Speaking at a pagoda inauguration on Saturday, Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong said City Hall is looking to move warehouses and automobile repair shops out of the city centre to the outskirts to reduce pollution and traffic congestion – a move Hun Sen’s sister Hun ...

Education and health are set to receive large boosts in funding next year, according to the draft budget waiting approval at the National Assembly, which outlines total government spending of $3.75 billion. the draft budget allocates $324 million to the health ministry, up 24.7 per ...

The French government through The Agence Francaise de Development is providing more than $100 million in additional loans for The construction of a water pumping station at The Bakheng Clean Water Treatment Plant. ...

Thailand is interested in joining the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact being touted by the United States, but needs to study the terms and conditions of the new trade bloc first, Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak says. Keep reading ...

The National Legislative Assembly Thursday passed The final reading of a bill aimed at reducing pregnancies among teenage girls. The bill was passed in The third reading with 179 votes while six NLA members abstained. Keep reading ...

The cabinet has approved in principle The extension of debt repayment and lower lending rates for small-scale farmers as The latest move to help shore up The agricultural sector. Keep reading ...

The Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency plans to ask The Energy Ministry to launch a revised solar scheme for The public after witnessing lower participation than expected in The household solar rooftop programme.Keep reading ...

The 2019 Global Summit will be held May 9-11 in Lisbon, Portugal. Join us for three days of dynamic programming at Museu do Oriente, with a special keynote evening event held at The historic Cineteatro Capitolio. The participant fee for The 2019 Global Summit is $295 USD, scholarship is available. Keep reading ...

The ASOCIO Smart City Summit 2018 will be held in Hanoi from September 18-19, Themed “Creating Smarter and Securer Cities by Digital Solutions”, under The chairmanship and coordination of The Hanoi City People’s Committee, The Asian Asian-Oceanian Computing industry Organization (ASOCIO) and VinASA.More details and registration  ...

Clothing giant H&M is testing the garment production waters by entering into exclusivity agreements with factories in Cambodia and Bangladesh, according to a report from Bloomberg News yesterday. This means that Sweden-based H&M would buy all of the factory’s output. H&M, it seems, would still be ...

City Hall is temporarily allowing trucks to transport goods during daytime in the capital to facilitate the much-needed flow of raw materials from Sihanoukville to garment factories in Phnom Penh, according to GMAC. ...

Twenty-six people were killed and injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the first four months of this year, the Cambodian Mine Action Authority (CMAA) said in a report on Monday. ...

Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) saw a surge in demand from container ships last month after an upgrade added capacity to process and load shipping containers. Some 32,441 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) passed through the port in October, an increase of more than 57 percent ...

The BirdLife International Cambodia Programme on November 12 said it has found eight nests of The Asian woolly-necked stork In Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary this breedIng season, which it noted Indicates an on-year Increase In population. ...

Police are investigating allegations that the son of a prominent ruling-party politician rammed an opposition campaign convoy with his motorbike. the alleged attack took place on 18 October, in Zee Phyu Kone village in Naypyitaw’s Dekkhinathiri township. Keep reading ...

Muk Kampol district police officers in Kandal province yesterday confiscated more than 70 pieces of timber being transported to Phnom Penh along National Road 6 over suspicion that it was illegally obtained. However, one officer said that the owner had already paid a fine in ...

Four suspects were jailed Thursday for illegally harvesting luxury timber from a protected forest in Mondulkiri province’s Koh Nhek district, a court official said yesterday. Morm Vanda, a provincial court spokesman, yesterday said the four were jailed after being suspected of illegal logging in a ...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) offices in Cambodia and countries in The Asia-Pacific region participated in a four-day virtual conference recently to respond to The “twin pandemics” of Covid-19 and hunger facing The region. Dealing with Covid-19 has led to setbacks in The fight ...

The State Inspection Authority is InvestigatIng unauthorised development projects carried out by government sectors In Vientiane and The provInces In 2013 and 2014. Although These projects are now complete, The Inspection aims to determIne wheTher The government’s budget was used effectively. Anyone found to have ...

The faTher of a 16-year-old boy who went missing during last month’s labor protest crackdowns says he now presumes his son dead. The boy, Khim Sophat, was caught up in demonstrations at The Canadia industrial Zone in early January. He was not listed among The four ...