In light of global predictions of a slowdown in economic markets, led largely by China’s slackening growth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday offered Cambodia advice on short and longer term measures to help maintain growth. It also warned that the country’s rapid credit growth ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Transport Ministry seized 642 overloaded trucks throughout the country and leveraged fines worth more than $250,000 last month. The ministry issued a report on Wednesday, saying it had seized 642 overloaded trucks nationwide and issued fines totaling $267,627 during the month. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The kingdom’s first wastewater treatment plant will be built in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district, with $27 million in assistance from the Japan International Cooperation Agency. sam Piseth, director of the municipal department of public works and transport, told reporters on saturday that the treatment plant would ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia traded shots with the international community in a heated exchange at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday evening, with states condemning the Kingdom’s ongoing crackdown on the political opposition and civil society, and an increasingly agitated Cambodia accusing member states of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Tax Department’s Kong Vibol on saturday said English-language newspaper the Cambodia Daily faced shuttering and the seizure of its assets if it failed to pay back taxes it allegedly owes by september 4 – a seeming escalation in the government’s recent targeting of NGOs and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) will spend $35 million to build a concrete bridge across the Tonle sap River from the sokimex  gasoline station in Russey Keo district to the Prek Tasek commune in Chroy Changvar district. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two leaked audio tapes, purportedly of Prime Minister Hun sen speaking candidly to senior officials, appear to hint at insecurities within the ruling party over the controversial dissolution of the country’s main opposition, with the premier warning that the party’s “struggle” didn’t end with the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The 38-year-old former governor of Ratanakkiri province’s Banlung city was apprehended in Phnom Penh yesterday nearly six months after a warrant for his arrest was issued.Keng sokunthea, deputy director of the Interior Ministry’s penal department, said his officials arrested Ouk sam Ol in front of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Canadian exploration company Angkor Gold announced on Tuesday that it agreed to buy back all shares sold to investors in 2014, through its net smelter rights (NsR) scheme in the Kingdom’s first commercial underground gold mine in Phum syarung, in Rattanakiri’s O’Yadaw district – now ss='cambodia-color'>...

Keep out of Cambodia’s internal affairs.This was the message delivered yesterday by Cambodia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Prak sokhonn to country director for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Wan-Hea Lee at a meeting to discuss cooperation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thai soldiers arrested seven Cambodians on Friday who crossed into Thailand from Pailin province while logging illegally.​ Chhun Chheuy, acting police chief of Pailin town, which borders with Chanthaburi province’s Pong Nam Ron district, said the group was made up of Cambodians from multiple provinces. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kry Lay lined up in early June to vote for the party he wanted to run Kampong Cham province’s srak commune in the eastern part of the country. A former sam Rainsy Party commune, the locale’s electorate delivered what Lay, a local farmer, wanted – ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian women make up less than 3 percent of the military’s upper echelons, the ministries of defence and women’s affairs confirmed yesterday. Just 88 women hold ranks of one-star general and above, with one solitary woman ranked a four-star general and a deputy commander-in-chief of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Canadia’s Bank’s futuristic $100 million Riviera project on Koh Pich Island will begin construction early in 2013, according to a company spokesman. Riviera project manager Chen Hok said that two 28-storey buildings and three buildings of 38 storeys will be built in early 2013, while they ss='cambodia-color'>...

Farmers in Pailin province have complained about a shortage of workers during this year’s corn and cassava harvesting season. Meas Loeun, team leader of Momean Moy community’s 38 teams in Pailin, said the shortage of workers to help harvest corn and cassava is a major challenge ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following the release of the country’s first nationwide economic census earlier this year, the government is now planning to carry out a similar census dedicated to the agriculture sector, a government official said yesterday. Minister of Agriculture Chan sarun announced the government’s intention to carry out ss='cambodia-color'>...

A lobby group says three separate mass fainting incidents this week that took place at two Cambodian garment factories “speaks volumes” about the issue, because both workplaces have relatively good reputations for worker’s rights. More than 140 workers fainted on Wednesday and Thursday at Kandal’s QMI ss='cambodia-color'>...

Unionists and labour rights officials are applauding a website scheduled to go live today that will hold to account garment factories that flout Cambodia’s labour law. The site, created and maintained by the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program, will publicly name factories ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) senior official has appealed to opposition leaders to let their lawmakers to fight with the CPP lawmakers who are waiting in the National Assembly. The opposition leaders recently reaffirmed the CNRP’s position that they would not join the National Assembly ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mondulkiri villagers seized seven chainsaws on Tuesday from illegal loggers claiming to be selling timber to logging tycoon Try Pheap’s company. A group of ethnic Pnong villagers came across the three illegal loggers during a patrol of their community forest on Tuesday, according to Bil Vanthy, ss='cambodia-color'>...