The Ministry of Tourism is to collaborate with Yunnan’s Tourism and Vocational Training Institution to develop human resources in tourism and seek the methodology to attract more Chinese tourists to visit Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The land concession overlaps the site of the Bunong community’s old village, their spirit forest and their burial grounds—religiously significant areas that, according to Bunong beliefs, are not to be disturbed or logged at the risk of incurring the wrath of local spirits. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s investment authority signed an agreement yesterday to promote and protect investments between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Cambodia, a move government officials hope will attract foreign direct investment from the oil-rich Gulf state, which currently stands at almost zero. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s banking sector enjoyed another strong performance last year as the Kingdom’s economy continued to expand, with banking credit moderating, deposits increasing and financial institutions remaining healthy as they further integrate into the global economy, the central bank said in its annual report yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two weeks after Bangladesh and Cambodia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Phnom Penh to purchase rice from Cambodia, on Monday of this week Bangladesh signed a deal to buy 250,000 tonnes of milled rice from Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s computer networks, including government servers, are reported to be the targets of a virus unique to Cambodia and deployed through spam emails and phishing campaigns, which lure victims with emails disguised as official communications, though officials yesterday maintained they were unaffected. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The industry body representing Cambodia’s garment sector issued a statement yesterday urging the government to help manufacturers reduce the cost of doing business in order to offset a higher minimum wage and workers benefit package due to come into effect on January 1. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six VietnameSe nationalS were arreSted on WedneSday afternoon in a Military Police raid that Saw 30 officerS confiScating at leaSt 100 illegally felled treeS and 10 logging vehicleS from an economic land conceSSion in Kratie province&rSquo;S Snuol diStrict near the border with Vietnam. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian and Chinese officials and business leaders yesterday signed 19 agreements during a visit to Phnom Penh by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, boosting Chinese investment at a time when the regional power has upped its economic and political support for Hun sen’s government.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

StrikeS in Cambodia plummeted by more than half laSt year, according to the MiniStry of Labour&rSquo;S annual report &ndaSh; a StatiStic lauded by the government aS evidence that worker conditionS had improved but rejected by labour advocateS aS a Sign that diSSent waS being SuppreSSed. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) will unveil its initial rates that banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) will be able to use, as the NBC begins its liquidity-providing collateralized operation (LPCO) to boost the country’s riel liquidity, according to a senior bank official. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian authorities say the latest refugee to take up the country’s resettlement offer under a controversial deal with Australia arrived in Phnom Penh on sunday, only the sixth to do so since the deal was struck in september 2014. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP said on Tuesday it was preparing to submit complaints to the National Election Committee (NEC) about almost 5,000 Vietnamese voters it says were registered to vote without citizenship, a move criticized as continuing the party’s tradition of populist Vietnam-bashing. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police tallied only 23 rapes in Phnom Penh last year despite an overall spike of 20 percent in criminal cases, prompting experts to caution that the data posted on the Cambodian National Police website provided only a partial picture of the city’s crimes. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A slow growth in tourism, and a slowdown in the logistics and real estate sectors could cumulatively have a knock-on effect that will threaten the overall growth of the country’s services sector, a report from the Ministry of Economy and Finance said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Doctor Beat Richner, the prominent SwiSS-born doctor credited with reSurrecting the Kantha Bopha Children&rSquo;S HoSpitalS &ndaSh; which have treated millionS of patientS free of charge Since 1992 &ndaSh; Stepped down from hiS more than two-decade role of managing the hoSpitalS, citing a SeriouS illneSS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Riot police were deployed near Phnom Penh’s Wat Chas on Monday to prevent about 30 people from marching to the National Assembly to submit a petition seeking a new national holiday marking the day the French officially handed former Kampuchea Krom provinces to Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Chinese firm that plans to invest $2 billion into developing the Kingdom’s first special economic zone (sEZ) dedicated solely to agricultural processing and storage has signed on a new partner to help jumpstart the stalled project, a top agriculture official said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The industry body representing the Kingdom’s myriad microfinance institutions (MFIs) threw down the gauntlet yesterday, announcing that its members had categorically rejected a government directive that orders them to charge a value-added tax (VAT) on financial services fees and would not apply it. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A series of letters issued by the Ministry of Interior on Tuesday night – one chastising two election monitors, and another offering a blanket warning to NGOs – have again raised the spectre of the Kingdom’s controversial and widely criticised Law on Associations and NGOs ss='cambodia-color'>...