Prime Minister Hun sen opened the 30th AsEAN Ministers on Energy Meeting yesterday in Phnom Penh, where AsEAN officials will focus on AsEAN green energy and develop a plan for AsEAN’s power grid, officials said. Victor Jona, deputy director general of energy of the General Department ss='cambodia-color'>...

Citibank, one of the largest banks in the United states and the World, is seeking for investment opportunities in Cambodia, a bank senior official said Tuesday. During a meeting with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Cambodian Keat Chhon on Tuesday afternoon, Darren Buckley, country ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers evicted from the former sambok Chab community in the capital’s Dangkor district in 2006 face eviction for the second time – this time without any compensation, evictees told the Post yesterday. According to villager Heng Pheng Chun, 26, authorities in Por sen Chey district have ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen said on Monday that the Kingdom’s economic growth is forecast to grow at 7 per cent this year, according to news agency reports. “We still maintain our forecast of  7 per cent growth and the latest forecast showed that the inflation rate ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 50 workers from four garment factories in the capital’s Vattanac Industrial Park 2 had fainted yesterday, police said, but a union representative put the figure at more than 200 – which is the number who collapsed at the same site just a day ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local authorities in the capital’s Russey Keo district had offered residents living along the banks of the Tonle sap $500 compensation in the wake of sand dredging that began a week ago and has already caused structural damage to their homes, villagers told the Post ss='cambodia-color'>...

Export to Vietnam climbed more than 57 per cent year on year in the first quarter of 2012 as farmers looked for alternative destinations for products that went to Thailand last year. The primarily agricultural exports to Cambodia’s eastern neighbour were worth Us$201.5 million, up from ss='cambodia-color'>...

German sports brand Adidas yesterday denied allegations that its Cambodian factory, which produces Olympic merchandise, was not paying workers a sustainable living wage. The London Organizing Committee for the 2012 Olympic Games (Locog) said on sunday it would investigate claims that Adidas has violated its agreement ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of families in the capital’s Por sen Chey district gathered in their sludge-filled street yesterday, fearing authorities were moving in to evict them – for a second time. Many of the Andong village residents had taken the day off work; if anyone was coming ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seventy-two ethnic minoritieS Banong familieS received communal titleS to a combined 1,008 hectareS of anceStral land in Mondolkiri province yeSterday morning in a ceremony attended by Land Management MiniSter Chhun Lim. Communal titleS were deSigned to protect the anceStral landS of the country&rSquo;S minoritieS from outSide SS='cambodia-color'>...

About 200 people, including activist monk Loun savath, rallied outside the National Assembly in Phnom Penh yesterday in support of the 13 Boeung Kak women sentenced to prison in a three-hour trial last Thursday. supporters of the women, including villagers, unions and human rights groups, called ss='cambodia-color'>...

Inner city students enlisted into Prime Minister Hun sen’s nationwide land-titling program have been getting a taste of the rural life and some of them are ready to come home. Prepped with a two-day crash course in surveying, more than 1,000 youths have been dispatched across ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen said Monday he decided to choose environment protection, not to choose 30 billion U.s. dollar expected revenues from the exploitation of titanium ore in southwestern Cambodia. “According to a feasibility study, titanium ore deposit in Chhiphat district in Koh Kong province ss='cambodia-color'>...

Half of the of the 600 Cambodian workers at siam International Food Co. Ltd.’s factory in Thailand are planning to return home following a mass brawl in which two workers were killed last week, a factory employee said yesterday. A Cambodian and a Burmese worker died ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two more people in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district have been arrested in conjunction with what local authorities are calling a secessionist plot, while provincial authorities threatened to demolish more homes if residents do not leave a disputed area, officials said yesterday. Deputy provincial court prosecutor ss='cambodia-color'>...

Questions are being asked after an unfinished factory collapsed in Kandal province yesterday, injuring 16 construction workers, some seriously. Commune chief Nou Len told the Post shoddy workmanship was to blame for the collapse of the half-finished 120 by 70 metre factory on land owned ss='cambodia-color'>...

Jobs are a cornerstone of development in developing countries, reducing poverty, making cities work and providing youth with alternatives to violence, according to a new World Bank report. Jobs are crucial for achieving economic and social development, the World Development Report 2013 said. According to ss='cambodia-color'>...

In May 2013, Business for social Responsibility (BsR) and Better Work will launch HERproject in Cambodia. HERproject links multinational companies and their factories to local NGOs to create sustainable workplace programmes that increase women’s health awareness. The project also seeks to demonstrate the return on investment ss='cambodia-color'>...

One of Japan’s largest banks will open a representative office in July due to burgeoning interest in Cambodia most likely by Japanese investors, a bank official said yesterday. Mizuho Financial Group will open a small office in Phnom Penh Tower on Monivong Boulevard on July 8, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The commerce affairs office in northeastern surin has reported robust trade along the Thai-Cambodian border despite unresolved Phra Viharn [Preah Vihear] temple dispute. Mr. sitthiporn Bangkeaw from the Office of Commerce Affairs surin revealed that even though the International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s public hearings in ss='cambodia-color'>...