US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will travel to Australia, Thailand and Cambodia next week as part of America’s strategic tilt to the Asia-Pacific, even as crises in the Middle East demand the Pentagon’s attention and resources. In a week-long trip starting Sunday, Panetta will head to ...

DESPITE some reports, Cambodian officials said Cambodia and Thailand have not yet set a date for implementing the Irrawaddy-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS) single visa. Koy Kuong, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, said a single visa scheme for all five ...

The Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) of The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued warning letters to mobile operators Beeline and Smart over Their recent advertisement, stating it violates The Inter-Ministerial Prakas, or edict, signed in 2009. The separate letters, obtained by The Post last week, ...

Phnom Penh families being pushed to the city’s outskirts to make way for a $142.6 million railway renovation project funded by Australia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are falling into debt and finding it harder to earn money and access healthcare according to a ...

“I don’t know what I was expecting, but I wasn’t going expecting to look out the bus window and see all the blue bags along the roads and in the fields,” said 27-year-old Christopher Convery, who is currently backpacking for the first time in Cambodia. ...

Abuse, discrimination, exploitation and corruption are endemic in Cambodia’s prisons, spurred on by judicial and penal systems “driven by nepotism”, according to a new report from local rights group Licadho. The report, Rights at a Price: Life Inside Cambodia’s Prisons, which was released yesterday, details a ...

The International Monetary Fund is projecting furTher modest acceleration in Cambodia’s rate of economic  expansion over The next five years. In The latest World Economic Outlook released Tuesday, The IMF projects that Cambodia’s gross domestic product will grow from an estimated 7.0 percent last year to ...

The government has launched a 15-year policy framework for The Kingdom’s evolving digital socioeconomic environment to pave The way for a thriving digital economy, as a new engine of economic growth. ...

The Council of Ministers this week announced two new spans across The Mekong River in The vicinity of The capital, one connecting The Chroy Changvar peninsula to Kandal’s Khsach Kandal district and anoTher connecting Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district with Kandal’s Lvea Em. ...

A majority government-owned life insurance company has stopped paying out benefits to policy holders who die while taking part in protests and demonstrations, the company confirmed yesterday. the Cambodian Life Insurance Company – 51 per cent owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance and 49 ...

The president of The Federation of Association of Small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia (Fasmec) is urging small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to register with The association to get benefits from The newly formed SMEs Bank of Cambodia. ...

Cambodia’s foremost logging baron exported more than 100,000 cubic metres of timber from Sihanoukville Port last year, likely including a species protected by an international treaty to which the Kingdom is a signatory, an analysis by Global Witness of leaked export records suggests. the data, obtained ...

U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi met with a senior official at the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday and reiterated a call for new legislation to be passed on governing Cambodia’s judiciary. “He did not ask us much on anything new, but he did ask for ...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, through The National Institute of Education, in collaboration with Poscar Digital on August 31, announced The launch of digital school system “Wiki School” to help digital school management, learning and teaching. ...

The NGO Results International has been studying nutrition in Cambodia, and found that despite Cambodia’s good economic growth, 40 per cent of children under five There, have stunted growth. Cambodia may produce plenty of food, but its people are not eating a balanced diet. ...

Plans for a railway line connecting Bavet city in Svay Rieng province to Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh city were revealed this week by the Minister of Transport. During a meeting with Nguyen Nhat, Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Transport, Cambodian Transport Minister Sun Chanthol said both governments ...

Total exports during the first nine months of the year rose 41 percent to $3.5 billion compared to the same period in 2010, according to data released by the Ministry of Commerce. of the total amount, $3.1 billion was in garments, $10 million in paddy rice, ...

Cambodia Angkor Air will launch a regular flight service between Siem Reap and Sihanoukville by the end of the year, an official at the Council of Ministers said yesterday. there are currently no flights to Sihanoukville, the country’s premier coastal resort, even though the airport ...

The National Committee for Counter Trafficking cracked down on 131 human trafficking and sexual exploitation cases from January to last month, an increase of 22 cases over The same period last year. Chou Bun Eng, an Interior Ministry secretary of state and also NCCT vice ...

The Cambodian police has released a public bidding notice for The procurement of two water cannon trucks which They specifically mentioned are going “to be used against demonstrations. ...