A mission to examine political rights in Cambodia has been increasingly overshadowed by the Kingdom’s dire land rights situation, the 2012 report from Cambodia’s UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights, published yesterday, shows. Cambodia’s rapporteur, surya subedi, conducted two fact-finding missions to Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

PAKISTAN iS looking to further improve itS trade, inveStment and touriSm tieS with Cambodia, officialS Said. Data from the EmbaSSy of PakiStan ShowS that bilateral trade between the two countrieS haS been good in recent yearS. In 2011, the total value of two-way trade reached $16 SS='cambodia-color'>...

The United StateS Trade RepreSentative Ron Kirk, PreSident Obama&rSquo;S Chief Trade AdviSor, will be viSiting Cambodia&rSquo;S Siem Reap province on Aug. 30-31 to participate in the 44th ASEAN Economic MiniSterS&rSquo; meetingS and the ASEAN-U.S. BuSineSS Summit, according to a preSS releaSe from the U.S. EmbaSSy SS='cambodia-color'>...

International arrivals to Cambodia bounced back in October with a growth of 20% after a below average performance in the third quarter. Cambodia’s statistics and Tourist Information Department, Ministry of Tourism, reported arrivals increased 24.8% to 290,959 during October. The percentage increase for 10 months lifted ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hong Kong has banned egg imports from Cambodia due to the country’s recent avian influenza outbreak, which claimed four lives last month. “Hong Kong does not import live poultry or poultry meat from Cambodia, but 170,000 poultry eggs were imported from there last year,” the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A colonel in the Royal Cambodian Navy yesterday denied accusations by the NGO Wildlife Alliance that naval officers opened fire on patrolling rangers on the Tatai River in Koh Kong province as they tried seizing an allegedly illegal shipment of rosewood. Colonel Tep Vuthy instead accused ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six environmental organiSationS oppoSing LaoS&rSquo; controverSial Don Sahong hydropower dam yeSterday took their complaintS to a new level: The Human RightS CommiSSion of MalaySia. In a 23-page letter, the organiSationS from Cambodia, Thailand and the US collectively requeSted an inveStigation into the tranS-boundary impactS of the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia increased the number of business enterprises it had to 513,759 companies at the end of March last year, up from the 463,363 enterprises accounted for in 2011, according to the final results of the 2014 Cambodia Inter-Censal Economic survey. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in stung Treng province displeased local authorities on saturday by holding a traditional ceremony calling upon a powerful local spirit to curse those behind the construction of the Lower sesan 2 dam. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia received roughly $4 billion in foreign direct investment last year—roughly the same amount as in 2013, the secretary-general of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) said after a meeting with the National Assembly’s environment and rural development commission. ss='cambodia-color'>...

UK retailer Marks & spencer (M&s) is trialling a new campaign aimed at helping 14,000 garment workers in Cambodia deal with common health issues, as part of its Plan A ethical programme. The company, which aims to become the world’s most sustainable major retailer by 2015, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The former director of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, who was ousted last week amid allegations of serious corruption, gave a luxury sUV to his son—a local police official—after it was confiscated from a suspected drug trafficker, the National Police said in a statement sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amid numerous reports of Cambodian women being trafficked to China and men being used as forced labor on fishing boats, the U.s.’ latest Trafficking in Persons report again said Cambodia is not doing enough to combat human trafficking. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia saw significant percentage gains in regional trade in the first six months of the year, though the gap between imports and exports remained large, according to data released yesterday by the Ministry of Commerce. According to the figures, the country saw regional exports to ss='cambodia-color'>...

An often flouted and publicly unpopular restriction forbidding Cambodia’s telecoms from offering lucrative mobile phone promotions was scrapped on sunday, just two weeks after it was introduced. In a letter from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC), signed by Minister so Khun, it announced a ss='cambodia-color'>...

An NGO director and a youth leader from two little-known organizations were elected by 2,779 NGO and youth association members at a meeting on March 15 to represent civil society at a meeting with Asean leaders next week, according to a statement released by state-run ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and China last week signed an agreement to exchange financial intelligence to combat money laundering and terrorism financing, though experts said the Kingdom should still be doing more to tackle an issue that has long persisted in the country, in part, due to local ss='cambodia-color'>...

People with disabilities and their families in two Cambodian provinces – Kampong Cham and Tbong Khmum – experience significant psychological distress, endure discrimination and stigma and their rights “re-main largely unrecognised”, a new study has found. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Tourism and service Worker’s Federation (CTsWF) is asking Minister of Labour Vong sauth to intervene in the case of one union worker fired from a Phnom Penh International Airport company with no reason offered. Nin Kosal, who worked as union secretary for the Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

Inside a mini-mart near Phnom Penh’s Olympic stadium, the shelves holding the beer for sale have a more Cambodian feel to them these days. While imported brand like Thailand’s singha and Japan’s Asahi, used to take up valuable retail real estate, now homegrown brands like Angkor ss='cambodia-color'>...