Private-sector investment into technology can help developing countries meet the UN’s sustainable Development Goals (sDG), representatives said yesterday at a conference, sparking debate on how Cambodian entrepreneurs can incorporate humanitarian goals into core business operations. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Tourism (MoT) has announced plans to strengthen the image of sihanoukville’s coast as a tourism destination, with authorities expecting the province to surpass the two-million mark in tourist arrivals in 2017. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A year after a local technology company introduced new software to combat financial crime in Cambodia, four banks have started using the system to fight against money laundering and terrorism financing, the company’s executive said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian People’s Party spokesman Chhim Phal Virun was questioned Tuesday morning as a witness in the “treason” charges brought against former opposition leader Kem sokha, his former colleague at the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR). ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives from Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam gathered in Vientiane on Thursday to launch a six-month consultation process on what would be the third mainstream hydropower dam in Laos’s Lower Mekong River.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...