China says its financial assistance to Cambodia is in no way dependent on its diplomatic support, including in Beijing’s dispute with other southeast Asian countries in the south China sea.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

China’s Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng, who has been on an official visit to Cambodia, will discuss roads, railways, airport construction, agriculture and other projects with senior government officials in the next few days. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The train route that is set to connect Poipet to Thailand, and the government’s plan to make Poipet a commercial and industrial area, are readying this Thai-bordered city to exercise its potential. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A “major breakthrough” has been reached in discussions between Vietnamese rubber giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai and 11 indigenous communities in Ratanakkiri province that have lost land and resources to the company’s plantations. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Trade unions are proposing a new committee to monitor the country’s social fund for injured workers, pension program for civil servants and health care for the poor in a bid to improve and expand coverage. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 1,500 hectareS in Social land conceSSionS granted to familieS in Stung Treng province are being illegally cleared and Sold by the community&rSquo;S land broker, according to localS and rightS group Adhoc. SS='cambodia-color'>...

More than 220 ethnic Tompuon families in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district yesterday filed a complaint to rights group Adhoc over a 2,000-hectare land dispute against an economic land concession.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

The legal battle of 13 land rights activists from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood ended on Wednesday with the supreme Court upholding their conviction for aggravated obstruction of public officials and illegal occupation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s exports to the United states, the second largest importer of local goods after the European Union, declined slightly during the first quarter of the year compared with the same quarter last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Falling productivity and rising infrastructure costs are putting Cambodia’s garment industry at a disadvantage as it tries to compete with rivals Vietnam, Bangladesh and Myanmar, a leading union said yesterday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Multiple animal species are in “dramatic decline” on Cambodia’s Eastern Plains as a result of habitat loss, road incursion, insufficient law enforcement and poaching, the World Wildlife Fund said in a statement yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new initiative aimed at encouraging more trading on Cambodia’s persistently quiet stock exchange will allow securities underwriters and dealers to become liquidity providers who can hold and trade shares in listed companies. ss='cambodia-color'>...

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Cambodia’s agriculture industry contributes 37 percent of GDP, and employs 67 percent of the workforce, with 75 percent of cultivated land dedicated to growing rice. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A couple arrested for renting 22 children from their parents and forcing them to sell fruit on Phnom Penh’s streets and beer gardens were charged on Friday by the municipal court, police said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun sen ordered authorities to publicize the map used by the country in demarcating its border with Vietnam at the meeting of his Cabinet on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An international rights group saturday called the warrant for the arrest of Cambodia’s opposition leader in a years-old defamation case “politically motivated”, saying it should be dropped immediately. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Adidas, one of the country’s biggest garment buyers, says it will expand production in Cambodia over the next five years as part of its pivot away from China to lower-cost producers in southeast Asia. ss='cambodia-color'>...

With strong bipartisan support, the National Assembly on Wednesday passed the country’s first animal health and production law, which sets out rules for the humane treatment of livestock and the safe processing of animal meat. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A fire burned through 45 hectares of sugarcane plantation belonging to three companies in svay Rieng province’s svay Tiep district on Tuesday, with one company representative suspecting that the fire was intentionally set. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The United Nations is ready to cooperate with and support the National Election Committee (NEC) with additional aid, providing it submits a written letter of intent to the UN’s office in the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...