Experts from the Cambodia Mine Action Center (CMAC) have collected and safely disposed of 43 units of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from an excavation site near sa’ang Phnom pagoda in Peam sala village of sa’ang commune in Kandal province’s sa’ang district after a work crew excavating ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Thailand for 2020 reached only half of the $15 billion target set by the two governments in 2015.  Those targets had set a goal of tripling two-way trade. Two-way trade between the two nations was valued at $7.236 billion last ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Administration will retain through May 19 the capital’s three-colour-coded system that determines to what extent coronavirus restrictions are placed on parts of the city. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The body of a deceased Covid-19 patient was finally taken by his relatives to his hometown in Tbong Khmum province after hundreds of villagers in Prek Khsay Kor commune of Prey Veng province’s Peamro district refused to bury him in the cemetery behind their village ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japan and other Mekong countries have expressed support for Cambodia’s initiative to establish a joint working group on the Mekong-Japan Economic Recovery scenarios, according to a press statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation following their latest meeting on August 6.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

The CHRC’s statement apparently came in response to the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, Vitit Muntarbhorn, who on October 6 issued a statement claiming that Cambodia was “backsliding” away from democracy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 03 November 2021, the Equitable Cambodia issued a press release on ANZ launches human rights grievance mechanism in a first for the global banking sector.Australia’s ANZ Bank launched a Grievance Mechanism Framework to evaluate and respond to human rights related complaints associated with its ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Environment has instructed its municipal and provincial departments to take measures to control air quality, after some control stations showed that air quality levels have dropped. Of particular concern was the increase in particulate matter (PM10) and fine particulate matter (PM2.5), which ss='cambodia-color'>...

HLH Agriculture (Cambodia) Co Ltd, a subsidiary of singapore’s Hong Lai Huat Group Ltd, has announced the inauguration of the mixed-use Cambodia-singapore Agricultural Hub (CsAH) in northwestern Kampong speu province, as well as the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the singapore Manufacturing ss='cambodia-color'>...

The trade volume between Cambodia and Czech Republic reached around $126 million in 2019. However, due to the adverse impact of Covid-19, trade between both countries shrank to about $80 million by 2020 and 2021. But Cambodia’s Minister of Commerce Pan sorasak expects an improvement ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mr Hun Sen and the Prime MiniSter of Japan KiShida Fumio have agreed to make Sihanoukville a major port for Cambodia and the Mekong region. Sihanoukville iS a deep-Sea port, which will be developed into a port that will allow more large ShipS to dock, SS='cambodia-color'>...

About 80% of Cambodian children aged between 12 and 16 are living under psychological stress because of their parents’ debt, according to a report released on the sidelines of International Children’s Day, which falls on every June 1. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The SME Bank of Cambodia haS Said 1,834 Small and medium-Sized enterpriSeS (SME) benefitted from loanS under the phaSe II financing Scheme aS of May 31 thiS year, which involved $221 million &ndaSh; about 92 percent of the total funding budget of $240 million. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The government continues to move to crackdown on land encroachers, with Pailin Governor Ban srey Mom took action against a group of land encroachers in the province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s first Ford assembly plant was inaugurated on June 16 in Pursat province amid rising demand for brand-new vehicles among Cambodians. The facility is seen as a game changer for the domestic automobile industry, which could bring a wave of investors seeking to cash ss='cambodia-color'>...

Huadian Sihanoukville Power Generation Co Ltd (HSPGC), under China&rSquo;S Huadian OverSeaS InveStment Co Ltd, on December 16 officially put online the “number-two unit” of itS 700MW coal-fired HSPGC Power Plant in Preah Sihanouk province, after a SucceSSful commiSSioning teSt, making it the largeSt power Station SS='cambodia-color'>...

Ground has been broken on a new water treatment plant in Battambang province which will serve the provincial capital. The plant, in Kampong Wat Kor commune’s seima village of the town, is co-financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Agence Francaise de Developpement- AFD ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s global corruption core has slightly improved with it receiving 24 out of 100 in the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which was released today by Transparency International (TI), placing it 150th out of the 180 countries. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Minister of Commerce (MoC) Pan sorasak on Wednesday discussed strategies to strengthen the bilateral collaboration between Cambodia and the Us as well as renew the Generalized system of Preferences (GsP) for some of Cambodia’s products with a delegation led by Jason smith, Chairman of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister-in-waiting Hun Manet is scheduled to travel to China in mid-september for the 20th China-AsEAN Expo 2023 in Nanning, the capital city of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region – in one of his first official trips seen by analysts as a significant step in ss='cambodia-color'>...