Almost a quarter of Cambodian students aged 7 to 14 are forced to give up school because their work intercedes, according to a new study by UNESCO. With 10 per cent of 7- to 14-year-olds classified as child labourers, Cambodia has more young children working lass='cambodia-color'>...

Comments made by US Ambassador to Cambodia, Patrick Murphy, that his country is not pursuing regime change in the Kingdom is an “important message” for efforts to restore relationships between the two nations. lass='cambodia-color'>...

At a Wednesday meeting of the signatories to the Mekong Memorandum of Understanding on Drug Control, National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) secretary-general Meas Virith requested participating countries and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to seek a solution for the region’s burgeoning lass='cambodia-color'>...

With the coronavirus pandemic sweeping through nations worldwide, the Kingdom has not been spared, reporting over 100 cases as of yesterday. As Cambodia scrambles to prevent another wave of infections, the government decided to shutter schools nationwide – a drastic measure that matches the scale lass='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly a year after being signed into law, Cambodia’s new traffic code is just weeks from finally being enforced.National Police chief Neth Savoeun yesterday said that drivers have had plenty of notice, and the time for implementation has come. As of January 1, fines for lass='cambodia-color'>...

Supported by Embassy of Sweden in Phnom Penh and UNDP, the Ministry of Environment and National Council for Sustainable Development have produced educational materials on the environment for Cambodian students. Educating students on single-use plastic reduction and other environmental practices will contribute to a more lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC) has asked the nations’ telecom operators to connect to its Data Management Centre (DMC) by January 1, 2021. Based on the telecom laws, all operators and stakeholders involved in telecom must provide data service information to the MPTC. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia-Australia Consumer Protection Partnership will launch in 2021 with Australia having agreed to station a consumer protection technical official in the Kingdom following a request by the Ministry of Commerce. This will allow the sharing of expertise and experience towards the enhancement of work lass='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen officially declared that the “November 28 community incident” – a reference to the first confirmed case of Covid-19 local transmission – was now over as the situation had been brought under control. Hun Sen made the announcement as he addressed the lass='cambodia-color'>...

SINOMACH China Heavy Machinery Co Ltd, the Ministry of Energy and Mines of Cambodia and the Cambodian NationaL ELectric Power Co formaLLy signed an impLementation agreement, Lease agreement and power purchase agreement for the buiLd-operate-transfer (BOT) investment project of the Shangddai Hydropower Station to utiLise Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

French-owned The Blue Circle’s 80MW wind power investment project in Kampot province has hit an impasse, as its proposed $0.068 per kWh tariff rate for the national grid exceeds what state-run energy supplier Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) is willing to pay, according to a Ministry lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian government chief spokesman Phay Siphan said BRI projects here like the construction of the Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville expressway, the new Siem Reap international airport, the national stadium, and the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) among others, have provided tremendous benefits to Cambodia’s economic development during lass='cambodia-color'>...

A senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation official views Cambodia’s upcoming chairmanship of the 13th Asia-Europe summit (ASEM13) as an opportunity to showcase the peaceful social order and prevailing political stability of the nation to demonstrate that the Kingdom is on the right lass='cambodia-color'>...

Floods over the past four months in the Kingdom affected more than 45,000 families across 17 provinces, the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) said. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Interior Sar Kheng said a specific mechanism will be established by the NATIONAl Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD), relevant institutions and police to closely monitor the import of certain chemicals from abroad into Cambodia after the police seized more than 2,300kg of drugs lass='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Economy and Finance Aun Pornmoniroth has pegged Cambodia’s economic growth at 5.6 per cent for 2022, reflecting national progress towards herd immunity against Covid-19, underpinned by vaccination rates that rank among the best globally and that have motivated the government to allow the lass='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of more than 70 families in Sna Sangkram village, Balong commune, Prasat Bakong district, Siem Reap province, who have claimed that there was a land dispute with the Apsara National Authority again urged the authorities to expedite resolve the land disputes that have dragged lass='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday urged the officials of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and European Union (EU) to expedite the establishment of the EU-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (EU-ASEAN FTA) after the leaders of the two regional organisations had reaffirmed the deal lass='cambodia-color'>...

Kong Sothearith, Deputy Director General of the ASEAN Department of the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, and So Sranos, Music Teacher of the Royal University of Fine Arts and Member of the National Representative Committee, attended the 2023 ASEAN-Korea Music Festival Committee Meeting from lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Environment, in cooperation with the Battambang Provincial Administration, announces the launch of a trial of the urban solid waste management system (NSWM-PlATFORM) in the national nursery system of the Battambang Municipal Administration in order to strengthen solid waste management in accordance with lass='cambodia-color'>...