British ambassadors and high commissioners from the AsEAN region convened last week in singapore; among the range of topics discussed was the increase of the UK’s economic involvement in the region. According to Mark Gooding, British Ambassador to Cambodia, UK trade with Cambodia has been increasing ss='cambodia-color'>...

Changes in demography and technology have altered the behavior of Cambodian media consumers, with youth increasingly using social media platforms to share news and information. Pen sophal, a graduate student in media management at sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology, says print and electronic media outlets in ss='cambodia-color'>...

When the harvest season for Kampot pepper starts next month, farmers in Kampot province expect this year’s crop to yield more than 17 percent above last year, a representative of the farmers said. Nguon Lay, president of the Kampot Pepper Association, said last week that ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has ordered staff at Telecom Cambodia to attend a meeting today in order to “educate” them about the country’s Anti-Corruption Law after they made graft allegations and held demonstrations against the firm’s director-general Lao sarouen earlier this month, Minister of Posts ss='cambodia-color'>...

Environmental groups and a local community leader in stung Treng province have called for a nationwide boycott of the popular Angkor Beer brand to protest the beverage company’s links to a controversial hydro­power dam to be built in Laos. Laos announced earlier this month that it ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government will deploy double the usual number of armed security personnel on the streets of Phnom Penh on Tuesday to keep control of the large number of rallies planned in the city to celebrate International Human Rights Day, a military police official said Monday. “We ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Ministry of Foreign Affairs official said Wednesday that a senior U.s. diplomat had congratulated the government for its patience in dealing with recent protests, which were brought to a bloody end early last month when military police opened fire, killing five and wounding more ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Commerce Minister sun Chanthol concluded a trade mission in the United states this week, emphasizing his government’s willingness to make “deep” reforms to improve its investment climate. Cambodia meanwhile needs more foreign investment to create jobs for the 300,000 young Cambodians who enter the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Last month, Cambodia’s nascent yet rapidly expanding banking sector saw the new arrival of Phillip Bank through the acquisition of Hwang DBs Commercial Bank by singapore’s Philip Capital in a $40 million deal. The number of banks in the country has more than doubled since 2005, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Almost 450 people were rounded up from the capital’s streets last year and sent to the notorious Prey speu social affairs centre, where in November a man died after being denied medical treatment, according to an annual report from Phnom Penh’s social Affairs Department. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About half of the land concessions granted since 1994 are in the hands of Chinese companies, according to data released yesterday by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. Ouch Leng, CCHR land reform project coordinator, said that from 1994 to 2012, the Cambodian government granted 4,615,745 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen will hold bilateral talks with U.s. President Barack Obama when the newly re-elected American leader visits Phnom Penh during this month’s East Asia and Asean summits. Mr. Hun sen announced the bilateral meeting in a letter to Mr. Obama on Wednesday congratulating ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has delayed two of its military cooperation programs with Australia, the Australian Defense Department said Thursday, after it emerged this week that U.s.-backed programs had also been postponed following the July 28 national election. Dave Gordge, first secretary and deputy head of mission at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s cassava exports soared 94 per cent year-on-year in the first nine months of 2011, despite the recent flood devastation the agriculture sector has experienced, according to Ministry of Commerce figures. The statistics showed that Cambodia’s export of dry and fresh cassava hit about 22,652 ss='cambodia-color'>...

 A Millennium Development Goal Acceleration Framework action plan presented yesterday by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) seeks to address Panha’s and other women’s lagging economic opportunities in Cambodia. The plan will help Cambodia achieve targeted Millenium Development Goals by 2015. Though no date of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian authorities arrest a journalist who exposed the illegal smuggling of timber. Taing Try, a reporter affiliated with the Khmer Democratic Journalists’ Association, was taken into custody on Friday, police in Kratie’s snoul district told RFA on sunday. But Ing savoeun, a representative from the ss='cambodia-color'>...

On his second day of questioning by prosecutors at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday, the deputy director of the foreign commerce bank during the Pol Pot regime, sar Kim Lomouth, said he feared for his safety following the purging of several superiors at the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government on Thursday dismissed media reports in Australia linking Prime Minister Hun sen to a mining company under investigation there for corruption. Earlier this week, The Age newspaper reported on Australian documents that described officials from BHP Billiton seeking a special meeting with Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) will allocate itS firSt dividend to ShareholderS Since liSting on the bourSe, on April 10. According to an announcement by PPWSA, the annual dividend will be diStributed in caSh. The dividend payout ratio iS Seven per cent, with a total dividend SS='cambodia-color'>...

In the middle of an election campaign in which wages have been a prominent issue, the Ministry of Education did something out of the ordinary Monday: It made public the official pay scale it uses to remunerate its teachers. The list contains figures that are somewhat ss='cambodia-color'>...