Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Japan reached more than $1 billion in the first half of this year, up 16 per cent year-on-year, according to data from the Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro). Cambodia’s exports to Japan in the first half of this year grew ...

The Labour Ministry has reported a sharp drop in the number of strikes and demonstrations involving garment workers last year. The ministry released its annual report on Tuesday and stated that garment workers went on strike 47 times in 2018, a 51.5 percent drop when ...

A university student in Siem Reap province was detained and sent to court yesterday after allegedly posting a death threat against Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng on the social networking site Facebook.Tao Savoeun, a 26-year-old graduate of the University of South-East Asia, located in Siem ...

Work has resumed on a controversial $3.5 billion dam across the Mekong River in Laos, its Thai developer said on Thursday, contradicting Laotian assurances it had been suspended following protests over its environmental impact. Laos agreed in December to suspend the Xayaburi dam project and said ...

King Norodom Sihamoni on Wednesday appealed once again to the 55 elected lawmakers of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) to attend the first session of the National Assembly to be held on September 23. “I asked His Excellencies, and Her Excellencies to attend the first ...

President of the National Assembly of Cambodia Heng Samrin said on Monday that the Cambodian side ” regrets” that activists set Vietnamese flag on fire in protests in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh. Heng Samrin made the statement while meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung ...

Thirteen provinces in the Mekong Delta region are facing a shortage in physicians, prompting delegates to raise concerns over the issue at a conference on August 7 on healthcare specialists and staff training. They called on Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy (CTUMP) to ...

Disaster Management Working Group meeting will be held on September 14, 2018. AGENDA:1. Discussion and getting consensus on DMWG ‘s Recommendations to draft MOU on Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Partnership2. Update Damange/Losses/Emergency Response from all member to Thanh Hoa Province in term of Flooding recentlyMore details ...

The National Assembly unanimously approved the Draft Law on Construction on Monday. It is meant to strengthen the management of building projects and consists of 22 chapters and 111 articles. ...

Two children died on Friday afternoon in Kompong Thom province after attempting to open a rocket-propelled grenade they found near their house with an ax, police said on Sunday. ...

Customs authorities seized nearly 1,800 smuggled Huawei smartphones during a raid on Monday on a private residence in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district, a customs official said yesterday. ...

Police burned nearly 45,000 marijuana plants growing on public forest land in Takeo province on Tuesday and Wednesday after they were tipped off by local villagers, police said Thursday. ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng called on immigration officials to finish counting and collecting information on all foreign nationals living in the Kingdom by July at the latest.   ...

A British tourist was seriously injured on both legs yesterday after being gored by a water buffalo while walking through a forest to visit a beach on Koh Rong Samloem. ...

Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Sbong Sarath will resign on April 17 to transition into a position on the provincial council of Prey Veng following this May’s council elections, he confirmed yesterday. ...

Indonesian authorities on Wednesday rescued 17 Cambodian migrants enslaved aboard two Thai vessels illegally fishing the archipelago nation’s waters, according to a statement issued by Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday. ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday expressed his deepest sympathy to China and members of the bereaved families in a passenger ship mishap in central China’ s Hubei province on Monday. ...

The storm that swept through Phnom Penh on Saturday evening resulted in the city’s highest rainfall on record, the municipal government said in a statement posted to its Facebook page Sunday. ...

Police in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet city exchanged gunfire on Monday’s night with three suspected thieves on, leaving one suspect died at the scene. ​ ...

The Education Ministry on Tuesday oversaw the groundbreaking of a $4 million high school that will be built on land that was once the municipal dump in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. ...