Huawei Technologies (Cambodia) Co agreed yesterday to withdraw its injunction against Mfone in order to pave the way for a court-appointed administrator to sell the bankrupt company’s assets and compensate its many creditors. Along with other creditors, Huawei representatives expressed concerns that the assets would ss='cambodia-color'>...

Italian sportswear brand Kappa and U.s.-based retail giant Walmart apparently source clothing from the latest addition to the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) list of low-compliance factories, according to a union leader at the factory who provided the branded tags from the clothing her members cut ss='cambodia-color'>...

This tourist town counts itself among the Most Beautiful Bays in the World Club and more than 1 million tourists each year are drawn to its tropical water and sandy shore. Yet when the U.s. Embassy last month warned its citizens to avoid some beaches ss='cambodia-color'>...

A coalition of NGOs are to submit to the National Assembly today a list of recommended additions to the amended traffic law, a draft of which was approved by the Council of Ministers in August. Road safety advocates hope the amended law, which creates higher fines ss='cambodia-color'>...

A draft agricultural land law threatens to eliminate property rights and effectively remove all limitations on the size of economic land concessions, a coalition of civil society groups said in a statement released.The draft of The Law on the Management and Use of Agricultural Land, ss='cambodia-color'>...

For Meach Mean, a veteran campaigner against hydropower dams in Cambodia’s northeast, this year has brought a double dose of bad news. First, he says, two Chinese hydropower companies have begun feasibility studies into a pair of dams planned for tributaries of the Mekong River ss='cambodia-color'>...

WASHINGTON DC &ndaSh; Seven oppoSition lawmakerS Say they have found new wayS to reduce the national debt and are requeSting that the National ASSembly&rSquo;S finance committee meet with them before drafting the 2013 national budget. The lawmakerS, from the Sam RainSy and Human RightS partieS, Say SS='cambodia-color'>...

Less than two weeks after being released from prison, the 13 women convicted in May for protesting evictions at Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak community staged their first public action yesterday. The women, joined by about as many neighbors, submitted petitions to the Australian, French, U.K. and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is being considered as a site for halal food production and rice milling by the United Arab Emirates, according to the UAE’s Foreign Trade Minister sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi yesterday. speaking during an official meeting with Prime Minister Hun sen at the Peace ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rating agency Standard & Poor&rSquo;S (S&P) on Friday reaffirmed Cambodia&rSquo;S long-term Sovereign credit rating of “B” due to the country&rSquo;S poSitive growth outlook, but again warned of riSkS related to the country&rSquo;S narrow economic baSe. “Economic output growth iS vulnerable due to the Still large SS='cambodia-color'>...

Global coffee-chain giant StarbuckS will enter itS 12th ASian market next month when it openS an outlet in Vietnam&rSquo;S Ho Chi Minh City. RMA Cambodia CEO Rami Sharaf Said the expanSion into Vietnam did not automatically mean StarbuckS would enter Cambodia. “I don&rSquo;t think there iS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Arrivals at the Kingdom’s two main international airports rose more than 20 per cent year on year in the first quarter of 2013, according to data from Cambodia Airports. Officials said the rise reflects the normalisation of the world economy and the country’s political stability. According ss='cambodia-color'>...

Russian sailor Andrey Mantula plans to build what he is calling Cambodia’s first marina off the beaches of Preah sihanouk province. Mantula, who has lived in Cambodia for one year, is heading up the project. He expects construction to start on October 1 of this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

BANGKOK: Demand for farmland may strip the Greater Mekong region of a third of its remaining forest cover over the next two decades without swift government action, a leading conservation group warned Thursday. Forests are being cleared for commodities such as rubber and rice while illegal logging is decimating ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s total insurance premiums rose sharply in the first quarter of the year, compared with the same period the previous year, thanks largely to the growth of the economy and an influx of foreign direct investment, industry insiders said. Official data from the General Insurance ss='cambodia-color'>...

A move by the International Labour Organization to name and shame garment producers in Cambodia that flout workers’ rights and safety standards could damage the industry’s reputation and result in a drastic reduction in orders from buyers abroad, according to a senior manufacturing official. Last week, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mr S ISwaran MiniSter in the Prime MiniSter&rSquo;S Office and Second MiniSter for Home AffairS and Trade and InduStry will be making an official viSit to Cambodia on 21 July 2014. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia needed to invest in women to aid its development and integration into the AsEAN economic community, United Nations Under secretary-General Noeleen Heyzer said yesterday. Heyzer, executive secretary of the Economic and social Commission for Asia and the Pacific(EsCAP), met with Minister of Women’s Affairs Ing Kantha ss='cambodia-color'>...

With Cambodia currently seen as a country where the laundering of illicit cash may be going undetected, an international expert yesterday warned that economic growth and more international trade could leave the country open to financial crime. Gert Demmink, a former head of supervision at ss='cambodia-color'>...

SiameSe RoSewood, which iS illegally logged and exported from Cambodia in large quantitieS, will be protected internally aS a threatened SpecieS following a deciSion taken in Bangkok yeSterday. A meeting of the 177 countrieS party to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered SpecieS of Wild SS='cambodia-color'>...