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Gov’t budget surplus nearly triples on spending dip

Total government revenues and expenditures reached 1.853 trillion and 1.088 trillion riel ($463 million and $272 million), respectively, in the first month of 2023 – equivalent to...

ACMF introduces ASEAN SLB Standards

The ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF) – under the Chairmanship of the Securities and Exchange Regulator of Cambodia – on October 28, 2022 introduced the ASEAN Sustainability-...

SEA Games regional relay kicks off as King lights torch

King Norodom Sihamoni lit the SEA Games torch at Angkor Wat Temple on the morning of March 21, marking the kickoff of the relay of the 32nd SEA Games and 12th ASEAN Para Games...

ICC warrant on Putin risks nuclear war

I followed the formation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) when the Rome Statute was adopted in the Italian capital in 1998 at the same time when the Khmer Rouge tribunal was being debated in Cambodia, led by a proposal to the...

Wat Phnom hornbills attract tourists, locals

Thanks to the arrival of a friendly flock of great hornbills, Hour Rithy, a former aviculturist – or raiser of birds – in Kratie province turned Phnom Penh tuk tuk driver, has seen a partial return to his former profession.