The state-owned enterprise that operates Cambodia’s only deep-sea port officially announced that it will launch its six-day bookbuild and public roadshow starting next Tuesday with an expected initial public offering (IPO) on the Kingdom’s stock market set for May 31, the company’s sole underwriter said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday continued his bid to woo the Kingdom’s thousands-strong bloc of garment workers, reminding workers of the perils of former opposition leader sam Rainsy’s proposal to leverage an EU embargo on garment imports to improve the country’s political and human rights ss='cambodia-color'>...

For the ruling CPP, the promise was to appoint a woman as governor for one of the country’s 25 provinces. For the opposition CNRP, its boast was having 60 female commune chief candidates—up from fewer than 10—to run in Cambodia’s 1,646 communes for this year’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Air traffic for Cambodia’s three international airports increased by 23 percent in the first six months of the year, driven largely by growing Chinese tourism and the increased number of international flights to sihanoukville’s airport, a spokesman for the company that operates the Kingdom’s three ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly’s 12-member permanent committee will take its first look at the country’s $3.54 billion draft budget for 2014 on Monday, though officials are still refusing to offer a breakdown of how the money will be spent. The draft, which allocates more than $400 million ss='cambodia-color'>...

Deputy Prime Minister sok An met with the top U.s. diplomat in Cambodia on Friday to discuss the formation of the country’s National Assembly following the disputed July 28 election. Both the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP claim to have won the ballot, and the opposition ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two of the country’s most powerful and politically connected business owners are on the board of governors of the company thought to have brokered a controversial deal between the world’s largest hydropower developer and the Cambodian government, documents obtained by the Post show. Cambodian People’s Party ss='cambodia-color'>...

The sugar palm is a national symbol for Cambodia. Harvested by the country’s poor for centuries, no part of the palm tree goes to waste in a process that fashions the tree into a range of products. The durable and strong leaves are weaved into ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment industry, Cambodia’s largest income maker, reported a 24 percent rise in exports in the first ten months of 2013, according to figures of the country’s Ministry of Commerce Thursday. The figures showed that the country exported garment products in equivalent to 4.76 billion U.s. dollars ss='cambodia-color'>...

The management of the 32-storey De Castle Royal condominium project in BKK1 has announced that the The Place, widely regarded as Phnom Penh’s only independent five-star gym, will manage the development’s fitness centre. This means the air-conditioned De Castle Royal gym will be fully fitted out ss='cambodia-color'>...

The presence of dozens of riot police yesterday swiftly ended the first day of Boeung Kak land-rights activist Yorm Bopha’s planned month-long protest in the capital’s Freedom Park. At virtually the same time, surya subedi, the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia, visited a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The EU’s decision came in response to the government’s crackdown on the Kingdom’s largest opposition party – the Cambodia National Rescue Party – which was summarily dissolved last month, a development that the EU said rendered credible elections impossible. But in a speech to garment workers ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s tourism industry this year will perform much better than the government expects thanks in part to Cambodia’s growing popularity as a vacation destination, investment firm Cambodia Capital has said. Total tourist arrivals to Cambodia for 2011 will reach 2.85 million, while total revenues ss='cambodia-color'>...

A nationwide survey was under way by the Ministry of Commerce’s Rice Exporter Union to measure Cambodia’s milled-rice industry in order to give international buyers an accurate picture of the Kingdom’s current capacity, insiders said yesterday. Although data for the survey was still being collected, those ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two people detained at Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey speu social affairs centre died last month after being rounded up from the streets as part of the city’s preparations for the Pchum Ben festival, a local rights groups has said, prompting renewed calls for the facility’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday said he would “eliminate” opponents who dare to protest against his government during a speech in which he also declared that he personally ordered the military to deploy around the CNRP’s headquarters late last month. speaking at a graduation ceremony ss='cambodia-color'>...

Almost $400 million will be invested in Cambodia’s airports over the next eight years, the trade magazine Airport World has reported. The investment will fund the extension to the international terminal at Phnom Penh’s airport, the upgrading of siem Reap’s airport and improvements to the sihanoukville ss='cambodia-color'>...

Negotiators for Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties say they will meet on Friday ahead of potential talks between party leaders, in an attempt to end a months-long political stalemate. Three persons each from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party will ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and its neighboring Vietnam has hit 2.7 billion U.s. dollars in the first nine months of the year, up 10 percent compared with the 2.45 billion U.s. dollars over the same period last year, a Cambodian trade official said Thursday. Kem ss='cambodia-color'>...

Labour activist Vorn Pov, who is facing serious health issues while being held in pre-trial detention in Kampong Cham’s Correctional Centre 3 prison, has been denied bail by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court. His NGO-provided lawyer, san sokunthear, immediately filed an appeal against the bail denial ss='cambodia-color'>...