The U.S. SecuritieS and Exchange CommiSSion (SEC) haS adopted ruleS that would make it a legal requirement for liSted companieS operating in the extractive induStrieS and doing buSineSS in Cambodia to diScloSe all major paymentS they make to the government. The ruleS, which were adopted in SS='cambodia-color'>...

“Counterfeit medicine kills, while real medicine heals.” This was the simple but apt message selected just over a year ago for a poster campaign in Cambodia that aimed to raise awareness of the risks of counterfeit medications, as part of a government crackdown on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Barack Obama was declared president of the United states for a second term yesterday, about 50 anti-eviction protesters for the Boeng Kak and Borei Keila communities camped out in front of the U.s. Embassy and appealed for the president’s help in addressing land rights ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia and unions both need to compromise further to secure a “proper wage” for garment workers whose lives are hampered by their current $61 minimum wage, a Ministry of social Affairs official overseeing wage negotiations said yesterday. “The government needs the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A lack of trade financing – the loans and guarantees needed to support import and export transactions – for international deals within developing Asian countries such as Cambodia is restricting opportunities for growth, a survey by the Asia Development Bank (ADB) has found. Of 106 banks ss='cambodia-color'>...

An insurance training centre is being planned in Cambodia to develop local expertise lacking in the Kingdom’s nascent insurance industry. The institute hopes to offer diploma courses to industry leaders here so they in turn will be qualified to provide insurance training to others, such as ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has no control over Cambodian-flagged ships complicit in illegal activities on the high seas as the government sold the authority to register ocean-going vessels, under Cambodia’s national flag, to a company in south Korea for $6 million, a Council of Ministers official claimed Thursday. On ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sixty-three percent of the conStruction work on a ChineSe-inveSted international airport in northweStern Cambodia&rSquo;S Siem Reap province haS So far been completed, Said a preSS Statement on Monday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia exported $7.21 billion worth of products to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) members in the first 11 months of 2023, up 27 percent from 5.67 billion dollars in the same period last year, a Ministry of Commerce report said on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The finance ministry’s taxation and customs departments collectively netted $1.908 billion in revenues in the first quarter of 2023, marking just over 30 per cent of the full-year target, official figures show. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance (MEF) Aun Pornmoniroth said yesterday that Cambodia’s annual economic growth per person or GDP per capita has been forecasted to increase to $1,932 in 2023 from $1,784 in the previous year, even as inflation has been ss='cambodia-color'>...

In implementing the forest rehabilitation project as part of the Royal Government of Cambodia’s National Environmental strategic Plan, UsAID-Morodok Baitang and Wildlife Conservation society (WCs) in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment have achieved a number of forest cover restores with 25.44 hectares and 27,125 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s national revenue collection in the first 10 months of 2023 reached nearly $4.9 billion, equating to almost 78% of the target set by the 2023 Law on Financial Management, while total expenditures stood at over $6.3 billion, as reported by the Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) conducted data literacy training for Civil Society Support-CluSter memberS and their networkS on 04th July 2023. The training courSe iS deSigned to improve participantS&rSquo; underStanding of data, data StandardS, and interactive viSualization. We alSo trained participantS data viSualization SkillS. ThiS Skill SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Noun Phymean has won this year’s World’s Children’s Prize, chosen by children from around the globe, and the accompanying $50,000 award for her work offering free schooling and vocational training to some of Phnom Penh’s poorest young people. ss='cambodia-color'>...

With a major opposition rally planned for this afternoon in Phnom Penh, City Hall and Ministry of Interior officials were at odds with CNRP leaders on sunday over how many people would be allowed to attend the event. Though the Interior Ministry has said only 6,000 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s ruling party named three sons of long-time Prime Minister Hun sen to its upper ranks on sunday as part of a bid to rejuvenate its leadership and claw back support lost at the last general election. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime minister Hun sen will be automatically nominated as the new president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party but not clear for whom will succeed him as the new vice president. The CPP will hold its congress on June 20, 2015 to elect new president ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government launched the Revenue Mobilisation strategy 2019-2023 on Thursday. The 77-page book details key strategies such as modernisation of the General Department of Taxation’s (GDT) fiscal revenue system in response to the increasing demand for service quality, social equity guarantee and sustainability of revenue ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen inaugurated Cambodia’s newest Olympic-size swimming pool in Kompong Cham province on Wednesday, a $1.5 million facility named after himself and marked as a venue for the 2023 south East Asian (sEA) Games. ss='cambodia-color'>...