The ruling Cambodian People’s Party passed the government’s $4.3 billion budget for 2016 unopposed yesterday as Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers followed through on a pledge to sit out the National Assembly session if concerns for their members’ safety were not addressed. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnam, a major buyer of the Cambodian cashew nut, has unveiled a plan to purchase cashews in even greater volumes during next year’s harvest season, giving hope to farmers who rely on selling their crops at good prices from February through May. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The CPP claims to have received 390 defections as of Monday. They include one lawmaker, 33 provincial and district councillors, and 356 commune officials, of whom 33 are commune chiefs. The chiefs account for around 7 percent of the 489 CNRP chiefs elected in June, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Absent any legitimate competition, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party swept all 58 elected seats in sunday’s senate elections, giving it near-absolute control in the upper house of parliament, according to preliminary results. The four-party ballot was expected to be a blowout for the CPP, given its ss='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank has predicted that Cambodia’s GDP will grow at a more modest 6.9 percent this year and next, and slow slightly to 6.7 percent in 2019.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

An $8 million bond set to debut on singapore’s stock exchange will mobilise private capital to support social enterprises and microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines, providing nearly half a million women in these countries with more access to credit in order ss='cambodia-color'>...

Singapore-baSed oil and gaS company KriSEnergy iS Scheduled to Sign an agreement with the Cambodian government next WedneSday for the extraction of petroleum from Block A to develop the ASpara oil field. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen’s middle son, Hun Manith, was among 28 officers to receive high-level promotions in the military, with the now three-star general continuing his rise through the ranks of the armed forces and ruling party. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Senate election campaign kicked off with little fanfare on Saturday, with only the ruling Cambodian People&rSquo;S Party holding a large public event. The campaign period will laSt 14 dayS, ending two dayS before the February 25 pollS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Lawyers have called on Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit to implement transparent reporting on monetary donations it receives from individual politicians and government groups. During an anti-corruption training session on Friday, they pointed out the incapacitating influence the ACU would face if it tried to investigate a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two French nationals were attacked and robbed over the weekend in separate incidents near the National Museum at the corner of streets 13 and 178 in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, police and friends of the victims said Monday. Following the two robberies, a tourism ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police and deminers in Kandal province on Wednesday removed from a riverbank a 241-kg Mark 82 bomb, of the kind the U.s. dropped on Cambodia in the heavy bombing that took place during its war against neighboring Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) arrested two border officials from on corruption charges. A source said that sok Hak and Em sophat were arrested last week after they asked a Hochi Minh-Phnom Penh buses to pay UsD 250. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of vendors who have been told to vacate their positions outside siem Reap’s Angkor Kyung Yu Night Market on Monday got into a shoving match with city officials and police who were attempting to inspect the area prior to the deadline for their ss='cambodia-color'>...

Pailin provincial authorities are searching for a suspect who allegedly commissioned the excavation of a gold mine on land the protection of which is funded by the foundation of American actress Angelina Jolie. Provincial environmental police are holding three men at a spot where they were ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kampong Speu palm Sugar exportS with geographical indication (GI) StatuS have increaSed in the paSt year, aS international buyerS begin to appreciate the Cambodia-Specific product. Export volumeS of the Sugar reached 50 tonneS in 2014, according to Kampong Speu Palm Sugar Promotion ASSociation&rSquo;S (KSPSPA) preSident, Sam SS='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty-two Chinese nationals were arrested at a rented villa in svay Rieng City on saturday on suspicion of extorting money from people overseas using Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, technology, police said sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The president of the Cambodian Investment Federation on sunday highlighted the critical role of e-commerce in the local market as the government works to turn the Kingdom into a digital economy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A European Parliament resolution last week calling for the possible suspension of Cambodia’s preferential trade status prompted a strong reaction from Prime Minister Hun sen, who yesterday sternly dared the bloc to “cut it!” speaking to garment factory workers on Koh Pich yesterday, the premier said Cambodia would ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) has said it will consider concerns voiced by United Nations special Rapporteur Rhona smith over peaceful assembly to promote human rights in the Kingdom. ss='cambodia-color'>...