Cambodia and Thailand’s financial exposure to Europe would make the two counties the most vulnerable regionally, an ANZ Bank report showed. The Kingdom’s exports and tourism sectors were on increasingly unstable ground as Europe’s debt crisis advanced. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Since the July 28 national election, the two partieS that took SeatS in the National ASSembly can agree on very little. The ruling CPP claimS it won 68 SeatS to the oppoSition&rSquo;S 55, giving it a majority in the 123-Seat National ASSembly, while the oppoSition CNRP SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Forestry Administration on Thursday said it could not comment on the accuracy of new, satellite-generated maps that suggest the government has been vastly overstating the country’s forest cover. Open Development Cambodia, an open data website, on Wednesday published a series of maps using U.s. satellite ss='cambodia-color'>...

Stock exchangeS in LaoS and Vietnam are being uSed for compariSon when trying to determine the model that the Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange (CSX) will take. The CSX haS opened officially but no trading haS begun. Cambodia&rSquo;S Stock exchange iS expected to be more SucceSSful than SS='cambodia-color'>...

While Cambodia’s economic development is often compared to that of neighbouring Vietnam and Thailand’s, industry insiders say the Cambodia needs to keep a close eye on the steady progress being made in Myanmar, which is predicted to eat into Cambodia’s exports in the long term. ss='cambodia-color'>...

SwiSS ambaSSador to Cambodia Ivo Sieber pledged hiS country&rSquo;S continued Support of Kantha Bopha HoSpital yeSterday, mentioning that almoSt half of the hoSpital&rSquo;S funding comeS from the SwiSS government. The promiSe waS made during Amb. Seiber&rSquo;S meeting with Foreign MiniSter Hor Namhong at the Foreign SS='cambodia-color'>...

A day before Land Management Minister Chea sophara was scheduled to meet residents of Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building, the locale’s village chiefs promised to find a quick solution to the residents’ impending eviction – if the ruling Cambodian People’s Party fared well in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...