The Ministry of Labour hopes to use a new $20 million loan from saudi Arabia to develop the country’s workforce. Yousef Ibrahim Al-Bassam, vice president and managing director of the saudi Fund for Development, led a delegation to Phnom Penh yesterday to discuss plans for ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly will hold an extraordinary session on Wednesday on some agendas including an amendment to the Penal Code that gives jail time to anyone insulting the King.The National Assembly’s permanent committees held a meeting yesterday afternoon presided by assembly President Heng samrin to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The White House is cutting aid to several assistance programs in Cambodia due to “recent setbacks to democracy”, it announced late Tuesday. some programs supporting Cambodia’s Tax Department, military and local government will be cut or reduced “to ensure that American taxpayer funds are not being ss='cambodia-color'>...

The protesters represent a community of over 1,000 families living along a railway in the capital’s Russey Keo district. Plans to replace the track with a new, broader road will displace people in three communes. The new road and accompanying sidewalks would be 60 metres ss='cambodia-color'>...

Last month’s purchase by singapore-listed KrisEnergy of a 42.75 percent working interest in the Block A offshore energy concession made them a majority owner in the project, with an overwhelming control of 95 percent of the stakes. This acquisition is expected to accelerate the development ss='cambodia-color'>...

US preSidential nomineeS Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are now on barnStorming tourS acroSS the country, making their final appealS to Swing voterS ahead of next TueSday&rSquo;S election.&nbSp;Democratic candidate MS. Clinton haS received an overwhelming number of endorSementS from a variety of placeS, including French SS='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials are predicting a better haul of fish, typically used to make prahok, this season due to higher water levels in the Tonle sap Lake and River. The fishing season, which began on Thursday and is expected to last until February, will see higher yields ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 1,700 garment factory workers in svay Rieng province’s Bavet town entered day five of their protest yesterday against a factory over wage cuts as well as allegations that the factory was responsible for the assault of a union representative. Protestors accused Lu Thai (Cambodia) of ss='cambodia-color'>...

A major eight-day military exercise between Cambodian and Chinese troops will commence today at the Thlok Tasek Military Institute in Kampong speu’s Phnom sruoch district. Code named “Golden Dragon”, the manoeuvres will see soldiers from the two countries participating in myriad exercises including emergency road repairs ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s startups have clamoured to attract foreign venture capital, and now even silicon Valley is paying attention. Last month, local media and entertainment site Khmerload – described by some as Cambodia’s version of Buzzfeed – secured $200,000 in investment from the regional arm of California-based ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Mondulkiri province have pleaded with local authorities to intervene after a company behind a nearby rubber plantation began charging them 20,000 riel ($5) to use a local road. security guards at the Tong Min Group property told villagers from Pech Chreada district’s Pou ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia intends to submit a petition to the United states government to extend the duty-free privileges of its Generalised system of Preferences (GsP) scheme to include footwear, giving local manufacturers a competitive advantage in the world’s biggest consumer market. But hopes are dimming as the ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 workers at the JD Toyoma garment factory in Takeo province’s Bati district fainted yesterday morning while working. Police suspected the cause of the fainting was chemical fumes in the factory, but the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia said the fumes did not ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday that the country does not need a labour court to solve disputes because the current trilateral mechanism in place is sufficient. speaking to garment factory workers in Phnom Penh, Mr Hun sen explained that the current mechanism, which brings employer ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government expressed “dismay” yet remained defiant yesterday in the face of a Us decision to cut aid to the Kingdom in response to its ongoing political crackdown, saying it would not comply with demands to restore the forcibly dissolved opposition CNRP. In a statement, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh City Hall will add five new bus lines to the city’s public transportation system in an effort to increase ridership even though no profit has been made on the service. City Hall spokesman Met Meas Pheakdey told Khmer Times yesterday that the number of ss='cambodia-color'>...

ACLEDA Bank, Cambodia’s largest bank in terms of assets, will have to shell out millions in the next three weeks to comply with a Council of Ministers decision last Friday that the private financial institution must redesign and replace its logo on all company materials ss='cambodia-color'>...

In his office at the National Bank of Cambodia, Mr. Heng Bomakara recalls the early stages of the nation’s currency with fondness. He still remembers a time when coins were commonplace. First minted in aluminum and then later in steel, these coins are now a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government has made negligible progress in bringing small- and medium-size enterprise (sMEs) into the regulatory fold, reporting a less than 0.5 percent increase in the total number of companies registered in the last five years – a sign business professionals claim shows that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Speaking at a pagoda inauguration on Saturday, Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong Said City Hall iS looking to move warehouSeS and automobile repair ShopS out of the city centre to the outSkirtS to reduce pollution and traffic congeStion &ndaSh; a move Hun Sen&rSquo;S SiSter Hun SS='cambodia-color'>...