Fourteen families in Oddar Meanchey province’s O’smach commune on Friday sent a letter to Chea sophara, Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction, asking him to intervene in their land dispute with military officials. The families accused border military commander Pok sophal and three ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on​ “sDG 11 sustainable cities and communities”, which is one of the 17 goals of the UN sustainable Development Goals (sDGs), in both Khmer and English languages. Through ODC’s new topic pages on sDG 11, you ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s economy has seen an influx of business investors from China, which has driven demand for housing and hospitality services in the southeast Asian nation. Two million Chinese visited the country last year, an increase of around 67 per cent from 2017. They represented the ss='cambodia-color'>...

wo NGOs focused on Cambodian road safety have sent a letter to Minister of Education Hang Chuon Naron on Wednesday requesting that road safety be included in students’ learning objectives ahead of the beginning of the new school year on Friday. In their letter, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Around 50 metres of riverbank on saturday collapsed in Kampong Cham province’s Kampong Cham city and has affected a commune administration hall building. Provincial Governor Un Chanda, who inspected the collapse site in Veal Vong commune, on saturday said he had ordered officials to tackle ss='cambodia-color'>...

Short-SightedneSS, weak adherence to the law and poor working conditionS in Cambodia&rSquo;S garment Sector are creating a fertile field for StrikeS to prevail over negotiationS, a recent Study releaSed by the Arbitration Council Foundation, an independent labour mediator, haS found.According to the Study, incidentS of SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia Rice Bank (CRB) will intervene to prevent the price of fragrant rice from falling further by offering to buy the staple grain directly from farmers at the market price of 840 riel (21 cents) a kilogram. The CRB also called on farmers to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government will not increase the rate for income tax and other taxes for the next two years, but will instead concentrate on expanding the base for tax collection, taking into account that there are still many individuals and businesses that do not pay tax ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bangladesh is rushing to push forward a draft proposal to form a joint trade commission with Cambodia that is expected to be signed this year, an official from Cambodia’s Commerce Ministry said yesterday. Trade between the two developing nations has been minimal, amounting to just ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday urged Pakistan to boost trade and investment between the two countries. The appeal was made during a meeting with Deputy speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan Qasim Khan suri at the Peace Palace in Prampi Makara district’s Mittapheap commune ss='cambodia-color'>...

North Korea wants to boost its ties with the Kingdom started by Late King Father Norodom sihanouk and the Kim Il sung more than 50 years ago. Ri Kil song, North Korea’s deputy foreign minister, conveyed this to Foreign Affairs Minister Prak sokhonn during a courtesy ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Thursday ordered National Committee for Disaster Management first vice-president Kun Kim to visit O’Chunh Primary school in Teuk Kraham commune’s sen Rung Roeung I village in Choam Ksan district, Preah Vihear province, after images of students studying in tents went ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the Kingdom marks the first anniversary of the inscription of traditional Cambodian dance drama Lakhon Khol on Unesco’s cultural heritage list, the government is preparing to have 10 other forms of tangible and intangible heritage registered with the UN body. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) will soon begin a national payment system that will allow the clearance of checks at all banks within a day, as well as facilitate intra-bank electronic payments, Nguon sokha, director general of the NBC, said yesterday. Through the establishment of the national ss='cambodia-color'>...

The recruitment firm HRD Company had allegedly threatened the mother of two sisters working as maids in Malaysia, pressuring her to withdraw her NGO complaint seeking help in repatriating her daughters or risk having all communication with them cut, a rights group said yesterday. Pov Chhan, ss='cambodia-color'>...

On the fourth and final day of his trial for alleged involvement in a secessionist movement, independent radio station owner Mam sonando told the court on Friday that he had returned to Cambodia from the U.s. to stand the trial because he was innocent. Mr. sonando, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia reported a trade deficit of 34% in equivalent to US$1.51-B in the 1St 7 monthS of thiS year, the report of the Commerce MiniStry Showed ThurSday. During January-July period thiS year, the country&rSquo;S total import and export value waS US$7.45-B, up 15% from US$6.47-B at SS='cambodia-color'>...

With the aim of attracting 25 million international visitors from 2013 to 2015 to Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CVLM) the respective ministers of tourism pushed for greater cooperation in developing the region’s tourism sector on Friday,  according to the Vietnamese Communist Party official news ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Taiwanese bank Cathay United, a subsidiary of Cathay Financial Holding and a listed company on the Taiwan stock Exchange, has purchased a 70 per cent stake in the Cambodia-based singapore Banking Corporation Ltd (sBC), a central bank official said yesterday. The National Bank of Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

Military officials are attempting to squelch a potential lawsuit from relatives of three people killed Friday when Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) soldiers smuggling wood through siem Reap province drove a military truck, donated by the U.s. government, into the family’s motorbike, police officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...