Cheng Kheng, director of the CPL real estate company, has been elected to be president of the Cambodian Valuers and Estate Agents Association in 2013, after sung Bonna, director of the Bonna Realty Group, ended his 2012 term. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia exported products in equivalent to 2.49 billion U.s. dollars to the United states in the first eleven months of 2012, down 1 percent from 2.52 billion U.s. dollars it exported at the same period a year earlier, the report of the U.s. Department of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government plans to raise $3.51 billion in state revenue in 2014 in order to finance a $3.4 billion draft budget, an increase of about 14.5 percent compared to the previous year, when the government raised $2.98 billion in revenue, according to a draft of ss='cambodia-color'>...

NGO Wildlife Alliance has publicly accused members of the Royal Cambodian Navy of opening fire on patrolling rangers on the Tatai river in Koh Kong’s smach Meanchey district after they tried to seize an allegedly illegal shipment of rosewood. At about 11pm on October 10, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s newest demining employee comes with an impressive resume, years of experience – and four legs. Rambo touched down in Phnom Penh yesterday, then was driven to the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) training facility in Kampong Chhnang province. He is the first of 18 trained ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 36-year-old villager was arrested at his home in Kompong Chhnang province Monday on allegations of destroying public property and causing injuries during one of several recent clashes in a long-running land dispute between farmers and the powerfully connected KDC International. Villagers say KDC, a firm ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rights groups yesterday called on ANZ bank to help address alleged labour and environmental violations at Phnom Penh sugar Company instead of walking away from the problem. A joint statement released yesterday by Equitable Cambodia and Inclusive Development International said it would be wrong for the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is changing fast. Over the past decade, the capital city, Phnom Penh has expanded exponentially: its bodies of water have been filled in and green spaces diminished. Rural to urban migration has changed the shape of the countryside. Great shifts are under way and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police on Tuesday night arrested a 35-year-old man they say confessed to the murder of Dutch national Daphna Beerdsen and the brutal attack on her 19-month-old daughter in a burglary gone awry at their home just off Norodom Boulevard on Monday. National Police spokesman Kirth Chantharith ss='cambodia-color'>...

A large-scale hydropower dam in China began releasing a deluge of water from its overfilling reservoir on Friday, leaving downstream neighbours to fear imminent inundation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six Cambodian trade unionS led around 1,000 garment workerS to march through StreetS here on Sunday to demand a higher minimum wage aS annual talkS on a wage hike are Scheduled for next month. SS='cambodia-color'>...

A Turkish man who survived a drive-by shooting in sihanoukville only to be arrested less than 24 hours later over an earlier stabbing incident was charged by the Preah sihanouk Provincial Court on sunday—after which he attempted to flee while still in handcuffs. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Edible bird’s nest producers have called on the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) to facilitate the industry’s access to the Chinese market. Nang sothy, president of the Cambodia Bird’s Nest Federation, said yesterday that the association had requested the MoC to include the delicacy on the list ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials from southeast Asia’s natural rubber-producing nations met in Kuala Lumpur yesterday for the 12th International Tripartite Rubber Council (ITRC). Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) joined ITRC core nations – Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia – for the event, which is being touted as a joint ss='cambodia-color'>...

Environment Minister say sam Al on Friday pledged to protect the culture of Cambodia’s indigenous minorities, before going on to say that those groups need to learn to survive without relying on the forests they have depended on for centuries. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Eighty-two per cent of 1,200 people surveyed feel that Cambodia’s democracy works, despite 50 per cent calling corruption a major issue in the national government, according to figures released by the Center for Advanced study yesterday. The CAs, a non-partisan research NGO, disseminated the results of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), and the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) have agreed to further strengthen their cooperation in all domains including expanding the effectiveness of the existing mechanisms. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new microfinance institution (MFI), ORO Financecorp Plc, is set to open in Cambodia, according to the director-general of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC). Cambodia already has 35 registered MFIs, according to a recent report by the Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA). Last week, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials on Thursday said they are still waiting for the U.s. Embassy to make good on a 2012 offer to clean up several barrels of the riot control agent Cs that were dropped on Cambodia during the U.s.’ war with Vietnam and which the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Visiting Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Monday praised Cambodia for its rapid economic growth in recent years and political stability. Bob Carr said that Australian Development Assistance Program has allocated 77 million U.s. dollars to Cambodia in 2011-2012, focusing on agriculture development, health, services, infrastructure ss='cambodia-color'>...