Prime Minister Hun sen has reaffirmed the Royal Government’s continued commitment to protecting the freedom of expression, freedom of the press in accordance with the country’s Constitution and Press Law. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Around 1,500 Bantengs (Bos Javanicus) listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List of Threatened species have been recorded in Cambodia’s forests. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Around 1,500 Bantengs (Bos Javanicus) listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Red List of Threatened species have been recorded in Cambodia’s forests. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s trade with AsEAN member countries was valued at $7.1 billion in the first six months of this year, accounting for 30 percent of the Kingdom’s total international trade. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Commerce has been training youngsters so that they are aware of Cambodia’s trade regulations and guidelines, governing the country’s trade and export-oriented markets. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 90 Siem Reap familieS have rejected what they Say iS a preliminary move by the provincial authority to have them moved off land declared part of Kulen Mountain National Park in 2002. The familieS, in Banteay Srei diStrict&rSquo;S Tbeng commune, Said yeSterday they had rejected SS='cambodia-color'>...

A Macau-backed firm plans to grow its involvement in Cambodia’s casino sector as it targets the local gambling market with gaming machines and two new casinos, the company said in a financial statement filed in the Us. Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc, which currently provides gaming machines ss='cambodia-color'>...

The rehabilitation of Cambodia’s dilapidated railway network is nearly six months behind schedule, and with more than a year’s worth of work to do, the project is running out of money, a consultant for the Ministry of Public Works and Transport said yesterday. Paul Power, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr chose Cambodia as his first official overseas trip since his March 2 appointment to the top foreign policy job. The Australian Labor Party politician, former journalist and longtime premier of New south Wales sat down on Monday evening with the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Economic land concessions strewn over the remote Western siem Pang forest, in stung Treng province, are threatening the survival of Cambodia’s national bird, the giant ibis, a report reveals. The forest, flanking the Kingdom’s border with Laos,  is home to five critically endangered bird species, yet ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Labour has played down reports it is close to sending domestic workers to singapore, a country that has only recently granted foreign maids a weekly day off. The two countries’ governments had been in talks with singapore’s Association of Employment Agencies about placing ss='cambodia-color'>...

Malaysian-based GO Communications Group signed an acquisition deal to buy out Cambodian based Active Event Management, on Friday, sept 21, 2012. siet sisopheak, managing director of Active, said GO became interested in the company because of improvements in Cambodia’s economy and how it would benefit the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hattha Kaksekar Limited, one of the country’s largest microfinance institutions (MFIs), is in talks to become a commercial bank by 2014, an official at the micro-lender said yesterday. The move, if successful, will be in line with the Central Bank’s policy to support MFIs in diversifying ss='cambodia-color'>...

The dismissal of a worker allegedly fired by Xin Lan (Cambodia) garment factory in Kandal province’s Ang snuol district for frequently relieving himself on the factory’s perimeter fence has sparked a mass strike of about 1,000 fellow workers – almost all of the factory’s staff. Nov ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday told senior officials to stop investors from using land concessions as a pretext for logging and to discuss the possibility of reducing the amount of time such concessions can last. The government placed a moratorium on logging concessions in 2002 to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Koh Kong Provincial Court yesterday postponed the hearing of a controversial case against a Thai-owned sugar company that more than 200 families alleged had taken their land for the company’s sugar plantations, lawyers and village representatives said yesterday. Ny sorphornneary, the lawyer for the families, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bankers have raised no concerns over the National Bank of Cambodia’s increase to the reserve requirement rate in order to maintain the stabilization of cash flow and inflation during a time of global financial difficulty. The increase, from 12 to 12.5 per cent, issued late last month, was ss='cambodia-color'>...

Human rights groups yesterday decried the result of the government’s investigation into the murder of forestry activist Chut Wutty and military police officer In Rattana, saying that there were many holes in the official finding. On saturday, the government committee charged with investigating the killings in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials and experts yesterday questioned the likelihood of Cambodia and Vietnam’s proposal to hike bilateral trade by more than Us$2.5 billion by 2015. The pledge of $5 billion in total trade, made by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen and his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen Tan Dung, last ss='cambodia-color'>...

Plans are in place for a new $10 million international airport on Koh Rong island, but questions remain as to when construction would commence and when funding would be available. Designs for the roughly 7,200-square-metre airport terminal, which will consist of Khmer- and resort-style architecture, were ss='cambodia-color'>...