The government should throw its weight behind Cambodia’s young and dynamic private sector, which has the talent and skills to capitalise on the opportunities presented by AsEAN regional economic integration, a government adviser said during a forum on Friday.     ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new plan to protect the environment started taking shape yesterday when the Environment Ministry held a workshop to discuss ideas on how to convert numerous laws into a single code to govern the county’s natural resources. It is expected the process will take two years ss='cambodia-color'>...

FWith voting set to take place on July 2 to elect the next president of the Cambodian Rice Federation (CRF), the organisation has pledged to further strengthen its mandate, while rice millers and exporters claim they have lost confidence in the organisation’s ability to achieve ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) will unveil the first draft of its long-awaited whistleblower protection law next month, according to minutes of a May 30 meeting between the ACU and the National Council Against Corruption published on the unit’s website, but observers are not holding their ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local industry experts responded yesterday to a new report that warns the majority of Cambodia’s garment sector workers could lose their jobs in the coming two decades as automation and innovative technologies replace low-skilled labour and allow multinational producers to move their operations closer to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on saturday issued a statement reiterating government policy laid out expressly by Prime Minister Hun sen in recent speeches, saying Cambodia will not support Tuesday’s expected arbitration decision at the Hague in the south China sea territorial dispute between China ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tourist visits to siem Reap province increased slightly during the first half of the year as foreign tourists lined up to see the country’s pre-eminent tourism attraction, Angkor Wat, and Cambodians from across the country flocked to the province for a major national festival in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Commerce set up a new taskforce on Friday to address challenges faced by the Kingdom’s struggling rice industry and assess demands made by members of the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF), who have decried the ineffectiveness of an earlier taskforce set up by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Industrial park operator Phnom Penh sEZ, which became the fourth company on Cambodia’s stock exchange when it listed in May, released its audited 2015 annual report and 2016 half-year financials yesterday, reporting declines in revenue and net profit over the past 18 months on slower ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in northern Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province on Tuesday urged the government to suspend construction of a Chinese-backed dam until they are promised compensation for flooding they say will inundate area communities, forests and farmland if the project is allowed to proceed. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Foreign tourist arrivals in siem Reap fell 11.2 per cent during the first nine months of the year compared to the same period one year earlier, as the Kingdom’s top tourist gateway sees its most significant slowdown in visitor arrivals in decades, new government data ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s government and civil society yesterday expressed worry over the lack of progress on finalising the draft text for an international climate change treaty set to be adopted at UN climate talks in Paris (COP 21) after the final round of negotiations concluded in Bonn, ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 200 unionists and past and present employees of siem Reap City’s Victoria Angkor Resort & spa on Monday demonstrated outside the siem Reap Provincial Court against an injunction ordering them to stop protesting outside the high-end hotel, but agreed to disperse when military police ss='cambodia-color'>...

The draft law to join the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank passed the National Assembly yesterday with lawmakers from both the ruling and opposition party supporting it, saying it will  open the door to a new source of funding for the development of the Kingdom’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

With a surge in visitors from the world’s most populous nation, the government is preparing a “second-home policy” to encourage more Chinese tourists to visit and stay longer, and for those who have already visited to do so more often, Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon ss='cambodia-color'>...

Deputy opposition leader Kem sokha on saturday brushed off protests from a group of students demanding he respond to claims that he had a series of extramarital affairs, telling CNRP faithful to prepare for next year’s commune elections.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

The parents of Cambodia’s ambassador to south Korea, suth Dina, yesterday made a public appeal to Prime Minister Hun sen, as their son, who is accused of corruption, prepared to spend his third night in custody ahead of a likely court appearance this morning.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

After plans to screen a documentary about slain environmental activist Chut Wutty at Phnom Penh’s Meta House were canceled at the behest of the Ministry of Culture last week, a ministry official said over the weekend that the film could not be publicly screened anywhere ss='cambodia-color'>...

A military officer convicted of fraud and sentenced to one year in prison in October is still em­ployed by the National Defense Uni­versity (NDU), the school con­firmed this week, despite the fact that the officer’s co-conspirator is now behind bars.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

South Korea&rSquo;S Hyundai Engineering won a $120 million deal from a JapaneSe retail giant Aeon Co. to build a Shopping mall in the Kingdom of Cambodia, a deal that iS expected to help the Korean engineering company that haS been focuSing on plant conStruction diverSify SS='cambodia-color'>...