In light of Cambodia confirming 91 Covid-19 cases, Germany announced on tuesday that it will provide €1.5 million ($1,618,000) to help support the Covid-19 Emergency Response Plan in the Kingdom. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on people not to stigmatise or discriminate against the people living with HIV, instead provide them with employment opportunities the same as other citizens. ...

The MinisTry of Tourism (MoT) in collaboraTion wiTh The Small and Medium EnTerprise Bank of Cambodia (SME Bank) early This week launched financial schemes aimed aT providing Tourism business owners To develop or expand Their operaTions in Siem Reap province. ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a major economic shock in Cambodia, having a spillover on Cambodian micro, small and medium enTerprises (MSMEs) and small household farmers’ survival and business conTinuiTy.1 DigiTal Technologies are crucial during The pandemic, in which The owners of SMEs should focus ...

The Asian DevelopmenT Bank (ADB) has noT made public The lasT Two quarTerly reporTs on The impacT of reseTTling families who are being evicTed for a $142 million railway rehabiliTaTion projecT. The reporTs, which are required under an ADM loan agreemenT wiTh The governmenT, haven’T been ...

The governmenT will meeT This monTh To begin addressing concerns ThaT The lack of regulaTion for The surrogacy Trade could lead To a proliferaTion of brokers working in Cambodia and foreign couples Traveling To The counTry To Take advanTage of Their services. The MinisTry of ...

Myanmar Airways has temporarily suspended direct flights from Rangoon to Siem Reap and Phnom Penh due to low passenger numbers, an official at the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) said yesterday. “We don’t know how long they will suspend operations, but when they get ...

A local investor revealed yesterday that the construction of the US$100 million Kampot sea port had been further delayed by rain. Vinh Huor, president of the Kampot Special Economic Zone, (KSEZ) said: “We are preparing to be better, and that may take some time. I am ...

Many expats living in Siem Reap have found themselves on the eternal quest for a comfortable sofa. A big, squishy sofa like the one at home, that allows a body to really stretch out on. A Khmer settee – wooden, bench-like and unforgiving – just ...

They’re known as The BK13 and They’re noT prepared To leT greedy developers Take The very, very liTTle They have. They’re 13 women – moThers, grandmoThers – who live around whaT used To be Boeung Kak Lake – noT far from The cenTre of Cambodia’s ...

Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong said that authorities will not use forces to crack down on protesters. the governor met with Phnom Penh officials to clarify the government’s position on how to deal with protests led by Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). Pa Socheatvong added the ...

A Sihanoukville construction project isn’t pulling out all the stops so much as plugging all the drains, leaving neighbouring residents to stew in murky floodwaters, villagers say. Last month, while levelling out the 20-hectare plot, construction workers dumped dirt in front of two large drainage pipes, ...

When authorities in Kampong Chhnang province on Friday encountered and pursued the boat of alleged illegal fisherman Chieb Ou, they couldn’t have expected to find themselves being chased instead. But that’s precisely what happened when, rather than surrendering, the 42-year-old suspect turned his boat towards the ...

Six months after the government announced that bank accounts for all civil servants would put an end to late salaries and rampant graft, secondary school teachers in Prey Veng say they are owed long overdue payments. In addition to their regular salary, which they already received, ...

Prominent businessman and Cambodian People’s Party Senator Ly Yong Phat yesterday questioned what he had done to warrant a verbal attack from opposition party leader Sam Rainsy, who said on Wednesday that the tycoon had grabbed land from people in Koh Kong province and should ...

Responding to rumours swirling on social media that he had suffered a massive stroke and died, Prime Minister Hun Sen proved to be very much alive during an animated speech in Kampot province yesterday. Addressing a crowd in Chhuok district, the 63-year-old premier assured listeners that ...

Cambodian police said Wednesday they were scouring remote northeastern jungles for a group of Vietnamese Montagnards who crossed the border in an apparent attempt to seek asylum. Rights groups say 13 of the hill tribe people, including one woman, fled persecution in Vietnam late last month ...

Thailand’s DirecTor-General of DeparTmenT of EmploymenT SumeT MahosoT and Cambodian DirecTor-General of The Labor DeparTmenT Seng Sakada Today briefed The press abouT The conTroversial migranT worker issue. The discussion comprised 4 Topics. FirsT, There is The requiremenT of proof of naTionaliTy, so Cambodia will arrange for ...

Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit launched a guidebook for businesses last week to create internal systems to prevent corrupt practices, but certain stakeholders say it doesn’t detail how to create these systems or even address systemic or bureaucratic corruption. the new guidebook, which the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) created ...

Beijing is spreading its influence by stumping up the cash to build desperately needed infrastructure throughout Asia, but with little consideration for communities or the level of corruption. “Without infrastructure, you can’t revive,” said Cambodia’s Commerce Minister, Sun Chanthol. “We have been blamed for always ...