“Counterfeit medicine kills, while real medicine heals.” This was the simple but apt message selected just over a year ago for a poster campaign in Cambodia that aimed to raise awareness of the risks of counterfeit medications, as part of a government crackdown on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Barack Obama was declared president of the United states for a second term yesterday, about 50 anti-eviction protesters for the Boeng Kak and Borei Keila communities camped out in front of the U.s. Embassy and appealed for the president’s help in addressing land rights ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia and unions both need to compromise further to secure a “proper wage” for garment workers whose lives are hampered by their current $61 minimum wage, a Ministry of social Affairs official overseeing wage negotiations said yesterday. “The government needs the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A lack of trade financing – the loans and guarantees needed to support import and export transactions – for international deals within developing Asian countries such as Cambodia is restricting opportunities for growth, a survey by the Asia Development Bank (ADB) has found. Of 106 banks ss='cambodia-color'>...

An insurance training centre is being planned in Cambodia to develop local expertise lacking in the Kingdom’s nascent insurance industry. The institute hopes to offer diploma courses to industry leaders here so they in turn will be qualified to provide insurance training to others, such as ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has no control over Cambodian-flagged ships complicit in illegal activities on the high seas as the government sold the authority to register ocean-going vessels, under Cambodia’s national flag, to a company in south Korea for $6 million, a Council of Ministers official claimed Thursday. On ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Noun Phymean has won this year’s World’s Children’s Prize, chosen by children from around the globe, and the accompanying $50,000 award for her work offering free schooling and vocational training to some of Phnom Penh’s poorest young people. ss='cambodia-color'>...

With a major opposition rally planned for this afternoon in Phnom Penh, City Hall and Ministry of Interior officials were at odds with CNRP leaders on sunday over how many people would be allowed to attend the event. Though the Interior Ministry has said only 6,000 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s ruling party named three sons of long-time Prime Minister Hun sen to its upper ranks on sunday as part of a bid to rejuvenate its leadership and claw back support lost at the last general election. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime minister Hun sen will be automatically nominated as the new president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party but not clear for whom will succeed him as the new vice president. The CPP will hold its congress on June 20, 2015 to elect new president ss='cambodia-color'>...

North Korea officials have arrived in Cambodia with the intent of establishing a trade relationship, particularly with regards to agriculture. Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong met with Deputy Trade Minister Ri Myong san from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Opinions have been mixed ss='cambodia-color'>...

CAMBODIA’s total food and beverage imports jumped 28 percent year-on-year through June to Us$74 million, as domestic demand continued to outpace the Kingdom’s production capacity. The demand comes as Cambodia’s economy regains momentum following the global financial crisis, said officials at the Ministry of Commerce, ss='cambodia-color'>...

In its first official response to a highly critical resolution on Cambodia from the European Parliament, the government has rejected all criticism and instead accused the Parliament in Brussels of playing politics and interfering in Phnom Penh’s affairs. In its resolution approved October 26, the European ss='cambodia-color'>...

DESPITE Some reportS, Cambodian officialS Said Cambodia and Thailand have not yet Set a date for implementing the Irrawaddy-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS) Single viSa. Koy Kuong, SpokeSman for the MiniStry of Foreign AffairS and International Cooperation, Said a Single viSa Scheme for all five SS='cambodia-color'>...

Rights groups said they will continue to advocate in land grabbing and eviction cases, and villagers involved in such disputes said they will continue to turn to NGOs for help despite a warning by Prime Minister Hun sen for civil society to stay clear of ss='cambodia-color'>...

CANADIA Bank and Japan-based Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Wednesday agreeing to work together to tap the flow of Japanese investors into the Kingdom. The MoU was signed by Canadia Bank chief executive officer Michael Lor and Masato Miyachi, the general manager ss='cambodia-color'>...

PHNOM PENH – As more and more Cambodians enter the job market, with a growing population of young people, there still remain plenty of job opportunities with foreign investors at home, according to a new study by the Ministry of Labor. But people either don’t ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued warning letters to mobile operators Beeline and smart over their recent advertisement, stating it violates the Inter-Ministerial Prakas, or edict, signed in 2009. The separate letters, obtained by the Post last week, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 400 garment workerS yeSterday gathered outSide the MiniStry of Social AffairS to plead for government intervention againSt a factory owner who fled without paying them overdue wageS three monthS ago. Khem Chamnan, a Free Trade Union repreSentative from the Pine Great (Cambodia) factory in Phnom SS='cambodia-color'>...

Japanese Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) signed an agreement yesterday with local Canadia Bank to shore up Japanese growth in Cambodia and to demonstrate its confidence in the Kingdom’s financial sector. BTMU’s managing executive officer, Takami Onodera, and Pung Kheav se, chairman of Canadia Bank, yesterday ss='cambodia-color'>...