Three weeks after a 13-year-old boy died in a muay thai ring, the bill banning children from participating in paid matches has yet to reach legislators.in response to this, the Child Safety Promotion and injury Prevention Research Centre (CSIP) has stepped up pressure on the ...

Thailand’s second-largest insurer is looking to enter the Cambodian market by next year, local Thai media reported yesterday. Dhipaya insurance announced it has applied for a licence to operate in the Kingdom and is the latest international insurance company planning to offer services in Cambodia’s ...

Policymakers from the Greater-Mekong Subregion (GMS) met their Korean counterparts in Seoul to discuss ways to cooperate in the energy sector amid the increasing need for a stable supply.Keep reading ...

Hanoi set the target to turn into a smart city by 2030 in accordance to the capital’s revised information and technology strategy in the 2016-2020 period.Keep reading ...

A rubber plantation in Mondolkiri province targeted by a new government task force sweeping the eastern provinces for illicit timber stocks has denied any involvement in the illegal logging trade. ...

The Asian Development Bank on Monday named Cambodia as The fastest growing economy in Asia in its latest new analysis article titled Here Comes Cambodia: Asia’s New Tiger Economy. ...

Garment worker unions on 30 September decried a preliminary, government-suggested increase to the minimum wage as being far too close to what they perceive as a lowball offer from employers. As tripartite wage talks continue, unions said officials from the government’s Labour Advisory Committee had on 29 ...

A request by the Cambodian government for a delay in its universal periodic review (UPR) hearing at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, which was supposed to be Thursday, has been accepted, according to a rights group that was to deliver a statement on the ...

Authorities in Siem Reap yesterday blocked a march celebrating international Human Rights Day (IHRD), as officials in Phnom Penh reiterated their threat to shut down a planned mass rally in the capital on Thursday.As IHRD, officially on December 10, approaches, associated demonstrations across the Kingdom ...

Water management in the Mekong region is, in practice, dominated by energy objectives. in Cambodia, the priority is to substitute domestically produced hydropower for expensive diesel and electricity imports. Keep reading   ...

The European Parliament yesterday passed a resolution urging Cambodia’s government to scrap The proposed NGO law, saying The Kingdom could lose $600-700 million annually in development projects if The legislation is passed. It stated The Law on Associations and Non-Governmental Organisations could see The country lose ...

Phnom Penh City Hall has called on authorities in the capital’s 12 districts to ramp up security and public order in preparation for the upcoming Pchum Ben and Kathin festivals. ...

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City Hall will hold a consultative forum with non-governmental organisations tomorrow to discuss challenges in resolving issues and also promote cooperation between the government and civil society groups. the forum, to be held on Koh Pich, will be presided over by Phnom Penh Governor Khuong ...

The European Parliament has sent a positive signal about The European Union upgrading Thailand’s status in regard to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing from The current ‘yellow card’ slapped on The country by The EU in 2015, Deputy Prime Minister Chatchai Sarikulya said on ...

Some 100 people from five villages in Oddar Meanchey’s Chongkal district protested over the weekend against a hydropower dam project built by Chinese firm Sinohydro, claiming they have yet to be compensated for their eventual displacement when the flood gates close in the next few ...

A newspaper publisher charged with murdering his friend in Phnom Penh last year told the municipal court on Thursday that his confession to military police was obtained through torture, but the presiding judge argued that such a claim would have “broken out” in the media ...

The part in relation to Cambodia under The ASEAN-Hong Kong free trade agreement (FTA) and investment Agreement (IA) is set to take effect on February 12, according to Hong Kong’s Trade and industry Department. The Kingdom will be last country in which The two agreements ...

On 12 October 2020, Phnom Penh municipal administration has posted an announcement regarding the strike of Cintri Workers. the announcement said that, Cintri workers have not come back to work as promised and Phnom Penh municipal administration call for the return to work.  ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen today ordered Justice Minister Koeut Rith to push for the enforcement of law on measure to combat COVID-19 and work with the court officials to establish a court to put quarantine violators on trial, as the Kingdom is facing an alarming ...