Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday shot down calls for a free visa system for all ASEAN + 3 nations. The proposal would have included the ASEAN nations as well as China, Japan and South Korea. Minister of Tourism Thong Khon made the proposal during a Tourism Ministry ...

Authority has asked all mobile network operators in Cambodia to stop delivering free Sim Cards without getting a copy of identification card from their clients, warning that they would face legal action if they disobey the order. The warning was made during a meeting on Thursday ...

Rainfall over the weekend, which caused flooding in 13 provinces, could improve crop yields for rice growers, provincial authorities say. Agricultural departments in Preah Vihear, Stung Treng, Kampong Thom and Battambang provinces – some of the worst hit on the weekend – all said water was ...

Refugees who met with Cambodian immigration officials last week on the Pacific island of Nauru were told they would be given permanent visas and travel documents but would have to pay for English-language education and would lose all but emergency financial support after a year, ...

When Defense Minister Tea Banh addressed graduates last month at Cambodia’s prestigious Army Institute, he directed his thanks to the guests who made it all possible: a group of crisply dressed officers from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). ...

The Phnom Penh branch, which will serve customers from all over Cambodia, is BBL’s 29th international branch and the third in Cambodia of a Thai bank. The bank resumed operations on December 30 as the 45th commercial bank in Cambodia and held the grand opening yesterday. ...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is getting mixed reviews for its communique on the South China Sea issue. Many in the region view any communique as better than none at all, which happened in 2012 when Cambodia was ASEAN chair. ...

The Government has reaffirmed its commitment to clear all landmines, explosive remnants of war (ERW) and cluster bombs from the country. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has ordered all authorities and armed forces to tighten the COVID-19 prevention along the border with Vietnam. ...

The Banteay Meanchey Provincial authorities have made a commitment that it will ensure that all people in the province will get to enjoy clean tap water by 2030. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on all stakeholders to pay high attention and do their best to boost the country’s tourism sector. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called on all stakeholders to pay high attention and do their best to boost the country’s tourism sector. ...

Mondulkiri provincial environment department director Keo Sopheak has said that DNA testing will soon reveal the identities of poachers who exchanged gunfire with environmental rangers, injuring one, at Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary last Wednesday. ...

Kampot pepper, one of the Kingdom’s top Geographical Indication (GI) products, is under pressure as over-cultivation drives farmers to give up production, said Kampot Pepper Promotion Association (KPPA) president Nguon Lay. ...

Cambodia has one of the world’s highest deforestation rates. But a group of Buddhist monks are stepping up efforts to save forests by publicly revealing wrongdoings and mobilizing local villagers. Ate Hoekstra reports. ...

The Ministry of Interior’s department of immigration temporarily arrested 31 foreign nationals, including one Frenchman, on suspicion of staying in the Kingdom illegally in raids of two businesses in the capital yesterday. ...

Thirty-one evicted Borei Keila community families received flats and another four families got $15,000 buyouts on Saturday as part of a “lucky draw” organised to resolve their years-long land dispute. ...

Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron yesterday slammed opposition leader Sam Rainsy for dismissing university degrees in the country as value-less and labeling the education system one of the poorest in the world. ...

Police in Svay Rieng province said Wednesday that they were still searching for one of two men suspected in a violent attack on an elderly commune chief that stemmed from a drunken fight on Saturday. ...

A police official from Takeo province was arrested in Vietnam on Saturday night after fatally shooting one man and injuring a second at a restaurant just across the border, officials said on Sunday.  ...