India’s top parliamentary official Om Birla’s talks with Cambodian officials centred on parliamentary exchanges, trade and commerce, education, culture, capacity building, development, cooperation and restoration of temples, the Indian Embassy in Phnom Penh said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet said on Tuesday that the government has reserved $100 million for boosting the country’s agricultural sector. ss='cambodia-color'>...

ASEAN leaderS have agreed in principle to allow Timor-LeSte &ndaSh; ASia&rSquo;S youngeSt nation &ndaSh; to become the regional bloc&rSquo;S 11th member. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet reaffirmed the Royal Government’s commitment to prioritising the education and health sectors. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ruling party Senator Ly Yong Phat haS kept a promiSe to Stop hiS company&rSquo;S dredging operationS on Koh Kong province&rSquo;S Tatai river, relieved buSineSS ownerS and reSidentS living along the waterway Said yeSterday. But provincial officialS confirmed that aS the Senator&rSquo;S dredging boatS moved on to SS='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials and a representative at Unesco in Phnom Penh yesterday said that sotheby’s in New York had no right to a 10th-century Khmer statue worth more than $2 million that Us federal agents were expected to seize from the auction house today. On Wednesday, New ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s transport costs remain high compared with those in neighbouring countries, according to a 10-container shipment comparison conducted between Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam by a Korean-owned company, Pan Continental Freight (PCF). The comparison found Cambodia’s free on board (FOB) costs were Us$35 a tonne, whereas Thailand ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s annual prahok season began Wednesday along the Tonle sap River, with fishermen unloading boatloads of tiny fish onto weigh stations along the riverbank. But due to low water levels during this year’s five-day migration season, fishermen and buyers were predicting a poor catch, both in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mega U.S. retailer Walmart haS denied allegationS that it buyS food productS from a Thai Seafood factory accuSed of trafficking and miStreating Cambodian workerS. In a report releaSed on TueSday, the Cambodian Legal Education Center (CLEC), which haS Sent Staff to inveStigate the Phatthana Seafood Co. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Land governance policies in Asia, especially concessions made to private companies, are leaving the region’s poorest vulnerable to human rights abuses, experts say. “Land-grabbing by the rich and powerful continues,” suson Bunsak, executive secretary of the Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee, said at the recent Asia ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Australian senate yesterday urged the Cambodian government to run free and fair national elections next year without the “harassment or intimidation” of opposition leader sam Rainsy, who remains in self-imposed exile avoiding an 11-year jail sentence. The appeal comes only days after the European Parliament ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Justice will not press the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to review the case of 13 Boeng Kak residents sentenced to jail last month for demonstrating against a CPP senator’s real estate project, despite asking the court to consider releasing the women. Now that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday marked National Fish Day by urging the public to report anyone fishing inside the Tonle sap conservation area he established earlier this year to help protect and revive the lake’s vital fish stocks. “People have to dare to stand up and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian export values increased more than 21 per cent in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period last year, and officials said the rise was a positive sign for the Kingdom’s economic growth. According to the Ministry of Commerce’s export data ss='cambodia-color'>...

Because Cambodia’s youth has not focused enough on studying technical or engineering subjects, the Kingdom now faces a lack of human resources and the Ministry of Education, Youth and sports plans to reform the country’s education system, according to the minister in charge. Minister Im sethy ss='cambodia-color'>...

A national silk board (NsB) under the Ministry of Commerce is being planned to weave tighter regulations into the Kingdom’s silk industry, the lack of which has deterred investors and hurt its export potential, according to industry representatives. Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said last week ss='cambodia-color'>...

A delegation of 15 Indian firms is in Cambodia this week looking to increase the country’s involvement in Cambodia’s economy, particularly in the agriculture and mining sectors. At present, Cambodia does modest trade with India, the second largest country in the world by population. But the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following a considerable increase in Cambodia’s milled rice exports in the first four months of the year, Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said he was optimistic the Kingdom’s rice exports would reach the 2015 target of one million tonnes. With this year’s export figures notably higher ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s main opposition party staged another mass rally in the capital on sunday, vowing to keep up its political fight in the aftermath of national elections they say were rigged. Around 10,000 people turned out for the protest in Phnom Penh. The demonstration was part of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Royal Cambodian government is continuing talks with Us major Chevron regarding the delayed Block A offshore project that would be the Asean member nation’s first indigenous hydrocarbon development. In August 2010, eight years after being awarded the block, Chevron issued a declaration of commerciality and ss='cambodia-color'>...