Frustrated with the failure of a $27 million emergency loan package to help rice farmers find a fair market price for their crop and stem the tide of smuggled paddy across the borders, Agriculture Minister Veng sokhon is flogging a new model for the nation’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Boeung Kak land activists have called on the government to release one of their most prominent representatives, Tep Vanny, who was charged with intentional violence related to a protest outside Prime Minister Hun sen’s house in 2013, a case reactivated after she was arrested during ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of nearly 200 families gathered in front of the Banteay Meanchey provincial hall yesterday demanding that authorities intervene in a land dispute after security forces blocked harvesting. The dispute, which sets the families against members of 14 other families, involves land in Thma Puok district’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local and foreign investment in the Kingdom declined by nearly $1 billion last year, with the bulk of losses coming from fewer infrastructure and agriculture projects, while the manufacturing and tourism sectors continued to post massive gains, according to the Council for the Development of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Banteay Meanchey police have arrested three men, including a deminer from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC), for their alleged involvement in selling three mortars seized last week by Thai authorities, who, in a separate raid in Thailand near the country’s border with Myanmar, detained ss='cambodia-color'>...

A lead economist working with the Asia Development Bank (ADB) has said that Cambodia needs to rethink its economic model, which is heavily based on export-driven growth, as it prepares to shed least developed country (LDC) status, a transition that is expected to take place by ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government on Saturday inaugurated a new Royal Cambodian Armed ForceS brigade to Serve a diSputed part of the Cambodia-LaoS border. Defence MiniSter General Tea Banh preSided over a ceremony to mark the eStabliShment of infantry brigade 128, which comeS under the control of RCAF&rSquo;S SS='cambodia-color'>...

Officials holding the position of secretary of state will no longer be members of the Cabinet after July’s general election, it was announced yesterday.Council of Ministers spokesman Phay siphan said the government will soon amend the law to allow for a reduction in the number ss='cambodia-color'>...

The leaders of Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand and Laos, along with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, announced the adoption of a five-year plan for cooperation on matters relating to the Mekong River, though experts and observers yesterday questioned who would benefit from China’s increasing involvement in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Tourism Development Committee was created this month to boost the development of one of Cambodia’s most important economic drivers. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Commercial property prices and rents in siem Reap have increased by 10 to 20 per cent in the last year, according to the town’s newest real estate agency. Cambodia Properties Limited (CPL) opened its first siem Reap branch three months ago, recognising a need for sound ss='cambodia-color'>...

The International Monetary Fund said it expects economic growth in Cambodia to reach its potential of 7.5 percent in the medium term. The Washington-based IMF forecast growth of 6.7 percent this year, up from an estimated 6.5 percent in 2012, in its annual assessment of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mesco Gold, an associated company of India-based Mesco steel, will sign an agreement with Angkor Gold to mine the Phum syrang prospect on one of its economic land concessions in Ratanakkiri province. “We’ve been exploring the area since 2006. We’ve been drilling holes and there’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chinese, Korean and local investors have shown interest in Meoun Chey border crossing in Prey Veng province’s Komchay Mear district between Cambodia and Vietnam, provincial officials said yesterday. Komchay Mear district governor Prak savann said the potential investors are looking for land in the area to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The International Labor Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia program yesterday launched its One Change Campaign to encourage factories to implement changes that would reduce incidents of mass faintings. Maeve Galvin, a consultant for Better Factories Cambodia, said the campaign is supported by major international clothing brands as ss='cambodia-color'>...

A married couple and another man were called before a judge yesterday after being charged with clearing protected forest in Koh Kong province’s Kandorl commune. Kry Deuy, his wife, Moeung Yan, and a man named soun sareth cleared about 16 hectares of state-protected forest to cultivate ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 4,000 workers from two garment factories protested in Phnom Penh  yesterday for better working conditions – but bosses told them their 7.5 hour working days and free meals meant they had it pretty good. The workers from sL Garment Processing (Cambodia)’s sL1 and sL2 factories ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thai soldiers have shot dead three Cambodian men for illegally cutting rosewood on the frontier of Thai territory He [Prach Chan, governor of Cambodia’ s Battambang province] said the Thai side claimed that the men illegally entered Thai territory for logging purposes on saturday, in an ss='cambodia-color'>...

Acleda Bank PLC plans to launch internet banking services in september, the bank’s president and CEO, In Channy, said yesterday. Internet banking will be available to customers in Cambodia and abroad, Mr. Channy said. The system Acleda chose, he said, is used by many leading ss='cambodia-color'>...

International tourist arrivals soared nearly 18 per cent in the first quarter in this year compared to the same period the year before, according to data from the Ministry of Tourism. The ministry’s official statistics report showed that Cambodia received 1,172,072 tourists in three-month period, compared ss='cambodia-color'>...