As a two-day ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) summit on terrorism and organised crime held in Siem Reap closed yesterday, Interior Ministry counter-terrorism director General Em Sam An highlighted the growing toll transnational crime was exacting upon ASEAN members. ...

A Ministry of Interior report showed that the ministry used about 7.7 million liters of fuel in 2015, representing an increase of more than one million liters if compared to 2014. ...

The Commerce Ministry announced in a letter yesterday that it would push the deadline for companies to register themselves on its new online portal system back to June 30, after the majority of companies operating in the Kingdom failed to register by the original deadline ...

The Ministry of Justice has received far fewer official requests for this year’s stricter round of pardons and sentence reductions, scheduled to coincide with the Visak Bochea Buddhist holiday, a spokesman said yesterday.   ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Monday complained that traffic police had yet to be paid their promised share of traffic fines and threatened senior police officials with demotion unless they rectified the problem shortly. វេលា។  ...

Battambang police have called upon the Interior Ministry’s anti-terrorism department for help arresting the creator of a video that suggests corrupt officials have sold off the province’s most important reservoir.   ...

The Ministry of Commerce has extended the deadline for companies to register online after yet another poor response to its automated online business-registration system, a ministry official said yesterday. ...

Smokers who light up inside bars, restaurants, hotels and other establishment where the public gathers will face fines of 20,000 riel (about $5) starting September 16, the Ministry of Tourism announced on Wednesday. ...

Tourism officials from four Southeast Asian countries met in Yangon on Saturday to discuss ways of working together to promote tourism in the Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) region. ...

Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng has offered $10,000 to government officials investigating the brutal bashing of two opposition lawmakers as an incentive to solve the crime quickly, a ministry spokesman said yesterday.​ ...

The government has asked King Norodom Sihamoni to officially retire 49 generals in the police force as it prepares to end a two-year hiring freeze this year. ...

The Ministry of Health has issued a set of guidelines calling on referral hospitals and health centres to provide increased documentation of their expenses with an aim of introducing more “transparency” to official spending.   ...

About 20 tons of expired food products seized by police in March were set ablaze yesterday, according to the Ministry of Interior. ...

The Ministry of Commerce launched an online trademark registration gateway yesterday, allowing local and foreign individuals and firms to register their trademarks in Cambodia to protect them against infringement. ...

The National Police has requested more than $500,000 from the Interior Ministry to fund bonuses for police officers involved in confiscating illegal drugs, officials said on Tuesday. ...

After months of investigation, anti-drug officials with the Ministry of Interior cooperated with police forces in three Phnom Penh districts to arrest four suspected drug traffickers, seizing 8 kilograms of drugs on Saturday, according to the National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD). ...

Nearly 300 local newspapers are facing closure next year due to inactivity in publishing, an official from the Ministry of Information’s general department of information and broadcasting has said. ...

Nearly 7,500 Cambodians who have fallen victim to ponzi schemes have come forward to file class-action lawsuits against three companies that allegedly cheated them out of nearly $60 million, officials said yesterday, estimating that the companies may have defrauded as many 50,000 victims to the ...

A Ministry of Tourism official announced yesterday that the country would need an additional 200,000 trained tourism professionals if it was to fulfill its target of receiving 7 million international tourists a year by 2020. ...

The “Buy Khmer Products” campaign continues this year, in a bid to promote local products among Cambodian people.​Pan Sorasak, Minister of Commerce, said last Friday that the campaign is “a momentum to inspire and awaken Cambodian citizens to acknowledge the value of local products.” ...