Residents of Trapaing Pring commune who are involved in a land dispute with a Chinese company say they’ll be voting for whichever commune councillor they think can best help them when they go to the polls this weekend. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has established an inter-ministerial committee to review ongoing and new agreements for Phnom Penh International and Sihanoukville International Airports. ...

The leading opposition Candlelight Party is currently unable to register for the upcoming national elections due to a new policy by the National Election Committee, according to the party’s acting secretary general Kong Monika. ...

The National Assembly on Wednesday passed a new law on taxation that has been in draft for years, as part of efforts to bolster the government’s tax collection process. ...

Bunong people in Mondulkiri’s Roya Leu community say they are gripped by the fear their customary lands will be taken from them. ...

Locals from some communities with ongoing land disputes are not optimistic about the government’s new out-of-court dispute resolution authority. Prime Minister Hun Manet announced last month that the government body could resolve civil matters more quickly than Cambodia’s courts, but land disputants are wary of ...

The government has told residents in Preah Dak commune, Banteay Srei district, Siem Reap province, to help prevent new construction and newcomers, as well as to avoid using the land next to the Angkor sites as property or buying and selling, while claiming that there ...

In the latest attempt to push its narrative of an impending “colour revolution”, the Press and Quick Reaction Unit released a sweeping, nearly hourlong video, broadcast on multiple television stations on Monday night, attempting to link the opposition’s activities to protest movements in the Middle ...

A leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that ACLEDA Bank Plc. (ACLEDA), the largest bank in Cambodia, has extended its ACLEDA Unity mobile banking and payments service to new, untapped consumer segments using Mobiliti Reach™ from Fiserv. The bank, which has ...

New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully will pay a two-day visit to Cambodia from Aug. 18 to 19, where he will sign an agreement on air services, according to a press statement from the Cambodian Foreign Ministry on Thursday. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has revealed plans for the construction of a new highway, National Road 10, from Battambang to Koh Kong province. ...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) has requested financial institutions to reduce credit-related fees and lift fines until the end of December 2020, according to a letter it wrote. ...

The Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation (MISTI) has reported that 77 new factories opened in Cambodia in the first three months of 2020, employing a total of 27,909 workers. ...

The construction of the new tourism port in Kampot province is more than 30 percent complete and is expected to be finished by the middle of the year, according to the Kampot provincial tourism department. ...

As Cambodia and other Asean nations are facing challenges brought on by new waves of the pandemic, hopes of foreign tourists returning to the region may not materialise, local tourism entrepreneurs have said. ...

Less than six months after introducing a sub-decree to push non-resident e-commerce firms to register for value-added tax (VAT) with the Cambodian tax authority, the government has upped the ante. ...

The Ministry of Health on January 8 reported 27 new Covid-19 cases, all of which were imported and confirmed to be the Omicron variant. ...

The Ministry of Health on June 14 reported zero new Covid-19 cases and no new deaths. As of June 14, Cambodia had recorded a total of 136,262 Covid-19 cases with 133,206 recoveries and 3,056 fatalities.   ...

Chinese-funded construction, including land clearing, several new structures and a new pier, “continues to transform” Sihanoukville’s Ream Naval Base “at a rapid pace,” a U.S. think tank said Tuesday. ...

Opposition political party and civil society leaders expressed concern that the National Assembly’s passage of amendments to the electoral law will restrict the rights of citizens to run as candidates in future elections. ...