Garment workers around the country have started picking up paychecks this month that for the first time include the $28 increase the government added to the sector’s previous minimum wage of $100. But with available overtime hours on the wane, enthusiasm for the raise is ...

The Council for The Development of Cambodia (CDC) has issued final registration certificates to 15 investment projects since April 2 worth a total of $225.5 million and which are expected to generate 7,620 jobs. ...

Ministry of Justice spokesman Chin Malin rebuffed claims by three UN human rights experts who have accused the Cambodian government of using the courts to persecute rights defenders. ...

The Commerce Ministry is once again warning private hospitals of severe legal repercussions for overcharging patients, after several probes found that many medical facilities often mark up The prices of Their medicines by as much as 900%. Keep reading ...

The planned repayment of value-added tax (VAT) to government welfare smart card holders is expected to take shape by The end of this year, a move meant to improve Their purchasing power.Keep reading ...

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has agreed to the provision of 1.5 trillion VND (65.9 million USD) from the standby 2018 State budget for Mekong Delta localities to address urgent dyke erosion threatening life and property of local residents. Keep reading ...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries plans to submit a list of three mango farms to experts at China’s General Administration of Customs for a check of Their meeting sanitary and phytosanitary standards (SPS).   ...

Police in Tbong Khmum province on Friday shot one man dead and injured another—both suspects in a string of robberies—during a thwarted gun sale, an officer said. ...

The Thai commander who was The mastermind behind The scale replica of The Preah Vihear temple complex on Pha Mor E-Daeng cliff has been transferred following concerns aired by The Thai Foreign Ministry about The structure’s effect on relations with Cambodia. ...

A new World Bank policy paper highlights how Open Data can be utilized to achieve development goals, through a range of applications such as improved medical care, urban planning, agriculture, and many other areas. ...

On 26 November 2019, Ministerial delegates from the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Council today at their annual gathering in Phnom Penh approved a drought management strategy for 2020-2025, allowing Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam to prepare for and manage drought collectively. the approved ...

South-East Asia’s largest waterbird colony, the 21,342 hectares Prek Toal (Ramsar Site no. 2245 http://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/2245) has been designated as a Wetland of International Importance (also known as a ‘Ramsar Site’), by the Royal Government of Cambodia and recognized by the Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention ...

As the government reviews a European Commission preliminary report on whether Cambodia should retain its Everything-but-Arms preferential trade status, Prime Minister Hun Sen has said that the Kingdom has strong financial foundations to sustain itself with or without the EBA. “Someone said we will suffer ...

A team of security officials led by a commune chief descended on a private home in rural Koh Kong province on Friday morning to prevent a group of students and ac­tivists from holding a democracy training session, an activist and officials said. ...

An angry mob of hundreds surrounded a police station in Takeo province for nine hours on Wednesday night and demanded that an alleged organ harvester accused of kidnapping a 6-year-old girl be handed over for summary execution, officials said Thursday. ...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS) has announced that The re-opening of schools has been postponed until furTher notice as preventive measures against The COVID-19 pandemic continues, according to a directive issued yesterday evening. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday launched a not-so-thinly-veiled attack on the US over its recent public airing of concerns over the newly amended Law on Political Parties, arguing that its past bombing of Cambodia left it no moral high ground from which to criticise the ...

An inter-ministerial meeting chaired by Minister of interior Sar Kheng on January 8 revised the framework of the so-called safe village-commune policy and renamed it the safe village-commune-district policy. ...

Data from the Korean International Trade Association showed that durIng January and February Cambodia exported about $64 million of products to the east Asian country, an Increase of over 2.9 percent compared with the same period last year. ...

Minister of interior Sar Kheng has instructed heads of the government’s local visit working groups throughout the country to ensure that relevant officials are invited to attend all meetings at the municipal, district and commune levels. ...