Air conditioner imports from Thailand were valued at about $16 million last year – a fraction of the total $5 billion Thailand earned from its air conditioner exports to international markets, the country’s Department of International Trade Promotion at the Ministry of Commerce said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Alleged victims of land grabbing in Oddar Meanchey province have filed a formal complaint to the UK government against Bonsucro, the sugar industry’s sustainability certification body, accusing it of breaches of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kampong Thom provincial military police yesterday seized 114 wild animals being illegally transported by bus in stoung district. Brigadier General Hang Thol, provincial military police commander, said police also arrested the bus driver for questioning after the seizure at samproch commune’s slak Kranh village. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Phnom Penh city official told The Post on Monday that all warehouses and factories will be relocated along the capital’s new third ring road once it is completed in 2021. This will prevent heavy goods vehicles causing congestion and accidents in the city. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite huge amounts of potential and a well-rooted past, the Kingdom’s cotton cultivation industry seems to be hanging by a thread. Though the country relies heavily on cotton fabric in its massive garment sector, insiders say Cambodian farmers have mostly abandoned the crop. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Union Development Group (UDG), the Chinese developer behind Koh Kong province’s $3.8 billion tourism project called Dara sakor, has unveiled plans for yet another project called “Tourism Vacation Town”. The announcement comes despite the company releasing little information about its previously touted venture. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The UN Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Cambodia, Rhona smith, is to land in the Kingdom on Monday, in her first official visit since questioning the “genuineness” of the July 29 national elections, polls she claimed were “one-sided”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

At the Asean summit in singapore on Wednesday, Prime Minister Hun sen said he hoped the bloc’s relationship with China would “root deeply”, hailing the Asian power as a “strategic partner”, while its Premier Li Keqiang called for improved trade and “healthier globalisation”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Eleven development projects in the Kingdom were approved by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), bringing $297 million in total investment and more than 6,000 jobs to the Kingdom’s industry, according to a CDC press release posted on Facebook on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Education, Youth and sport Hang Chuon Naron met with representatives of Microsoft on Wednesday at the National sport Training Center in Phnom Penh to support the multinational firm’s assistance with the development and expansion of the New Generation schools (NGs) programme. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Civil society groups and associations released a public statement on Tuesday expressing concern over the EU starting the process to withdraw Cambodia’s access to its preferential “Everything But Arms” (EBA) agreement, as a delegation from the bloc landed in Phnom Penh the same day. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A top veterinarian told The Post on Tuesday that 45 pigs illegally transported into svay Rieng province from Vietnam did not have African swine fever (AsF) after tests carried out at Phnom Penh’s General Directorate of Animal Health and Production came back negative. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A sub-decree aimed at regulating single-use plastics and foam containers is currently in the works, the Ministry of Environment said on sunday. Neth Pheaktra, the ministry’s spokesperson, said he could not provide further details as yet while the regulation is being formulated. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ten representatives of Banong ethnic villagers from five districts in Mondulkiri were questioned for more than an hour by police on Tuesday for their attempt to seek intervention from Prime Minister Hun sen’s cabinet over the loss of sacred land to 11 families. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three new rice storage and drying facilities will be ready in July for the upcoming harvest season and will boost the sector’s capacity and export potential, even as the Ministry of Agriculture claimed the sector still needs more storage space to meet demand. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian prime minister Hun sen denied on Tuesday that 20 small and little-known political parties registered to compete in July 29 national elections were created by his ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) to provide an illusion of political opposition in the coming polls. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Tourism, in conjunction with the National Committee for Clean City Evaluation, on Tuesday urged governors in the Kingdom’s 25 cities and provinces to launch an awareness-raising and sanitation campaign in the run-up to the National Clean City Day. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Next year’s basic minimum wage has been increased by 4.4 per cent to $190 a month from $170 per month last year after the final round of negotiations ended in a vote last week, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training announced. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 30 non-government groups have recently applied to register with the state or asked for changes to their current registration records, according to a statement from the Interior Ministry that hailed the requests as broad endorsement of Cambodia’s highly controversial new NGO law. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the middle class here expands and the government seeks to boost home ownership, singapore-based developer HLH Group Ltd is expanding into the market with Camhomes, a brand that aims to tap rising demand from the country’s middle class. ss='cambodia-color'>...