The National Election Committee (NEC) has decided to allow The Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (COMFREL) to continue auditing The 2020 voter list to help improve its quality and accuracy. The results of this process will be posted on December 31. ...

Military Police officers and their commanders throughout the country are now required to have their samples collected for Covid-19 testing out of fears that they may have contracted the virus while on duty during the lockdown, especially in the red zones. ...

Hun Manet, deputy commander-in-chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF), has instructed all units under the army to get ready to execute the tasks assigned to them and other orders from the government, especially rescue operations for any unforeseen disasters. ...

The US, through The Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), on March 9 signed a cooperative agreement to provide $6,355,720 in grants for The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) to support The clearance of cluster munitions-affected areas for 45 months from March until November 2025. ...

Tent-dwellers on the banks of the Ayeyarwady River in Mandalay may soon be exchanging their canvas walls for bricks and mortar, as the regional government seeks tenants for newly completed low-cost housing. the Mandalay Region government has decided not to charge would-be tenants a deposit amounting ...

The government is giving The green light to local tour operators to tap foreign medical and wellness tourists from next month while The “travel bubbles” tourism scheme is tipped to start in September, a senior spokesman said yesterday.Dr Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman of The Centre for ...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who will be visiting Thailand for Asean meetings later this month, says Washington hopes for transparency and good governance in the newly formed Cabinet under Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.“We support transparency and good governance around the world and will ...

Thailand is seeking to have Japan’s Kyushu Railway Co come on board for the proposed Bangkok-Rayong high-speed train service and join the bidding for the key project when it is opened to investors, Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said. []“investment in Thailand appears attractive for investors ...

Debt restructuring periods offered to borrowers affected by the pandemic could be extended to more than 10 years, says Thai Bankers’ Association (TBA) chairman Payong Srivanich.the Bank of Thailand, in collaboration with the TBA, recently implemented additional debt assistance measures to provide sustainable aid to ...

MFONE CEO Yap Wai Khee will resign at the end of the month, officials said yesterday, fuelling questions about the future of the company. Yap Wai Khee, who held the position for about a year, will leave for family-related reasons, according to Atip Rittaporn, managing director ...

CPP lawmakers on Wednesday began debating the first of three judicial reform laws, ignoring an opposition boycott of the National Assembly and calls from outside legal experts for outside review of drafts they say are substandard. Critics say the draft laws will not improve the widely ...

Disgraced former Phnom Penh Municipal Court president Ang Maltey, his ex-right-hand man and the mother of tycoon Tong Sarath may face new charges over an alleged pay-off in February to grant the latter and her husband bail amid a manhunt for their son.Phnom Penh Municipal ...

Preah Sihanouk Provincial Hall will demolish more than 1,000 illegally built shophouses and homes along the banks of canals and on the sidewalks in Sihanoukville to facilitate flood mitigation projects. ...

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) has announced that companies wanting to benefit from tax cuts resulting from The country’s double taxation avoidance (DTA) agreements must send in Their applications before March 31. ...

Preah Sihanouk provincial authority has ordered residents who have built illegal structures or extensions along the sidewalks of Street 200 in Sihanoukville’s Buon commune to tear down the structures to allow for road expansion. ...

The chairman of Canadia Bank and Overseas Cambodia Investment Corp (OCIC) said his company is developIng a 500-hectare Industrial park In Kampong Speu provInce (along The National Road 51). ...

Labour Minister Ith Samheng has rejected a request by out-of-work employees in the entertainment sector to also be given the $40 aid, doled out to suspended garment and tourism workers.   ...

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has so far provided 30 cash handouts to workers in The garment and tourism sectors, with this week’s number totalling to almost 13,000 workers. ...

Thailand’s cross-border trade fell by 9.18% year-on-year in the first half, attributed to lockdown measures and the slowing economies of neighbouring countries. ...

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has announced that it will provide 20,000 jobs in The domestic market to migrant workers who have returned from Thailand.   ...