UNESCO and the Ministry of Information, and the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, the Department of Media and Communication at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, and civil society organisations, are commemorating the 2021 International Day of Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) in Cambodia, on ...

The conference is organized to clarify The exaggerated false information about Stung Cheay Areng hydropower project as well as The exaggerated information stating that The project causes serious damages to forestry resources, wildlife, fisheries, crocodiles and indigenous people customs, which is likely The hydropower project ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng has recommended the creation of a sub-decree to formally connect the interior ministry’s General Department of Identification (GDI) and the Ministry of Economy’s Cambodia Data Exchange Platform (CamDX) databases after a successful pilot of the scheme. the announcement came at a ...

Cambodia will join an international convention on the registration of industrial designs next month, furthering the scope of the county’s intellectual property protections, a government official said yesterday. ...

The government has issued a decree that requires all businesses to put price tags on Their products and services in riel to increase transparency for consumers and boost The use of The local currency. ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Monday said the Cambodian government could not afford more passport printing machines to speed up the process of documenting the hundreds of thousands of citizens working abroad, predominantly in Thailand. ...

On 30 March, the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) made a decision during the conference held at the National Assembly to ensure food security as well as stability of rice’s price in the market. Upon the decision, the Ministry of Commerce has an honor to ...

More than 1.16 million internal tourists went on holidays in various provinces during the four-days Khmer New Year from August 17-20, according to the data from the Ministry of Tourism. ...

The government on Friday finalized guidelines aimed at reducing The number of children who work in The fisheries sector and do not attend school, The Min­istry of Agriculture and Fisheries and The NGO World Vision said in a statement. World Vision said The guidelines, which it ...

Twenty-two factories that did not take the appropriate measures to shut down their businesses have 30 days in which to rectify the problem or face legal action from the government, the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) said in a public announcement yesterday the announcement ...

Approximately 65 percent of the country’s 3,492 registered international and local NGOs are inactive, leaving only about 1,350 active NGOs in the country, according to a report issued yesterday by NGO network Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC). the report, “CSO Contributions to the Development of Cambodia ...

The spokesperson for The UN Office Of The High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) claimed a significant proportion Of The Cambodian population was left alienated in The July 29 elections after The dissolution Of The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). ...

Ahead of International Women’s Day, the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) issued a statement highlighting the important roles rural women and girls play in society while stressing the need to protect and promote their rights. ...

The ninth session of The Conference of The State Parties to The Convention on The Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) took place at UN headquarters in New York last week. ...

Two garment and textile factories in Preah Sihanouk province have signaled their insolvency, and called on creditors to file for compensation with their administrators before Monday. ...

The interim representative of The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia met yesterday with The head of The Cambodian government’s rights body, voicing concerns about The threatened closure of a prominent outspoken local NGO. ...

The Export-Import Bank of China (Exim Bank) planned to invest US$235 million in two Cambodian mega projects, one of which was The modernisation of a TV station that one analyst said might not be necessary given The country’s level of development. During a meeting with Prime Minister ...

Two journalists who were present when environmental activist Chut Wutty and military police officer In Rattana were killed last month have reportedly been summonsed to Koh Kong provincial court. Neang Boratino, Koh Kong provincial co-ordinator for the rights group Adhoc, said court sources had told him ...

Cambodia’s 11-year-old investment law may be the most liberal in the region, according to the World Bank, but in practice, day-to-day business operations are far from simple, economists and business operators say. Mey Kalyan, senior adviser to the Supreme National Economic Council, said that despite a ...

Security guards working for a firm building a resort in Koh Kong province beat a woman who was trying to farm the land from which she had been evicted, she has told police. Khun Phall, 40, said that on Monday evening, she and family members returned ...