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Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Hang Chuon Naron said the ministry’s long-term goal is to establish at least one technical high school in each province and require each young person to have acquired at least one professional skill. There are currently 18 technical educational ...

The Russia-Ukraine and Myanmar issues could pose diplomatic reactions during the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting hosted by Cambodia, nevertheless it should not dilute top agenda of the discussion. ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) has created a commission and three sub-commissions to manage preliminary results of the June 5 commune council elections. ...

The Ministry of Health signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation for filling and packaging COVID-19 Inactivated Vaccines with China’s Sinovac Life Sciences and Cambodian Pharmaceutical Enterprise, a move that will enable Cambodia to package vaccines. ...

The Royal Government of Cambodia plans to officially issue $300 million in securities this month. This is according to Mang Sopheara, Deputy Director General of the General Department of International Cooperation and Debt Management of the Ministry of Economy and Finance and a member of ...

Cambodia and Hungary agreed to enhance economic and trade cooperation at a meeting held recently at the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) after bilateral trade between the two countries re-bounced this year, according to a release. ...

Cambodia’s Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn said here on Tuesday that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) needs to strengthen its centrality, unity, and solidarity to address key challenges for the sake of regional and global peace, security, and sustainable development. Cambodia is the chair ...

Japanese singer and actress Yoko Minamino’s original song “Rainbow for Tomorrow” has been delivered to Cambodia as a gesture of friendship in a handover ceremony between senior diplomats of the two countries. ...

Seng Pha, 63, is unable to read the leaflets of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) posted on the wall of her wooden house, but she recognizes one of the candidates running for commune chief, out of a total of 35, in Boeung Kak II commune. ...

After joining the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on April 30, 1999, Cambodia is holding the bloc chairmanship for the third time this year. As the Chair for 2022, Cambodia has hosted and is going to host many important meetings, including the ASEAN Foreign ...

Making joint efforts to achieve common development is “even more necessary” than in the past for Asian countries that are facing common and critical challenges amid global uncertainty, a Cambodian politician said on Sunday. ...

The Royal Government of Cambodia is promoting the economic literacy for non-economists. An 11-day workshop on the topic was conducted recently in hybrid format by professors and experts from Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (ANU). ...

Thong Khon, Minister of Tourism, mentioned the situation of domestic tourists on the weekend of May 28-29, 2022, a total of 274,026 tourists, comprising  259,393 local  and 14,633 foreign travellers converged on various tourism spots in the country. ...

Foreign minister Prak Sokhonn, who also serves as the ASEAN special envoy on Myanmar, voiced optimism on May 27 that his second trip to the predominantly Buddhist country in June would produce positive outcomes and that he would be able to meet with a broader ...

The Royal Embassy of Cambodia in Thailand last weekend joined the 11th Celebration of Thai Silk Road to the World in Bangkok, with the showcase of Khmer traditional clothing style of Longvek period in the 16th century. ...

Minister of Labour and Vocational Training Ith Samheng said the activities of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) in Cambodia over the past decade demonstrate its commitment and long-term partnership with the Kingdom. The SDC is an important donor that has assisted Cambodia’s ...

The “Rainbow for Tomorrow”, a special song written and sung by Ms MINAMINO Yoko, a renowned Japanese singer and actress, for the friendship between Cambodia and Japan was handed over yesterday to Cambodia. ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) has received about 160,000 applications – including more than 70,000 from organisations, over 70 from associations, more than 80,000 from 17 political parties, and special guests from three institutions – to observe the June 5 commune council elections.   ...

The provincial authorities of Ratanakiri handed over land titles to residents of two villages in one of its districts. ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) announced at a conference on Friday that since the start of campaigning for the Commune Election until May 26, the NEC has received 33 complaints, most of which concerned the use of insulting and derogatory words. ...

PRAK Sokhonn, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in his capacity as the Special Envoy of the ASEAN Chair on Myanmar, addressed a closed-session briefing for the Council’s Members via videoconference on May 27 on the implementation of the Five-point ...

A young Cambodian People’s Party supporter, who caught the eye of Prime Minister Hun Sen when he was pictured riding a rickety old bicycle in a CPP rally full of motor vehicles, is smiling today after the Premier’s niece gave him a new motorcycle and ...

The National Centre for Peacekeeping Forces (NPMEC) on May 26 commemorated the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, in recognition of their service and sacrifice and to honour the memory of those who had lost their lives in the course of peacekeeping. ...

PESTECH International Berhad and Hydrogene De France SA have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on green hydrogen production from hydropower plants in Cambodia and Malaysia. ...