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With agriculture still the mainstay of its economy, Cambodia is seeking to reform rural communities in partnership with Korea to shore up residents’ livelihoods and boost grain exports. The Southeast Asian country is seeking to follow in the footsteps of the “Saemaeul Undong,” or New Community ...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has affirmed the government’s determination to push forward the memorandums of understanding (MoUs) recently signed with Cambodia, particularly the one seeking to eradicate human trafficking. Speaking of his official visit to Cambodia during October 30-31, Gen Prayut stated in his weekly televised ...

A campaign organised by Cambodians has led the country’s first vice-president of the National Assembly to urge Australia to back down from its bid to resettle refugees there. Kem Sokha said in a letter to the Australian Ambassador to Cambodia, Alison Burrows, that the deal to ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen asked China to continue its support for Cambodia’s economic development by providing loan from US$ 500 to US$ 700 million per year to Cambodia and open its market for the Cambodian agricultural products. ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will attend the 25th ASEAN Summit and related meetings to be held on Nov. 12 to Nov. 13 in Nay Pyi Taw, capital city of Myanmar, the Cambodian foreign ministry said in a press release on Saturday. Besides the 25th ...

A Cambodia government-appointed Labour Advisory Committee (LAC) may decide on a new minimum monthly wage for garment sector workers when it meets next week, just-style has been told. The committee is due to meet on Wednesday (12 November), when it will discuss whether to increase the ...

China will keep deepening comprehensive strategic partnership with Cambodia, Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao said here Friday. China is willing to maintain the tradition of high-level contact, carry forward pragmatic cooperation in various areas and share governance experience with Cambodia, Li told Cambodian Prime Minister Hun ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday that China and Cambodia should continue and develop their precious traditional friendship to advance their relations and form a community of common destiny. China supports Prime Minister Hun Sen and the Cambodian People’s Party to lead the country in ...

Around 3.2 million foreign tourists visited Cambodia in the first nine months of the year, a five percent rise from 3.05 million over the same period last year. The majority of tourists came from Vietnam, China, South Korea, Laos and Thailand, Xinhua news agency reported. ...

Nine sun bear cubs have been rescued in the first 10 months of this year, according to the Phnom Penh office of NGO Wildlife Alliance. The cubs, some as young as two weeks, were saved by government rangers and the NGO’s Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team (WRRT), ...

The National Assembly’s anti-corruption commission submitted a letter to the Phnom Penh Municipal Hall last week requesting an update on the resolution of the long-running dispute between evicted Borei Keila villagers and development firm Phan Imex. ...

Police and Forestry Administration officials in Banteay Meanchey province confiscated more than 120 pieces of illegally logged luxury-grade wood in two separate operations on Tuesday and Wednesday, officials said Thursday. In one case, authorities on Wednesday found 75 pieces of beng and thnong wood inside a ...

A new wetland protected area may be implemented in Battambang province following talks between scientists, Asian governments and conservation groups held in Siem Reap this week. The message seems to have been heard, at least by the Ministry of Environment, which yesterday said it would ...

The French textile and garment association (Evalliance) has entered into an agreement with the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) to promote the Cambodian textile and garment industry. ...

Two of the biggest real estate lenders in Cambodia and Singapore this week reported big movements in housing loans in their respective domestic markets. Cambodia’s Acleda Bank saw housing loans jump by 22 percent in the first quarter, year-on-year, and attributed this handsome growth to better ...

The Thai Ministry of Tourism and Sports is set to form a joint working team with Cambodia in a bid to devise measures for promoting cross-border tourism. Tourism and Sports Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul disclosed that the ministry and related officials from Cambodia are preparing to ...

The director of Cambodia’s election reform movement asked the U.S. government on Wednesday to make any financial aid to the country conditional on the implementation of planned electoral reforms. The request by Koul Panha, director of the Committee on Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) ...

Cambodia plans to open bids for concessions on 19 onshore oil and gas exploration blocks to promote investment in the sector, a senior official at the country’s Ministry of Mines and Energy said on Wednesday. The Southeast Asian country is also keen to talk with international ...

Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) has asked Rong Chhun, president of the Cambodian Confederation of Union, to remove his statement issued on October 28, saying that the statement is not true. ...

Cathay Pacific Airways has announced the extension of its freighter network with the launch of new services to Cambodian capital city Phnom Penh. ...

More than 100 demonstrators continued to stage an anti-eviction protest in front of Koh Kong province’s city hall after a jailed community leader was denied bail yesterday. ...

Since a nationwide census of foreigners began in August, fines totalling nearly $200,000 have been paid into government coffers, an immigration official told the Post yesterday. “According to the law, the immigration police can fine them 200,000 riel [about $49] to 500,000 riel and this ...

Officials from the Ministry of Mines and Energy checked on a quarry in Kampot province for the second time yesterday amid allegations it is operating illegally thanks to local corruption. The quarry, which is owned by husband and wife Hok Chhenda and Tep Sokha, was ...

As about 60 percent of the tens of thousands of students who took the national high school exam—some twice—this year cope with failure, Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron said this week the dismal grades would only have a “minor impact” on university admissions and jobseekers. ...