The O’Smach International Border CheckpoInt was officially reopened on Friday after it was closed In 2019 at The onset of The Covid-19 pandemic. ...

The second phase of China’s Brightness Journey, an initiative focusing on human resources under The Lancang Mekong Cooperation, was launched yesterday at The Toun Fa Chinese School in Phnom Penh. Keep reading ...

Ten trucks fully loaded with timber have been spotted entering a heavily guarded sawmill near the Lower Sesan II dam on an hourly basis, claimed a report by the Cambodian Human Rights Task Force (CHRTF), which was released yesterday. According to the report, photos taken from ...

The Lao government has renewed a policy that rewards veterans who excelled in The revolutionary fight for national liberation, with targeted groups to be awarded under The new system. Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong last month inked The eight-page governmental decree to replace The previous one promulgated ...

The country’s household bad debt is expected to reach 1 trillion baht this year, putting The ratio to total loans outstanding into double digits as debt-servicing ability erodes amid coronavirus-induced income shocks, says The head of The National Credit Bureau (NCB).Non-performing loans (NPLs) are surging ...

Myanmar Investment Commission has granted a licence to Puma Energy Asia Sun, said U San MyInt, deputy director general from the Directorate of Investment and Company AdmInistration. the licence allows the firm to conduct domestic retail and wholesale busIness for machIne oil. PEAS Company started on ...

Civil society groups in Cambodia have expressed concerns over increasing restrictions placed on them since the passage of laws governing NGOs and unions. ...

Police raided a warehouse in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district on Friday, seizing tonnes of illegal luxury timber after the owner fled.​ ...

A delegation of Cambodian investment officials and prominent private sector businessmen held a seminar in Seoul, South Korea, on 29 June in an effort to drum up more Korean investment in Cambodia’s growing agro-industrial sector. The Cambodian delegates briefed more than 80 Korean investors in attendance on ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has just published a new online resource detailing Cambodia post offices coverage in two languages, Khmer and English. With this new resource, the map illustrates the locations of post office as well as the spreadsheet with detailed information of the 30 locations ...

The Credit Guarantee and Investment Facility (CGIF), an agency set up by Asean+3 and The Asian Development Bank to help develop local-currency bond and cross-border bond markets In The region, has started to operate, says chief executive Kiyoshi Nishimura. He said The CGIF will fill In ...

Oxfam said it will expand its savings-led community-lending model in Cambodia as an alternative to traditional credit-based microfinance services, which it says are ineffective in reaching the Kingdom’s poorest. Oxfam’s Saving for Change project, which trains rural communities to form savings groups, now has $5 million ...

Internet service protocol company Mega will joIn the Cambodia’s gaggle of active providers today after launchIng an unconventional marketIng campaign that sought to stir curiosity. Four billboards without a clear company name appeared around Phnom Penh In early January. “SomethIng Mega is comIng soon” the ad, ...

A leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that ACLEDA Bank Plc. (ACLEDA), the largest bank in Cambodia, has extended its ACLEDA Unity mobile banking and payments service to new, untapped consumer segments using Mobiliti Reach™ from Fiserv. the bank, which has ...

A senior government official said a new Siem Reap International Airport (NSRIA) beIng developed with $1 billion of Investment by two Korean companies is still on track. NSRIA is wholly owned by two Korean companies, Camco Airport Co and Lees A&A, which held 50 per cent each ...

Preparations by the Ministry of Environment and relevant ministries are underway for the submission of a list containing five natural sites in Cambodia, which are targeted to make UNESCO’s World Heritage List. ...

The Cambodian Higher Education Association has claimed that 113 private educational establishments are facing bankruptcy because of Their inability to pay rent and staff salaries in light of nationwide school closures caused by The Covid-19 outbreak. ...

Cambodia’s milled rice exports from January to April of 2021 were down 36 percent from the same period in 2020, according to a report issued by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF). ...

E-commerce and the ongoing digital transformation have been boosting the productivity and competitiveness of small and micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSME) in Cambodia, Minister of Commerce Pan Sorasak said last week. ...

Cambodia’s Permanent Mission to the UN Office in Geneva has dismissed concerns voiced by UN human rights experts on the convictions Of prominent activist Rong Chhun and two Of his supporters last week. ...