More than two weeks after a ban on sending maids to Malaysia began, work on a bilateral agreement that would protect Cambodian maids working in Malaysia has not begun, officials said yesterday. Ho Vuthy, deputy director general at the Ministry of Labor’s department of labor, said ...

Just weeks since the United States announced it would grant new trade privileges that allow Cambodian-manufactured travel goods such as luggage and backpacks to enter the US market duty-free under its Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) scheme, a visiting American trade official hinted yesterday that ...

Minister of National Defence Tea Banh said on Thursday that having sanctions and external pressure placed on Cambodia was not worse than life under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. Tea Banh, who is also deputy prime minister, was speaking to military and ruling party officials ...

Independent labour unions will take part in the Ministry of Labour’s Labour Advisory Committee (LAC) meeting today, possibly making their decision on next year’s minimum wage in Cambodia’s garment sector. NIFTUC and the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) considered boycotting the LAC ...

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) Better Factories Program (BFC) has responded to a scathing report released last week by Stanford University, which said The ILO program was ineffectual as it had not helped secure Cambodian workers a significant wage increase since The program started over ...

On​ 23​ October​ 2023,​ H.E.​ Sok​ Soken,​ Minister​ of​ Tourisim,​ received​ a​ courtesy​ call​ from​ H.E.​ Jacque​ Pellet,​ Ambassador​ of​ the​ French​ Republic​ to​ Cambodia,​ and​ Emmanuel​ Dollfus,​ Deputy​ Director​ of​ the​ French​ Agency​ for​ Development​ in​ Cambodia​ (AFD),​ to​ discuss​ the​ potential​ for​ greater​ ...

Two disputes involving a land developer with ties to the highest ranks of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party have once again exposed the lack of justice faced by impoverished communities in the capital, affected residents and rights groups have said. In Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district, ...

The National Bank of Cambodia held a seminar on The state of The economy in The first half of The fiscal year on Saturday, forecasting 7.1 per cent GDP growth for The rest of The year. ...

The Minister of Public Works and Transportation announced yesterday that The railway line connecting Phnom Penh to The airport is 50 percent complete. Sun Chanthol said The project from The Phnom Penh train station to The airport is half finished and added that trains are on ...

Growth in the general insurance sector was up 20 per cent for the first six months of the year, as the Kingdom continues to experience high growth and foreign firms pour money into the nascent industry, according to the president of the Insurance Association of ...

The Kingdom’s rubber exports saw a 24 per cent increase over The first 11 months of last year compared to The same period in 2018, data from The General Directorate of Rubber obtained by The Post on Tuesday showed. Pol Sopha, The director-general of The ...

The total value of goods imported from Thailand increased more than 14 percent in The first four months of this year compared to The same period last year, according to data released Friday by The Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh. The figures show that The total ...

The government deported 2,420 people from The Kingdom in The first nine months of 2015, according to updated figures from The General Department of Immigration released on The National Police website on Wednesday.​ ...

The government will prune superfluous “deputy” manager roles from The state bureaucracy’s many branches by restricting The number of people able to hold The title from The ministerial level down to kindergartens and hospitals. ...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) has announced The launch of an online test of The Macroeconomic Surveillance Database System (MSDS) to monitor The macroeconomic and financial situation of The Kingdom and provide meaningful data for analysis, to be implemented with The technical assistance of ...

As part of its plan to up Cambodia’s soldier count, the Ministry of Defence is recruiting 620 university students. the candidates from the 2014-2015 academic year are to be volunteers with no criminal backgrounds, according to an official announcement. the recruitment drive spans the month of ...

The Chinese government has pledged to assist The Environment Ministry with improving water quality control, providing equipment and about $1 million in funding. The announcement came at a meeting yesterday between undersecretary of state Eang Sophalleth and Wang Dongsheng, The vice president of The Chinese Academy ...

Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker Son Chhay has sent an amended version of his draft freedom-of-information law to the National Assembly this morning and urged the parliament to at least debate the legislation. Son Chhay said yesterday his revised law had taken into account amendments requested ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday instructed the Royal Academy of Cambodia to carefully scrutinise post-graduate candidates as he said the number of Cambodian PhD students was “too high”, with the Kingdom recording one of the highest ratios of PhD holders in the world. Hun ...

The genocides in Cambodia and Rwanda were both aided by local media and propaganda, and The role of foreign media covering Them is often criticized as insufficient. In interviews with VOA Khmer, media experts said more funding of that sector could help prevent such errors ...