Cambodia, in its role as Asean chair, has decided that the thorny issue of the south China sea will not be on the agenda at next month’s Asean summit in Phnom Penh, CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap announced yesterday. “Cambodia is a neutral country, and based on ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Royal group, Cambodia’s leading conglomerate and Fusionex Group, one of the largest multi award-winning and the leading data technology group in the region, signed a memorandum of agreement where both groups will cooperate in the area of smart Trade Facilitation in Cambodia. This cooperation ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of businessmen from China’s Hunan province will today sign agreements to invest $1.3 billion in the Kingdom. The commitment was made during a meeting between Foreign Affairs Minister Prak sokhonn and Du Jiahao, a member of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 3,200m of netting uSed to illegally poach birdS waS deStroyed by Stung Prot and Wildlife Alliance foreSt rangerS on TueSday after they were diScovered laying in mangrove growth South of the Cardamom MountainS. Southern Cardamom ForeSt Protection Programme field coordinator DragoS IoneScu Said on SS='cambodia-color'>...

On Monday Afternoon 25th November 2019 in Busan, Republic of Korea, H.E Chhieng Yanara, Minister Attached to the Prime Minister, has signed on behalf of the Royal Government of Cambodia on MoU on Development Cooperation between Republic of Korea and 5 AsEAN countries such as ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kampong Speu provincial authoritieS on Friday arreSted five individualS SuSpected of illegally mining marble at Kbal Damrey village in Oral diStrict&rSquo;S Trapaing Chor commune. Provincial governor Vei Samnang Said on Monday that the SuSpectS included three CambodianS and two VietnameSe nationalS. “We are drafting a SS='cambodia-color'>...

The government has nearly finished the draft of the Intermodal Transport Master Plan 2021-2030 (the Plan), a Ministry of Economy and Finance press release said on Wednesday. The draft seeks to promote Cambodia’s connectivity, reduce transportation and logistics costs, integrate the Kingdom into the region ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of investors from the Chinese province of Hainan is now in the Kingdom exploring opportunities in coconut farming. The delegation met yesterday with Minister of Agriculture Veng sakhon in Phnom Penh to discuss the coconut sector in the Kingdom and announce their intention ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen praised journalists and a large number of local press institutions for making efforts to prevent the spread of fake news propagated by “rebels” and opportunists who intended to incite social unrest against the government. Hun sen’s statement was made through a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and more than 60 companies from Vietnam’s southern provinces held a business forum on Friday to discuss the establishment of a special economic zone (sEZ) along the border of the two countries. CCC vice-president Lim Heng, who presided over ss='cambodia-color'>...

Throngs of protesters gathered at the Olympic stadium yesterday, at times straining against a mix of police force barriers and riot shields in their effort to show support for jailed Beehive Radio director Mam sonando, whose trial was beginning just down the street at Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

The successful hosting of the 21st summit of the Association of southeast Asian Nations (AsEAN) and its related summits here in November was definitely the biggest achievement of Cambodia in 2012 despite some sad events such as the death of the venerated former King Norodom ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Venerable Sann Leang, executive director of NGO Environmental More than 500 villagerS held a march in eaStern Cambodia Friday to proteSt a controverSial dam project on the Mekong River in LaoS they Say iS undergoing conStruction deSpite a pledge to halt progreSS while officialS SS='cambodia-color'>...

A national energy efficiency policy is currently in development, officials told the Post last week. Experts at the Ministry of Industry, Mines, and Energy (MIME) and the multi-donor fund EU Energy Initiative Partnership Dialogue Facility (EUEI PDF) are in discussions about details of the policy, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The rehabilitation of Cambodia’s dilapidated railway network has encountered delays due to poor construction work and inappropriate surveying methods when making plans to lay down tracks, according to a draft review of the ongoing $140 million project conducted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ss='cambodia-color'>...

SoldierS Should not have been deployed in Support of a warrant to arreSt land diSpute proteSterS in Kratie province in May&mdaSh;an operation that led to the killing of a 14-year-old girl by armed forceS, a JapaneSe human rightS group Said in a new report. The report SS='cambodia-color'>...

The homes of nearly 200 families living in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district were demolished yesterday and Monday after officials accused the residents of being involved in a secessionist plot, local officials and villagers said. District governor Chhe Chhiv said that authorities had demolished 191 homes ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s trade deficit in the first half of the year grew 34.31 percent compared with the same period in 2011, reaching $1.36 billion, according to data released by the Ministry of Commerce. Though revenues earned from exports grew 12.13 percent to about $2.50 billion, a growing ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite growing exports, freight companies say profits are being hit because most firms still use old, inefficient trucks and are often forced to pay custom officials informal fees at border checkpoints and ports. Transportation costs in Cambodia are already some of the highest in the region, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The UN’s assessment suggests that Cambodia is one of the top five countries that have made significant progress toward meeting its MDGs by 2015. The poverty rate has dropped dramatically from 47.50 percent in 1993 to 34.70 percent in 2004 and 23 percent in 2011, ss='cambodia-color'>...