The Koh Kong Provincial Court yesterday questioned the seventh and final witness to the April 26 shooting death of well-known environmental activist Chut Wutty by provincial military police officer In Ratana, court officials said. srey Makny, the court’s deputy prosecutor, said witness Bou An was questioned ss='cambodia-color'>...

Khmer Brewery (KB), a locally owned company that produces Cambodia Beer, has made its first export to Japan, partly in response to Prime Minister Hun sen’s call in mid-May for local food and beverage producers to push their products abroad. KB public-relations manager sok Chantha said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia economic growth was 7.3 percent in 2012. Agriculture grew by 4.3 percent, crops by 4.9 percent, fisheries by 6.7 percent, industry by 9.2 percent, garment [sector] by 6.9 percent and the service industry by 8.1 percent, said Dr Hang Chuon Naron, secretary of state ss='cambodia-color'>...

An unusual report shows that organic rice buyers in the U.s. are getting a large percentage of their rice from Cambodia. The Cambodian Center for study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC) exported 114 tonnes of organic jasmine rice to the U.s. in the first quarter of ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.N. human rights envoy surya subedi on Tuesday received a thorny reception from hundreds of students at a Phnom Penh university, who angrily questioned his impartiality and unfurled banners calling for him to end his work in Cambodia. special rapporteur subedi delivered a lecture to about ss='cambodia-color'>...

Lawmakers in the U.s. and human rights activists are pushing for cuts of more than $70 million in aid to Cambodia if Prime Minister Hun sen wins the July 28 elections. Many factors have pushed the U.s. to this point be it unfair and unjust, such ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia exported about 31,000 tonnes of rice in July, a 40 per cent seasonal increase from the average of 22,000 tonnes for first five months of this year. Official data show that Cambodia exported 207,000 tonnes from January through July, an amount surpassing the 205,000 tonnes ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fifty Tampuon ethnic minority families protested yesterday in front of the soeung Commune Hall in Bakeo district against their commune chief, who they allege sold land that belonged to the Ratanakkiri community. In a complaint filed to rights group Adhoc yesterday, the families claim that commune ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Court of Appeal yesterday heard the case of a land dispute between a 70-year old woman from Kompong Chhang province and a company owned by the wife of the Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy over a 3,000 square meter parcel of land. In May ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 555-metre tower planned for Diamond Island is to go ahead, and expert engineers from China and Vietnam are studying the river bank and calculating the strength of the foundations needed to support the building. The building plan will not be changed and now the company ss='cambodia-color'>...

The wizened cyclo driver, cigarette in mouth, muscles taut from pedalling up and down French-style boulevards, is one of Indochina’s enduring romantic images. But cyclos on the streets of Phnom Penh are now outnumbered by another means of transport: the luxury car. But with the urban ss='cambodia-color'>...

Since 2007, the NGO Pact haS been working with the government to turn 68,000 hectareS of foreSt in Oddar Meanchey province into a moneymaking venture for the State juSt by keeping treeS in the area Standing. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The military’s ongoing clearing of community forests in Oddar Meanchey province risks derailing Cambodia’s first forest-based carbon trading scheme backed by the U.N., according to the latest assessment of the project. Community forest groups, who stand to earn millions from the project, said on Wednesday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Young Cambodians will now learn about tourism in grades 11 and 12, according to the new curriculum for public education that was launched yesterday. The development is aimed at enhancing quality in the tourism sector, officials said during a press conference. The new curriculum covers the ss='cambodia-color'>...

While Cambodia has made considerable strides in its banking sector, it still lags behind countries in the region in the areas of e-banking and access to services, industry experts attending the Fifth Banking and Microfinance Conference at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction of a special economic zone (sEZ) near the Vietnamese border in Ratanakkiri province’s eastern O’Yad­aw district is on track, but who exactly will avail of the facility and its services remains a mystery—even for senior provincial officials. The latest announced venture of agro-industry land concession ss='cambodia-color'>...

Inside the grounds of this city’s old provincial hall, past a green corrugated iron fence, municipal street cleaners and their families are squatting in what was once a bustling government office filled with civil servants. Across the road, the former department of rural development is a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Phnom Penh on Wednesday banned Cambodia’s opposition party from using public spaces to collect thumbprints  for a petition calling for U.N. and foreign intervention in the country’s political crisis following disputed polls. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) plans to collect at least 3 million ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s biggest international garment brands met yesterday to discuss wage issues, strikes and worker conditions, among other of the industry’s most pressing topics. But in a year marked by a fatal building collapse at the Wing star shoes factory in Kampong speu, mass demonstrations, and bankruptcies ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday defended that his newly-formed government was ” legitimate” since the nation’s King Norodom sihamoni had given endorsement. “This government is a legitimate government, which was born from the election and was endorsed by the king,” the premier said during ss='cambodia-color'>...