The Cambodian government has granted a 600-hectare concession to the family of notorious tycoon Ly Yong Phat, whose sugarcane concessions have been at the center of human rights violations. ...

Experts are continuing to search for the identity of the perpetrators that cleared forest land in the protected area in Mondulkiri province to file the case to the court. ...

The World Bank in its Cambodia Economic Update issued earlier this month said that the country’s Cambodia’s exports to the United States are more diversified than those to the EU. ...

On 3 March 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has posted a press statement stating by the Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson, “Crime is a crime, and it cannot be justified for other aspirations” on their official website. In the press statement, the Foreign Ministry’s ...

Dr. Or Vandine, Health Ministry spokeswoman and chairwoman of the Covid-19 Vaccination Committee, has emphasised that Cambodia is at a ‘Redline’ status and, if that line is passed, the country may re-enter lockdown status. ...

On 05 August 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on Outcomes of the ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference Sessions with the United States of America, Australia, the Russian Federation and India, and the 11th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ ...

The Ministry of Health and the Phnom Penh Municipal Administration said they expect the Techo Santepheap National Hospital to be completed in June this year. When complete, it will be the largest state-of-the-art hospital in the country. ...

On 16 May 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on the outcomes of the meeting between H.E. Deputy Prime Minister PRAK Sokhonn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia, and H.E. Anthony Blinken, Secretary of State ...

Srekor village has stood on the banks of the Se San River in northeastern Cambodia for generations. In a few years it will be gone, submerged along with more than 300 square kilometres of surrounding farmland and forest. For 37-year-old rice farmer Pa Tou, the ...

The deaths of at least two Cambodian workers and injuries sustained by 10 colleagues at a shoe factory southwest of Phnom Penh once more shine a light on conditions in the global garment manufacturing industry. Thursday’s accident at the Wing Star Shoe factory in the Cambodian ...

Getting reliable statistical data remains a challenge for Cambodia’s government, as a lack of cooporation among the ministries and corruption still distort what is reality. Industry insiders say this is a problem, especially as reliable data are the base of reference when the Association of Southeast ...

Cambodian police clashed Monday with workers at a factory that makes clothing for the U.S. sportswear company Nike, arresting seven, in the latest violence linked to a strike over salaries, union organizers and rights activists said. The protest at the Taiwanese-owned Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing plant ...

Duty-free agreements between regional competitors and foreign importers would put the Cambodian garment industry at risk, Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh said last week. Speaking to reporters after a meeting, Prasidh warned that the Kingdom’s garment sector would not be able to maintain its competitive edge over ...

We the Heads of State/Government of the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United States of America gathered in Sunnylands, California, on February 15-16, 2016, for a Special Leaders Summit.  This Special U.S.-ASEAN Leaders Summit was the first ever ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has expressed serious concerns over the intense clashes in Loikaw – the capital of Myanmar’s Kayah State – between the military and armed opposition forces including the State’s largest ethnic minority militia. ...

Last week, Myanmar’s de facto leader and State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi paid her first visit to Cambodia in her current capacity. The trip spotlighted the ongoing State of ties between the two fellow Southeast Asian States amid wider domestic and foreign policy developments. Cambodia ...

The Cambodia-China Friendship Medical Building, a key livelihood project shouldered by State-owned China State Construction Engineering Corp, was officially put into use in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh on March 21. ...

On 14 September 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press statement namely, The credibility of the Human Rights Watch has long been tarnished, states the Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson on their official website. According to the press, the Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson has ...

While significant obstacles remain, the success of the rice sector is a potentially crucial driver in Cambodia’s prosperous and equitable development. Cambodia announced two major bilateral trade agreements recently, with the Philippines and Thailand, that are expected to further expand the country’s rice export sector. ...

Aviation revenues have been released by government officials who were hesitant to reveal details but said yesterday the figures had increased by about three per cent. Mao Havannal, secretary of state for the Civil Aviation Secretariat, said after yesterday’s opening of a seminar on aviation insurance that ...