Mubadala Petroleum, one of the UAE’s largest oil and gas companies, is looking for investment opportunities in the Cambodian oil sector, said a senior official at the Ministry of Mines and Energy. Mubadala Petroleum CEO Mazin al-Lamki expressed interest in investing in Cambodia’s oil sector ss='cambodia-color'>...

The International Monetary Fund has revised Cambodia’s economic growth projection to between 6.5 and 7 per cent, up from 6.2 per cent in April, saying the country could manage a sound macro-economy because of the growth in four main sectors: manufacturing, tourism, agriculture and construction. According to Ek ss='cambodia-color'>...

In recognition of this year’s World Malaria Day on Monday this week, the Health Minister reconfirmed Cambodia’s commitment to eliminate the disease by 2025 during a speech in Pailin on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

While Cambodia’s crowded banking sector has enjoyed strong growth, the majority of consumers surveyed have cited dissatisfaction with banking services as a main impediment for the sector’s confidence and future growth. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities have bolstered security across Cambodia in response to last week’s coordinated terror attacks in Paris that left 129 people dead, according to a statement posted to the National Police’s website on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fewer than half of Cambodia’s 42,000 registered businesses have met the government’s deadline for reregistering online, prompting the Ministry of Commerce to consider another extension, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

The United Kingdom’s bilateral trade dealing with Cambodia will remain unchanged in light of ongoing negotiations on the UK’s position within the European Union, a senior British trade official said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Land Management Ministry has said it will resolve the land disputes in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district and Kandal’s Ponhea Leu district between suy sophan and more than 500 families. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s first large-scale solar power project is still in the trial testing stage, but is expected to be fully operational at the end of this month. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Labour’s spokesman yesterday said that free medical treatment for garment workers, announced by Prime Minister Hun sen last week, will start on January 1. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Land Management Minister Chea sophara rallied residents of Phnom Penh’s condemned White Building to vote for the CPP on Tuesday, repeating calls he made last month to the apartment block’s homeowners. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The kingdom’s General Department of Taxation had collected 881 million U.s. dollars of taxes in 2013, up 19 percent from 740 million U.s. dollars in a year earlier, a press release said Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Trade volume between Cambodia and its neighboring Thailand topped 5 billion U.s. dollars in 2014, an 11 percent increase from last year’s 4.5 billion U.s. dollars, a Cambodian commerce official said Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s GDP per capita is expected to reach 1,130 U.s. dollars this year, an estimated increase of 8 percent from 1,043 U.s. dollars last year, Prime Minister Hun sen said Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Corrupt local officials who patrol the area around Cambodia’s Tonle sap are encouraging illegal fishing in southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake, according to a nongovernmental organization worker. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Land concessions for large-scale agricultural plantations are stripping off Cambodia’s forest cover, according to a new report by Forest Trends, a U.s.-based environmental protection group.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Labour legislation in Cambodia is so weak and so often ignored that half the Kingdom’s children between the ages of seven and 14 participate in the workforce, the world’s largest federation of unions has told the World Trade Organisation General Council in Geneva. Children, women and ss='cambodia-color'>...

For the second time in a month, Forestry Administration officials in Kratie province’s snuol district have found hundreds of cubic meters of first-grade wood that had been smuggled to a site near the tributary of the Prek Pao river, officials said yesterday. As in previous wood ss='cambodia-color'>...

Families have fallen into poverty and children have dropped out of school due to deficiencies in the Asian Development Bank’s rehabilitation of Cambodia’s railway system, according to a complaint filed to the bank’s compliance review department. According to David Pred, managing associate for NGO Inclusive Development International, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun sen has promised to compensate thousands of garment workers demanding back pay they say they are owed since their factory owner fled the country to escape mounting debt, according to officials. Kandal provincial labor department director Thol Neang told RFA’s ss='cambodia-color'>...