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Manufacturing as a share of output has peaked in most developing East Asia and Pacific economies except for Cambodia and Vietnam, the World Bank says. ...

Prominent telecoms operator CAMGSM Plc, a subsidiary of locally-owned conglomerate Royal Group of Companies Ltd that trades as Cellcard, plans to raise about $20 million through an initial public offering (IPO) on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX), expected in May. ...

Siem Reap governor Tea Seiha said that in the past five years, the province has registered a total of 48,476 land titles. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen describes climate change as the single worst threat humanity faces today, predicting that – contrary to popular belief – the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict will end eventually through compromises. ...

Dismissing “biased and groundless” international   human rights reports that came out last year about the situation in the Kingdom, the Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) released a document explanating what exactly has had happened in the country. ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday that progress has been made in Cambodia in the protection of child rights. ...

Cambodia urged the cooperation of Australia to start direct flights between both countries to attract more tourists, investors, students and travellers. ...

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) is rolling out a pilot of its Social Health Insurance scheme for tuk-tuk drivers in the capital in April as part of a move to extend social security coverage to the nation’s informal workers. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday reiterated the importance of increasing the number of technicians and skilled labourers to attract new high-end technology investment projects to Cambodia. ...

The National Assembly yesterday adopted a draft law to ratify the Cambodian-Lao Border Demarcation Treaty following an agreement reached between both nations on the results of a joint inspection of 86% of the border line. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has once again called on the people not to panic over the recent warning of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank over the risks of a global recession. ...

AFD has pledged to pump its largest amount of funding to date into Cambodia in the form of $435 million to fund a raft of projects, with priority given to water and sanitation, agriculture, energy and vocational training sectors. ...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister, Hun Sen, has outlined the government’s new strategies for the development of the agriculture sector to create the fifth economic pole in the northeast part of the country ...

Around 100 villagers representing thousands of families from seven Siem Reap communities facing land conflicts delivered petitions to relevant ministries in Phnom Penh, requesting land titles and solutions from provincial and national authorities this week. ...

Cambodia formally exported 8.6 million tonnes of agricultural products to 74 markets last year worth nearly $5 billion, up 7.8 per cent from the 7.9 million tonnes booked in 2021, as agriculture contributed 22.2 per cent of the Kingdom’s 2022 gross domestic product (GDP), according ...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries recorded 841 instances of encroachment on protected land in 2022, imposing fines in 250 cases and sending 591 of them to court, according to its report. ...

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has announced the launch of a pilot project that will provide social security to the capital’s self-employed tuk-tuk drivers. The drivers will be eligible for public health insurance from April 1 onwards. ...

Hun Manet, a future prime ministerial candidate for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), said that strengthening the capacity of the healthcare system is necessary, but that the public also have a duty to prevent disease. ...

Senior Official of Cambodia has inspired all stakeholders to continue working hard to attain $15-billion worth of Cambodia-Thailand bilateral trade volume set by the two countries’ Prime Ministers. ...

The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications will strengthen mobile phone and internet services in provinces as the work on improving the quality of such services in Phnom Penh is underway. ...

The feasibility study for Cambodia’s third expressway linking Phnom Penh capital to Siem Reap cultural province will start soon. ...

Collaboration between governments, private sector entities, civil society actors and other development partners is a “must” for Cambodia’s digital socio-economic transformation and to unlock new sources of growth, telecoms ministry secretary of state Sok Puthyvuth said on March 29. ...

Chinese state-owned China Road and Bridge Corp (CRBC) has been authorised by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport to conduct a formal, more in-depth study on the proposed Phnom Penh-Siem Reap Expressway, as the government seeks to spur transportation and tourism between the two ...

Minister of Interior Sar Kheng warned the authorities to be wary of any untoward phenomena that could disrupt the July’s national election process, noting that certain extremists had caused issues in 2013. ...