The Concession Has Been Subjected To Reduction(S) In Size Although It Had Been Cancelled Previously. Publicly Available Information on Land Area Cut From ELCs Does Not Include Maps Or Spatial Data Of Excisions. Thus, ODC Cannot Present Land Area Cut In Shapes. As A Result, ...

he Fisheries Administration has cracked down on a total of 599 fishing offences in the first three months of the year, including 42 sea fishing offences. This figure is down by 88 cases from the same period last year, said its report obtained by The ...

Charges against outspoken Adhoc head of monitoring Chan Soveth are baseless, politically motivated and threaten to undermine human rights work in Cambodia, a coalition of NGOs said yesterday. Soveth, who has been summonsed to court on August 24 over the vague charge of assisting “specific perpetrators”, ...

Authorities in Phnom Penh are expecting at least 100,000 people to line the city’s streets today as the body of King Father Norodom Sihanouk arrives back in Cambodia and embarks on a 10-km procession from the airport to the Royal Palace. The return of the retired King—who died ...

Environment officers said foul play is not suspected in the death of a gaur on Saturday at Kulen Prum Tep Wildlife Sanctuary in Oddar Meanchey province.​ There was no evidence that it died from being trapped or shot. only its skeleton remained, as found by ...

Thai authorities repatriated 234 people to Cambodia on December 5-6 via the O’Bei Choan border checkpoint in Banteay Meanchey province’s O’Chrov district, according to an official report released on December 8. The number included 120 women and girls. ...

On 21 April 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and InternatiOnal CooperatiOn issued a press release On the humanitarian assistance of USD 300,000 of the Government of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam provided to the Royal Government of Cambodia whose aims to join hands ...

On 08 February 2021, the Ministry of Health announced the vaccinatiOn of the COVID-19 vaccine program. The vaccinatiOn will officially commence On 10 February 2021 at some public hospitals such as Calematte, Preah Ang DuOng Hospital, Khmer Soviet Friendship Hospital, and the NatiOnal Pediatric Hospital.  ...

On 23 April 2021, the AssociatiOn of Banks in Cambodia released an announcement On the normal operatiOn of banking and microfinance services in the Kingdom of Cambodia. Some microfinances and banking agents in the lockdown areas are also in the operatiOn of providing financial services ...

On 22 December 2021, the Ministry of Commerce issued a press release On the entry the RegiOnal Comprehensive EcOnomic Partnership Agreement (RCEP).The RCEP Agreement is an ASEAN initiative and has been announced to begin negotiatiOns in 2022 in Phnom Penh, the capital of the Kingdom ...

On 08 April 2022, Ministry of Foreign Affair and InternatiOnal CooperatiOn has posted a press release On the outcomes of the meeting between His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister PRAK SokhOnn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and InternatiOnal CooperatiOn, and Ms. Pauline Tamesis, the Resident Coordinator of ...

Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers Mao Monivann and Son Chhay visited a disputed area on the border between Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district and Vietnam on 30 November and urged the government to take action over several ponds allegedly dug by the Vietnamese in Cambodian territory. Keep reading ...

The Finance Ministry wants to revamp the structure of the excise tax on fuels to base it on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to protect the environment. Finance Minister Uttama Savanayana delegated the Fiscal Policy Office and the Excise ...

No breakthrough was reported on 28 September as leaders of 18 of Myanmar’s armed ethnic groups failed to resolve differences over how many would sign a nationwide ceasefire agreement with the government next month. Pu Zing Cung, general secretary of the Chin National Front and a member ...

Myanmar are one of the two largest recipients of humanitarian aid to Southeast Asia and is the fastest growing aid recipient in the region, speakers at an aid conference said. U Tun Tun Naing, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Planning and Finance, said that the ...

  It’s now six years old, but few know what the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) does. It has been called toothless, though its creation was seen as a step forward given the principle of non-interference in the 10-member Association of South-east Asian Nations ...

Hong Kong stepped up efforts on Wednesday to clean up a massive palm oil spill, with authorities scooping up more than 90 tonnes of foul-smelling, styrofoam-like clumps in one of the worst environmental disasters to blight the territory’s waters. Dead fish, shells, rocks, plastic bottles ...

The fate of two Cambodian journalists accused of espionage — Uon Chhin and Yeang Sothearin — hangs in the balance as their trial resumes in Phnom Penh today, although the charges against them are based on absurd grounds and flimsy evidence. The bogus case against the ...

The Joint Standing Committee on Commerce, Industry and Banking (JSCCIB) believes the banking sector will delay raising the interest rate in line with the Bank of Thailand’s anticipated gradual policy rate hike.Under the policy rate hike trend in the second half of this year, banks ...

More than 500 homes were flooded in Kampot province’s Toek Chhou district on 16 September morning after the gates of the Kamchay Hydropower Dam were opened, according to officials, with the chiefs of two of three affected communes saying they were given little or no advance ...