Australia’s pact to allow some refugees to be transferred to Cambodia sets a troubling precedent for international practices on handling asylum seekers, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The deal, signed yesterday in Phnom Penh, applies to an initial 200 refugees detained by Australia ss='cambodia-color'>...

Holidaymakers flocked to Cambodia’s temples and beachside towns during the september 22-24 Pchum Ben holiday break, officials said yesterday. Nou sophal, director of the sihanoukville department of tourism, said the province received about 67,600 visitors over the three-day festival period, up some 76 per cent over ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s international donors met Tuesday to decide whether they will comply with the government’s recent move to increase the per diem that civil servants receive for attending work-related, out-of-office events. In July, Prime Minister Hun sen signed off on a sub-decree raising the Daily subsistence Allowance ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Friday called on the Vietnamese to invest in the Kingdom’s rice processing sector. speaking at an annual dinner with the Vietnamese business community in Cambodia ahead of Tet – the Vietnamese Lunar New Year – Hun sen said the Kingdom’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

The share of riel in circulation in the Kingdom grew by about 33 per cent year-on-year by last year’s end as deposits in riel increased by 37 per cent, said the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) 2019 Review and 2020 Outlook report. The report noted ss='cambodia-color'>...

Total corn exports dropped by more than 40 per cent on 2018 due to last year’s drought and pest damage, industry insiders said. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries data showed that last year the Kingdom exported 119,993 tonnes of red corn – down 41.23 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Interior sar Kheng has urged Ratanakkiri provincial authorities to do more to eliminate crimes in the province. speaking during the appointment ceremony of the chair of the Cambodian People’s Party’s working group for Ratanakkiri on Friday, sar Kheng, who is also deputy prime ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thai-based Precise Electric Manufacturing Co Ltd is planning to build an electric equipment plant in Pursat province to cash in on the high demand in the Kingdom. The announcement was made during a meeting between Pursat provincial governor Mao Thornin and the firm’s representatives on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Social enterpriSe may be more than juSt a buzzword if laSt Saturday&rSquo;S attendance at Cambodia&rSquo;S Second-ever conference on the matter waS anything to judge by. The 350 perSon-pluS crowd of attendeeS conSiSted predominately of CambodianS, for whom doing buSineSS appearS to be about more than merely SS='cambodia-color'>...

While Mam Sonando lay in a cramped Prey Sar priSon cell yeSterday, Sweating out a fever, Some 100 memberS of the ASSociation of DemocratS burned incenSe and kneeled in prayer at the Preah Ang Dang Keu Shrine, calling for the outSpoken Beehive Radio director&rSquo;S releaSe. With SS='cambodia-color'>...

It’s been marked by violence, fervent protests and a stream of recriminations, but now bureaucracy is hampering efforts to resolve the seven-week-long strike at the Tai Yang and Camwell factories, which supply Levi’s and Gap, a trade-union advocate said yesterday. Dave Welsh, country director of the American ss='cambodia-color'>...

Real estate developments covered in green tarp have sprung up across the capital’s Boeung Kang Kong commune, and housing units are filling before the projects are finished, insiders said. The value of construction approvals in Phnom Penh jumped by 557.5 per cent in March to Us$150.5 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rice exports this year had been flat compared to last year because of the many challenges growers were facing, insiders said this week. The data shows exports were no better than last year for the same period, as exports for the first eight months of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kampot province will be home to the Kingdom’s first wind farm – a step in the right direction in terms of Cambodia’s renewable energy movement, say experts. The first wind power project in Cambodia is approaching the construction stage. The Blue Circle (Cambodia), the company ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of eight Cambodians held for ransom on a Thai fishing boat were freed over the weekend after their families paid 1,000 baht (Us$32) per person to a human trafficker in Thailand who is still holding another nine victims, victims and police said yesterday. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Telecoms operator Metfone, a subsidiary of Vietnam’s Viettel Group, has deployed a digital education system in siem Reap, approaching a total of 3,000 schools nationwide. In a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signing ceremony yesterday, siem Reap’s 10 Makara 1979 High school became the latest education ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng has recommended the creation of a sub-decree to formally connect the interior ministry’s General Department of Identification (GDI) and the Ministry of Economy’s Cambodia Data Exchange Platform (CamDX) databases after a successful pilot of the scheme. The announcement came at a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Mines and Energy has given the nod to two companies to continue their exploration licence approval processes for some 207sq km of gold-polymetallic mining areas in Tbong Khmum and Ratanakkiri provinces. The areas are 107.10sq km in the Memot area in Tbong ss='cambodia-color'>...

The French government through the French Development Agency or Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has maintained its annual financing commitment at about $100 million as a concessional loan for Cambodia to develop and recover the country’s post-Covid-19 economy in line with its national development strategy ss='cambodia-color'>...

THIBIDI has begun construction on Cambodia’s first transformer factory. The $2.5 million plant is being built in the Phnom Penh special Economic Zone. The plant is the first investment by THIBIDI overseas, as the company is from Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...