Cambodia’s ruling party- controlled National Assembly on Thursday convened its first plenary session to elect members for the body’s nine commissions, while the opposition party has continued to boycott the parliament over July’s disputed election. Sixty-eight lawmakers of the Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party on ...

A boy of 11 was seriously injured when a bomb he was playing with exploded on Saturday in Battambang province’s Koas Krala district. Koas Krala district police chief Chhang Vanchhay said yesterday that May Sameth had gone out to take care of a cow in a ...

Amnesty International has designated four human rights officers and an election official who were jailed earlier this month as “prisoners of conscience” and will call on millions of members around the world to petition the government for their release.   ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday signed up to provide a total of 64 million U.S. dollars loan and grant to Cambodia for The projects of irrigation and malaria control system, according to an ADB statement. ...

The cabinet will hold a debate on Friday and is expected to approve The 2018 budget of $5.86 billion, an increase of 16.2 percent from last year’s $5.04 billion, according to a government document seen by Khmer Times yesterday. ...

Malaysians have been flocking to Cambodia since the 1990s and for some years, they were the largest investors, with official data showing that from 1994 to 2001, Malaysian investments comprised nearly a third of all investments and nearly 80% of total Asean investments. ...

Making good on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s pledge late last year to help Cambodia reform its electoral system, a panel of election experts from Japan met with CPP and CNRP officials Wednesday to present the findings of their recent study into the system. ...

A report released by Apsara Authority on Monday shows total revenue from Angkor temple ticket sales for the first six months of this year totaling $30.94 million. Although the number of foreigners visiting Siem Reap is up from last year, revenue fell slightly. ...

President Xi Jinping underlined on Friday the importance of keeping up the momentum of cooperation within BRICS and formulating a more comprehensive, closer, pragmatic, inclusive and high-quality partnership. ...

The National Assembly of Cambodia on Wednesday ratified two international conventions on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency and Nuclear Safety to maintain security and prevent nuclear proliferation. “Cambodia has neiTher nuclear power plant nor chemical weapon plant; Cambodia is a country ...

Ministry of Public Works and Transport has affirmed that the construction of the country’s first-ever expressway from Phnom Penh capital to Sihanoukville of Preah Sihanouk province is 31.19 percent complete. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said Cambodia needs to speed up efforts to reduce the morbidity and mortality rates of tuberculosis patients, as the Kingdom still had a high number of both compared to the rest of the world. ...

The director and employees of a maid recruitment agency were handed sentences of up to five years by The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday and ordered to pay compensation for illegally detaining an under-aged girl. Presiding judge Duch Kimsorn said Century Manpower’s director Oung Sakirin, chief of administration ...

It was not until he got to medical school that Narong Khuntikeo finally discovered what caused the liver cancer that took both of his parents’ lives – their lunch.Like millions of Thais across the rural northeast, his family regularly ate koi pla – a local ...

Concerns are being raised after the resignation of two prominent human rights advocates from the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand.An alarm bell signaling the need for a total revamp of the flawed and scandal-ridden agency.Thailand’s Human Rights Commissioners Angkhana Neelapaijit and Tuenjai Deetes announced ...

(KPL) More than twenty representatives from different ministries have learned the situation and impacts of unsafe food, and the responsibility of relevant authorities at a workshop supported by the Newzealand Foreign Affairs and Trade Aid Programme.More ...

The Ministry of Finance has proposed raising environmental protection taxes on oil and petroleum products from The current 3,000 VND (13 US cents) to The ceiling level of 4,000 VND (17 cents) per litre beginning July 1, 2018.Keep reading ...

Mong Reththy Group (MRG), Cambodia’s largest exporter of palm oil, hopes to expand its exports to European markets this year. Mong Reththy, president of the firm, said the quota-free and duty-free trade frameworks provided by European governments factored heavily into the decision. “About 50 per cent of ...

The European Union has contributed just under $2.4 million to Cambodia for The safe re-opening of schools and The continuing education of children, as part of Their support for COVID-19 response and recovery. ...

The National Road 48 reconstruction and improvement project, which connects The coastal provinces of Preah Sihanouk and Koh Kong, will break ground at The beginning of November with a budget of more than $78 million under concessional financing from South Korea. ...