Forty families of pepper growers in Memot’s Tbong Khmum province have volunteered to form a modern agriculture community, said an official of the Agriculture Ministry. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s chief regulator of the human resources industry, the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MLVT), has officially commenced the application process for business enterprises operating in the Kingdom to apply for their respective ‘foreign employee quotas’ in 2025. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ministry of Environment plans to launch a green tourism corridor at Preah Jayavarman-Norodom Phnom Kulen National Park in Cambodia’s siem Reap province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has approved the creation of a footwear association under the umbrella of the Garment Manufacturers’ Association in Cambodia. 37 of the country’s 38 footwear factories agreed to the creation of a representative body for their industry. The footwear industry is said to have exported ss='cambodia-color'>...

The high number of approved projects in the tourism sector is a sign of optimism according to Minister of Tourism Thong Khon. Due to emphasis on areas beyond Angkor Wat, Cambodia’s GDP could largely be a result of tourism. The current 57 projects are worth ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hattha Kaksekar Limited, one of Cambodia’s largest microfinance institutions, has received a Us$5 million loan from a French development organisation in order to meet rising demand among its client farmers. PROPARCO, which is a joint venture between the French Development Agency and public and private shareholders, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s National Youth Congress called on the government yesterday to act to protect the country’s natural resources from illegal traders. About 100 young people from 30 colleges in Phnom Penh, Kratie and Kampong Thom Chhnang provinces attended a discussion about protecting natural resources – with a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The march of a thousand villagers in Ratanakkiri province’s Lum­phat district, planned for yesterday, was cancelled after provincial authorities promised to help settle their long-running land dispute. Adhoc coordinator in Ratanakkiri Pen Bunnar said the provincial governor had appealed to villagers in a meeting over the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Earnings from two of Cambodia’s banks have shown growth within the sector for the first six months of 2011. Acleda Bank and Cambodian Public Bank Plc, have had their profits rise to $21.7 million and $13.4 million respectively. The banks have grown as a result ss='cambodia-color'>...

The last of three workers shot during a protest in svay Rieng province’s Manhattan special Economic Zone on February 20 filed a complaint yesterday against sole suspect and former Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith. sam sameth, 40, the mother of 18-year-old Keo Near, said she filed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Maybank will bet on what it said was Cambodia’s low bank-penetration rate for future growth as it transitions from a branch of its Malaysian parent into a locally incorporated subsidiary. With 34 licenced banks operating in a market with Us$4.07 billion in loans in 2011, analysts ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nine villagers were injured and about 270 homes damaged when a storm ravaged Kampong Thom province’s sandan district on Friday, police said yesterday. sandan district governor sim Vanna told the Post that gale-force winds and heavy rain had swept across the region, leaving a trail of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom ranked second in the first half of the year for overseas Vietnamese investments, receiving about $32 million of the total $263 million outflow from the eastern neighbour. The Vietnamese General statistics Office (GsO) said from January to June this year, that country’s businesses ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Philippine government congratulated Cambodia for holding a peaceful and orderly election on July 29, saying that it is committed to working with a new government. In the statement issued on August 5, Foreign Affairs secretary Alan Peter s. Cayetano said that the Philippine government ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 300 pieceS of timber were diScovered and two men arreSted in Separate caSeS in PurSat and Mondulkiri provinceS aS they were tranSporting the logS to Vietnam. National Military Police on Monday found pileS of firSt-grade timber meaSuring nine cubic metreS in PurSat&rSquo;S Veal Veng SS='cambodia-color'>...

More than 130 families in Kampong Chhnang province’s Boribo district were evacuated from their homes after floods hit the area on Tuesday. Keo Vy, spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management, said yesterday that district authorities moved some families to relief centres and others ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Interior sar Kheng cited satellite footage of recent forest crimes as he criticised inept provincial officials for illegal logging and the flouting of the Kingdom’s forestry law. “You are not born with the forest. We have an obligation to protect the natural resources ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has vowed to protect peace and people’s lives as long as he leads the Kingdom. Mr Hun sen wrote on his Facebook yesterday saying that no one or group would be allowed to stage a coup or start a colour revolution ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kampong Chhnang provincial authority and forestry officials on Thursday stopped a group of people from clearing degraded forest where the government plans to replant trees and turn into a protected area in samaki Meanchey district’s Kraing Lvea commune. Four tractors were seized as evidence ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government is pushing for the development and investment into special tourism sites as it will contribute to the Kingdom’s economic development, a sub-decree designating “supreme Tourism sites” said. Industry insiders welcomed the sub-decree, saying it would help the Kingdom diversify its tourist attractions with ss='cambodia-color'>...