Digital technology will play an increasingly important role in spurring economic recovery after the COVID-19 crisis as well as promoting a new, sustainable and more resilient economy, President of the Cambodian National Assembly Heng Samrin said at the first plenum of the 42nd General Assembly lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) has urged migrant workers in Thailand who had their names on the voter list to return to the country to vote for the upcoming Commune Election after the NEC last week ruled out the request from some political parties to lass='cambodia-color'>...

Taking advantage of the 45th Session of the World Heritage Committee in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Dr. Hang Peou, Director General of APSARA National Authority, Phan Nadi, together with the Permanent Scientific Secretary of the ICC-Angkor and Sambo Prei Kuk met with lazare Eloundou Assomo, President lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s energy market is experiencing rapid growth and transformation, driven by the country’s increasing demand for electricity and its ambitious plans to diversify its energy mix. As the Southeast Asian nation continues to develop its infrastructure and economy, the need for reliable and sustainable energy lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cham Nimul, Minister of Commerce, on May 27, presided over the opening ceremony of the seminar on “Beyond Borders: Bringing Cambodian Products to Global Markets through Alibaba.com, ”which was attended by leaders of the Ministry of Commerce, representatives of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) of the Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans, and Youth Rehabilitation has announced that the cash support programme for poor and vulnerable families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic will finish on April 24, 2024. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Bangkok–Secretary General to the Foreign Minister Mr. Nawin Boonsert said the negotiation over the overlapping sea area between Thailand and Cambodia would be clarified once the Cabinet was clear on its agenda. Following Cambodia’s Petroleum Organization expressing intention to clarify the demarcation points in the sea lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Opposition SRP has asked the government to halt plans to proceed with the next hydropower dam slated for Koh Kong, saying that experiences with dams currently in construction in the province suggest the government has been unable to control the attendant illegal logging. In lass='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said all of the country’s cities would compete with each other to beautify urban zones and attract more tourists in the newly devised Clean City contest. Nine Phnom Penh districts and 26 cities nationwide will be assessed on how clean lass='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives from five communes in Koh Kong province are scheduled to hold a press conference in the capital today, appealing for government intervention in a land dispute with a Chinese development company that has spanned nearly four years. lov Hov, a representative from Thmar Sar commune, lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian exporters are hopeful that a free trade agreement with South Korea will boost trade between the nations and attract more investment into the Kingdom.​ Chang Hoon lee, managing director of Korean exporter Hyundai Agro, said the move is a positive development. A free-trade pact lass='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen left recommendations for the Veterans Confederation of Asean Countries (Veconac) to help it attain new achievements in the interest of the general welfare of veterans in each member-nation. The recommendations were made on Tuesday at the 19th General Assembly of the lass='cambodia-color'>...

About 300 workers entered their sixth day of strikes yesterday at a bra factory in the capital, which manufactures lingerie supplied to Victoria’s Secret and Valentino, but their hopes of a quick resolution were dashed when a Ministry of Social Affairs official admitted he was lass='cambodia-color'>...

In a week that has seen one journalist murdered and another threatened for their investigations into corruption and forest crimes, a timely new study into the state of Cambodia’s media has found that the country’s press is being stifled. Eleven journalists have now been killed in the country lass='cambodia-color'>...

Economic land concessions strewn over the remote Western Siem Pang forest, in Stung Treng province, are threatening the survival of Cambodia’s national bird, the giant ibis, a report reveals. The forest, flanking the Kingdom’s border with laos,  is home to five critically endangered bird species, yet lass='cambodia-color'>...

Less than a week after the arrest of aLLeged beauty parLour madam Chan Sreynuch, miLitary poLice say they are taking a cLoser Look at a number of hair saLons and beauty shops in Phnom Penh suspected of being invoLved in human trafficking and prostitution. According to Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

Time is running out to rid the proposed ASEAN Human Rights Declaration of clauses that would restrict peoples’ rights rather than protect and enhance them, civil society groups said yesterday. Nay Vanda, deputy head of the monitoring section of rights group Adhoc, said civil society groups needed more lass='cambodia-color'>...

It was a major event for Cambodia. Some 35 years after flying for the last time with a Boeing 707 from Phnom Penh to Paris, French national carrier Air France-KlM was back to the Cambodian capital. The flight was first operated with an Airbus A340-300, lass='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Kratie province have denied entry to journalists and rights workers to the site of violent land clashes that led to the death of a teenage girl on Wednesday. Rights workers say they fear for the safety of villagers in Broma village, but police say lass='cambodia-color'>...

Chinese firm Hainan Ruijin Investment Holding Company (HRIH) has announced an ambitious, US$5.8 billion property project including holiday resorts and high-rise apartments outside of Sihanoukville. Plans for the development, which has been dubbed Sihanoukville-Hainan City, have been approved by the Cambodian government. Further details, such as the lass='cambodia-color'>...