Another senior United states official has said that President Barack Obama will visit Cambodia in November for the East Asia summit and the Us-AsEAN summit. ss='cambodia-color'>...

They’re known as the BK13 and they’re not prepared to let greedy developers take the very, very little they have. They’re 13 women – mothers, grandmothers – who live around what used to be Boeung Kak Lake – not far from the centre of Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prudential Plc, the U.K.’s biggest insurer by market value, plans to begin selling insurance in Cambodia in the first quarter of next year to extend its presence in Asia across 13 markets. The firm is hiring sales agents and expects to gain a license to operate ss='cambodia-color'>...

South Korea&rSquo;S Financial ServiceS CommiSSion (FSC) and the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on Friday Signed a Memorandum of UnderStanding (MoU) on the proviSion of technical Support for Cambodia&rSquo;S banking and financial SuperviSion, according to a preSS releaSe after the Signing ceremony. “The MoU will SS='cambodia-color'>...

The bilateral trade between Cambodia and the United StateS in 2012 roSe Slightly, while Cambodia&rSquo;S export decreaSed, according to a report of the United StateS CenSuS Bureau of the Department of Commerce. U.S. Department of Commerce. The Cambodia-US bilateral trade Saw itS increaSe 0. 61%, while SS='cambodia-color'>...

Fauna and Flora International says its has found three previously unknown populations of the endangered Indochinese hog deer in Cambodia. “This is a remarkable discovery given not only the species’ vulnerability to hunting, but also because all of the sites were outside the existing protected area ss='cambodia-color'>...

CPP and Senate PreSident Chea Sim waS awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the RiSing Sun by the JapaneSe government on Sunday in recognition of hiS contributionS to the Strengthening of relationS between the two countrieS. In the 1980S and early 1990S, Mr. Sim, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Members of the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) said during a conference sunday that they are “fed up” with the government for not controlling strikes by labor unions. “All of us have the same issue: illegal strikes,” Van Porphin, a member of GMAC’s executive committee, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The seizure on Friday of a large haul of African elephant tusks in svay Rieng province, only one month after police intercepted a large ivory haul in siem Reap, could indicate that Cambodia is becoming a major transit point for illegal ivory, experts said Monday. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

With time running short before Laos’s Xayaburi hydropower dam enters its final, potentially irreversible stages of construction, a group of NGOs has made another call for its suspension. In a joint declaration released today, 39 organisations based in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Australia set a one-year ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. EmbaSSy Chargé d&rSquo;AffaireS, a.i. Jeff Daigle viSited In Komar Primary School in Kampong Thom province today to highlight a $20 million U.S. government School feeding program funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and implemented by the United NationS&rSquo; World Food Programme (WFP), SS='cambodia-color'>...

As a child growing up in a poor family in Banteay Meanchey, Yang Leaphea struggled to imagine a world outside her province. she turned to her desperately under-resourced local library, but found few books there to expand her horizons. All that changed when the intelligent daughter ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three parliamentarians from the National Assembly’s human rights commission, led by CNRP lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang, returned Tuesday from a two-day visit to four communities in Koh Kong province locked in land disputes with companies holding private land concessions. Following the trip, the lawmakers said ss='cambodia-color'>...

The governor of Ratanakkiri province is not cooperating with efforts by the U.N. to negotiate safe passage for five Montagnard asylum seekers who crossed the border from Vietnam nearly two weeks ago, a U.N. official said Thursday. Wan-Hea Lee, the country representative for the U.N.’s Office ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s population is expected to grow by 22 per cent to almost 19 million by 2030, while infant mortality is slated to decrease and life expectancy to increase, according to a UN report released on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC) has drawn up a master plan for the 2023 sEA Games, kick-starting official preparations to ensure that the country is ready to host the region’s most important sporting event, NOCC secretary-General Vath Chamroeun said Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A California judge has ordered lawyers representing two Us seafood companies to appear in court for a scheduling conference following a lawsuit filed on behalf of seven Cambodians who claim they were duped into a life of servitude working in factories that supply the firms. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Laos has stepped up plans for three hydropower dams on Mekong River tributaries, updating an eight-year-old deal with a Russian investor to build the projects for U.s. $1.5 billion. Lao authorities signed a project development agreement with Russia’s Regional Oil for the sekong 4, sekong 5, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The entire work force of the Ta Prohm temple restoration project in siem Reap – more than 100 people – gathered at the temple yesterday to demand the reinstatement of 30 of their number [sic] who were dismissed at the start of the month. The 145 ss='cambodia-color'>...