Ten trucks fully loaded with timber have been spotted entering a heavily guarded sawmill near the Lower sesan II dam on an hourly basis, claimed a report by the Cambodian Human Rights Task Force (CHRTF), which was released yesterday. According to the report, photos taken from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Private-sector representatives in Cambodia are deeply concerned by the government’s inability to reduce the cost of doing business in the country, and they warn that the country would start to lose investors if the situation did not improve. At a logistics forum hosted by the European ss='cambodia-color'>...

Exset has selected Hyundai Digital Technology (HDT) as its sTB strategic partner, where HDT is presently providing MPEG4 set-Top-Box service (sTBs) for One TV, the first nationwide digital terrestrial TV platform service in Cambodia. Cambodian televisions are expected to switch to Digital Video Broadcasting Terrestrial ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has announced that Cambodia’s total land mass is some 300 square kilometers more than historically stated and wants to put the number in the constitution. His announcement is thought to be a response to political opponents and critics who accuse ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of human-rights activists are staging flash “faint-ins” at high-street retailers across Europe to illustrate the high incidence of mass fainting in Cambodia’s apparel factories. Protestors from the Clean Clothes Campaign, an alliance of organizations in 15 European countries dedicated to improving working conditions in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen on Friday ordered investors in economic land concessions (ELC) to pay tax from the sixth year of their investment in a bid to speed up their agricultural production. The premier decided that investment companies receiving ELCs must pay the land tax ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s waterways are significantly under-used for the transport of commodities such as rice, and enhanced infrastructure and a review of government fees is needed at the Kingdom’s ports to make exports more competitive, industry experts say. According to figures from the Alliance of Rice Producers and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mates are more important than anything else for Paul Ouk, an Australian-born and raised ethnic Khmer. “It’s not about the money, it’s about the people,” says Ouk, who owns Me Mates Place, a guesthouse on street 90 and a restaurant and bar on street 88 called, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rapidly increasing logistics costs and low regional rice prices would hinder Cambodia’s rice-export target this year, with one expert saying that milled-rice exports could fall to half of last year’s shipments. The cost of shipping rice to Europe climbed by more than 50 per cent between ss='cambodia-color'>...

StudentS, NGO workerS and map enthuSiaStS came together Saturday in Phnom Penh to contribute information to an online map of Cambodia aS part of a worldwide mapping effort, the event&rSquo;S organizerS Said yeSterday. The global project, known aS the OpenStreetMap Project (OSM), uSeS a Similar concept SS='cambodia-color'>...

A Thai ban on Cambodian corn and other agricultural products led to a 65 per cent year-on-year drop in the Kingdom’s corn exports during the first two months of the year, officials claimed yesterday. January and February exports fell to 2,333 tonnes from 6,694 a year ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cheju Halla, a Korean university, plans to build a university of tourism and hospitality in siem Reap next year, Tourism Minister Thong Khon told reporters yesterday at a meeting with Han soo Kim, the new south Korean ambassador to Cambodia. The Ministry of Tourism has requested ss='cambodia-color'>...

Utilities giant Electricite de France (EdF) is preparing to en­ter negotiations with Cambodia over the construction of a power plant to use up natural gas locked up in disputed waters off the country’s coast, France’s ambassador-in-waiting to Cambodia said on Tuesday. serge Mostura, who is still ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a land dispute with overtones of last week’s deadly eviction in Kratie province, villagers in Mondolkiri province yesterday said dozens of police were surrounding their houses and threatening to force them out of a private land concession. sen sophon, one of about 200 families in ss='cambodia-color'>...

He Guoqiang, a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party’s Politburo standing Committee, yesterday announced a donation of about $110,000 worth of office equipment to the CPP, National Assembly Cabinet Chief Koam Kosal said. The donation was made during the official visit to Cambodia of a ss='cambodia-color'>...

In his first public speech following this week’s AsEAN summit, Prime Minister Hun sen offered lavish praise for China’s financial largesse and congratulations for its newly appointed Communist Party heads. speaking to thousands of villagers during a ceremony to inaugurate National Road 8 in Prey ss='cambodia-color'>...

The amount of air cargo entering and leaving Phnom Penh increased by almost 40 percent last year, and nearly 100,000 more business travelers to the capital were recorded during the first 11 months of last year compared to the same period in 2011, data from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian company Soma Group haS Signed a joint-venture agreement with Thai-baSed CP Intertrade to build and operate a $20 million rice mill that will proceSS fragrant rice for export. InduStry inSiderS Say the mill will increaSe Cambodia&rSquo;S rice export capacity and booSt the Kingdom&rSquo;S ability to SS='cambodia-color'>...

WITH the passing of a law on farmers’ co-operatives, the government hopes to streng-then the country’s growing agricultural sector, Prime Minister Hun sen said in a speech at the National Institute of Education yesterday. “In time, I believe that economic growth will be tremendous in rural ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government announced new plans for developing both transportation and rural sanitation at the annual meeting of the Ministry of Rural Development at the Chaktomuk Conference Hall in Phnom Penh yesterday. According to officials at the event, the ministry will be completing by year’s end a ss='cambodia-color'>...