<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>

<p>The U.S. and Cambodia have so far forged a good relationship, but there is room for improvement, a Cambodian lawmaker said Wednesday. Hun Many, who spoke at the U.S.-Korean Institute under Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, said Cambodia needs more friends than ...p>

<p>The Interior Ministry has warned 140 of its employees to stop skipping work or risk being fired. It is one of the first government ministries to penalize “ghost workers” – the thousands of bureaucrats, police officers, and other civil servants who are on the government ...p>

<p>The director of the Anti-Terrorism police Department has been warned by the Anti-Corruption Unit following the lodging of a corruption complaint against him, according to officials at the ACU. Y Sok Khy has allegedly been illegally collecting so-called ‘voluntary funds’ from his subordinates on a ...p>

<p>The Federation of Associations for Small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia is planning to propose that the government set up special economic zone (SEZ) for small and medium-sized sized enterprises (SMEs) so that they can work in clusters, saying this will enhance their productivity, increase ...p>

<p>The sexual abuse case involving a 57-year-old German national and at least five underage boys continued in phnom penh Municipal Court yesterday. Udo Sabiniewicz, owner of FX Animation Studio in phnom penh’s Chbar Ampov district, could be sentenced to one to three years in prison ...p>