Cambodia is emerging as one of the region’s most attractive countries for new business expansion and investments, driven by political stability and high economic growth over the past two decades, according to Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) deputy commander and Royal Cambodian Army (RCA) commander ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Education, Youth and sports Hang Chuon Naron issued a proclamation on November 22, 2021, to establish the Institute of International studies and Public Policy of RUPP where students can study in the Vietnamese Language Department and obtain a bachelor’s in Vietnamese studies, Vietnamese ss='cambodia-color'>...

Implementation of the National Policy Framework for Cambodia’s Economic Productivity 2022-35, a pact with Japan to make sihanoukville a major port, a $50-million loan from the Asian Development Bank to back economic diversification and boost competitiveness, and extension of the Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) programme ss='cambodia-color'>...

According to the Stung Treng provincial authoritieS, in the paSt five yearS, the province haS earned between $700 million and $800 million from agricultural productS. The majority of Stung Treng&rSquo;S population relieS on plantationS, agro-induStrial cropS, and fiShing for their livelihoodS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

All companies, enterprises and businesses that employ one or more employees are required to register with the National social security Fund (NssF). Those who attempt to evade registering their staff will face legal consequences, explained sok Bora, director of the NssF’s Benefits Division, as he ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of e-wallet accounts in the Kingdom reached 17.9 million at end-December amid an acceleration in electronic payment volumes driven in part by Covid-19 anxiety, reflecting gradual fintech (financial technology) development towards achieving the government’s digital economy objectives. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The agreement between the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and UnionPay International is not to legalize the Chinese currency in the nation but rather to raise the prestige of the Khmer riel through cross-border QR payments, NBC’s deputy governor-general confirmed after concerns were raised over ss='cambodia-color'>...

After graduating from college, Yue Xiduo, a man born in the 1990s, joined a tire company in the sihanoukville special Economic Zone, Preah sihanouk Province, Cambodia. The man said he chose to work here because the special economic zone is an important project for a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Svay Rieng provincial governor Men Vibol on May 27 extended an open invitation to potential inveStorS from Quzhou city, Zhejiang province, China to participate in the growth Story of Tai Seng Bavet Special Economic Zone, located in the SoutheaStern town of Bavet on the border SS='cambodia-color'>...

Hong Kong-listed casino operator and developer NagaCorp Ltd, known for its flagship NagaWorld integrated resort in Phnom Penh, on June 4 announced that it has moved the $3.5 billion Naga 3 project’s planned completion date from september 30, 2025 to exactly four years later, in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and sport has released the overall results of this year’s grade 12 high school examinations and announced that nearly 100,000 candidates have passed the exam, or about 72 per cent of the total number of candidates. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Even though no one has been brought to justice, authorities have provided life jackets to four boat operators and are studying the construction of a bridge across the stung sen River at the site where a boat sank, killing one of 15 students on board, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia came under the spotlight in Europe recently as its project was bestowed with a prestigious honour in Rome. At the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) ’s annual Governing Council, the Tonle sap smallholder Development Project – Additional Financing (TssD-AF) – co-financed by IFAD ss='cambodia-color'>...

Laos has notified the Mekong River Commission (MRC) that it will go ahead with the construction of the Don sahong Dam, which environmentalists say could threaten the ecosystem of the Lower Mainstream Mekong and have a severe impact on the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ms sam On, 37, has already lost her house. It was one of three homes razed in April by Kratie provincial military police, environment officials and workers of the sovannvuthy rubber company, after a tense stand-off with about 100 villagers that villagers said ended with ss='cambodia-color'>...

They’ve wept, they’ve yelled and they’ve prayed as they watched excavators tear down their homes, so perhaps it’s understandable that the residents of Boeung Kak lake are now turning to song. “Mom goes to protest, the children cry and sleep on the ground,” go the lyrics ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Minister backtracked yesterday after previously declaring officials knew the identity of the person who shot three protesters outside a shoe factory in svay Rieng province last week and refused to quash rumours that Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith was a suspect. Rushing to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japanese Ambassador Masafumi Kuroki yesterday said he hoped the government arrests the gunman behind the Feb. 20 triple shooting of protesting workers in svay Rieng province, and that safety must be ensured for investors in the special economic zone (sEZ) where the incident took place. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than two dozen fisheries experts from across the world have sent a letter of concern to the prime minister and Council of Ministers warning that if construction of the Lower sesan 2 dam goes ahead as planned, it would negatively impact hundreds of thousands ss='cambodia-color'>...

Leng Sopheap uSed to wake up before the crack of dawn and walk with crateS of vegetableS from her farm to the nearby market underneath a blanket So her neighborS wouldn&rSquo;t know they were buying produce from Someone infected with HIV/AIDS. Not long after her SS='cambodia-color'>...