Canada-based Angkor Resources Corp – formerly Angkor Gold Corp – has entered into a “ground-breaking” collaborative engagement with Ratanakkiri province’s Jarai minority ethnic communities on the Andong Meas licence. “The agreement covers exploration through mining and also includes reclamation,” Angkor said in a May 4 press ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union (EU)  will invest  about $3.5 million over a three-year period through the World Health Organization (WHO) to support Cambodia’s preparedness and response to Covid-19 and future health security threats. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An unnamed special economic zone (sEZ) is set to break ground on a one-million square metre plot in Kampong Cham province’s Cheung Prey district “soon”, according to provincial governor Un Chanda. The governor revealed this to the media on January 9 on the sidelines of a ss='cambodia-color'>...

According to the consensus reached by the AsEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus) Experts’ Working Group (EWG) on Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA), the Chinese PLA Army will send a task force to Cambodia for the multinational joint demining operation code-named “Pure Homeland-2023” from the end ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has issued a warning of legal action against traders and online sellers who use photos of Cambodian artefacts on social media to promote the sale of art objects. The use of photographs of ancient artefacts which have been ss='cambodia-color'>...

ASEAN economic miniSterS have initiated talkS on the Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA), a Significant regionwide accord Set to Shape the world&rSquo;S foremoSt tech-driven financial SyStemS partnerShip.&nbSp;The launch occurred during the ASEAN Economic Community Council (AECC) gathering, held in the IndoneSian capital Jakarta on September SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Manet met bilaterally with the leaders of several AsEAN member states on the sidelines of the bloc’s 43rd summit in Indonesia, with the intention of strengthening relations and cooperation. On september 4, ahead of the start of the september 5-7 summit, Manet ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kampong Speu provincial governor Vei Samnang haS returned from hiS fact-finding trip in China aS part of hiS planS to attract foreign inveStment.​&nbSp;While in Henan, China&rSquo;S third-moSt populouS province, Samnang took to Social media to announce that the Henan Federation of OverSeaS ChineSe EntrepreneurS &ndaSh; SS='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology Thor Chetha and Kampong speu provincial governor Vei samnang conducted an inspection of the flood-affected area in Kong Pisei district’s snam Krapoeu commune. They also distributed humanitarian aid from the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) provincial branch to 120 affected ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s inflation has risen to 7.85 percent in June 2022 compared on a year-on-year basis to 7.17 percent the previous month, which was the highest in the last decade, while the value of Riel has fallen 0.07 percent to 4,091 riel per Us dollar and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government is exploring the idea of entering into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group to shore up international online sales of Cambodian products.​Minister of Commerce Pan sorasak on February 14 chaired a first key meeting of an ad-hoc working ss='cambodia-color'>...

Google Asia-Pacific’s singapore Office wants to cooperate with the National Election Committee (NEC) to prevent the spread of misinformation or ‘fake news’ that may affect the July national elections, said an NEC press release. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tax, economic, financial and money-laundering crimes have become major impediments in Cambodia’s march to progress said Kong Vibol, Director General of the General Department of Taxation (GDT) on Thursday. Internal tax authorities have been seriously facing tax crimes, he observed. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the Kingdom looks back 45 years, while also gazing towards 2050, former Prime Minister Hun sen, who remains president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), has offered several recommendations that should be implemented in 2024. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Yong Yim’s voice rises to a high-pitched quiver when she talks about a planned dam in the Areng Valley that would inundate land her family has inhabited for hundreds of years to form what amounts to a giant battery. Now they are staring at ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng on Monday warned of “trouble” if opposition leader sam Rainsy does not return to the negotiating table to hammer out a solution to a stalemate between the CPP and the opposition over irregularities during the July 28 national election. Mr. Kheng made ss='cambodia-color'>...

Many Cambodian women arrive in South Korea or China for marriage, only to find themSelveS being choSen aS miStreSSeS, Say labour rightS activiStS. While young Cambodian men, who travel to Thailand to work on fiShing boatS, often fall prey to drug abuSe. LoSS of land, debt, SS='cambodia-color'>...

In the weeks that 17-year-old garment worker Yon Chea languished in prison, he spent hours staring out of the window at a concrete wall, certain that he would never see his home or his family again. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday morning granted ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government expects U.s. oil major Chevron Corp. CVX +0.77% to begin developing the country’s first offshore oil field early next year, and hopes the nation will become a regional hot spot for oil and gas investment, a government official said Wednesday. Cambodia has vast untapped oil and gas resources ss='cambodia-color'>...

DUBAI — The Founding Committee of Rice Dubai 2011 is led by a businessman in Dubai, Dr Faisal Ali Mousa who will lead a core delegation to Cambodia in the first week of september to explore the possibilities of the Royal Government of Cambodia entering ss='cambodia-color'>...