The EU Commission on Wednesday announced The partial withdrawal of The Everything But Arms (EBA) scheme, citing a serious and systematic violation by Cambodia of principles in The four core human and labour rights. The suspension affects one-fifth or €1 billion ($1.08 billion) of Cambodia’s ...

Burma’s state-owned Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) on 15 July halved the price of landline phone installation after years of wringing the country’s monopolized communications market. the fixed phone rate has been pinned at a staggering 650,000 kyat (US$565) rate for more than a decade. Twenty years ...

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed a decision on establishing a national steering committee on green growth led by Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh. Members of the committee include leaders from the Government office, Ministries of Planning and investment, Natural Resources and Environment, Justice, ...

More than 20 union members and workers at a factory in Kandal province rallied around a union leader yesterday, fearing that he would be arrested after police called him in for questioning. Lor Sopheak, national secretary-general of the Khmer Workers Power Co-operation Union [KWPCU] and an ...

Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities are inspecting the canal system in Sihanoukville’s commune IV and other drainage systems in the coastal town in the wake of recent severe flooding, which claimed one life and affected many residents. ...

In the digital world, data is kIng. BusInesses now understand that In order to stay relevant and ahead of competitors, they need data to know more about their customers. the more you know, the more products and services you can sell In a more personalised ...

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will provide more than US$13 million (more than 104 billion kip) In assistance to Laos next year In various sectors of development. KOICA President Kim Young-Mok announced The support when he paid a courtesy call on Prime MInister ThongsIng Thammavong ...

Public policies are a system of laws, regulatory measures, and plans of action implemented by the government to ensure that its functions are performed predictably and consistently.1 Policies typically outline the guiding principles of an operation; meanwhile, regulations set procedural expectations. Currently, there are no ...

Japan’s Taiyo Life Insurance will joIntly establish an Insurance software company In Myanmar as early as February, partnerIng with local busIness In an effort to secure its position here before the market opens to foreign Investment. the enterprise will launch with roughly 1.2 billion kyat ...

Senior official from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party called on authorities to take action against CNRP senior member whose vehicles still use fourth mandate number plates, which are invalid. the National Assembly was ready to deliver the new number plates to the CNRP’s elected lawmakers ...

Cambodia’s opposition has written a formal request to the country’s ruling party, requesting an agreement to reform the national election body before political negotiations resume on Monday. the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party wants a two-thirds majority vote on members of the National Election Committee, which ...

GIZ Cambodia, a branch of Germany’s international development agency, signed an agreement yesterday with local organic food retailer Khmer Organic Cooperative to provide technical support to develop organic vegetable production and to assist the firm in obtaining certification for its products. the agreement calls for the ...

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. ...

The government has welcomed Chevron (Cambodia) Ltd’s plan to nearly triple its network of Caltex petrol stations in The Kingdom to 100, according to a senior official at The Ministry of Mines and Energy on February 28. ...

Yields for this year’s dry-season crops, especially rice, increased significantly in the first quarter of 2021, though exports decreased compared to the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. ...

The Health Minister yesterday in a bold statement said that The careless actions of young people are transmitting Covid-19 to Their elderly family members causing serious infections and even deaths of The older generation. ...

A modest, gradual upshift in tourism metrics is expected for Siem Reap after the Ministry of Tourism announces the implementation of a crucial 15-year road map for the provincial industry, at a virtual ceremony planned for this week. ...

King Norodom Sihamoni will attend the 41st General Assembly of UNESCO on the occasion of its 75th anniversary, which is scheduled for November 10-14 in the French capital Paris.   ...

Columnist Suwatchai Songwanich explains how China is tackling the problem of its 69 million children “left behind” by migrating parents, by having its companies offer childcare to attract the best recruits in a tightening labour market. Thailand has the same problem, with villages and towns ...

Cambodia’s airport partner French concessionaire Vinci on December 24 held the ground-breaking ceremony for the extension of the terminal and taxiway at Sihanoukville international Airport to accommodate up to 500,000 tourists a year to visit the province, said officials. Sihanoukville international Airport received 100,000 tourists last ...