On 11-12 February 2020, the Ministry of Mines and Energy convened the 2019 annual meeting and the 2020 direction at the ministry. Presided over by the Minister of Mines and Energy, around 500 people of the ministry officials, representative of the Municipal/Provincial Governor Council, and ...

On 12 May 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on Cambodia elected to two subsidiary bodies of the United Nations.The Kingdom of Cambodia was elected to two important position as follows:Membership to the Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts ...

SDG 13 is aimed at taking urgent action to combat climate change impacts by developing the capacity of each country to mitigate climate risks and work towards adaptation. Least developed nations, landlocked countries and small island states are recognised as especially in need of support ...

On 15 September 2021, the Phnom Penh Capital Administration has issued a notification on continues providing the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to people aged from 18 and children – adolescents aged 12 to under 18 who failed to receive the vaccine or have just ...

A trained medical staff listens to the heartbeat of an infant at 16 Makara hospital in Preah Vihear, Cambodia. Photo by The World Bank, taken on 30 January 2013. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Social development addresses profound social problems,81 especially poverty, unemployment and social exclusion, ...

In Cambodia, electricity demands have been forecast to grow at 17.9 percent annually from 2012 to 2020.148 Distribution of electricity around the country has been a challenge: according to UN data, 79 percent of people live in rural areas,149 and the entire national population had grown ...

Japan on August 15th loaned Cambodia a package of US$ 53.3 million for the West Tonle Sap Irrigation and Drainage Improvement and a grant aid of US$ 0.7 million to improve education equipment of the Department of Geo-Resources and Geotechnical Engineering of the Institute of ...

On 13 November 2017, The Ministry of Mines and Energy issued a press statement regarding the news published on the website of Radio France Internationale (RFI) titled “Residents of Srekor village said there is no any local authority visiting them after flooding their village”, on 05 November 2017. ...

TOEK CHHOU DISTRICT, Kampot province – A donor-backed project launched here on Saturday aims to produce Cambodia’s first export-quality sea salt and invigorate the struggling local salt industry. In a ceremony among Kampot’s vast fields of coastal saltpans and low levees, company representatives from Asia Salt ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen pushed ahead with forming a new government on Tuesday and said he had rejected a demand from the main opposition party, which says it won July’s general election, to be given senior positions in parliament. Hun Sen told reporters that, ...

The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) said Friday that it has investigated the public procurements of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Dermatology and STD Control (NCHADS) and found they were carried out correctly, Despite an exhaustive investigation by the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and ...

The extent of the devastation of Cambodia’s forests was brought into sharp relief as 2013 drew to a close, with a series of detailed maps and satellite data released by NGOs showing the drastic depletion of the Kingdom’s woodland ecosystems. Images released by Open development Cambodia ...

The UN urged government and financial organisations to stimulate Cambodia’s flailing micro-insurance industry yesterday, after a study found the country’s poor are vulnerable to indebtedness during a crisis. The United Nations development Business (UNDB) hosted a working group yesterday at Phnom Penh’s Sunway Hotel launching the ...

Sexual assault and the annihilation of sacred graveyards are among the many claims levelled at Vietnamese Rubber giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) by villagers in Ratanakkiri province, a report by the World Bank’s investment arm reveals. In February, 17 indigenous communities that accused HAGL of ...

Earlier this week, Cambodia’s Ministry of Education Youth and Sports (MoEYS) held a second high school exam to provide a second chance for the over 70 percent of 93,000 high school students who failed to pass the first annual national high school exam, held in ...

On 11 October 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, issued a press release on His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister PRAK Sokhonn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, will participate in and Deliver keynote remarks at the 6th Meeting of Foreign Ministers ...

On 13 March 2023, the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia issued a press release on the results of participating in the “X​ Global​ Baku​ Forum” under the theme “The World Now: Challenges and Hopes”​ from 7 to 12 March 2023 in Baku, Republic ...

The Cambodian economy is demonstrating signs of a recovery in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2024 and the following periods, according to new statistics released by the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s (MEF) General department of Policy which have predicted the country’s ...

Tonle Sap lake reflections. Photo from Mariusz Kluzniak. Uploaded on 1 January 2012. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0despite severe droughts striking the country frequently, Cambodia possesses substantial water resources, mostly contained in the Mekong River and the Tonle Sap great lake and river. The lake ...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) was established through the Law on the organization and conduct of the National Bank of Cambodia in 1996.226 NBC is the nation’s central bank, whose mission is to determine and direct the monetary policy in order to maintain price ...