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On 1 February 2023, at the National Assembly building, the National Assembly Committee on Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, Propaganda and Information of the National Assembly, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, chaired a meeting to understand “Cambodia’s foreign policy in the ...

Although coastal and freshwater wetlands – such as swamps, mangroves and marshes – contain 40 per cent of all plant and animal species, many are polluted or degraded due to climate change and human development. ...

In order to eradicate illegal fishing in the Tonle Sap, the Inter-Ministerial Commission has decided to establish a hotline to monitor all fishing crimes in the lake. ...

The officials of Kratie strengthened crackdown on illegal fishing practices and seized illegal fishing equipment. ...

Kampong Chhnang provincial officials beefed up patrols and monitoring for illegal fishing during breeding season this year. Officials said they had success on the Tonle Sap Lake. ...

Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, spoke highly of the good partnership between Cambodia and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for 30 years. ...

The Ministry of Commerce has been preparing for the establishment of five Cambodian private business centres in main cities of China in order to promote the sale of Cambodian products in the Chinese market.​ ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen expressed his hope that between three and four million foreign tourists will visit Cambodia this year. ...

On 31 January 2023, the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training issued a press release on the intervention of providing compensation for the termination of employment contracts in accordance with the labor law to former employees of NagaWorld. As of this press release date, 262 ...

Protected areas in Kirirom National Park and the Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary are being privatized for companies run by family members of notorious tycoon Choeung Sopheap as well as the wife of the country’s finance minister. ...

Cambodia mildly improved its score on Transparency International’s 2022 corruption index released Tuesday, but remains considered among the most corrupt countries globally. ...

A crowd of around 30 activists gathered at the base of Phnom Penh’s namesake Wat Phnom hill Wednesday before embarking down National Road 5 on a more than 200 kilometer journey by foot to Pursat province to promote social justice and morality. ...

Cambodia has netted more than $15 million from gold production as of end-December, which has yielded over 5.3 tonnes of dore bars – a semi-finished product that is smelted at a mine, usually at about 90 per cent purity – since the first commercial gold ...

Prime Minister has congratulated General Department of Taxation (GDT) chief Kong Vibol on a job well done after the agency last year collected revenues equivalent to 122.54 per cent of the target set by the annual financial management law, in the “highest surplus of all ...

A key study on a proposed waterway link from the Bassac River to the sea in the Kampot-Kep region has been completed, the transport ministry reported, revealing plans for the project to connect to a “seaport” in Kampot province, igniting hopes for a solid pop ...

On 02 February 2023, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) and the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC) issued a notification on the provision of a temporary Bac II certificate for the exam session on 05 December 2022 with the QR Code standard ...

The Bangkok-based Cambodia Business Council (CBC) and local Innovation and Development Investors Association (IDI) have joined forces to engage with and attract more investors as well as to improve Cambodian exports regionally and globally. ...

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) notices issued in January reveal that it has greenlit 10 new projects worth nearly $100 million, all in the manufacturing industry: eight involved in textiles and two in light bulbs. ...

On 27 January 2023, the National Bank of Cambodia issued a joint Statement between the National Bank of Cambodia and the General Commissariat of National Police.The National Bank of Cambodia and the General Commissariat of National Police request that citizens use the official financial services ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) updates an existing dataset on “Urban land reclassification”. This dataset contains information regarding​​ the establishment of land as state public properties and the reclassification to state private properties of some area in Phnom Penh, Kandal, Takeo, Kampong Chhnang, Kampong Speu, Pursat, ...

The government continued the trend of giving state institutions and private individuals tracts of land on Phnom Penh’s Boeng Tamok lake, handing over 70 hectares to state utilities supplier Electricite du Cambodge. ...

The Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) has signed an agreement with the Finnish Red Cross (FRC) on a programme to promote humanitarian and community health activities in four provinces. ...

Indian and Cambodian officials on January 30 planted 70 trees at Jayavarman-Norodom Phnom Kulen National Park in Siem Reap, in a ceremony held to commemorate the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two nations and to inspire people to care for the forest. ...

An inter-ministerial committee tasked with combating fisheries crimes at Tonle Sap Lake has issued a five-point action plan designed to preserve it as a natural resource for long-term public interests. ...