Cambodia’s nascent information technology (IT) sector faces an enormous skills gap that is slowing the industry’s development, increasing costs for businesses and affecting the competitiveness of firms in the Kingdom, according to a report released yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Mine Action Centre yesterday retrieved and neutralised a massive M117 bomb from Kampong speu province’s Prek Kmeng commune, and safely detonated four smaller bombs found in Preah sihanouk province on the same day. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two military commanders, a military police commander and a provincial police chief in Mondulkiri were questioned by the national military police’s anti-logging task force yesterday for their alleged involvement in a Vietnamese timber smuggling operation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian microlender Hattha Kaksekar Ltd (HKL) has secured a $15 million cash injection to expand its business operations from its parent company, Thailand’s Bank of Ayudhya, Hout Ieng Tong, president and CEO of HKL, confirmed yesterday.  ss='cambodia-color'>...

For the second year running, a delegation of Iraqi demining trainees have come to the Kingdom for a training programme at the Cambodian Mine Action Centre’s (CMAC) Technical Institute of Mine Action in Kampong Chhnang province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 300 villagers from Kandal province’s Kandal stueng district who are locked in a land dispute with the Heng Development Company gathered in front of the provincial hall yesterday asking for help in solving their case. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Cambodia’s demand for electricity grows and domestic energy production increases, new data released from the Ministry of Mines and Energy yesterday show that coal-fired energy generation surpassed hydroelectricity for the first time last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Acleda Bank will issue new ATM, debit and credit cards to all its customers nationwide with the new bank logo, in compliance with an order issued by the Council of Ministers, said the bank’s CEO yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Industrial insiders and experts on the Kingdom’s nascent stock market have suggested the government set up a fund as an investment vehicle designed to broaden the local public investor base, based on The Thai Fund (TTF). ss='cambodia-color'>...

The capital’s listed water utility inaugurated a new treatment facility yesterday that will increase its production capacity of clean water by 30 percent, and add to its revenue stream – a move likely to impress its shareholders. ss='cambodia-color'>...

New Zealand is to provide $5 million to support  the sustainable development of horticulture over a five-year period in Cambodia, New Zealand’s foreign minister Gerry Brownlee announced on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In Svay Rieng province&rSquo;S Bati commune, electricity poleS and wireS Sprung up five yearS ago in Thnanh village but power Still haS not run through them, leaving villagerS reliant upon batterieS and moSt recently, Solar panelS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Ten representatives of 143 indigenous families affected by the development of the Lower sesan II hydropower dam in stung Treng province gathered yesterday to submit a petition to the Interior Ministry and the Prime Minister’s cabinet. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The result of Cambodia’s 2018 national election does not need the United Nations’ recognition and the country is determined to hold elections on schedule, said Prime Minister Hun sen on Thursday (Jan 18).   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Maruhan Japan Bank yesterday became the first commercial bank in Cambodia to make a direct equity investment into a microfinance institution by becoming sathapana’s majority shareholder, with a 95.1 per cent stake. Financial details were not disclosed. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers from svay Rieng province’s Krasaing commune have vowed to continue their protests to preserve a patch of community forest earmarked for clearing, despite receiving an official warning yesterday. Residents said it would affect over 2,700 people. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s total milled rice exports increased just two percent to 131,064 tons over the first nine months of this year in comparison to the same period last year, according to data released from the Ministry of Agriculture ss='cambodia-color'>...

Workers from sL Garment factories and union representatives held their second round of talks at the Ministry of social Affairs yesterday as strikes at the Levi’s, Gap and H&M suppliers continued for the 12 day straight. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and Thailand agreed to plant temporary border mark No 15 next to Oddor Meanchey’s Ou smach border entrance. The agreement came after the technical groups of the two countries ended searching for border marks on March 25, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Kandal province’s Koh Thom district seized a shipment of live pythons en route to market in Vietnam on Friday, arresting the accused smuggler and turning the snakes over to conservation group Wildlife Alliance, police said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...