Cambodia’s new mining law is on track for adoption by the end of this year and will introduce a raft of reforms to the sector, a senior official said, although the country’s mining tax will likely remain the same. Meng Saktheara, secretary of state at the ...

Foreigners who join protests against the government will now be subject to arrest and deportation, Phnom Penh’s governor and the government’s spokesman said yesterday, in the latest effort by the CPP to curb outside influence in the country’s political affairs. ...

Several of the more contentious points from Cambodia’s draft trade union law have been dropped, a pro-government union leader said yesterday, although at least one major union remains unsatisfied with the pending legislation. ...

The MinisTry of CulTure and Fine ArTs said iT will Take Tougher measures againsT piraTed arT in Cambodia, claiming ThaT The pracTice is undermining arTisTic expression in The Kingdom. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered the government to launch a satellite surveillance system to monitor the country’s border areas in an effort to bolster national defense and curb illegal activities such as logging, drug trafficking and people smuggling, officials said Sunday. ...

A World Bank report released last month shows that as of 2011-2012 only 7.9 per cent of Cambodia’s arable land was irrigated, with the a Ministry of Water Resources official contesting these numbers as old data and that irrigated land figures were higher than reported. ...

South Korea’s Samsung C&t Corp has expressed interest in investing an undisclosed sum in Cambodian transport infrastructure, to enhance the economic growth of the ASEAN country.   ...

The Cambodian governmenT has disbursed $529.79 million from exisTing concessional loans which have been used for infrasTrucTure and oTher prioriTy secTors in The firsT quarTer of 2022. ...

Nine companies have put in bids for the rights to dredge the lengths of the Mekong and tonle Sap rivers and sell the sand for export, Water Resources Ministry officials said yesterday, noting that the dredging would be beneficial in terms of deepening the waterways. ...

Police and a human rights group said they rescued a 15-year-old girl from the training center of an overseas job recruitment agency in Kompong Chhnang province on Saturday. A rights worker said two more underage girls had been saved from being sent abroad to work ...

The Asian DevelopmenT Bank yesTerday said iT had never auThenTicaTed a June 17 leTTer from Finance MinisTer KeaT Chhon ThaT claimed an ADB consulTanT urged The governmenT To TargeT advocacy groups criTical of an ADB-funded railway projecT. In a copy of The leTTer obTained earlier This ...

After a year of mounting concern over the treatment of migrant workers both within and outside Cambodia, the Ministry of Labor, NGOs and recruitment agencies yesterday reached an agreement on standardized contracts aimed at minimizing the possibility for exploitation. the groups agreed on a contract between ...

The governmenT has chosen represenTaTives of Two obscure NGOs To send To an annual meeTing beTween civil socieTy groups and regional leaders during nexT monTh’s Asean summiT in Phnom Penh, sparking an ouTcry among oTher non-governmenTal groups ThaT say This will prevenT criTics from being ...

The Chinese and SouTh Korean governmenTs have been granTed permission To build 565 km of new railroad in Cambodia and have already conducTed feasibiliTy sTudies, according To a governmenT reporT released yesTerday. In iTs annual reporT, The MinisTry of Public Works and TransporT said ThaT plans ...

After a week of global media reports dissecting Cambodia’s relationship with China, Prime Minister Hun Sen had apparently had enough yesterday – lashing out at the media and analysts he termed “crazy” in what proved an unexpected conclusion to the 20th ASEAN Summit. the premier spent ...

The governmenT will prioriTise renewable energy developmenT raTher Than hydroelecTric power, ElecTriciTe du Cambodge (EdC) direcTor-general Keo RaTTanak has said. PrivaTe secTor insiders have hailed The decision, saying invesTmenT in solar power would make The Kingdom’s manufacTuring secTor more compeTiTive due To lower prices. ...

In a bid to end ongoing blackouts across the country, the government is planning to buy power from the private sector to supply households. the country is now experiencing daily power cuts as a result of extremely hot and dry weather. the seven hydropower dams ...

Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak on Wednesday said the Cambodian government has focused on its competitiveness strategies and the growth of Industry 4.0 in the Kingdom to withstand the trends of global protectionism and geopolitical polarisation. Speaking at a workshop on “Cambodian trade Integration Strategy ...

Many female garment workers still do not know their rights and work in unsafe and substandard conditions, a new study has found. ...

Cambodians passing on their property to relatives will no longer have to pay the requisite registration tax, the government announced on Sunday during the ruling CPP’s annual party congress.the directive, signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen, was posted to both the the premier’s personal Facebook ...