ambodia is working with UNESCO to form an International Coordinating Committee for the Safeguarding and Development of the Historic Site of Preah Vihear (ICC-Preah Vihear), Deputy Prime Minister and Cabinet Minister Sok An said Tuesday. Speaking during a meeting with South Korean Ambassador to Cambodia Kim ...

The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission broadcasting committee has studied ways to draw up rules to regulate the fast-rising over-the-top segment to expose all content broadcasters to the same equal treatment and regulations. OTT is the delivery of media content such as films or TV programmes ...

Cambodia so far has not feared for creating ASEAN economic community 2015 and deeper ASEAN and East Asia regional integration as the region will have free flow of goods, worker mobilization, finance and investment,” trade minister Cham Prasidh said on June 12. His announcement was made during the workshop of ASEAN economic community 2015. “We ...

Electronic equipment supplier Eltek Valere Ltd. filed a complaint Wednesday with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court against mobile operator Mfone, demanding the company pay the $3.7 million it owes to Eltek from a previous GSM contract, a lawyer for Eltek said. ...

A huge number of people living in around 30 villages of Hadxaifong district, Vientiane, will have clean water coming from their taps next year after a local company completes the construction of the Thadeua water treatment plant. Work on the project began last year and is ...

The Ministry of Environment and Tour Guides Association are working together to identify potential ecotourism spots in protected areas. ...

Mr S Iswaran Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and Second Minister for Home Affairs and Trade and Industry will be making an official visit to Cambodia on 21 July 2014. ...

The Neak Leung bridge, which spans the Mekong River on the border between Kandal and Prey Veng provinces, will officially open to traffic on April 1, ahead of the busy Khmer New Year holiday, officials confirmed yesterday. ...

Nam Meng Ang, 18, had little confidence in his ability to pass the grade 12 national exam this year—which determines which students get to enter university—having failed last year’s test, and the retake offered several weeks later. ...

Cambodian officials in provinces bordering Thailand said the price of Cambodian corn would increase as a result of a reduced supply and a new Thai government policy of importing more corn for animal processing. The Bangkok Post reported on Tuesday that the Thai cabinet approved the ...

Construction of the Laos-Thailand railway extension linking the existing outer suburban station to central Vientiane is expected to begin at year’s end or early next year after the project was suspended in 2011. Deputy Director General of the Lao Railway Department under the Ministry of ...

Prices in the global carbon market are too low to provide an incentive for Cambodian businesses to engage in carbon offset schemes, but there are other options for businesses to gain funds for emission reduction, industry experts say. Speaking on the sidelines of a two-day educational ...

A new airport under construction in Xamneua district, Huaphan province, is now 40 percent complete, with the contractor now focusing on the main building work.More ...

Ten international organizations including Freedom House, Human Rights Watch, and Global Witness have urged dozens of foreign ministers to consider Freezing aid to Cambodia if the government passes the current draft of its proposed NGO law. In a letter sent Wednesday to 36 foreign ministers ...

The Child Rights International Network (CRIN) has released its worldwide rankings of countries’ protection of children’s legal rights, with Cambodia coming in at a lowly 166th place out of 197, just ahead of Libya and just behind Tongo. ...

The Mekong Tourism Festival, with the Mekong Food Tourism Summit as one of the highlights, starts today in the Kingdom’s tourist haven of Sihanoukville. ...

Officials from the ministries of social affairs and urban planning met with the Disability Action Council (DAC) on Monday to discuss issuing a prakas to standardise long-promised handicap accessibility in public buildings, according to a Facebook post by DAC. ...

Thai forestry officials killed three Cambodians who were illegally logging on Tuesday, in what they said was a shootout in Thailand’s Sisaket province, a border official said Wednesday. The latest deaths bring the number of Cambodians who have been shot while logging across the border this ...

The National Assembly will hold its second session on April 1 under chairmanship of Heng Samrin, Chairman of the National Assembly. ...

Some 50 Daun Penh district security guards and about as many riot police prevented 100 anti-eviction protesters from gathering at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Tuesday after the city deemed the gathering illegal. The protesters were from a number of eviction-hit communities, including the Boeng Kak ...