Global food prices fell 1 per cent or two points in the October 2012 Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) Food Price Index released on October 7, 2012. The index averaged 213 points, compared to september’s revised level of 215 points. According to the FAO, the decrease ss='cambodia-color'>...

Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong’s visit to meet U.s. secretary of state Hillary Clinton in Washington was met with a small protest Tuesday from Cambodian-Americans voicing a number of grievances. Video footage posted online shows a cluster of protesters outside the state Department building in Washington ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kratie, a province in northeast Cambodia has seen an improvement in tourist arrivals and length of stay since the Mekong Discovery Trail project was established in 2007. The Mekong Discovery Trail is a co-operative effort with the Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism and has the support of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Post, a state-owned enterprise with plans to list on Cambodia’s bourse, will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) today with the Thai Post intended to provide electronic money transfer services between the two AsEAN neighbours. The initiative hopes to tap the growing remittance via ss='cambodia-color'>...

SaleS of SIM cardS reached 19.7 million laSt year, a 21 per cent riSe from the 16.2 million Sold in 2011, data from the MiniStry of PoSt and Telecommunication (MPTC) ShowS. In contraSt to the uSe of SIM cardS, the number of telco operatorS decreaSed. In SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is rapidly attracting more and more visitors from tourists to businessmen. Visits are continuing to climb as January figures show a 15.4 percent increase, Cambodia’s statistics and tourist Information Department reported. so far,the country has welcomed 404,106 visitors compared to 350,257 during the same ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than a week after the World Bank blacklisted a Canadian construction firm over bribes allegedly paid in Cambodia and Bangladesh, it was still unclear Thursday whether the government, or the national anticorruption body, are investigating the allegations. sNC-Lavalin Inc. was banned from World Bank contracts ss='cambodia-color'>...

A protester involved in Tuesday’s clash between sL Garment Factory workers and security forces filed a complaint yesterday against Phnom Penh’s municipal and military police chiefs, accusing them of responsibility for the death of a 49-year-old street-food vendor who was killed by police gunfire, according ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new study and accompanying short film released yesterday call for all lower Mekong dam developers to halt plans until further impact studies can be made. Hydropower dams will have a greater impact on river flows than even climate change, according to research by the University ss='cambodia-color'>...

Detainees and prisoners continue to be administered electric shocks, beaten unconscious and even smothered by plastic bags, with 49 new allegations of torture or abuse at the hands of authorities this year, according to rights group Licadho, which says in a report released Wednesday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Anguished cries from supporters and family members echoed outside the Appeals Court in Phnom Penh yesterday as they received the news bail had been denied. They had been hoping for the release of 21 people detained since a brutal government crackdown in early January. On ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian garment manufacturers and the association that governs them are failing to meet the standards set by the U.N.’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as evidenced by lethal violence against workers during garment strikes in January, when five people were shot dead and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Telecommunications companies say they are being left in the dark on the controversial draft law on cybercrime, despite provisions in the proposed law allowing prosecutors to order internet service providers to preserve data for them as part of criminal investigations. Three large telecom firms providing internet ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two polarizing narratives emerged after the Monday night discussion between U.s. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Hun sen, with the U.s. claiming it had been “tense,” while Cambodia insisted the talks were cordial. When it came to agenda, Mr. Obama put human rights, electoral and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Power Partner Profit Group has signed 10 memoranda of understanding with Chinese companies for cooperation on agriculture, mineral resources and electronics. Insiders said the penning of the MoUs, which do not guarantee a final agreement, was another step toward realising a Us$5 billion bilateral trade ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite offering an uplifting outlook for Cambodia’s economy this year, economists at the World Bank said yesterday that it could still succumb to volatile commodities prices, particularly food and gas. speaking to journalists after the release the bank’s East Asia and Pacific Economic Update for 2012, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Roughly 4,000 garment workers at a factory supplying clothes for U.s. brands Gap, Levi strauss and Old Navy went on strike yesterday and threatened to march in Phnom Penh on Thursday to demonstrate against poor pay. The demonstration took place at Tai Yang Enterprises in Kandal ss='cambodia-color'>...

Regional flights to Cambodia will rise next year with the news that Philippines Airlines is eyeing flights to the Kingdom and singapore’s silkAir announced it would increase the frequency of flights to siem Reap. The regional wing of singapore Airlines, silkAir, announced on Tuesday an increase ss='cambodia-color'>...

Environmentalists have expressed disappointment at the outcome of the second Mekong River Commission (MRC) summit, which wrapped up yesterday. International Rivers, an environmental and human rights organisation, yesterday released a statement slamming regional leaders’ failure to address concerns over the proliferation of dams on the mainstream ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh city of Vietnam agreed to strengthen further cooperation to develop the two cities. ss='cambodia-color'>...