Cambodia’s newly appointed minister of commerce said Thursday that he plans to reform the country’s economy ahead of Cambodia’s entrance into the Asean Economic Community (AEC) 2015, though he and other officials did not say how they plan to accomplish that goal. speaking to reporters on ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) will push for a re-election if Prime Minister Hun sen’s government continues to refuse calls for an independent probe into widespread irregularities in the July polls, the opposition party’s deputy president, Kem sokha, said Tuesday. He warned that the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has agreed to review its resettlement agreement with families relocated from railways as part of an Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded rehabilitation project, but has refused a recommendation to set up a debt-relief scheme for the evictees, according to an action plan released by ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Meat prices on Phnom Penh’s markets have seen large gains over the first half of the year, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce’s Trade Promotion Department. Economics Institute of Cambodia senior Researcher Neou sieha said yesterday that meat prices had seen significant increase ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Japan energy company yesterday said it planned to build a rice mill fuelled by rice husks in Cambodia’s Takeo province. New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Kingdom’s Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy (MIME) confirming cooperation ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozns of construction workers in Oddar Meanchey province’s Trapaing Prasat district protested on Wednesday, demanding more than $7,000 in wages their company owed them. The more than 30 workers were employed to construct a building at a sugarcane factory owned by Oknha Vinh Hour in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Land Management on Monday said it cannot help the 292 families involved in a land dispute with Oknha sieng Chan Heng’s Heng Aphivath Company in Kandal province’s Kandal stung district, because a court verdict has already found the land to be the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen joined City Hall officials on Thursday to break ground on what is slated to become a $22 million overpass near the capital’s Choam Chao roundabout. This will become Phnom Penh’s sixth flyover and will be undertaken, as was the five others, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition activists from across Cambodia are expected to descend on Phnom Penh today, bringing a petition for CNRP lawmakers to deliver to the King, even as the National Assembly’s permanent committee determines whether to allow a criminal case against the party’s acting president, Kem sokha, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite used car sellers dominating the Kingdom’s automobile market, Tri Petch Isuzu sales Co. Ltd, the sole distributor of Isuzu vehicles in the region, is confident in the sales of its new D-Max Blue Power high utility vehicles in Cambodia due to the country’s fast ss='cambodia-color'>...

More males are applying  for jobs online compared to females, highlighting a deep gender division in the country’s workforce, according to Everjobs Cambodia’s second quarter career report. “Over 68 percent of online applications came from male job seekers and only 32 percent from female applicants,” said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Experts warn that Cambodia still faces the prospect of violence and atrocities, as human rights abuse and other social injustices persist.But Cambodia’s leaders still have the “responsibility to protect” the country’s citizens, according to standards issued by the UN. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 residents of Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district gathered at Phnom Penh’s restive samakki Raingsey pagoda on Wednesday ahead of a planned march calling for justice in their long-running land dispute.    ss='cambodia-color'>...

The nation’s drug czar yesterday described a prison and rehab centre system in which drugs were being sold under the noses of the authorities and suggested police estimates of the number of drug users in Cambodia were “not enough” as he spoke at the Interior ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amid a staunch defence of the performance of a newly formed illegal logging committee’s recent crackdown and remarks on concerns over gun control, National Military Police Commander sao sokha took time out to address his now infamous year-old comments on Adolf Hitler yesterday at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Protesters from Phnom Penh’s lakeside communities spent an hour facing off with police on Thursday on a road on the former Boeng Kak lake before turning around and taking a different route to the National Assembly, where they demanded an end to the infilling and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bank of Ayudhya Pcl (Krungsri), Thailand’s fifth largest financial group and a subsidiary of Japan’s leading financial group Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has acquired a 100-per-cent stake of Hattha Kaksekar Limited (HKL), one of the leading microfinance institutions in Cambodia, for an undisclosed amount. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the AsEAN Economic Community (AEC) raises Cambodia’s profile as a member of one of the world’s largest trade zones, investors around the world are considering Cambodia as a gateway to the region and it should take advantage of this opportunity by diversifying its economic ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP), which operates the capital’s river port, reported a decline in container traffic during the first quarter of the year, raising questions about the newly listed company’s ability to meet its double-digit revenue and earnings projections – though analysts say it ss='cambodia-color'>...