Some 122 nearly extinct Royal Turtle babieS hatched in an artificial Sandbank at the Koh Kong Reptile ConServation Center (KKRCC) in SouthweSt Cambodia&rSquo;S Koh Kong province So far thiS year, Said a KKRCC&rSquo;S report on TueSday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Fisheries Administration’s (FiA) Kampong Thom provincial cantonment and environment officials, in cooperation with Pov Veay sen Chey Fisheries Community, have planted 5,400 saplings in stoung district’s Peam Bang commune. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The People’s Council of south-central Khanh Hoa province has adopted a resolution giving in-principle approval to an investment project worth 15 billion VND (nearly $618,000) to construct an office building for the stung Treng provincial Military sub-region’s headquarters of Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Manet urged Maybank, Malaysia’s most valuable bank brand, to enhance collaboration with the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) to establish joint cross-bank payments for the promotion of the Kingdom’s financial sector. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rising tourism footfalls and strong manufacturing prospects will drive Cambodia’s economy to grow at the rate of 5.8 percent this year and six percent next year, according to the latest edition of the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) flagship economic report, released yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Information has reiterated calls for news writers and media outlets to uphold and adhere to editorial principles, emphasising their role in fostering the professional values of Cambodian journalism, following the ministry’s revocation of a media group’s business license for “serious breaches of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Financial literacy among Cambodia’s youth is slated to receive a boost after an agreement was signed between sOsORO Museum and the Association of Banks in Cambodia (ABC) to enhance youth’s educational awareness about their money affairs. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Like most millennium-old structures discovered in the forests of Cambodia, the locals had known all along about this one. Jarai minority villagers in this remote spot in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district not only knew about it, but they revered the red-brick temple, using it as a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The atmosphere in Phnom Penh 20 years ago today was one of jubilation and optimism as then-Prince Norodom sihanouk signed Cambodia’s new Consti­tution into law and reclaimed the throne as King. The promulgation of the Constitution—which marked the end of the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Steep price cutS by mobile operator Hello may prompt Thaicom to Sell itS majority Stake in Mfone, according to inveStment firm Cambodia Capital. Cambodia Capital claimS Hello&rSquo;S drop in the tariffS it chargeS cuStomerS thiS year haS heavily impacted Mfone&rSquo;S operationS, aS well aS thoSe SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s 2012 budget passed through the National Assembly yesterday unopposed, without a single question asked and no parliamentary debate in a situation the government, opposition and observers all said was unfortunate. It took just over three hours for the law to be passed, 86 to 0, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian developers are betting that casinos can make the tiny southeast Asian country a bigger draw for high-spending tourists. The nation of 15 million people has more than 25 casinos, but most are small affairs in rough-and-tumble border towns that cater to hard-core Thai, Chinese and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The site of Koh Pur village’s new bridge may still be nothing more than pillars in a dusty crevice in the road, but when the link is finished – some time in December, authorities say – it will be a welcome relief for the village ss='cambodia-color'>...

With GDP growth averaging around 9% for the past decade, Cambodia is certainly attracting interest from potential investors. It has possibly the most investor-friendly environment in Asean with no exchange controls, no restrictions on repatriation of profit, and no discrimination between foreign and local investors. Moreover, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The value of construction projects approved by the government during the first nine months of the year reached $1.83 billion, an 83.61 percent increase compared to the same period in 2011, according to data released yesterday by the Ministry of Land Management. Tith Khemra, director of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Against the backdrop of the slight recovery by world economies, especially the Us and Europe, two traditional markets for Cambodia, Asian Development Bank (ADB) deputy country director Peter Brimble sat down with the Post’s group business editor, May Kunmakara, to talk about Cambodia’s economic performance, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A dam project set to flood thousands of hectares of protected forest and displace about 1,500 indigenous minority villagers in one of Koh Kong province’s most precious ecosystems should be scrapped, opposition sam Rainsy Party MP son Chhay said yesterday. The 109-megawatt dam project in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The CPP yesterday declared victory in sunday’s commune election, saying it had taken 72 percent of the country’s commune councilor seats and all but 41 of the country’s 1,633 powerful commune chief positions. The sRP in turn said it took 19 percent of the available councilor ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tek Nim is well versed in dealing with adversity. In year nine, she dropped out of school, began working on the family farm and finally became resigned to the belief that her brightest prospect was to leave Omlaing commune, in Kampong speu province’s Thpong district, ss='cambodia-color'>...

SmartphoneS and the accompanying online StoreS that Sell applicationS for them may be gaining ground acroSS emerging marketS, according to a Study conducted by a London-baSed telecommunicationS reSearch and analySiS firm, but Cambodia&rSquo;S market iS limited by a lack of placeS to legitimately purchaSe appS, SS='cambodia-color'>...