Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Thursday met with U.N. and NGO representatives to discuss the ongoing dispute between the powerful Chinese-owned Union Development Group (UDG) and villagers in Koh Kong province who say they were kicked off their land and had their shelters torched. In ...

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 and other Southeast Asian countries are preparing for a major regional meeting, which will be held in Burma Aug. 10. Analysts say Cambodia should raise ongoing security issues that threaten regional economic integration at the Asean Regional Forum. the South China Sea issue continues to ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday assigned former Finance Minister Keat Chhon as the head of a newly formed committee tasked with researching the government’s capacity to introduce wage increases for civil servants and factory workers. the statement said that Mr. Hun Sen also spoke ...

The minister of posts and telecommunications on Monday insisted an edict ordering The country’s seven mobile phone operators to abide by a law that sets minimum prices for calls is only temporary. Prak Sokhon, The newly-appointed posts and telecommunications minister, said The order was necessary because ...

On 03 March 2022, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has posted a petition in support of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on the verdict of Kem Sokha on their official social media site. According to the petition, all the civil servants and all teachers, ...

The Ministry of Interior has asked The government to grant what would have been The new location of The Ministry of Environment in Meanchey district’s Niroth commune to The newly created General Departments of Identification and Immigration instead, according to an official spokesman. ...

On 12 April 2021, the Association of Banks in Cambodia (ABC) and Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA) issued an additional statement on the updated version of banking and financial institutions intervention measures to further support and favor clients who are affected by COVID-19. ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) has removed opposition leader Sam Rainsy from The voter list for next year’s national election on The grounds that he is a convicted criminal, an NEC official said yesterday. The decision means that even if Mr. Rainsy is granted a royal ...

Cambodian political analysts said Prime Minister Hun Sen needs to make “serious and deep reforms” over the next five years to restore his popularity after his party survived with a slim majority in July’s disputed general election. Sok Touch, deputy director of the Royal Academy ...

The Council of Ministers has nullified a 2009 law that set minimum prices on telephone calls, paving The way for regulators to reset The country’s telecommunications prices, which industry executives say are too high. The law, Prakas 232, which has been widely flouted, set a minimum ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen was sued by a young man for allegedly cutting two islands of Cambodia to Vietnam. Neang Sokhun, 25, filed a complaint on Monday with Phnom Penh Municipal Court against Hun Sen for allegedly cutting Koh Tral and Koh Krochorch Sess to Vietnam. ...

Opposition leaders brought politics to the forefront of a ceremony to mark yesterday’s anniversary of France’s official transfer of the former Kampuchea Krom provinces to Vietnam in 1949. Speaking to a crowd of hundreds of monks, Khmer Krom and Khmer attendees at Samaki Rainsey pagoda in ...

On 04 November 2020, the Ministry of Education in Cambodia issued a press release on the recent case of COVID-19. the Ministry advised related institutions, parents and children to follow some certain steps including: (1) All the institutions that have been in contact with Hungarian ...

The Education Ministry on Monday said it was in line for a near 20 percent hike from The government’s $3.52 billion draft budget for 2014, approved by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cabinet on Friday, though oTher details of how money was to be allocated remained ...

Thousands of garment workers from four factories have gone back on strike this week to protest a decision by their employers to withhold pay for the days they did not work during recent nationwide strikes. Between 8,500 and 12,500 workers at four factories—two in Phnom Penh, ...

The majority of small and medium enterprises are still unaware of how to comply with new tax regulations that came into force at The end of last year, according to an Economy Ministry official. Srun Angkaren, a deputy director in The general department of taxation, said ...

More than 600 of the Kingdom’s inmates could be released or see their sentences reduced this Khmer New Year if the King responds favourably to a request made yesterday by the Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons, officials said. Kuy Bunsorn, director general of the ...

Minister of Civil Service Hun Many is committed to reforming and strengthening the public administration effectively and efficiently, as well as promoting and modernising public institutions in line with the Pentagon Strategy. ...

Laos plans to establish consulate general in Siem Reap province to boost bilateral cooperation with Cambodia through tourism and trade, a senior official from Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday. “Tourism from Laos is increasing annually, so Lao PDR will establish a general consulate based ...