Government officials began inspecting markets across the country yesterday in search of baby formula containing an ingredient from New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra that could cause botulism, quality control representatives at the Ministry of Commerce said. “We informed all our officials directly to collect nationwide some ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 officials from some 20 economies in Asia and the Pacific are meeting with donor institution representatives in Cambodia’s siem Reap province in a bid to strengthen public financial management systems for climate change adaptation projects, said a news statement on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As part of political negotiations, the opposition party will be allowed a minority leader in parliament—a system analysts say could strengthen the checks and balances in the government. The legislative branch has traditionally been considered weaker than the executive, with the National Assembly stacked with supporters ss='cambodia-color'>...

City Hall announced a new plan to improve living standards in the city’s poorest areas Tuesday on International Human Rights Day, while representatives for the urban poor continued to call on the municipality to issue longsought after land titles. Addressing a crowd of 600 at Olympic ss='cambodia-color'>...

In December 1994, the United Nations decided that the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (IPs) shall be celebrated on August 09 every year. That date marks the day of the first meeting of the UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations in 1982. People ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s aviation authority says it has no plans to follow in the footsteps of some of Asia’s largest nations and ban new flights from Thai-based carriers, after an international audit has raised “significant safety concerns” about the standards of Thailand’s aviation authority. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and China last week signed an agreement to exchange financial intelligence to combat money laundering and terrorism financing, though experts said the Kingdom should still be doing more to tackle an issue that has long persisted in the country, in part, due to local ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government wants to play a bigger role in helping local businesses remain competitive and, to this end, the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy (MIME) has launched a new award to recognise companies that have achieved high produc-tivity standards. Ten companies will be awarded in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has gained the investments of 178 million U.s. dollars from its AsEAN member states in the first six months of 2012, according to a report from the Council for the Development of Cambodia said this week. From January to June this year, the country granted ss='cambodia-color'>...

No ground was broken in May on the New siem Reap International Airport (NsRIA), a Us$1 billion Korean investment, and officials say no definite date has been set for work on the project as the developer looks for New partners. NsRIA Co Ltd, an equal joint ss='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank yesterday raised Cambodia’s gross domestic product outlook for 2012 by 0.1 percent to 6.6 percent, saying that last year’s flooding and the global economic slowdown did not affect Cambodia’s economy as much as first expected. According to the World Bank’s East Asia and ss='cambodia-color'>...

China’s Yunnan province on Monday provided 200 agricultural engines to Cambodia’s northwestern Banteay Meanchey province for post-flood rehabilitation. A handover ceremony was held here between Yu Dingcheng, vice chairman of the standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial People ‘s Congress, and Oung Oeun, chief of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Already under attack by overfishing, pollution and deforestation, Tonle sap Lake fisheries face an even bigger threat in the form of hydropower dams, according to experts. Laos’ planned Don sahong Hydropower Project in particular has environmentalists fearing an emptier, less bio-diverse lake, and a nation pitched ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dutch brewer Heineken NV took a major step towards winning control of the Tiger beer brand and an Asian brewing network on Wednesday after a Thai rival accepted the deal When F&N’s board accepted Heineken’s improved offer of s$53 per APB share, the deal included a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Women make up the majority of street vendors selling food, clothes and a range of other retail goods across Cambodia, a new report in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Business has revealed. Using data from Cambodia’s economic census, researchers Nobuo Hirohata and Kazuhiro Fukuyo, from Yamaguchi ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s election organizers said on Monday they will investigate a complaint against about 30 former opposition party members for calling for a boycott of sunday’s general election. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Even before the National Election Committee (NEC) had announced the official results of sunday’s national polls, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) said on Monday that it had managed to secure more than 77 per cent of the popular vote. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Defending the fact that the leadership has remained largely the same in the sixth mandate of the government, Prime Minister Hun sen said reforms were more about improving job efficiencies. several analysts have begged to differ, however, saying reforms won’t make much progress under an ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Minister of Agriculture has rejected a request from a Vietnamese company for Cambodia to allow it to export pigs into the Kingdom, while Vietnam continues to suffer a serious outbreak of African swine fever. General Directorate of Animal Health and Production director-general Tan Phannara ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the National Police have dismissed complaints by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that high-ranking members of the armed forces campaigned for it before and during the election period – a violation of the Cambodian constitution. ss='cambodia-color'>...