The Ministry of Mines and Energy yesterday said two mining firms will begin producing gold in upcoming months. Peng Navuth, under-secretary of state at the ministry, said Indian-owned Mesco Gold will begin extracting this year, while Australia’s Renaissance Minerals is likely to begin in 2020. Mr ss='cambodia-color'>...

Demining experts from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) on Monday cleared two Mark 82 (Mk 82) bombs in two separate locations. In Kampong speu province’s Phnom sruoch district, a villager discovered one bomb buried about 8m below ground, while another was found over 4m ss='cambodia-color'>...

A delegation from Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh city yesterday requested support from National Assembly President Heng samrin to set up a twin city arrangement between it and Phnom Penh. Kim san, deputy chief of Mr samrin’s cabinet, told reporters after the meeting that the delegation led ss='cambodia-color'>...

The EU and Germany have committed to help strengthen Cambodia’s economic integration with Asean member states by providing a €9.35 million ($10.5 million) fund to boost the Kingdom’s trade and investment in the region. The pledge falls under the Asean Regional Integration support – Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

A US M117 bomb weighing 340kg waS found in Kampong Speu province&rSquo;S Chamkar Doung village on Monday, with Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) officialS inSpecting the unexploded ordnance the following day, CMAC director Heng Ratana Said on TueSday. Ratana Said villagerS reported the diScovery to SS='cambodia-color'>...

The UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has agreed to postpone an audit of Cambodia’s aviation authority until June 2016 to give the agency more time to prepare.sinn Chanserey Vutha, spokesman of the state secretariat of Civil Aviation (ssCA) said yesterday that his organisation was ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has warned Mong Reththy Group (MRT), an investor in agro-industrial crops such as palm oil and cassava, that it must pay all outstanding back taxes on its economic land concession in sihanoukville’s Prey Nop district within three months, according to a document received ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rapid credit growth – increasingly financed by bank flows from abroad – poses significant risk to Cambodia’s economy and requires prudential policies to cool lending and reduce exposure, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned in a report released yesterday. It said while Cambodia’s short-term economic ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Japanese government will provide almost $30 million in grant aid to Cambodia to boost Phnom Penh’s public bus system and to strengthen ongoing demining operations. At a signing ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday, minister Long Visalo and outgoing Japanese Ambassador Yuji Kunamaru, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Launched last week, the Cambodia-Japanese Business Investment (CJBI) group aims to facilitate a dialogue between the two countries to bolster investment, and to help guide Japanese businesspeople through Cambodia’s often murky investment climate. The Post’s Cheng sokhorng sat down with Koem Oeurn, CJBI president, to ss='cambodia-color'>...

One of a farmer’s greatest enemies is heat. As many as 50 percent of the fruit and vegetables harvested in Cambodia are lost because of heat – lettuce wilts, onions become slimy, tomatoes turn to mush. Because of a lack of cold storage at most of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s central bank ‒ the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) ‒ is working closely with experts from the Us Treasury to set up a depositors’ protection scheme among banks in the country. This move was welcomed by the country’s banking industry with CEOs saying ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sam RainSy, the longtime leader of Cambodia&rSquo;S beleaguered democracy movement, reSigned aS preSident of the oppoSition CNRP on Saturday in the face of the government&rSquo;S threatS to diSSolve the entire party over hiS criminal record. The brief letter Said only that he waS reSigning for SS='cambodia-color'>...

India, the world’s second most populous nation, agreed to provide a $20 million concessional loan for the construction of electricity transmission lines in Cambodia after Prime Minister Hun sen’s official four-day visit to India. According to a joint statement, “The two governments agreed to sign a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has called on the Agriculture Ministry to do more to prevent land grabbing in the country’s endangered flooded forests.speaking at the closing ceremony of the Agriculture Ministry’s annual meeting yesterday, Mr. Hun sen said encroachment risks wiping out fish populations that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite a court-ordered land title in their favour, 163 families in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district last week watched excavators rip apart their homes at the behest of two district deputy governors. The forced eviction, denounced in a petition delivered on Friday to Prime Minister Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipality has begun construction work on a road skirting the area formerly taken up by the Boeng Kak lake, according to a statement posted on the city’s website. On Monday, the municipality held an inauguration ceremony for construction of a 615-meter concrete road ss='cambodia-color'>...

A long day of negotiations failed to resolve a factory dispute yesterday at a company that supplies to major international brands Gap, Levi’s and H&M. After more than 1,500 workers from sL Garment Processing (Cambodia) factories in the capital’s Meanchey district marched to the Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Criticism of the Cambodian People’s Party has been overt in recent months as those from Boeung Kak lake and Borei Keila have taken to the streets to vent their frustration and anger at their housing situations. But an equivalent backlash at the polls was nowhere to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of workers from factories owned by Tai Yang Enterprise in Kandal province’s Ang snuol district blocked National Road 4 for more than seven hours yesterday to push the company to meet their demands. May sopheaktra said workers decided to block the road after the companytried ss='cambodia-color'>...