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Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday called on labour unions to immediately stop organising demonstrations and strikes to “illegally” demand benefits from factory owners. He said such actions could spin out of hand and force around two-thirds of the Kingdom’s factories, approximately 800 of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tourism officials and industry insiders say the upcoming election is not affecting the flow on tourists into the Kingdom. Kong sophearak, director of the statistics Department of the Ministry of Tourism, told Khmer Times that despite this month’s election and the ongoing political rallies throughout ss='cambodia-color'>...

A truck transporting timber overturned on Thursday evening, killing one person and injured another. The incident at sen Monorom commune, in Mondulkiri province’s O’Raing district, has added spark to the ongoing debate on forest crimes in the province. The province’s traffic police bureau director Yoem ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on sunday urged the public to grow fruits and vegetables organically as these are healthier alternatives to crops grown using agrochemicals. Mr Hun sen posted on his Facebook page that the Kingdom’s land was fertile and suitable for growing fruits and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Apsara Authority is stepping up its efforts to manage and maintain forest cover surrounding the Angkor World Heritage site in siem Reap province. At a meeting with about 250 officials and staff members of the authority’s forestry department on Wednesday, Hang Peou, deputy director-general ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (EuroCham) expressed its “serious concerns” on Monday over the “long-term negative impacts” of the EU removing the Kingdom’s access to the preferential Everything But Arms (EBA} agreement. It also expressed “hope that a dialogue can be implemented to ss='cambodia-color'>...

King Norodom Sihamoni told ChineSe PreSident Xi Jinping that Cambodia would further Support hiS overSeaS inveStment Strategy, which haS been criticized by the U.S.&nbSp;King Norodom Sihamoni Said during a viSit to Beijing that Cambodia iS prepared to further Support China&rSquo;S overSeaS inveStment Strategy, known aS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Exports from special Economic Zones (sEZs) in Cambodia are projected to reach about 1.2 billion U.s. dollars this year, up 87 percent year-on-year, a local English newspaper reported Tuesday, citing figures from the Commerce Ministry.Exports from sEZs totalled 672 million U.s. dollars last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 500 garment workers at the Mastex Incam factory in Phnom Penh’s Por sen Chey district went on strike yesterday demanding better working conditions and benefits.The workers claim their employer has violated their rights under Cambodia’s labour law, and that their requests for intervention made ss='cambodia-color'>...

On Monday, Prime Minister Hun sen announced a new phase of the Public Financial Management Reform Program, a donor-assisted initiative established in 2004 to bolster the country’s ability to soundly manage its budget. In a speech at the launch event, he touted the government’s progress ss='cambodia-color'>...

The double-digit growth of consumer lending in Cambodia has created a need for a comprehensive and centralised database of individual credit histories. The Post’s Cam McGrath sat down with Pascal Ly, CEO of the Credit Bureau Cambodia (CBC), to discuss the role of the Kingdom’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bangladesh ranked 125th out of 132 countries on the Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI) for 2016, five places up from last year. However, there is a great internal variance within the region: Australia’s Attitude score stands at 75.2, whereas Cambodia’s 10.6, which is the lowest in ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 500 garment workers from a shuttered garment factory in the capital’s Dangkor district are demanding their salaries after the firm’s owner ran away.According to its website, the Chinese-owned Muse Garment (Cambodia) Factory Limited produced pants and shorts exclusively for the European market. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand’s listed Eastern Water Resources Development and Management Plc’s subsidiary Universal Utilities Plc. a tap water provider, plans to spend some 200 million baht ($6 million) a year to buy water from the still to be built stung Nam hydroelectric dam in Koh Kong province ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s central bank purchased a total of $479.4 million worth of cash during the first half of this year to convert to riel, utilising one of the few tools the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) has to stabilise the value of the local currency and ss='cambodia-color'>...

For millennia, rice has been the backbone of Cambodia’s all-encompassing agricultural sector. But with global rice prices falling and neighbouring countries such as Thailand and Vietnam mobilising their vast resources and workforces to boost domestic production, experts say the crop that has underpinned the nation’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Financial literacy as a school subject to increase students’ knowledge about money will be introduced nationwide through the first phase of the Cambodian school Curriculum Project, with the Ministry of Education collaborating with the National Bank of Cambodia, Asian Development Bank, Good Return and the ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 500 dead Cambodians were repatriated from Thailand in the first six months of 2017, according to an Interior Ministry official. Chou Bun Eng, secretary of state at the ministry, said yesterday the 500 bodies were repatriated through three checkpoints in Banteay Meanchey province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Foreign Affairs Ministry expects to complete construction on its first training institute for local diplomats in the next 18 months, officials said Monday. Foreign Affairs Ministry spokes-man Chum sounry said work on the National Institute for Diplomatic and Relations of International study began in December. ss='cambodia-color'>...