Cambodia and the Asian Development Bank have signed their latest loan agreement of Us$15 million for the development of the Kingdom’s financial sector, according to ADB. The money would be used for a number of development programs, including the improvement of regulatory regimes, creation of an ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s lone strawberry farmer has expanded his operations in Mondolkiri province in the past four months to encompass 3 hectares of strawberry fields, a provincial official said yesterday. Heng sokhum, chief of Mondolkiri provincial agricultural department, said that the strawberry farm of Te Duong Dara ss='cambodia-color'>...

South Korean inveStorS were in Phnom Penh yeSterday Seeking opportunitieS in electronicS manufacturing, an induStry that expertS have Said could repreSent the next Stage of growth for Cambodia&rSquo;S economy. Eleven delegateS from Changwon City, South Korea, a manufacturing hub in the country, met with 70 local SS='cambodia-color'>...

Two women who were shot and injured during a Feb. 20 protest at a special economic zone (sEZ) said yesterday they plan to file court complaints against Bavet City’s former governor, Chhuk Bundith. Nuth sokhorn, 23, and Bun Chenda, 21, both said they will go ss='cambodia-color'>...

A mother from Kampong Chhnang’s Rolea Ba’ier district filed a complaint with the rights group Adhoc yesterday, claiming her daughter, a maid in Malaysia, was being forced to take drugs and work without enough food. Im Meoun, 52, said her daughter Phon sophea, 20, had been ss='cambodia-color'>...

Revenues earned by the sihanouk Autonomous Port for the first quarter of this year jumped 22 per cent year-on-year to Us$8.3 million, according to figures released yesterday by sAP. Exports of the Kingdom’s rice, garments and timber, coupled with imports of textiles, electronics and construction materials, ss='cambodia-color'>...

King Norodom Sihamoni, in an opening Speech on Monday to Cambodia&rSquo;S newly minted Senate, urged the legiSlative body to uphold human rightS and juStice. King Sihamoni warmly congratulated the 62-member Senate on itS new mandate following almoSt a year of what obServerS have deScribed aS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 500 homes were damaged and a father and son injured during severe winds and heavy rains in Kampong Cham province’s Batheay district on saturday. Duong Nha, Batheay district deputy police chief, said the storm damaged 496 homes in san Dek and Trorp communes. Of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police said on Tuesday that they will pick up members of a Facebook group involved in the “Clean Fingers Campaign” that promotes a boycott of next month’s national elections. However, police merely planned to “educate” the group for now, but warned that if the group ss='cambodia-color'>...

A senior Labour Ministry official said a withdrawal of the preferential Everything But Arms (EBA) trade agreement with the EU would not hurt the Kingdom’s economy. Ministry spokesman Heng suor said the government had prepared plans in the event of an EBA withdrawal. However, he ss='cambodia-color'>...

SoldierS and police officialS were granted 500 houSeS on TueSday by the MiniStry of Land Management, Urban Planning and ConStruction and Stung Treng authoritieS on land allocated for Social land conceSSionS. The houSeS on land in Stung Treng province&rSquo;S Sre Sambor and Prek MeaS communeS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian authorities should immediately end the harassment of former opposition party members and their supporters, Human Rights Watch said today. European Union officials arriving in Cambodia on June 3, 2019 to review the Cambodian government’s rights record in connection with the Everything but Arms (EBA) trade privileges should ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has unveiled plans to develop a new town in the Bokor Mountain area, an inter-ministerial meeting last Friday said. Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction Chea sophara led the meeting to develop a master plan for the development project, located in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Around 300 people representing hundreds of families in Koh Kong province, who were evicted from their homes to make way for a sugar company owned by businessman and CPP senator Ly Yong Phat, blocked the road that leads to the Ministry of Land Management on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Over 500 pieces of unexploded ordnance (UXO), including bullets and a 100mm mortar shell, have been found and collected in Pursat province’s Bakan district. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Leaders of Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand agreed on a common vision to push for the region’s true potential while at the Asean World Economic Forum in Vietnam this week. Prime Minister Hun sen said during his closing remarks that each country in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Finance Ministry has approved a budget for the Education, Youth and sport Ministry to spend on computers and printers for public schools. Finance Minister Aun Pornoniroth in a letter on Friday said the budget is to facilitate a part of the Education Ministry’s reform ss='cambodia-color'>...

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) haS provided more than $1 million to a Collective Action to Support Women&rSquo;S RightS (CASWR) project to promote the leaderShip and engagement of women in politicS. The CASWR initiative iS a 32-month project deSigned to advance meaningful repreSentation SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has postponed seniority indemnity payments for non garment and footwear workers until 2021, it said in a statement. “seniority payments” replaced Cambodia’s previous system of “indemnity for dismissal” payments – a legal concept requiring employers to give employees ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh government recently announced the provision of free bus services on a first-come, first served basis to the provinces during the Khmer New Year week. The plan will see 120 buses deployed to “transport civil servants, armed forces personnel, garment workers, students et ss='cambodia-color'>...