Khmer Times

Child-protection NGOs and government officials are urging tourists and residents of Cambodia to stop giving money to street children because these well-intentioned gestures can have devastating effects. ...

A leaked copy of the contentious draft law on associations and NGOs is fuelling fears among its many critics that its purpose is to stifle criticism of the government by giving it broad powers to shut down both foreign and domestic associations and NGOs. ...

The Labor Ministry on Friday announced that formal negotiations to set a new minimum wage for the country’s all-important garment sector—now at $128 a month—will begin in July, reviving the same schedule for talks it used with unions and employers for the first time last ...

The government may recognize the more than 100 Montagnard asylum seekers in the capital as refugees, a senior official at the Interior Ministry has said. ...

Municipal officials and the police have started identifying and registering the city’s previously unregulated tuk-tuk and moto drivers, following a constant flow of complaints about them from tourists and business owners, officials say. ...

Cambodia National Rescue Party Chief of Information Meach Sovannara will return to the United States for medical treatment following a car accident last week, he told Khmer Times yesterday. ...

The recent ban on dredging sand from the Mekong has resulted in some people resorting to more innovative measures to obtain landfill. On the island of Koh Oknha Tey, also known as Silk Island, people pay from 7,000 to 10,000 riels per cart-load for delivery ...

The spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Kiev Sopheak, said that there are still ghost workers in government offices, even though the Anti-Corruption Unit cracked down on this practice last year. ...

Cambodia will begin to discuss the annual increase of monthly minimum wage for the garment and footwear industry for 2016 in July, according to a Labor Ministry’ s statement issued late Friday. ...

Meach Sovannara, the CNRP lawmaker who was let out of jail on bail in May, was involved in a car accident on National Road 5 on Thursday. ...

Cambodia welcomed some 1.6 million foreign tourists in the first four months of 2015, a 4.5 percent rise compared with the same period last year, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said Friday. ...

Land prices behind Ocheateal and Otres beaches have – in some areas – doubled over the last year, surpassing their previous peak in 2008, according to realtors there. ...

The three-star Toyoko Inn hotel is set to open next week, filling the gap in the capital’s budget-business hotel market. ...

The UK Government pledged to increase the number of scholarships to Cambodian students. They also promised to give more assistance to the Khmer Rouge Court trials and help solve the mine problem. ...

Cambodia’s central bank is seeking to promote the use of the riel and wean the Kingdom’s economy off its dependence on the US dollar, a senior banking official said on Tuesday. Speaking at a luncheon organized by the British Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (BritCham), Chea ...

Researching Angkor’s complex underground irrigation system, the construction of a new tourist hospitality center, and the creation of a strategic plan to preserve the Kulen area were among the topics discussed at last week’s International Coordinating Committee for the Safeguarding and Development of the Historic ...

In the last three months, three Cambodian ministers have visited Stockholm. Dozens of mid-career Cambodians travel yearly to Sweden for short term training programs. And Sweden doles out $25 million in foreign aid annually, earning this nation of 10 million people a seat at the ...

Every day, 35 Cambodian children die before their fifth birthday. Their premature deaths are caused mainly by such preventable and treatable diseases as diarrhea or pneumonia. ...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports denied that they allowed stakeholders and companies to charge fees for students to apply for scholarships. ...

The National Assembly of Cambodia on Monday adopted a draft law on disaster management, aiming to effectively control any natural or man-made disasters through preparedness, mitigation, and timely response. ...

The Cambodian government is trying to weather criticism over the lack of transparency concerning the proposed draft law on NGOs that is now in the hands of the National Assembly. But another important draft law regulating trade unions is being heavily criticized for violating international ...

Far from urban comforts and civilization, Belgian photographer Cédric Delannoy spent three years in remote Ratanakiri indigenous villages. After hunting for forest crickets with local children, washing his clothes in a stream and attending village meetings, Mr. Delannoy became part of a community that would ...

Cambodia exported 243,025 tons of milled rice in the first five months of this year, representing a 63.9 percent increase on the 148,262 tons recorded the year before, according to a report from the Secretariat of One Window Service for Rice Export Formality. ...

Thailand has invested $100 million in Cambodia’s construction sector, according to the latest figures issued by the Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. ...