Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC), a Cambodian agricultural organiSation, will collect US$20 million from the Kingdom&rSquo;S farmerS through 2022 in an attempt to accumulate capital for organic rice production. Oun Sophal, preSident of CEDAC&rSquo;S Farmer Network from Kampot province&rSquo;S Dang Tong SS='cambodia-color'>...

This year’s dry spell could be an opportunity rather than a disaster for farmers, Cambodian Center for study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC) officials said yesterday. Although drought has destroyed several thousand hectares of crops in the past two months, Cambodia’s largest agricultural NGO is encouraging farmers to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Loans and deposits at Cambodia’s 32 micro-finance institutions and four NGOs, as well as small loans from Acleda Bank, rose sharply last year compared with a year earlier. Industry players say this is a result of the Kingdom’s rapid economic improvement and political stability. Official data from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Acleda Bank will break ground on a 20-story tower directly behind its current headquarters on Monivong Boulevard in september to become the third bank in the country to push ahead with a high-rise property in the capital, officials at the bank said yesterday. John Brinsden, Acleda’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Throngs of young Cambodian People’s Party supporters have gathered on the corners of sihanouk and sothearos Boulevards for days now, their mere presence a testament to the CPP’s ostensibly broad-based popularity. They represent a powerful voting bloc in a country where the lion’s share of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Thailand went down by 2.3 percent during the first quarter of this year, according to the statistics released by [the] Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh on Monday. Officials said the drop was due to “Thai baht appreciation, not ongoing border conflict” ss='cambodia-color'>...

This year’s weather has proven too hot for the Kingdom’s famous Kampot pepper, as yields of the spice dropped for the first time since 2008. some 22 tonnes of pepper were harvested this year between January and May, short of the 27 tonnes predicted for this ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s General Department of Taxation said Monday it had collected 606 million U.s. dollars of tax [sic] in the first eight months of the year, up 17 percent compared with the same period last year. The revenue came from tax on profit, withholding tax, tax on ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly on Tuesday has issued the list names of chairman, vice-chairman and commission chairman in the National Assembly. Here are the list of the National Assembly’s components in fifth mandate: — Heng samrin, National Assembly chairman. — Nguon Nhil, National Assembly’s first vice-chairman. — Khuon sodary, National ss='cambodia-color'>...

Management at the Chhin Chin garment factory yesterday agreed to meet workers’ demands to receive their wages before the Pchum Ben holiday after a 150-worker demonstration briefly blocked National Road 4 in front of the factory. Workers at the factory, which is located in Phnom Penh’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition officials in Poipet have requested the provincial government intervene after a village chief on Monday confiscated a book of Cambodia National Rescue Party supporters’ thumbprints. Mean sarith, chief of the CNRP working group in the border town, said seng Long, the Cambodian People’s Party village ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of domestic and foreign tourists visiting historical sites and the Kingdom’s coastal areas increased sharply during this year’s three-day Khmer New Year, according to provincial tourism departments. Data from siem Reap’s tourism department show 258,000 tourists visited the city of ancient temples, an increase ss='cambodia-color'>...

The ouster of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck shinawatra by that country’s Constitutional Court yesterday reverberated throughout the region, raising questions about how a Thailand without Yingluck at the helm would get along with its neighbours. But Cambodian officials and analysts were broadly in agreement that little ss='cambodia-color'>...

Generals and two other air force officers, according to the country’s defense minister, who said strong winds may have led to the tragedy. Minister of Defense Tea Banh said that the cause of the crash into a pond about six miles (10 kilometers) south of Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has distanced itself from Australia’s still unsigned deal to transfer refugees from the Nauru refugee detention center for resettlement in Cambodia, one of southeast Asia’s poorest nations. First raised in February, the cash-for-refugees deal is believed to be imminent. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite outcry from medical students, the government is refusing to reduce the latest in a string of proposed fee hikes, this one nearly doubling the charge for the University of Health science’s exit exam. In a letter sent to the university’s rector on Friday, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s young adults are using methamphetamines at one of the highest rates in the world, according to a recent report by the UN’s drug watchdog, while demand for more upscale drugs like ecstasy is growing among the affluent. In an annual report released Tuesday by the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The head of the National Assembly’s top human rights commission has warned Banteay Meanchey’s provincial governor to settle a land dispute involving 230 disabled soldiers’ families from the province’s Malai district, saying he will be sacked if the matter is not settled within three months. After ss='cambodia-color'>...

The launch of an unrated Laotian government bond on Thailand’s bond market could pave the way for Cambodia to issue its own government bond denominated in Thai baht. The Bangkok Post reported yesterday that Thailand’s Finance Ministry and Public Debt Management Office had allowed Cambodia, Vietnam ss='cambodia-color'>...

Preparations for this year’s Angkor sangkran, siem Reap’s largest cultural event, are almost complete, with half a million tourists expected to join in the celebration during Khmer New Year, according to provincial officials. Of the anticipated 500,000 visitors this year, the majority are expected to be ss='cambodia-color'>...