A senior health official and member of the Cambodian People’s Party’s (CPP) said that her party’s health policies aim to ensure nationwide health and safety. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Returning from a state visit to Japan on Tuesday, a member of Prime Minister Hun sen’s government dismissed the possibility that newly upgraded ties with Japan and Cambodia’s decision to join its Asean neighbors in a “freedom of overflight” pact with Tokyo might strain its ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rice futures jumped the most permitted by the Chicago Board of Trade, advancing to a one- month high, as flood damage to crops in southeast Asia boosted prospects for U.s. exports. storms since september damaged 12.5 percent of paddies in Thailand, the world’s largest exporter, and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment industry, Cambodia’s largest foreign currency earner, reported a 20 percent rise in exports last year, according to the figures of the Ministry of Commerce on Monday. The southeast Asian nation exported apparel products in equivalent to 5.53 billion U.s. dollars last year, up 20 percent ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Centre for Human Rights (CCHR) is calling out telecommunications firm Mobitel over a TV ad that shows a young Cambodian man who is shocked and dismayed when he meets, on a blind date, what appears to be a transgender woman. Lasting about 60 seconds, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Venturing into Cambodia’s casino market in May 2011, Macau-backed gambling firm Entertainment Gaming Asia (EGA) promised tens of thousands of dollars to the wife of Pailin’s provincial governor in order to lease land for the construction of a new casino, documents filed with the U.s. ss='cambodia-color'>...

For hundreds of years, the ancestors of Vam sovann have lived in Koh Kong province’s remote Araeng valley. some 70 km from the nearest national road, Mr. sovann’s village has no electricity or phone coverage, no paved roads or running water; instead, it has access ss='cambodia-color'>...

This past sunday afternoon, while the rest of Phnom Penh’s residents hid from the sweltering heat, a steady stream of cars and motos made their way down a long accces road, flanked by green lawn and tennis courts. Alighting at the sofitel Phokeetra on the Tonle ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ministry of Interior officials held a closed-door meeting Monday with NGO representatives to contest Cambodia’s recent downgrade on the U.s. state Department’s Global Trafficking in Persons Report, which the ministry will discuss in a meeting with the U.s. Em­bassy this week. The annual report, released last ss='cambodia-color'>...

At the end of a well-paved road just past the city’s airport sits a cluster of factories. Each one is barely discernible from the next – grey concrete walls and blue aluminium roofs. But one factory in the lot, MAG (Cambodia), is different. In a country ss='cambodia-color'>...

Defense Minister Tea Banh will meet Tuesday in Hawaii with U.s. secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel as well as nine other Asean defense ministers at the first U.s.-hosted meeting with the regional defense chiefs, officials said. Gen. Banh, speaking at a news conference at Phnom Penh ss='cambodia-color'>...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projected that Cambodia will have a very low inflationary rate to 3.5 per cent this year, which is 0.1 per cent below the goverment’s new revision but 0.5 per cent higher than the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Cambodia’s government in August also revised inflation ss='cambodia-color'>...

Greater connectivity between Japan and Cambodia is tightening economic links between the two countries while catalysing Japan’s ambitions to develop a chain of industrial complexes that cut a tract through the Lower Mekong region. Officials at Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO), Japan’s development agency, say ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Phnom Penh yesterday afternoon began rounding up homeless people as part of the city’s preparations for next month’s Asean Foreign Ministers Meeting, officials said. “We collect them because we don’t want them to affect foreign tourists as we prepare for the arrival of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A lawyer for Norwegian-owned power and electronics equipment firm Eltek Valere yesterday called on investors not to buy stakes in the Thai-owned mobile phone operator Mfone, and to await court’s ruling. The lawyer’s appeal came after the Phnom Penh Municipal Court issued a warrant for keeping ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday signed up to provide 230 million U.s. dollars to Cambodia for six development projects, aiming at promoting inclusive growth and reducing poverty in Cambodia, according to the bank’s media statement. The financing agreements were inked between Eric sidgwick, country ss='cambodia-color'>...

Forestry officials on Monday confiscated nearly two-and-a-half cubic meters of luxury grade Thnong wood in stung Treng province from a military truck emblazoned with the insignia of Prime Minister Hun sen’s Bodyguard Unit, forestry officials said yesterday. An additional 100 pieces of luxury grade wood were ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Cambodian workers for the U.s.- owned Caltex petrol stations in Phnom Penh continued their strike for higher wages Wednesday after wage negotiations late Tuesday failed to reach any agreement. strike leader sar Mora, president of the Cambodian Food and service Workers Federation, said some 300 Caltex ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s business community welcomed the news yesterday that the county’s longest-ever parliamentary deadlock had come to an end – a resolution investors say will help ease fears of political instability. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday struck a deal ss='cambodia-color'>...