Tourism industry officials and representatives expressed concern that the outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) will devastate Cambodia’s tourism industry following the Kingdom’s first documented case in the coastal province of Sihanoukville on Monday. At a press conference late on Monday, Minister of Health lass='cambodia-color'>...

 Over the past few years with the influx of Chinese nationals and Cambodians working in Sihanoukville, landlords have been laughing all the way to the bank through rentals. locals who visit the city regularly complained about high rentals for hotels, guesthouses and even food. Some lass='cambodia-color'>...

In a bid to respond to emerging digital innovation and global technological trends, a draft law submitted to the National Assembly regarding the proposed Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation – currently named Ministry of Industry and Handicraft – presents seven articles designed to lass='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nephew Hun To has emphatically denied all allegations published by Australian newspaper The Age about his involvement in a heroin-trafficking and money-laundering syndicate targeting Australia. Hun To, whose wife and children reside in Melbourne, Australia, told the Post yesterday that he plans lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Ocean Garment manager facing a slew of sexual harassment charges has lashed out at the union representing the 2,500 workers on strike over the past two weeks, claiming its delegates provoked the strike after management cracked down on absent workers and overtime requests. In a lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia will receive new biometric surveillance and DNA screening equipment as part of its latest deal reinforcing law enforcement cooperation with China, prompting a leading human rights group to call for the government to come clean about its plans for the technology. The deal was signed last lass='cambodia-color'>...

As chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations for 2022, Cambodia announced on April 18 that ASEAN and the United States will hold a special summit in Washington on May 12-13 to commemorate 45 years of ASEAN-US relations. The second special summit since 2016 lass='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said Cambodia will end the land registration in 2023. Addressing to the closing ceremony of the annual meeting of the Ministry of land Management, Urban Planning and Construction and the inauguration ceremony of the National Construction laboratory, held Tuesday, Mr Hun lass='cambodia-color'>...

Last month, the government has approved five renewabLe energy projects totaLLing 520 MW to increase power suppLy to the nationaL grid. The Latest to hit the energy circuit is RoyaL Group of Companies that seaLed the deaL with Panna Energy, Samaiden Energy and Management Venture Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

According to the World Food Programme (WFP), United Nations World Food Programme in partnership with Agricultural Marketing Office of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’  Market & Seasonal Monitoring Update, in December 2022, the cost of the basic food basket  (BFB) in Cambodia had lass='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP has called on its supporters to gather in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Monday for a large rally, though party leaders insisted that the event would be peaceful and not considered to be a demonstration against contested national election results. In a statement lass='cambodia-color'>...

LAHORE: The first Honorary ConsuL GeneraL of Cambodia in Pakistan, Chaudhry SaLik Hussain, has said that the Pakistan-Cambodia Business CounciL wiLL soon be estabLished for cooperation between both the countries. Speaking at the inauguraL ceremony of the Cambodian ConsuLate in Pakistan here on Sunday, he said Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

Cambodia’s 2012 budget passed through the National Assembly yesterday unopposed, without a single question asked and no parliamentary debate in a situation the government, opposition and observers all said was unfortunate. It took just over three hours for the law to be passed, 86 to 0, lass='cambodia-color'>...

Enthusiasm about the start of trading at the exchange, which opened last July without a single listed company, extends beyond the borders of the Southeast Asian country. Investors including Templeton Emerging Markets Group Chairman Mark Mobius said they plan to participate in Cambodia’s stock market lass='cambodia-color'>...

National carrier Myanmar Airways International plans to launch flights to the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh by October, an airline spokesperson said. Flights will operate on Wednesdays and Saturdays, via Siem Reap, using a new Airbus A-321 that can accommodate 220 passengers. “We will add one Airbus A-321 lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank has provided $69 million for Cambodia to make major upgrades of provincial roads in some of the country’s poorest provinces, according to an ADB statement Wednesday. The Provincial Roads Improvement Project, financed by a $52 million loan from ADB Special Funds and lass='cambodia-color'>...

Like many chiLdren in Cambodia, Puthea* Learned from a young age that good grades don’t come cheap.Before Leaving for schooL, the grade 3 student coLLects Lunch money from his mother aLong with a bribe he pays to his teacher in exchange for what shouLd be Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

The US on Tuesday pledged to help train military officers, particularly Cambodia’s blue helmet troops deployed for UN’s peacekeeping operations. The pledge was made during a meeting between US ambassador Patrick Murphy and Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) commander-in-chief General Vong Pisen. Further strengthening of lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has made almost no progress over the past six years when it comes to gender equality, and is still the lowest-ranked country in the region, according to the World Economic Forum’s 2012 Gender Gap Index. Ranked 103 out of 135 countries surveyed, Cambodia placed last lass='cambodia-color'>...

Patrick Devillers, the French national and associate of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai, seemed to be putting down roots in Cambodia. The architect – whose shadowy presence has been on the fringes of one of modern China’s largest political scandals – owned land and a restaurant lass='cambodia-color'>...