom&rSquo;S entrepreneurS, itS preSS releaSe Said on Friday. Scheduled to be launched on TueSday, the book iS co-authored by Sreypeou Chaing, Junro Binang, Pheng Thea and David HaSkel SS='cambodia-color'>...

Amru Rice Group, one of Cambodia’s largest rice exporters, on Thursday signed a contract purchase agreement with 4,000 organic rice farmers in Preah Vihear province. The agreement effectively means that the company will reserve nearly $10 million to purchase around 30,000 tonnes of organic paddy ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Foreign Affairs Ministry yesterday said that Cambodia has been elected to become a non-permanent member of the United Nations Economic and social Council for a duration of one year.​ A ministry statement said that at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday, 183 of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Explosives experts from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre have unearthed nearly 1,000 pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXO) after being called to a military base in Kampong Chhnang province. CMAC discovered 894 items of explosive material after soldiers at Cholkiri district’s Tuol Chek base came across ss='cambodia-color'>...

A recently-completed water treatment facility with the capacity to store up to 60,000 cubic metres of water in Preah sihanouk province’s Kbal Chhay will only resume distributing water after Anco Brothers, a conglomerate tasked with building and operating the facility, has concluded that all technical ss='cambodia-color'>...

Released on Tuesday, Transparency International’s 2018 global Corruption Perceptions Index ranked Cambodia 161 out of 180 countries – the same ranking it held in 2017. But Cambodian government officials responded to the news by saying they cared little about the ranking, with some other observers ss='cambodia-color'>...

The contribution of midwives to Cambodia’s maternal and infant health was praised by the government as the Kingdom celebrated the National Day of Midwife on sunday. Prime Minister Hun sen issued a sub-decree in 2008, designating May 5 as the National Day of Midwife – ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 30 pieces of sralao and koki timber measuring 3m long and 30 to 40cm in diameter were found by locals at three sites in O’Raing district’s Dak Dam commune in Mondulkiri province on Tuesday. The timber was hidden in a forest around 1km from ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 villagers, representing 197 families from Chi Khor Krom and Chi Khor Leu communes in Koh Kong province’s sre Ambel district, protested again on Wednesday and clashed with authorities in front of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction after the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Interior sar Kheng on saturday encouraged people to have five children per family so the Kingdom’s population can double to more than 32 million. He said the recent census found that Cambodia has a population of 15.2 million, but the country is large ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has temporarily halted the import, supply and distribution of all pesticides. The ban comes after at least 14 people died and around 300 were warded after poisonings in sre Norn and Alorch villages in Chet Borey district’s Kantuot ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee yesterday commenced the 18-day voter registration period to update the country’s voter list. Nuth sokhom, an NEC official, said during a meeting at the NEC headquarters that the election body will carry out its voter registration from October 1 to 18 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has formed a new federation for the country’s pepper industry to enhance the market and solve challenges in the sector, as the cash crop is currently facing depressed prices. The Cambodia Pepper and spice Federation was jointly formed last Friday by the Ministries ss='cambodia-color'>...

Australia’s refugee policies were condemned during a review by the United Nations Human Rights Council. Australia automatically detains asylum-seekers who arrive in the country without visas. Hundreds of detainees are sent for processing to offshore camps in the south Pacific in Papua New Guinea and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Less than a month after Phnom Penh Tollway began collecting money from commuters using the factory-lined Veng sreng Boulevard in outer Phnom Penh, Prime Minister Hun sen announced on Monday that the government would buy out the private firm and, as a New Year’s gift ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kouch Pheng, president of Advanced Glory Logistics Group (Cambodia), is in the business of overcoming obstacles. His Phnom Penh-based freight-forwarding company handles a daily dose of pot-holed roads, unscripted shipping delays and Kafka-esque government red tape – yet still manages to deliver its client’s cargo ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Commerce Minister Pan sorasak yesterday urged Turkey’s ambassador to follow through on a plan announced last year to establish direct flights as part of a push to enlarge bilateral trade to $500 million a year by 2020, from the current $108 million, the ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s once-promising home-grown coffee industry has been laid low by adverse weather and fierce global competition, with the total area under coffee cultivation cut in half over the last three years as desperate farmers switch to other crops, a senior official at the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...