Cambodia has provided examples of “best practices” in the fight against human trafficking for a forthcoming Asean convention against the trafficking of people, experts said Friday at the close of a two-day conference in Phnom Penh on irregular migration and human trafficking. The Asean region is ss='cambodia-color'>...

CNRP Vice President Kem sokha used a radio interview on Wednesday night to clarify his stance on the talks last week between Prime Minister Hun sen and CNRP President sam Rainsy to end the post-election deadlock, in which a date for a new election was ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some three hourS&rSquo; drive from the SceneS of violence unfolding in Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Freedom Park yeSterday, the Cambodia National ReScue Party found diStance no remedy for what it termed a calculated attempt at intimidation. AS authoritieS blocked roadS leading to a planned public meeting at the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Kem Gunawadh, the long-serving director-general of TVK who helped set up the state broadcaster in 1983, resigned abruptly on saturday in what his successor said was a reaction to government criticism over his decision not to broadcast live that morning’s annual Royal Plowing Ceremony. The resignation ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh’s first solar-powered building looks for all the world like a cube of colored Lego blocks dropped in a factory lot on the city’s industrial outskirts. Covered in some 1,350 solar panels — including large panes of multi-colored solar glass — the three-story building ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia exported more than 282,071 tonnes of rubber last year, a 30 per cent increase from 2018’s 217,501 tonnes, a Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries report said. The commodity reeled in $377 million in revenue last year, up 32 per cent from 2018’s $286 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Oil production in Cambodia may not begin until 2016, or at least three years after the originally appointed date, Chevron officials reportedly said at a Ministry of Environment meeting on Friday. Government officials yesterday confirmed the feasibility of the time frame. If Chevron Overseas Petroleum Cambodia gained ss='cambodia-color'>...

A European parliamentarian has submitted a “priority question” to Europe’s high representative for foreign affairs, Frederica Mogherini, urging strong action against Cambodia in response to recent threats by Prime Minister Hun sen to dissolve opposition parties. EU Ambassador to Cambodia George Edgar yesterday agreed it’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

SACOMBANK yeSterday announced the launch of itS new SubSidiary, the 100 per cent foreign-owned Sacombank Cambodia Plc, which iS Set to target the Kingdom&rSquo;S rural population. The VietnameSe commercial bank planS to open brancheS throughout the country&rSquo;S provinceS to provide banking ServiceS to a larger croSS-Section SS='cambodia-color'>...

Golden Fortune SecuritieS, a Cambodian-ChineSe joint venture and the Kingdom&rSquo;S Second SecuritieS dealer, officially opened itS doorS yeSterday. The company waS the moSt recent of Cambodia&rSquo;S 13 licenSed dealerS, brokerS and underwriterS to launch operationS. A date for company liStingS, or actual Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange operationS, waS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Crocodile farmers in siem Reap are turning away from the export of hatchlings to Vietnam, choosing instead sell the reptiles for their skins. Luon Nam, president of the province’s Crocodile Feeding Association, said yesterday the reliance on Vietnam was an unsustainable strategy for the industry. Any change ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s consumer price index tracked a 1.4 percent increase in May over April, according to National Institute of statistics’ latest figures. Prices at the end of May were 6.5 percent higher than the same date the year previous, the figures show. Experts said Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 70 monks and nuns embarked on the 22nd Dhammayietra peace walk yesterday in Oddar Meanchey province’s samraong City to promote nonviolence and honor the legacy of the walk’s late founder, Venerable Maha Ghosananda. The six-day pilgrimage, during which participants will walk 135 km through five ss='cambodia-color'>...

Several dayS after a report that AuStralian tranSportation company Toll HoldingS would abandon itS Stake in a joint venture to operate Cambodia&rSquo;S railway SyStem, the company remained Silent Friday on itS future planS here. “Let&rSquo;S wait for the truth rather than make aSSumptionS,” he added. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The region’s finance ministers on Friday set a May launch date for the AsEAN Infrastructure Fund (AIF), a financing project expected to lend as much as Us$4 billion to member countries through 2020. speaking at the opening the ministers’ meeting, Prime Minister Hun sen called ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 300 people from six villages in Pursat province’s Kbal Trach commune protested yesterday outside Pheapimex Group’s Krakor district office, the latest confrontation in a land dispute that stretches back 13 years. Villager representative Duok sary said they had come to demand that the company ss='cambodia-color'>...

Residents here yesterday expressed concern about the lack of energy during the count process for sunday’s national election. Many in Kampong siem district’s Koh Mit commune said that they felt indifferent, even as the National Election Committee said that the voter turnout rate in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction of the Kingdom’s first-ever highway, stretching 190 kilometres to connect Phnom Penh and sihanoukville, was confirmed to start in November. The highway will begin in Phnom Penh’s Chaom Chao area, starting at street Tom Nop Kop srov, which links national roads 4 and 5, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A woman fainted on Wednesday following a confrontation with police while she and 800 other protesters were marching to Prime Minister Hun sen’s residence in the capital to deliver a petition. The protesters were among 1,642 families who have been locked in a long-running land ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday announced the creation of a foundation to raise money to support the country’s five Kantha Bopha children’s hospitals in Phnom Penh and siem Reap. Hun sen also said tycoon Kith Meng had donated property valued at $8 million that ss='cambodia-color'>...