The Japanese Embassy granted $256,317 in development aid to Cambodia on Monday, to be used by the Association for Aid and Relief, Japan (AAR Japan) to promote the educational inclusion of children with disabilities. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia National Rescue Party yesterday declared its intention to move forward with nationwide demonstrations in response to what it calls a campaign of state-backed legal harassment, prompting a swift reply from Prime Minister Hun sen, who warned security forces had been advised to crack ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment and footwear exports from Cambodia increased 15.29 percent to $1.29 billion in the first three months of the year compared to the same period in 2011, according to figures released yesterday by the Ministry of Commerce. While exports to the European Union rose 46.76 percent to $376.14 million in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Coca-cola and Smart Mobile have teamed up in a joint promotion to give away $1 million worth of prizeS, including top-up minuteS and 25 SamSung Galaxy S3 SmartphoneS uSing numberS printed under bottle capS of Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite. The promotion Started on November 1 SS='cambodia-color'>...

Hotel and guesthouse operators have pushed back against government calls to avoid price increases during holidays, claiming group booking, as well as supply and demand, dictated the price of accommodation. Government officials, including Prime Minister Hun sen, have recently tried to dissuade operators from raising the ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 workers from Kingsland Garment Cambodia factory, which was a supplier to U.s. retail giant Wal-Mart, demonstrated outside the U.s. Embassy in Phnom Penh yesterday, appealing for help in getting their severance payments. In December, workers found out the company had declared bankruptcy ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and the United StateS haS amounted to 1.44 billion U.S. dollarS in the firSt Six monthS of the year, up 2 percent compared with 1.41 billion U.S. dollarS over the Same period laSt year, the figureS of the U.S. Department of SS='cambodia-color'>...

Teenage pregnancies are hindering Cambodia’s development as young mothers are unlikely to finish school and therefore lack job opportunities, government and U.N. officials said at the launch of a global report on adolescent pregnancies on Wednesday. “The Ministry of Women’s Affairs acknowledges that adolescent pregnancies have ss='cambodia-color'>...

A representative of the Zongtex Garment Manufacturing company in Phnom Penh on Tuesday denied employing workers as young as 15 to make U.s. government clothing, following an exposé by The New York Times on poor standards in factories producing U.s. government attire. On sunday, The Times ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and Britain signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to fight against cross-border crimes. “The MOU focused on cooperation between the General Commissariat of National Police and Britain’s National Crime Agency to fight against crimes and related violations,” said Kirt Chantharith, national police spokesman. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has invited resource-rich Azerbaijan to help develop Cambodia’s prospective oil and gas industry, Commerce Minister sun Chanthol announced during a high-level visit to the Caucasian country on Tuesday, according to Azerbaijani media reports. Mr. Chanthol laid out a goal to achieve an overall trade ss='cambodia-color'>...

Days after authorities repeatedly cracked down on demonstrations, opposition party supporters staged a rolling rally across Phnom Penh yesterday, filling up roads for hours and blocking major intersections. About 500 people with tuk-tuks and motorbikes gathered at the Cambodia National Rescue Party headquarters in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition may be readying a formal request that the United Nations and King Norodom sihamoni play a role in future negotiations between the Cambodia National Rescue Party and the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. On a trip to Takeo province on saturday, CNRP deputy president Kem ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers from Koh Kong province delivered petitions in Phnom Penh on Friday seeking international intervention in their land dispute with powerful businessman and CPP senator Ly Yong Phat, alleging that his Koh Kong special Economic Zone (sEZ) was encroaching on their farmland. Five representatives of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly’s banking and finance commission decided on Wednesday to summon Leng Peng Long, parliament’s chief administrative official, for questioning over claims of nepotism and alleged spending irregularities including $25,000 spent on a flagpole, the commission’s deputy chairman said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of 56 rangers from the Ministry of Environment last week completed a one-month training course in Phnom Penh run by the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) to help save Cambodia’s protected areas from illegal loggers, a first for the country’s rangers. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Son Chhay, the deputy chairman of the National ASSembly&rSquo;S banking and finance commiSSion, on TueSday accuSed commiSSion chairman Cheam Yeap of deliberately avoiding Summoning the chief adminiStrator of the parliament for queStioning over alleged groSS Spending irregularitieS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

About 5,000 trees were planted in Angkor Archaeological Park this summer, part of effort to combat severe deforestation of native tree species in Cambodia’s forests. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An increasing number of boutique hotels are appearing in Cambodia and attracting foreign investment, insiders say, including a Us$2 million investment in the Governor’s House, a newly opened, 10-room boutique hotel in Phnom Penh. The number of boutique hotels in Cambodia has increased rapidly, particularly in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S. EmbaSSy haS juSt announced it will be awarding grantS to two recipientS for the 2013 U.S. AmbaSSadorS Fund for Cultural PreServation in Cambodia. The Archaeology and Development Foundation iS the firSt recipient and will receive $47,000 to implementS it&rSquo;S propoSal called the “Documentation of SS='cambodia-color'>...