<p>political uncertainty in Cambodia has forced the garment and footwear industry to look to alternative countries to meet production needs, forcing more than 70 factories to close and a sharp drop in orders, a senior official from the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) said ...p>

<p>The Overseas private Investment Corporation (OpIC), the US government’s development financial institution, signed a commitment letter for $125 million direct loan to Acleda Bank to support all sectors through microenterprises and small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), Acleda Bank said in a press release yesterday. ...p>

<p>Rumours swirling in local media of a grade 12 exam pass rate of 80 per cent – which would mark a massive year-to-year improvement – were neither confirmed nor denied by the Ministry of Education yesterday, though some grading tests reported low scores in certain ...p>

<p>Cambodian authorities will not pursue inquiries into the shooting death of a man killed during anti-government protests two years ago, a government spokesman said today as a Cambodian rights group slammed the Southeast Asian nation’s “dangerous path” away from democracy. ...p>

<p>Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) will hold a meeting next week to review the submitted financial statements of phnom penh Autonomous port (ppAp), Cambodia’s second-largest port, and to consider its eligibility to list and trade its securities on the stock exchange, a CSX official said yesterday. ...p>

<p>Cambodian land concessions granted to companies last year affected nearly 80,000 people, displacing many of them and increasing poverty, the NGO Forum on Cambodia says in a new report. ...p>

<p>With wage negotiations slated for later this month, the head of the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia has warned that the country could lose hundreds of thousands of jobs if workers win their demand for a minimum wage of $207 per month. ...p>

<p>The National Assembly will hold a plenary meeting on October 20th to vote for a draft-amended law on Commune/Sangkat Election. Cpp wants the electoral campaign period shall be 10 days, while CNRp demands for 15-day, Cpp spokesman said. ...p>

<p>The National Assembly will hold a plenary meeting on October 20th to vote for a draft-amended law on Commune/Sangkat Election. Cpp wants the electoral campaign period shall be 10 days, while CNRp demands for 15-day, Cpp spokesman said. ...p>

<p>police arrested three people and confiscated about 1 kg of methamphetamine pills in a raid in Kompong Chhnang province on Saturday afternoon, the latest case in a year that has seen nearly three times as many meth busts as in the same period last year, ...p>

<p>Opposition leader Sam Rainsy held a pchum Ben ceremony yesterday for the spirits of those killed in the still-unsolved 1997 grenade attack on an opposition rally, promising attendees that should his party win in 2018, he would “rearrange” the country’s government to ensure institutions’ independence. ...p>

<p>Cambodian exports saw a nearly 20 per cent increase for the first half of the year, as garment shipments to the European Union led the way in making up for a decrease in exports to the United States, according to a new Ministry of Commerce ...p>

<p>philippe Broaly, the former French judge and child-protection NGO director who was convicted in May for sexually assaulting boys in his care, had his sentence extended to three years by the Appeal Court on Friday, according to anti-pedophile NGO Action pour Les Enfants (ApLE). ...p>

<p>prime Minister Hun Sen met with Chinese president Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday to receive a grant worth more than $150 million, the majority of which will go toward the construction of a massive sports and entertainment complex in phnom penh, a sen­ior official ...p>

<p>Court officials in Kompong Speu province on Friday negotiated a settlement with a group of garment work­ers who have been protesting against the arrests of two union leaders, with the court agreeing not to order further arrests in the case if the workers restrict their ...p>

<p>Legal restrictions on funding for civil-society – like Cambodia’s much-maligned NGO Law – are on the rise globally, a report by the Carnegie International Endowment for peace has warned, putting international donors in the position of having to adapt to a backlash against democracy promotion. ...p>

<p>The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must not allow any country – “no matter how powerful” – to claim an entire sea as its own and use force and intimidation to send its message across, president Aquino told a gathering of regional leaders yesterday. ...p>

<p>A prolonged regional drought is expected to push Thai and Vietnamese rice prices up by 10 to 15 per cent, narrowing the price gap that has kept Cambodian rice exporters from securing major international supply orders, one of the Kingdom’s biggest rice exporters said yesterday. ...p>

<p>A lawyer for CNRp lawmakers Nhay Chamroeun and Kong Saphea, who were severely beaten on October 26 in front of the National Assembly, filed a new complaint with the phnom penh Municipal Court on Monday asking that those arrested for the crime be charged with ...p>

<p>Sky Angkor Airlines said yesterday that a plan to lease two Sukhoi SuperJet 100 aircraft from a Russian airline has been postponed, as the company has to sort out regulatory issues such as which aviation authority would be responsible in the event of a mishap. ...p>