Cambodia’s gross domestic product (GDP) is predicted to grow around 7.2 percent this year, buoyed up by clothing and apparel exports to the European Union (EU), according to estimates by the ANZ Group. The banking group also advised the Kingdom to diversify its economy and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Singaporean developer behind The Bay, a $500 million mixed-uSe real eState project on the capital&rSquo;S Chroy Changvar peninSula, haS announced it iS putting the reSidential phaSe of the project on hold due to unfavourable market conditionS &ndaSh; a move that could herald the firSt SS='cambodia-color'>...

The mob that beat up two Cambodian opposition lawmakers outside the National Assembly building in Phnom Penh early this week included about 200 young men from Prime Minister Hun sen’s corps of bodyguards who were driven in trucks to the protest and later boasted about ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials responsible for issuing new identity cards, which every adult will eventually need, must get a grip on the task and speed up, the Ministry of Interior said yesterday.In an “instruction” to staff, Interior Minister sar Kheng said the number of new ID cards issued ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Federation of Associations for small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia is planning to propose that the government set up special economic zone (sEZ) for small and medium-sized sized enterprises (sMEs) so that they can work in clusters, saying this will enhance their productivity, increase ss='cambodia-color'>...

The sexual abuse case involving a 57-year-old German national and at least five underage boys continued in Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday. Udo sabiniewicz, owner of FX Animation studio in Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ampov district, could be sentenced to one to three years in prison ss='cambodia-color'>...

The owners of the boats that ferry customers to the floating villages on Tonle sap Lake have seen their profits increase as gas prices fall and ticket prices rise. But one group has not profited from the lake’s tourism boom: the men who pilot the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local government officials in a southern Cambodian province failed to evacuate villagers in time to prevent their homes and rice fields from flooding after the operators of a Chinese-built hydropower dam informed them a day earlier that they would open the facility’s gates to release ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Council of Ministers on Friday green-lighted a contentious law that labor leaders say will make it hard to form unions and collectively bargain.The draft law will now be debated in the National Assembly, where the ruling Cambodian People’s Party has a majority and will ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials in the Ministry of social Affairs are planning to make a set of major changes to the infamous Prey speu detention center, aimed at improving its healthcare services, educational options, and the quality of the housing it offers. But some critics say the changes ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s petroleum and gas imports fell in the first quarter of this year due to waning consumer and business demands, according to the Ministry of Commerce. However, a large petroleum, lubricants and oil importer said the fall in gas imports was just relative and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Just weeks since the United states announced it would grant new trade privileges that allow Cambodian-manufactured travel goods such as luggage and backpacks to enter the Us market duty-free under its Generalised system of Preferences (GsP) scheme, a visiting American trade official hinted yesterday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government of Japan has agreed to provide a $134,526 grant to PH-Japan (PHJ) – a Japanese NGO working to improve Cambodia’s healthcare system – the embassy announced yesterday. According to an embassy press release, PHJ will use the money in Kampong Cham province, focusing on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nougy Mom bounces her 2-year-old son in her arms as she waits at the gates of Phnom Penh’s notorious centre for “undesirables”, Prey speu. The 34-year-old mother was there to visit her husband, a rubbish collector like herself, who was rounded up by authorities as he ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Japanese government agreed yesterday to provide more than $830,000 to the Japan Mine Action service (JMAs) to assist the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) with demining operations in the northwestern part of Battambang province. The deal was signed by Japan’s Ambassador to Cambodia Yuji Kumamaru ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand’s Bank of Ayudhya PLC., known more commonly as Krungsri announced last week that it was entering the Cambodian microfinance market with the acquisition of Hatta Kaksekar Limited (HKL). In a press release, Krungsri ‒ itself part of the Japanese-based Mitsubishi UFJ since 2013 ‒ described ss='cambodia-color'>...

A $1.5 billion new satellite city called the Cambodia-China Friendship City is to be built in the capital’s northern suburbs next year adjoining the Ly Yong Phat satellite City. According to local media reports, the construction of the friendship city would be undertaken jointly by the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sroeun, 43, a former rice farmer from Kandal province, Said he waS Sure there had never been any accidentS at hiS conStruction Site.​&nbSp;“Small thingS happen. ScratcheS on our handS,” he Said, declining to give hiS full name aS a SuperviSor Stood nearby during a break SS='cambodia-color'>...

Soeun Phal, a 27-year-old Security guard, and Kong Phanny, a 61-year-old cleaner, died when a wood-fired Steam generator exploded. The guard, who did not know how to operate the machine, had been Seen adding more wood to the generator&rSquo;S fire before the exploSion, authoritieS and SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Global Center for Mekong StudieS (GCMS) compriSeS Six leading regional “think tankS”: the China InStitute for International StudieS (CIIS); the Cambodian InStitute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP); the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV); the LaoS InStitute of Foreign AffairS (IFA); the Myanmar InStitute of SS='cambodia-color'>...