Aceleda Bank was the only Cambodian bank to make the Banker’s Top 100 ASEAN Banks 2016 list, and saw the largest jump up the rankings among all entries, securing the 88th position on the financial publication’s annual list, up from 97th last year. ...

Two Cambodian banks have set aside US$200 million for loans to bolster the Kingdom’s struggling rice-milling industry, officials said yesterday. the move comes as the Cambodian government has called on the private sector to boost loans to rice millers during the harvest season as a way ...

Eng Hy, the spokesperson for the National Committee for Prevention and Crackdown on Natural Resource Crimes, told the Post on Monday that the four went into hiding after Military Police arrested Sam Ol, who holds the honorific oknha, and impounded more than 40 vehicles reportedly ...

Source: Technical and Vocational Education and Training Statistic 2017-2018, revived from TVET statistic 2017-2018. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen once again spoke on weighty matters of war and peace, reiterating that development and democracy would not be possible without peace. ...

The National Election Committee yesterday commenced The 18-day voter registration period to update The country’s voter list. Nuth Sokhom, an NEC official, said during a meeting at The NEC headquarters that The election body will carry out its voter registration from October 1 to 18 ...

The incoming Rakhine State parliament will have only half The funds it needs to develop The state, a local MP has complained. The state parliament adopted The 2016-17 budget on 25 January, days before it rose to give way to The new parliament elected last ...

Some 80,000 security personnel will be deployed for July’s upcoming national election, including a volunteer “citizen” force, raising concerns from election and rights observers about possible voter intimidation. State newswire AKP reported the numbers on Thursday, writing that the forces “will be deployed to ensure ...

When the Lao national assembly last week approved a potentially destructive dam project just 2 kilometers from the border with Cambodia, the surprise announcement was yet another blow to the regional framework designed to protect the Mekong River.  ...

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has refused to supervise The upcoming exam for new judges organized by The Royal Academy for Judicial Professions (RAJP), claiming that The RAJP “lacks The will” to work with Them on fighting against widespread judicial corruption. ...

The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that phones, iPads and oTher possessions confiscated from six opposition lawmakers during The violent July 15 protest at Freedom Park would not yet be returned. Presiding judge Yos Sokhoeun said that The items could not be returned based on The ...

On 26 March 2018, the United Nations Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises (WG on BHR) paid a courtesy call on H.E. Mr. Don Pramudwinai, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand, during their ...

The nominee to be The next U.S. ambassador to Cambodia told The U.S. Senate foreign relations committee this week that fair elections would be his priority, while a Cambodian government spokesman said he hoped The new ambassador would repair “bad” diplomatic relations between The countries. ...

Opposition party leader Sam Rainsy yesterday proposed the National Assembly increase the amount local authorities are allocated from the national budget, arguing that the current sum is insufficient.​ ...

Koh Kong town was left without a clean water supply on Friday when the company responsible for the utility made repairs to a filter pipe. Koh Kong resident Ing Soth yesterday said the water was so dirty that the villagers could not use it at ...

A U.S. congressman on Wednesday called on the CPP to abandon an imminent vote on legislation that would give the Cambodian government sweeping new powers to abolish its political rivals, the same day the U.S. ambassador met with CNRP acting President Kem Sokha to discuss ...

Following an appeal by Prime Minister Hun Sen for the country’s youth to better understand his self-titled “win-win policy,” which he credits for ending the civil war and peacefully reintegrating the Khmer Rouge, the premier Monday delivered an hourlong lecture on the topic to about ...

The International Federation for Human Rights has urged The European Union to pressure The Cambodian government to cease its crackdown on civil society and The political opposition. ...