Addressing the biggest international summit Iran has held in decades, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday made a plea to the 120 nations belonging to the Non-aligned Movement (NAM) to support Cambodia in its quest for a non-permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. there is ...

The MPs from The group Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) said in a statement this week that The now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party should be allowed to contest The vote and that all political prisoners in The country should be freed. ...

Cambodia’s first listed company, the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, yesterday reported a 41 per cent drop in profits after tax for the quarter ending September 30, with the company attributing the drop to an increase in expenses incurred over the quarter. ...

The negotiations on The Kingdom’s proposed free trade deal with South Korea are progressing slowly despite The fact all parties aimed to come up with finalised drafts by The end of 2020. However, The China-Cambodia Free Trade Agreement CC-FTA) ratification is to be announced early ...

Ministry of Public Works and Transport officials met this morning to discuss an ambitious proposal that will cross the Tonle Sap lake. the officials met via Zoom to to seek support from the Tonle Sap Authority – which manages the Tonle Sap Lake – for ...

A majority of people agree with the government’s intention to create a special, long holiday similar to Songkran to help stimulate the country’s sagging economy, according to a survey by Suan Dusit Rajabhat University, or Suan Dusit Poll.the poll was conducted online on April 6-15 ...

Efforts by authorities to prevent the opposition CNRP from collecting signatures for a petition asking the international community to not recognize Prime Minister Hun Sen’s CPP-led government have expanded to the provinces, local and CNRP officials said Sunday. in Prey Veng province, Sithor Kandal district Governor ...

Yuttana Jiamtragan, vice president for corporate administration, said SCG’s corporate venture capital arm, AddVentures, would enable the conglomerate to diversify and strengthen its innovation portfolio through investment in and collaboration with regional and global start-ups, allowing SCG to improve its competitiveness in the digital age. ...

At least 500 workers from three garment factories in Cambodia demonstrated on 14 July outside the Labor Ministry in the capital Phnom Penh, demanding that government officials intervene in their quest for better working conditions and food and transportation subsidies. the workers from two factories in Kandal ...

Stung Treng provincial military police yesterday arrested four Vietnamese nationals caught poaching in a wildlife sanctuary in Sesan district. Sok Rithy, district military police commander, yesterday confirmed the arrests but referred questions to the provincial military police. Local media reported that provincial military officers arrested ...

Authorities are preparing to evacuate more than 150 families from Banteay Meanchey province’s O’Chrou district, should flooding in the area get worse due to heavy rainfall and runoff from a dam that opened its gates in Thailand on Monday. the families’ homes are already affected by ...

Rolls-Royce officially launched its showroom in Cambodia yesterday, with both government and the luxury-car maker forecasting a rosy sales outlook for the high-end vehicle. in June, Rolls-Royce appointed HGB Group Co Ltd, the distributor for Mazda and Kia vehicles in Cambodia, to be the official dealership. ...

The National Election Committee (NEC) won’t stop CNRP candidates from running in June’s commune elections, even if The interior Ministry invalidates The party’s recent change in leadership, a spokesman said on Monday amid speculation from analysts that The government was seeking to bar The opposition ...

t the forthcoming regional consultation forum on Laos’ Pak Beng hydropower dam in Luang Prabang, Cambodian environmental groups will urge relevant stakeholders, including the Cambodian government, to reject the 912-megawatt project, alarmed by the potential impacts on fisheries and sediment flow in the Mekong. ...

About 1,000 workers returned to work at Kompong Cham province’s Manhattan Quing Dao Textile Corp yesterday after last week’s four-day protest, factory representatives said. Chan Seiha, the factory’s administration chief, said that the remaining 1,000 workers were not at work yesterday because the factory currently ...

The cabinet has approved 4,000-baht Covid-19 handouts for salaried workers under The Social Security system.Under The “Section 33 We Love Each OTher” programme, around 9.3 million company employees — those under Section 33 of The 1990 Social Security Act — will be given 1,000 baht ...

Bus companies have been urged to maintain fare prices and not take advantage of the festive season to raise them. Mandalay Region Supervisory Committee for Motor Vehicles (Highway) chair, U Aung Kyaw Lin, said that he is making a request and not ordering the companies ...

Manulife Financial Corp. (MFC), Canada’s largest insurer, has opened an office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, its first in the Southeast Asian nation. Manulife has about 40 people in its Cambodian unit, the Toronto-based insurer said today in a statement. ...

Logistics company JWD InfoLogistics says it has adopted a busIness plan to Increase revenues from its recent Investments In ASEAN markets, such as In warehouses In Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia. The plan for 2017 aims for a mInimum seven percent revenue growth. Recent Investments In ...

For all the storm and fury directed at it, MPs on 9 December passed unopposed a supplementary budget request that amounted to 11.95 percent of the existing budget for the current financial year. Not a single program or a single kyat was cut. Finance Minister U Win ...