Contentious plantation giant Vietnam Rubber Group reportedly “lost” nearly $391 million of state funds over five years, including $22.75 million from a rubber plantation in Cambodia, an official investigation into the firm’s dealings has found, according to Vietnamese media. Hanoi’s anti-corruption body, the General Inspectorate, last ...

Amid the outbreak of the coronavirus the government plans to trim the 2021 state budget to around $4 billion, accounting for about a 50 percent drop from this year’s state budget, including an 11.3 percent drop for social affairs and 6.4 percent for general administration. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has accepted the invitation to visit India, according to the State News Agency-AKP.   ...

China has granted $240 million aid to Cambodia under agreements signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on a state visit to Beijing. ...

Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong on Tuesday urged outgoing Singaporean ambassador Kevin Cheok to encourage the island state to invest more in Cambodia. ...

The Interior Ministry held a ceremony to promote 119 generals on Tuesday, according to secretary of state Em Sam An, who presided over the meeting. ...

Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom is considering gas production on the continental shelf of Thailand and Cambodia, Russian media reported on Friday. ...

The United States has extended for two months a grant to clear unexploded ordnances from the country through the Cambodian Mines Action Centre. ...

Foreign Minister Hor Namhong asked the United Nations, United States and other countries to give technical support to the Asean Regional Mine Action Center. ...

Vietnam and Cambodia support Indonesia’s proposal for minimum wage standards which will be applicable to ASEAN member states, Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said. ...

The formerly state-owned Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, the only stock on offer, has floated 13 million shares or 15 per cent of the company. ...

Outgoing minister of land management Im Chhun Lim and former Ministry of Tourism secretary of state Sam Prumnea are set to join the Constitutional Council. ...

Cambodia has been selected to chair the Global Coordination Bureau of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) next year, state-owned media outlet AKP reported yesterday. ...

Cambodia and Singapore have finalised an agreement on double taxation and are set to sign it into effect soon, state news agency AKP reported yesterday. ...

The French Agency for Development (AFD) has pledged $359 million in grants and loans to Cambodia over the next three years, state news agency AKP reported Friday. ...

Cambodia has agreed to support Malaysia’s proposed establishment of an Asean Peacekeeping Force, comprising of personnel from all 10 Asean member states to serve the United Nations. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s brother Hun Neng and a Vietnamese state-owned rubber firm are involved in an illegal logging cartel involving several well-connected companies operating on a “massive scale” in the embattled Prey Lang forest, forest monitors working in the area allege. Video footage and photographs ...

ASEAN needs to seek more funds from development partners to develop infrastructure and connectivity in order to narrow the gap among member states, said Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday at the opening ceremony of the 44th ASEAN Economic Ministers meeting. The Premier said strengthening the connectivity ...

The Ministry of Environment on Monday inaugurated its palatial new headquarters in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, the result of a state-private land swap. ...

The United States promised to work with Cambodia on maritime security at a high-level meeting in Phnom Penh yesterday between senior officials from both countries. ...