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The Battambang provincial governor has ordered the authorities to close sewers in the Sangke River after monks posted a video showing toxic wastewater flowing into it and allegedly affecting nearby residents’ health. ...

On the occasion of the 109th International Women’s Day, Prime Minister Hun Sen called for more women in leadership positions, better law enforcement to speed up the trials involving them, and improved education for their next generation in the Kingdom. ...

NGO Forum on Cambodia issued a report on Wednesday which said that from 2000 to 2017, some one million houses were seriously affected by climate change disasters. Yet, government spending on the issue remained relatively limited. ...

People from two villages in Sen Monorom commune, O’Raing district, in Mondulkiri province urged the authorities to prioritise a land dispute involving a former district council official who bought some plots but then allegedly proceeded to grab others belonging to people from nearby villages. ...

The Ministry of Mines and Energy on Sunday announced that two companies have been granted initial approval to carry out copper exploration in the Kingdom. ...

The government has ordered the closure of all public and private schools and several vocational training centres in Siem Reap town after a 38-year-old Cambodian man was confirmed Covid-19 positive on Saturday. ...

The garment and footwear industries in the Kingdom have been given a new lease of life, thanks to the arrival of raw materials from China. ...

As fears of Covid-19 drive people to stockpile food, some fear supermarkets may run out of essential commodities like rice. ...

A group of 160 poor families from the Bunong indigenous community in Mondulkiri province’s Pech Chreada district have filed a complaint against their representative, accusing him of selling land earmarked for them as part of a social land concession. ...

Cambodia and Laos yesterday renewed their commitment to cooperate on border security issues, including drug trafficking. ...

JICA’s irrigation rehabilitation project in the provinces of Kampong Chhnang, Pursat and Battambang is about 90 percent as it is set to conclude in the middle of this year. ...

The government has sent a list of names for a proposed Cabinet reshuffle for the National Assembly to approve during a special plenary session next week.​ ...

More than 800 garment workers in Kandal’s Khsach Kandal district protested on Wednesday to demand their last wages and severance pay after the company suspended its operation due to the shortage of raw material.​ ...

Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday placed a former director of the Preah Sihanouk provincial land management department in pre-trial detention after he was charged with abuse of power and committing forestry crimes during his two-year stint in office. ...

Officials from the Ministry of Public Works and Transport yesterday urged the public and relevant authorities to jointly cooperate in the reduction of road traffic fatalities and injuries in the Kingdom in a bid to meet the 2030 global road safety agenda. ...

The draft law on transfer of convicted inmate treaty between Cambodia and Vietnam will be debated at the National Assembly’s special sitting next week, the first-ever treaty the Kingdom has with a foreign country. ...

TST Group Holding, the Taipei-listed major textile producer, has announced plans to expand its business operations in Cambodia to assist in the current lack of textiles imports because of the Novel Coronavirus. ...

Despite no new cases of COVID-19 reported in Cambodia since January, the government is planning new measures to tackle the financial effect the virus continues to have on the country.   ...

The state-run Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Bank has been confirmed to bring forward their opening date to earlier this year than previously planned, stated a senior government official yesterday at the Council of Ministers. ...

Cambodia’s health authorities have put 44 people under quarantine for having contact with a Japanese man reportedly diagnosed with COVID-19, said a Health Ministry’s Communicable Disease Control Department statement on Thursday evening.​ ...

About 16.1 million people in Cambodia have subscribed to the Internet by 2019, up 20 percent compared to the year before, a spokesman for the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) said here on Thursday. ...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) has encouraged banks and money-deposit taking institution (MDIs) to continue disbursing loans and possibly suspend interest for businesses impacted by the Covid-19 outbreak, especially in the tourism industry. ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs with its Bangladeshi counterpart, announced plans of signing an agreement to grant the introduction of direct flights from Dakha to Phnom Penh to boost trade volume and tourism. ...

The inauguration of the brand new 180 kilometers long Cardamom Road, National Road Number 55 will take place on Monday, 9th of March, 2020. ...