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The Ministry of Mines and Energy has given the nod to two companies to continue their exploration licence approval processes for some 207sq km of gold-polymetallic mining areas in Tbong Khmum and Ratanakkiri provinces. The areas are 107.10sq km in the Memot area in Tbong ...

The Cambodia-Australia Consumer Protection Partnership will launch in 2021 with Australia having agreed to station a consumer protection technical official in the Kingdom following a request by the Ministry of Commerce. This will allow the sharing of expertise and experience towards the enhancement of work ...

The government has decided to extend the stamp duty tax exemption deadline for property worth less than $70,000 from January to December 2021. The official announcement, released this week, is intended to boost the economy by encouraging more property transactions.  In its announcement, the government ...

The two new projects, with a total investment capital of $6.4 million, will be located in Khan Pursenchey, Phnom Penh capital, and Samrong district, Takeo province, pointed out the CDC in an announcement issued this afternoon. The newly-approved projects are expected to create some 2,571 ...

Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, once again ordered local authorities and all stakeholders to carry out the fourth round of cash relief programme in a proper, precise, transparent, accountable and fair manner. ...

The Constitutional Council of Cambodia (CCC) has upheld the decision by the National Election Committee (NEC) in relation to complaints about names deleted from the voter registration list, filed by the League for Democracy Party (LDP). ...

Fisheries production in Cambodia this year is expected to clock in at 936,300 tonnes, up 3.06 per cent from the 908,508 tonnes logged in for the entire year 2019, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery’s Fisheries Administration. ...

Ministry of Health spokeswoman Or Vandine addressed the new mutation of the Covid-19 virus that was found in England, saying that research was underway in multiple countries. ...

The Cambodian government has projected the country’s per capita gross domestic product (GDP) will reach $1,771 by the end of 2021, up from $1,600 this year, an anticipated increase of 10.6 percent. ...

A member of a fishing community found the carcass of an older female dolphin in Sambok village in Kratie province’s Chitr Borei district on December 22, about 500m from the Kampi dolphin site. ...

Sathapana Bank Plc received a $50 million loan from Proparco, a subsidiary of Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) to increase lending by the bank to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and women entrepreneurs in Cambodia. ...

The ministry of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries’ potato production in Mondulkiri, a northeastern province of Cambodia, has been hampered by a lack of seed, a provincial senior official revealed. ...

Representatives from the Cambodian government, the German development bank KfW, Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) and the European Union (EU) have signed agreements for the financing of the RID4CAM (Rural Infrastructure Development for Cambodia) project, which aims to develop rural infrastructure in the central plain ...

The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Administration and the O’Oknha Heng commune authority are investigating a land dispute involving 500 families living in O’Oknha Heng and O’Ta Sek villages that recently erupted into violence. In their initial conclusion, the authorities said the villagers are not squatters as ...

Cambodian Keo Romiet mangoes remain on target to be directly exported to the Chinese market from early next year after the economic powerhouse penned an agreement in June that set up a 500,000 tonne quota for the Kingdom’s widely-available fruit. ...

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport plans to finalise a draft on “Framework Agreement” for the Phnom Penh Logistics Centre (PPLC) development project soon, leading to a signing with the developer, according to minister Sun Chanthol. ...

The Cambodia Securities Exchange- (CSX) listed Phnom Penh SEZ Plc (PPSP) on December 21 broke ground on a new rental warehouse which is expected to be operational in July next year, according to a senior official of the industrial zone operator. ...

Cambodia will partner with 17 other countries around the world to train teachers, educate students and develop local expertise in fields and careers related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (known collectively as STEM). ...

The Central Banks of Cambodia and  Laos have vowed to strengthen bilateral cooperation and relation on the development of the financial and economic sectors and to build friendship and cooperation between the two nations. ...

The Ministry of Health has claimed that as many as 10 to 15 per cent of recovered Covid-19 patients could potentially suffer a spontaneous relapse which would again render the virus communicable. ...

The Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment, through Shenzhen Spark Co Ltd, provided equipment for reducing carbon dioxide emissions with a total value of $3 million to the Ministry of Environment. ...

The French government, through the French Development Agency (AFD), has provided two credit agreements worth €75 million ($91 million) to Cambodia to support sustainable agricultural and rural development, as well as climate change fight in Cambodia. ...

The Kampot provincial authorities will grant land titles for 2,500 plots covering 6,649ha in Preah Monivong Bokor National Park to local residents who applied for official occupation and usage permits, according to the provincial Department of Environment director Suy Thea. ...

Minister of Interior Sar Kheng stressed to authorities of provinces bordering Thailand that they must strictly enforce instructions from Prime Minister Hun Sen concerning Covid-19 preventive measures following detection of a new outbreak of the disease in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province. ...