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Prime Minister Hun Sen urges an end to “baseless” foreign accusations surrounding the development of the Kingdom’s Ream Naval Base, as the US has consistently suggested that the base is being expanded to accommodate a Chinese military presence. ...

Sihanoukville has been selected as one city of three spots regionwide to take part in the Smart Cities Innovation Lab initiative to transform into a smart city, with a call for startups to implement new solutions. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has lauded the huge share of energy generated from renewable power sources of the country’s installed electricity capacity, saying the government prioritises renewable energy investment. ...

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) during a meeting on Tuesday announced a work plan for this year with an emphasis on developing a system that will make paying taxes easy and evasion difficult. ...

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) has collected $539 million as tax income in the first two months of this year, representing 15 percent of the national budget plan 2023. ...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved a $43 million project to enhance the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers, local communities and other value chain actors of the Northern Tonle Sap Basin to cope with the increasing threats of climate change in the Kingdom. ...

The US remained the biggest market for Cambodia with a share of 34.4 percent even though the Kingdom’s exports to the country decreased by 20.2 percent to reach $1.12 billion in the first two months of the year compared to the same period in 2022, ...

The Ministry of Environment and Preah Vihear Provincial Administration called on the authorities in villages and communes near the Phnom Tnaot-Phnom Pok Wildlife Sanctuary to increase their cooperation with forest rangers. ...

Cambodian Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said on Tuesday that he hoped the China-Laos Railway would help bring more international tourists to the kingdom. ...

The trade volume between Cambodia and China reached $1.7 billion in the first two months of 2023, down 15.6 percent year-on-year, according to a report from the General Department of Customs and Excise. ...

The most challenging task facing Wildlife Alliance is dealing with encroachment in the Cardamom mountain forest by high-ranking officials, its founder and CEO, Suwanna Gauntlett claimed. ...

Cambodia has not relented on cracking down on human or sex trafficking, illegal detention, torture, illegal online gambling and other related crimes, General Khieu Sopheak, Ministry of Interior spokesman said yesterday. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has stated that Cambodia will not raise electricity prices – despite neighbouring countries doing so. ...

The European Union (EU) plans to deploy observers for the upcoming National Election to monitor liberal and multi-party democracy in the country. ...

The government has issued a sub-decree which will allocate over $4 million to fund meals in more than 400 schools across 10 provinces in a bid to curb dropouts this year. ...

Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia Plc (CGCC) reportedly issued a total of 1,155 Letters of Guarantee (LG) for loans worth $104.9 million equivalent as of February 28 – up 13 per cent year-to-date – as part of its mission to improve financial inclusion among small- ...

Cambodia’s fresh banana exports to regional markets in the first quarter of the year have improved compared to 2022, mainly due to the lifting of Covid-19 lockdowns in China – the Kingdom’s biggest market – and a reduction in shipping costs, said Longmate Agriculture CEO ...

Minister of Environment Say Samal on March 13 encouraged the garment and other textile-related industries to step up clean-energy and green efforts to better position the Kingdom to meet key government greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation commitments, as a prominent EU-backed programme registers a record-breaking 50th ...

Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities are running a series of training courses on water rescue for the life guards of each of the province’s tourist beaches. With the assistance of the Thai embassy, the workshops began on March 13. ...

Cambodia sees a fall in exports in the first two months of 2023, down 8.6 percent compared to the same period last year. It is, however, not a worrying sign, the Commerce Ministry said. ...

Kampong Speu provincial governor Vei Samnang has pledged to attract more investment to his province. Samnang announced that he would lead a provincial delegation to Hong Kong later this month to discuss business opportunities in the Kampong Speu. ...

Just 38 indigenous communities out of 455 have received communal land titles since the government first made them available in 2009, with indigenous activists and rights groups bemoaning the notoriously slow process. ...

Prach Chan, chairman of the National Election Committee (NEC), flew to France yesterday evening with 10 senior officials to gain experience and learn about the electoral system to improve the electoral process in Cambodia. ...

Cambodia’s public debt is still evaluated as controllable with a low risk of distress despite the country’s economy having been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and other external factors. ...