The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will investigate exorbitant passport fees for migrant workers in Malaysia, the ministry’s spokesman said late last week, following an investigation by The Post that found Cambodians in the country were forced to pay up to $800 for renewals. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng sakhon on Monday created 18 teams to compile and compare data on forests which are occupied by citizens in 24 provinces. The group’s formation came after Prime Minister Hun sen last week ordered ministries to accelerate the release ss='cambodia-color'>...

The long-awaited Asia-Pacific Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement was officially signed yesterday.  The signing brings renewed hopes for comprehensive change in the flow of regional trade and investment and the promotion of intra-bloc supply chains capable of bolstering trust among members of the region’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

It’s 23 years since the Cambodian Centre for study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC) was founded. It now stands as the pre-eminent Cambodian organisation in the fields of agricultural and rural development and is especially recognised for its farmer-led extension services, agricultural innovation training, support ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three environmental activists from the NGO Mother Nature were detained for questioning on september 3 over posts they made on social media saying they planned to march to the prime minister’s house to raise awareness on environmental issues caused by the filling in of Boeng Tamok ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 23 September 2020, the ASian Development Bank (ADB) iSSued a newS releaSe over the approval of $29 million in financing to help the Government of Cambodia improve Service delivery through key reformS in public financial management and decentralization, eSpecially in rural areaS, where moSt SS='cambodia-color'>...

China has given the green light for five new companies to invest in Cambodia’s yellow banana plantations. Industry insiders said they are optimistic that yellow banana exports to that country will double in 2020. The approval of the five companies brings the total number of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The two-way trade between Cambodia and Thailand rose by 5.6 percent in the first five months of this year to $3,472 billion, according to the statistics from Thailand’s Ministry of Commerce.​ From January to May 2020, Cambodia exported $711 million worth of goods to Thailand, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Oddar Meanchey provincial authorities remain puzzled about the Thai Appeal Court’s recent ruling in favour of more than 700 families who claimed to have been locked in a land dispute with three Thai-owned sugar companies in samrong town and Chongkal district. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s exports see new light with the granted duty-free and quota-free access to the markets in the United Kingdom, commencing 2021. sok sopheak, secretary of state at the Ministry of Commerce shared that Cambodia will discuss with the UK counterpart on the import and export ss='cambodia-color'>...

Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) has approved a new investment project with a total capital of $7.8 million in Takeo province. According to the CDC’s press release issued this afternoon, invested by HC Global Textile Co., Ltd., the newly approved project is expected ss='cambodia-color'>...

According to the CDC’s press release made public yesterday, the newly approved investment project is located along the National Road No. 5 in samaky Meanchey district, Kampong Chhnang province. The project, belonging to Changhui (Cambodia) Handbag MFR, Co., Ltd., is expected to create a total ss='cambodia-color'>...

A team from China’s General Administration of Customs (GACC) on March 10 conducted a virtual inspection of three Cambodian mango farms and four treatment facilities to ensure that they are fit for export, according to Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng sakhon. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 60MW solar power station in northern Battambang province was commissioned and connected to the national grid last week. The solar farm is located in southwestern Thma Koul district’s Anlong Run commune and is invested by shenzhen-listed Risen Energy Co Ltd. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Stock-liSted induStrial-park operator Phnom Penh SEZ Plc (PPSP) will acquire the remaining 40 per cent of conStruction company SahaS E&C Co Ltd&rSquo;S (SahaS) ShareS from itS joint venture (JV) partner LCH for $1,172,514.82 after approval from the SecuritieS and Exchange Regulator of Cambodia (SERC) on SS='cambodia-color'>...

Almost every day for the past year about a dozen boats carrying thousands of cubic meters of sand dump their load at Koh Norea, a small tip of land where the Mekong spills into the Bassac river. According to workers at the site, the sand ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...