Italy has demanded that the European Union restrict Cambodia’s duty-free import status, as concerns over the survival of that country’s rice sector appear to be reaching a fever pitch. According to rice industry website Oryza, the Italian government has officially submitted a request to the EU ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Interior has deported more than 200 foreign nationals over the past two months as part of its ongoing nationwide census, according to sok Phal, director of the ministry’s immigration department. The Interior Ministry’s census was launched last month, at the same time ss='cambodia-color'>...

None of the more than 5,000 independent observers recruited for this year’s national exams had background checks or their identity verified before they were allowed into testing centres, an official said yesterday. During this year’s newly reformed and cleaned-up grade 12 exam, the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 25-year-old police officer in Mondulkiri’s sen Monorom commune was killed in a car crash while transporting timber to sell in a nearby district on sunday, police and authorities confirmed yesterday. Un sokim was driving a Toyota Camry sedan loaded with timber to Keo seima district ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Angkor Wat Temple, one of the World Heritage sites, earned a gross revenue of 47.3 million U.s. dollars from ticket sales in the first 10 months of 2014, the Apsara Authority, which is in charge of protection and management of the site, said Wednesday. “The ss='cambodia-color'>...

suspend protests against Vietnam over a territorial dispute as Phnom Penh expressed “regret” to Hanoi over the burning of a Vietnamese flag during the demonstrations last week. Horn Nam Hong met at his office with the head of the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation, Thach setha, who agreed ss='cambodia-color'>...

ANZ has ruled out helping hundreds of poor Cambodian families forcibly evicted from their land to make way for sugar-cane plantations that involved child labour and led to food shortages. Fairfax Media this year revealed confidential audits that disclosed that ANZ’s Cambodian subsidiary, ANZ Royal Bank, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Military police in Mondolkiri province say they are searching for a guard working for a local rubber company who allegedly injured three villagers saturday when he fired a bullet in their direction that ricocheted off a rock, prompting questions about the firm’s use of armed ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government is again urging petrol retailers to pass on savings to the consumer amid the continued plunge in global oil prices, which hit a new five-year low yesterday. The premier’s criticism of foreign fuel retailers comes after the minister of commerce, sun Chanthol, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The United Nation’s human rights envoy surya subedi met yesterday with the president of Cambodia Chamber of Commerce, Kith Meng, to discuss human rights and economic growth in the Kingdom. At the top of the agenda was the management of economic land concessions and the role ss='cambodia-color'>...

In 2005, after special economic zones (sEZs) were formally introduced in Cambodia through a sub-decree, svay Reing’s Manhattan sEZ became the first to began construction the same year. The sihanoukville sEZ remains Cambodia’s largest with over 1,000 hectares in the area. The $320 million development is ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government aims to transform sihanoukville into Cambodia’s industrial hub – a “second shenzhen city”, Ministry of Economy and Finance secretary of state Vongsey Vissoth said. Located along the coast, Preah sihanouk province boasts an international airport, a railway line connected to Phnom Penh and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand-based energy company B Grimm Power Plc’s wholly-owned subsidiary, B Grimm solar Power 1, has completed its acquisition of Cambodia’s Ray Power supply Co Ltd. “[Ray Power] would like to update the progress [of the transaction]. The share transfer has officially completed and approval from ss='cambodia-color'>...

China remains the main source for Cambodia rice exports according to just-released data from the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF). The CRF’s figures show that in the first quarter of 2020, 44 percent of Cambodia’s milled rice was shipped to China or 101,345 tonnes. ss='cambodia-color'>...

NIPPON Express and Xamato Green expressed their interest after seeing a potential investment in Cambodia’s agriculture sector. The plan was disclosed during a meeting last week led by Yamato Green company’s Chairman Nabeshima Katsuhito and Ngin Chhay, the director-general of the General Directorate of Agriculture ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Ukrainian member of parliament sought by Cambodian authorities over allegations of child-rape was removed from Interpol’s most-wanted list on Tuesday night because, according to Cambodia’s Interpol office, “the case involves politics in Ukraine and Russia.” ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee’s newly minted press reaction team responded late on Wednesday to the European Union’s decision to cut funding for the 2018 election, claiming it was unfair to judge the elections before they took place. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Talking up the risk of war during the coming election campaign can be expected to bring legal action from the National Election Committee (NEC), the body’s spokesman said yesterday, a day after the premier warned he feared conflict would ensue if his ruling Cambodian People’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen will lead a delegation of high ranking officials to sign the Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) next month, the Ministry of Commerce said.​ This, it said, will provide Cambodia a gateway to the world’s second largest and Asia’s largest economy, heralding ss='cambodia-color'>...

The $180 million The Hyatt Regency Phnom Penh hotel is set to launch in January, marking the brand’s first venture into the Kingdom’s capital. Local conglomerate Chip Mong Group signed a management agreement with Chicago, Us-based Hyatt Hotels Corp in september 2016 for the hotel, ss='cambodia-color'>...