<p>A resident of Boyakha commune in pailin said about 20 Thai soldiers stopped her and other farmers from planting crops on their land earlier this month, telling them it was part of a so-called “white zone,” or demilitarized area, considered to be neither on Cambodian ...p>

<p>The double-digit growth of consumer lending in Cambodia has created a need for a comprehensive and centralised database of individual credit histories. The post’s Cam McGrath sat down with pascal Ly, CEO of the Credit Bureau Cambodia (CBC), to discuss the role of the Kingdom’s ...p>

<p>The government took steps to shore up the rice sector yesterday, saying it would remove the current value added tax [VAT] on milling machines in the country and shut down companies importing rice from neighboring countries and rebranding it as Cambodian during an emergency meeting ...p>

<p>In a ceremony on Tuesday, the Ministry of Health appointed a new advisor – the Swiss Dr. Beat Richner, founder of the Kantha Bopha Hospital and Foundation. His hospitals have treated more than 15 million children since the first one opened in 1991 and Minister ...p>

<p>No one knows exactly why resistance to malaria drugs always emerges first in this remote western province of Cambodia, nestled in the Cardamom Mountains. “The reasons are as much social as biological,” says malariologist Tom peto, who is here in this dusty, unremarkable-looking town battling ...p>

<p>Elections are due in the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) for the second term of its president and council of board members. The elections come at a crucial time as the government considers an emergency loan request from the CRF to help protect the rice sector ...p>

<p>This year’s theme will be “Authentic Experiences along the Mekong River.” &nbsp;According to Jens Thraenhart, executive director of the MTCO, “Travellers want to be able to truly experience the country that they are visiting and come away with a true appreciation of the local experience. ...p>

<p>phnom penh Municipal Court deputy prosecutor Meas Chan piseth will next week replace Banteay Meanchey provincial prosecutor phan Vannarath, who is taking a position in the Ministry of Justice at the end of a nearly five-year term in office. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ...p>

<p>The commerce minister has once again called on Thailand to consider giving access to Cambodian agricultural products to transit to the Thai port of Laem Chabang before being exported to a third country.&nbsp;The minister also called for a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to be signed ...p>

<p>A start-up initiative aimed at reducing plastic waste in the Kingdom is asking locals and expats to live plastic-free in July.&nbsp;The goal of the campaign is relatively simple: eliminate plastics’ harshest offenders from daily consumption. That means plastic straws, bags, bottles, cups and Styrofoam, or ...p>

<p>Japan-based Yusen Logistics has opened one of Cambodia’s largest temperature-controlled distribution center in phnom penh, which is becoming a significant air cargo destination for its textiles and perishable exports. The 33,000-square-foot facility has almost twice the capacity of the existing warehouse and includes a 4,237-square-foot ...p>

<p>Though all countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) had signed a cross-border trade agreement (CBTA) 14 years ago to enhance the sub-region’s economic connectivity, the CBTA, however, is yet to be ratified in individual Mekong nations for its full implementation. This was revealed last ...p>

<p>Cambodia’s gross domestic product (GDp) is predicted to grow around 7.2 percent this year, buoyed up by clothing and apparel exports to the European Union (EU), according to estimates by the ANZ Group. The banking group also advised the Kingdom to diversify its economy and ...p>

<p>An NGO operating in the pursat section of the protected Cardamom Mountains uncovered 50 cubic metres of luxury timber yesterday.&nbsp;Chea Hean, director of the Natural Resource and Wildlife preservation Organisation, said he and four colleagues uncovered the illicit stash as part of an ongoing investigation, ...p>

<p>The Singaporean developer behind The Bay, a $500 million mixed-use real estate project on the capital’s Chroy Changvar peninsula, has announced it is putting the residential phase of the project on hold due to unfavourable market conditions – a move that could herald the first ...p>

<p>Villages in Siem Reap yesterday welcomed a provincial court ruling that ordered the return of 300 hectares of land that local authorities had seized in 2011&nbsp;“For more than five years we did not have land for rice farming,” said Mean Cheng, a representative for the ...p>

<p>Although many jailed political opponents and civil society workers may disagree, prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said he has “mercy, compassion, and sympathy” for those who oppose him, telling a crowd of students that the political situation was up to interpretation: those who believe there ...p>

<p>The mob that beat up two Cambodian opposition lawmakers outside the National Assembly building in phnom penh early this week included about 200 young men from prime Minister Hun Sen’s corps of bodyguards who were driven in trucks to the protest and later boasted about ...p>

<p>The volume of fish caught to make prahok (fermented fish paste) in the first season on the Tonle Sap Lake and River rose because weather conditions were ideal, but the amount expected for the second season, which begins in February, is likely to be lower ...p>

<p>Military police investigated two warehouses in Kratie and Mondulkiri provinces yesterday amid a crackdown on illegal logging in eastern Cambodia. As police continue to raid warehouses and tighten security along the Vietnamese border, illegal logging and the sale of luxury wood has ground to a ...p>