Cambodia’s first dairy factory is being planned for Phnom Penh, as one of the owners, a Vietnam-based dairy company, hopes to tap strong local demand for its products. The 2.7-hectare factory, in the Phnom Penh special Economic Zone (PPsEZ), would produce condensed milk, yoghurt and UHT ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials yesterday disposed of some 30 tonnes of chemical substances they said Chinese nationals had intended to sell illegally as cosmetics. Long sreng, deputy chief of the Interior Ministry’s anti-economic crime department, said authorities seized the chemicals – some of which already were falsely packaged ss='cambodia-color'>...

The country’s draft $3.4 billion national budget for 2014 proposes yet another $920 million in new debt to make ends meet, the same amount taken on this year, according to a copy of the spending bill obtained Thursday. The draft budget calls for nearly $400 million—or ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new local airline is applying to fly in Cambodia, according to aviation officials, at a time when the market is monopolised by national flag carrier Cambodia Angkor Air and a handful of carriers offering chartered routes. Royal spirit Airlines last Friday met with the state ss='cambodia-color'>...

Communities threatened by the planned construction of three hydropower dams in stung Treng and Ratanakkiri provinces will today submit to the Chinese Embassy a petition demanding that the embassy intervene against Chinese companies investing in the dams. The petition, to be presented in Chinese, Khmer and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Scot Marciel, viSiting Principal Deputy ASSiStant to the U.S. Secretary of State for EaSt ASian and Pacific AffairS met with Deputy Prime MiniSter Hor Namhong, MiniSter of Foreign AffairS of Cambodia yeSterday with an aim to further Strengthen relationS between the two countrieS, Koy Kuong, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Angkor Beer promoters involved in last August’s strike over unpaid overtime have been banished to less popular restaurants and beer gardens in the past year, a report on the profession says. According to Promoting Decency? Report on the situation of Beer Promotion Workers in Cambodia, released this ss='cambodia-color'>...

Since early thiS year, commentatorS and the public alike have Spent a great deal of time and effort to analyze Cambodia-US relationS againSt the backdrop of the recent US-ASEAN Summit. LeSS focuS haS been made on one of the moSt important bilateral relationShipS of Cambodia SS='cambodia-color'>...

After an Interior Ministry spokes­man last week suggested that an investigation into the murder of Kem Ley had been slowed by his wife fleeing the country, the slain analyst’s friends and family on sunday blasted the government’s slow and secretive response over the past two ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 military and provincial police descended upon the rural village of Lor Peang on Monday morning, acting on what they said was a court order to arrest three villagers standing in the way of an agro-development project. More than 70 local residents involved in a ss='cambodia-color'>...

North Korea aims to import rice from Cambodia, as well as explore for mineral resources, officials said yesterday. High-ranking officials from Pyongyang met with their Cambodian counterparts in Phnom Penh yesterday, signing agreements on economic and trade cooperation.The two countries had signed seven cooperation agreements beginning ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of families at Boeung Kak lake would receive land titles next week, Phnom Penh governor Kep Chuktema announced yesterday, but one village has been excluded from the deal that all but ends Phnom Penh’s highest-profile land dispute. At a meeting with about 500 villagers ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Chinese animal feed mill officially opened at the Phnom Penh special Economic Zone (PPsEZ) on Aug 28. It is the first animal feed mill from China and the fifth animal feed factory to operate in Cambodia Cambodia has strongly depended on the imports for animal ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) on Monday agreed to increase salaries for the workers in the kingdom’s garment and footwear industries, according to a press release after a closed door meeting. The meeting was attended by Minister of social Affairs Ith samheng, Minister of Labor ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S. SecuritieS and Exchange CommiSSion (SEC) haS adopted ruleS that would make it a legal requirement for liSted companieS operating in the extractive induStrieS and doing buSineSS in Cambodia to diScloSe all major paymentS they make to the government. The ruleS, which were adopted in SS='cambodia-color'>...

“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'>...