Cambodia’s 35 microfinance institutions had lent 1 billion U.s. dollars to customers by the end of March this year, up 24 percent from 808 million U.s. dollars it lent at the end of last year, the data of Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA) showed Wednesday. On the ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. conglomerate General Electric (GE) on ThurSday inked a $1 million deal with Cambodia&rSquo;S State-owned Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) to conduct a Six-month Study to identify weakneSSeS in Cambodia&rSquo;S electrical grid with the aim of enhancing the reliability of the power Supply. According to the EdC, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Following Cambodia’s loss of a hefty Filipino rice tender to Vietnam last week, industry insiders say logistics and production costs are hampering the competitiveness of the Kingdom’s rice exports. Cambodia lost a 100,000-tonne tender for the fourth time running after its final price of $455.50 per ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers are considering boycotting next week’s extraordinary plenary session vote to strip away their role as the National Assembly’s minority group, saying the ruling party-backed proposal highlight’s the parliament’s weakness. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Corruption czar Om Yentieng said on Wednesday that he might still open an investigation into graft allegations against the head of the National Police’s public order department, which oversees the nation’s traffic officers, if the subordinates who made the claims were unsatisfied with their boss’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

The pangolin is slow and has no teeth—its main defense is curling up into a ball on the dense forest floor. It’s an easy target for poachers looking to cash in on the mammal’s much-prized meat or the supposed medicinal qualities of the tiny anteater’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ten union representatives were yesterday suspended from the southland garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Por sen Chey district after more than a thousand workers went on strike to protest the factory’s decisions about time taken off for voting in sunday’s commune elections. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Angkor Wat in Siem Reap City topped another touriSm poll thiS week, named aS the world&rSquo;S No. 1 landmark by TripAdviSor&rSquo;S TravelerS&rSquo; Choice awardS on TueSday. But a maSSive temple under conStruction in India iS once again Stirring fearS that Cambodia&rSquo;S iconic monument will be SS='cambodia-color'>...

Royal Group executives, owners of Cambodia’s leading mobile phone operator Cellcard, vigorously denied the veracity of a London-based media report on Friday that claimed the phone company is looking for investors and wants to sell off its telecommunications towers because it is unable to raise ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit has sent a letter to the Ministry of Information asking it to respond to allegations that its officials demanded bribes to let applicants pass exams for jobs in the ministry, a letter published on the ACU’s website reveals. ACU President Om Yentieng’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy on Tuesday reaffirmed his party’s commitment to three days of mass demonstrations starting on Wednesday, in response to the government’s failure to address widespread irregularities in July’s national elections. Returning from a trip abroad, where he had urged Western states not to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police on Sunday detained a CNRP activiSt and confiScated 347 political video-CDS that he waS tranSporting to the party&rSquo;S headquarterS in Phnom Penh, police and oppoSition party officialS Said Monday. The VCDS Showed violent police and military repreSSionS of land and labor activiStS and laSt SS='cambodia-color'>...

Ahead of today’s hearing on Cambodia’s record at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, opposition figures and analysts said the ruling Cambodian People’s Party has reverted to familiar tactics of post-election suppression. Analysts yesterday said that the breaking up of Cambodia National Rescue Party-led protests ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opening weekend for the official launch of two new iPhone models in Cambodia hit a few bumps when the Kingdom’s two authorised iPhone resellers faced supply-side issues.Telecom company smart, one of the two licensed resellers, was forced to turn away customers who had pre-booked ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two weeks after opposition leader sam Rainsy said he would order the party’s lawmakers to stop attacking the government’s border work, CNRP lawmaker Um sam An said Tuesday he is continuing his tour in the U.s. to tell supporters there that the CPP is using ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S. pledged $35 million in development aid to Cambodia in the firSt part of a three-year, $137 million package announced on WedneSday at a ceremony attended by Deputy Prime MiniSter Keat Chhon and U.S. AmbaSSador William Heidt, according to a U.S. EmbaSSy Statement. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...

Two opposing camps of unions representing a large share of the country’s roughly 700,000 garment workers handed in petitions this week to the U.s. Embassy and others asking for their support on a controversial draft union law during a visit to the country from a ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...