The Ministry of Mines and Energy is committed to ending unregulated mining in Mondulkiri’s Mesam area, promoting legal practices to boost employment, increase national revenue and reduce environmental and societal impacts, according to the ministry. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s commitment and efforts in unleashing the broader AsEAN market and beyond cropped up for discussion on Monday evening during the cocktail networking event of the Cambodia-AsEAN Business summit (CABs) at sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra in the capital. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Justice ordered the relevant parties to reprimand judges or prosecutors who break the rules in order to ensure the efficacy of judicial reform and to increase the effectiveness of the law and the judiciary, in accordance with the government’s Pentagonal strategy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Australian ambassador to Cambodia Derek Yip expressed interest in Cambodia’s infrastructure development plans, as trade between the two countries exceeded $220 million in the first three quarters of 2024. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Say Samal, Deputy Prime MiniSter and MiniSter of Land Management, Urban Planning and ConStruction (MLMUPC), Monday called on the Kep Provincial AdminiStration (KPA) to focuS on achieving the objectiveS of Pentagonal Strategy &ndaSh; PhaSe One&rSquo;S viSion aimed at expanding acceSSibility to clean water, electricity and SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, sok Chenda sophea, recently hosted Australian Ambassador Derek Yip in Phnom Penh to discuss the growing economic and diplomatic ties between Cambodia and Australia. ss='cambodia-color'>...

 On Monday, June 3, 2024, ODC attended an afternoon conference titled “Enabling Environment for a Human-Centered Adoption of AI in AsEAN” at the sofitel Angkor Phokeethra Resort in siem Reap, Cambodia. The conference was a side event of the larger 85th meeting of the AsEAN ss='cambodia-color'>...

“Citizens’ health is guaranteed. The state is taking care of disease prevention and cure. The poor are entitled to get access to health checks without any payment, at any public health center, infirmary and maternity center.The state shall organize and establish infirmaries and maternity centers.”1// ss='cambodia-color'>...

After a three-day blockade, soldiers pulled out over the weekend from the Kratie province village where a teenage girl was shot dead last week by government security forces, officials said yesterday. However, human rights workers denied a report by a provincial official that freedom of ss='cambodia-color'>...

At least a dozen companies including some of Cambodia’s most prominent developers have been illegally logging and transporting rosewood since the election without any action from authorities, a pair of local NGOs alleged. In a report released yesterday, the Coalition of Cambodian Farmer Community and the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Education on Tuesday again publicly accused the Ministry of Finance of not injecting enough funds into the education sector in order to bring Cambodia in line with the rest of southeast Asia. speaking at the close of a two-day workshop to formulate the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Municipal Hall yesterday defended the actions of police and security guards who blocked protesters as they tried to leave the capital’s Boeung Kak area before they stopped and searched an NGO’s vehicle. Dozens of Daun Penh district police, security guards and military police blockaded ss='cambodia-color'>...

An official from Battambang province’s department of agriculture who was charged last Monday with embezzling $200,000 from the illegal sale of fertilizer donated to the poor by Japan has implicated four other officials in the case, including the son of senior CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap, ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 20 leprosy patients have been treated at a rehabilitated and expanded wing of the Battambang Provincial Referral Hospital, the second hospital to offer professional treatment for leprosy patients in Cambodia. “We have two doctors and one nurse who specialize in leprosy treatment, and in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prominent activist monk But Buntenh, head of the Independent Monk Network for social Justice, was arrested in Preah Vihear province on Thursday, along with another monk and three NGO staffers who had traveled to the province to support a group of ethnic Kuoy villagers protesting ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police maintained a subtle, and mostly unarmed, presence at a rowdy opposition rally that filled Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Monday, despite persistent tensions over last month’s contested national election and a beefed-up security presence around the city. Even as the crowd swelled to well over ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia National Rescue Party has said it plans to expand the mass demonstration already slated for Tuesday in siem Reap to include another large rally in the capital. The CNRP announced late last month it was moving its first in a series of new rallies ss='cambodia-color'>...

The minister of posts and telecommunications on Monday insisted an edict ordering the country’s seven mobile phone operators to abide by a law that sets minimum prices for calls is only temporary. Prak sokhon, the newly-appointed posts and telecommunications minister, said the order was necessary because ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new set of prakases tacked onto a law that regulates overseas employment recruitment agencies is a “step in the right direction” towards protecting some of Cambodia’s most vulnerable citizens from scams and abuse, local and international NGOs said yesterday. But some remain unconvinced that the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong warned monkS ThurSday that if they do not follow orderS to keep out of politicS, they could create a rift within the monkhood that could threaten the very exiStence of BuddhiSm in the country. Mr. Socheatvong alSo Said that if monkS SS='cambodia-color'>...