Cambodia will allow inter-country adoptions to resume from January 1 next year, four years after the government stopped adoptions amid claims of corruption and baby selling, government officials confirmed yesterday. speaking after a meeting with susan Jacobs, the U.s. state Department’s special adviser on children’s issues, secretary of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has overturned two injunctions filed against bankrupt mobile operator Mfone, saying the decision will help the court-appointed administrator in charge of Mfone’s assets pay back creditors the money they are owed. The court issued Eltek’s injunction in October and Huawei’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

After a five-month IPO process steeped in anticipation, Grand Twins International ended its first day on the Cambodia securities Exchange (CsX) with results many observers found disappointing. GTI shares opened yesterday’s session at 9,700 riel ($2.41), with a ceremonial bell ringing at the CsX’s head office. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As much as $320 million is being lost annually as a result of Cambodia’s reliance on the Us dollar, while a longstanding mistrust in the riel means there is less of the local currency in circulation, restricting the national bank’s ability to respond in times ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian authorities have held two rounds of talks with garment factory owners and unions under a new mechanism to help break a deadlock over increasing the workers’ monthly minimum wage but to no avail. But Labor Minister Ith sam Heng said that he expected the Garment ss='cambodia-color'>...

The result of Cambodia’s general election, in which long-serving Prime Minister Hun sen’s ruling party Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) declared victory, must be fully rejected by the international community, the opposition said on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

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The Commerce Ministry has scrubbed its website of all corporate shareholder information since last month’s release of a report damned by Prime Minister Hun sen’s children for shedding light on the first family’s sprawling business empire. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has financially backed singapore’s sunseap Group’s project to build Cambodia’s first large-scale solar power project under a long-term agreement with the state-run energy utility Electricite Du Cambodge.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Half of the residents of Mondulkiri’s Norng Buor village fell ill during a mass flu outbreak this weekend, prompting a rapid mobilisation of the province’s health authorities, who ascribed the flu’s rapid spread to poor hygiene. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hong Kong’s top economic official will lead a 48-person delegation to Cambodia on Monday and Tuesday to explore business opportunities related to China’s Belt and Road Initiative, according to a release from the official’s office. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Loran Import-Export Co Ltd, Cambodia’s largest milled-rice exporter, is scheduled to start construction on a new rice mill this month worth more than Us$2 million, according to the company’s General Director Lim Bunheng. The mill will help reduce the flow of Cambodia’s paddy rice into neighbouring ss='cambodia-color'>...

GE Energy has signed a contract with Cambodian industrial conglomerate soma Group to supply two of its engines to power a biomass gasification facility. soma Group’s Hak se mill biomass gasification project is located in Cambodia’s rural rice milling region Kamphong Cham, and reinforces a 2011 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Canada-based life insurance company Manulife has launched a product intended to provide parents with security for their children’s education, and officials at the firm say they are optimistic about its prospects. Manulife’s research found that even families who were financially struggling would take advantage of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s rice exporters are eager to sell more of their goods in the United states and tap into the world’s largest economy. speaking at the International Export Market Research for Cambodian Rice seminar in Phnom Penh yesterday, song saran, CEO of Amru Rice Cambodia, one of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government-backed Rural Development Bank (RDB) will lend $64 million to Cambodia’s agriculture sector in 2014, the bank’s top official said yesterday. sun Kunthor, president of RDB, said most of the funding would be used to support growth in Cambodia’s rice sector as it strives to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Minister of Defense Tea Banh on Monday dismissed suspicions that his government had reneged on accepting an offer from the U.s. to upgrade buildings at a naval base in Preah sihanouk province because it plans to host Chinese military assets at the site. In a ss='cambodia-color'>...

On September 10, Thol Vin, 18, left for her job at a garment factory in Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Dangkor diStrict, juSt like any other day. She had been working there for more than two yearS until She diSappeared unexpectedly during her lunch break. On Friday, Thol and SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s trade with foreign countries amounted to 6.25 billion U.s. dollars in value in the first five months of this year, up 20 percent from the same period last year, according to statistics from the Commerce Ministry on Wednesday. During the January-May period this year, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Indigenous people in northeastern provinces yesterday raised concern over wildlife sanctuaries that could be affected by the government’s plan to set up new provinces carved out from Mondulkiri province’s Koh Nhek district and Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district. ss='cambodia-color'>...