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The French Development Agency (AFD) has provided an additional €2 million ($2.19 million) to the ECOMORE II project, to assist Cambodia and the regions direct response to the COVID-19 epidemic. ...

Some 99.7 percent of the total 10 million workforces in Cambodia have jobs, according to a message of Prime Minister Hun Sen on the 134th International Labour Day. ...

Acting Head of State Say Chhum yesterday signed the draft law on “State of Emergency” into legislation after the Constitutional Council of Cambodia unanimously approved it earlier this week, a decree obtained yesterday evening revealed. ...

Cambodia’s exports of garment and footwear products are expected to drop from 50 to 60 percent due to the impact of COVID-19 crisis during the second trimester of 2020. ...

Some 1,000 luxury tree saplings have been planted along National Road 6A from Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar roundabout to the boundary of Kandal province. ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Prak Sokhonn received a courtesy call from Ermenegildo Kupa Lopes, the newly appointed Ambassador of Timor-Leste to the Kingdom of Cambodia yesterday in a bid to boost ties and relations between the two nations. ...

Environment Minister Say Samal on Tuesday said upon inspection on the conservation work in Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, authorities reported the sanctuary is home to 60 species of rare and critically endangered animals and 25 species of carnivorous animals. The place was also recognised for ...

APSARA Authority has approved the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to start the process of renovating the eastern gate of Ta Prohm Temple in Siem Reap province. ...

Hundreds of garment factories in Cambodia and elsewhere in Asia are facing serious financial problems because clothing brands have either canceled their orders or stopped placing new ones over the past several weeks.  ...

Cambodia exported 1,115,365 tonnes of cassava to the international market in the first three months of this year, inching up around 1.6 per cent from 1,097,803 in the year-ago period, said a report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ...

Minister of Environment Say Sam Al has urged relevant stakeholders to take part in protecting and conserving natural resources in wildlife sanctuaries. This, he said, will facilitate carbon credit sales to raise money to support local communities. ...

Local livestock numbers have been reported to be on the rise, showing that local production will soon be able to increase supply to local markets, which currently still depend strongly on imports. ...

Renaissance Minerals (Cambodia) Ltd, a subsidiary of Australia-listed Emerald Resources NL, said it has raised more funds during the first quarter of the year, with more development activities towards gold production next year. ...

Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol, in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, has issued an action plan for wastewater management. ...

Forest activists conducted a 10-day forest crimes investigation in the Prey Lang region and claimed to have found more than 200 workers camping in five different locations cutting down about 2,000 trees. Authorities have denied the claim. ...

The update was provided by Veng Sakhon, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, who said that Cambodia can now export its lemongrass. ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday held a meeting to review a draft law on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) in a bid to curb money laundering in the Kingdom. The move is motivated by the global money-laundering watchdog Financial Action ...

L.Y. Footwear (Cambodia) Co., Ltd. has been given the green light to invest in the manufacturing of all forms of footwear, according to a press release of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called for higher level China-Cambodia relations after the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

The United States, through the US Agency for International Development, yesterday committed a $1.5 million aid to the Ministry of Health to help in the Kingdom’s efforts to mitigate the spread of coronavirus. The donation is the latest COVID-19 assistance from the US, with its ...

On April 25, 2020, the Chinese Air Force transport plane, loaded with anti-pandemic materials, landed at Phnom Penh Airport again, bringing deep affection and good wishes from the 1.4 billion Chinese people and 2 million Chinese People’s Liberation Army officers and soldiers. ...

The Central Bank has reported that the total value in the leasing industry was recorded at  1,169 billion KHR ($287million), an increase of about  63 percent in 2019 compared with the year before. ...

The inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into the real estate sector in Cambodia was estimated at more than $437.3 million in 2019, according to data from the just-issued National Bank of Cambodia’s (NBC) Annual Banking Supervision Report 2019. ...

Cambodia is closer to inking trade deals with developed economies despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Seang Thay, a spokesperson at the Ministry of Commerce, told Khmer Times yesterday that the free-trade agreement (FTA) negotiations between Cambodia, South Korea, China and ...