Loans and deposits in the Kingdom’s crowded microfinance sector rose about 10 percent during the first quarter of the year from the same period last year, according to a report from the Cambodia Microfinance Association, which put the rise down to an expanding economy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction on a $3 billion oil refining plant, the Kingdom’s first, will start in October this year and is expected to be finished by the end of 2018, according to a senior executive at the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The country’s political and business elite dug deep into their pockets on sunday for the Cambodian Red Cross’ (CRC) annual fundraising drive in Phnom Penh, contributing a total of $13.43 million during an event marking World Red Cross Day.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

A visiting U.s. human rights envoy on Tuesday urged the government to release and drop charges against five current and former rights workers arrested in April amid what he called a deteriorating political situation in which the courts have disproportionately targeted state critics. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite some appearances to the contrary, things in Cambodia are looking pretty rosy at least according to the World Bank. In its latest revision of world economies the Bank raised Cambodia’s status from a low-income economy to a lower-middle income country. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) will for the first time sign bilateral cooperation agreements with Malaysia’s External Trade Development Corporation (Matrade) to pave the way for businesses in both countries to carry out matching activities, like events and expositions. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new survey of what the country’s 700,000 garment workers earn and spend in a typical month has concluded that the median take-home pay of a garment factory employee is $191, higher than the minimum wage, but lower than what employers have claimed. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rhona Smith, the U.N.&rSquo;S new Special rapporteur on human rightS in Cambodia, on TueSday addreSSed the U.N. Human RightS Council (HRC) in Geneva for the firSt time, telling the body that She planned to focuS on marginalized people in the country. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Revenue from ticket sales to foreign tourists visiting Cambodia’s famed Angkor Wat Temple reached 43.3 million U.s. dollars in the first nine months of 2015, up 0.24 percent year-on-year, according to a news statement on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A set of new global standards for adolescent health care released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNAIDs this week indicate that a worldwide gap in health care provision for youths is magnified by Cambodia’s comparatively young population, officials and experts said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in northwestern Cambodia’s siem Reap province on Wednesday called for local authorities to protect them and said they are considering legal action against a military unit they claim is threatening them in a bid to take over their farmland. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of 14 ethnic mi­nority communities in Ratana­kkiri province on Friday accepted $1,700 each from Vietnamese rubber company Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) to buy a buffalo and hold a ceremony to appease the spirits that had been disturbed by the firm’s plantations. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As a grinning Prime Minister Hun sen shook hands with U.s. President Barack Obama and received his first invite for an official trip to Washington over the weekend, opposition leader sam Rainsy said he was headed to Europe seeking to place diplomatic pressure on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Ministry’s anti-human trafficking department on Monday questioned an administrator at a maritime school over complaints lodged in september by seven former students who claim they were forced to flee a pair of Chinese-owned cargo ships after working in slave-like conditions. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kampot Provincial Court will continue to investigate three villagers and an NGO worker after they were arrested and released on Friday for allegedly setting up an illegal checkpoint to extort money from timber and firewood transporters in Kampot’s Chhouk district, according to officials. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An obscure Malaysian company has obtained approval from Cambodia’s Council of Ministers to develop hotels and casinos in sihanoukville, with an online promotional video claiming the firm will transform the coastal city into the “Macau of southeast Asia.”     ss='cambodia-color'>...

Revenue from ticket sales to foreign tourists visiting Cambodia’s famed Angkor archaeological park reached 20.3 million U.s. dollars in the first quarter of 2016, up 2.5 percent compared to the same period last year, according to an official statement on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Making a dramatic arrival by helicopter at the Sofitel Hotel in Phnom Penh after a flyover of Prey Lang foreSt, Environment MiniSter Say Sam Al and US AmbaSSador to Cambodia William Heidt diScuSSed a plan to make the Kingdom&rSquo;S largeSt foreSt a protected area. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Despite a precipitous drop in the start-up costs of solar energy, Cambodia’s biggest industrial parks are sticking to high-cost grid and fuel-generated electricity, claiming that when it comes to attracting foreign manufacturers, a stable power supply trumps a cheaper electricity bill. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 34 familieS in Kampong Chhnang&rSquo;S Lorpeang village yeSterday filed a new petition at the provincial hall urging authoritieS to intervene in a nine-year land diSpute with KDC International, which villagerS Say haS reached a bottleneck and iS affecting their daily liveS. SS='cambodia-color'>...