At least 50 garment factory workers fainted over the past two days in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district, bringing the number of workers who have fainted in the district in August to 60, workers and union members said yesterday. N Tuesday, workers from Heart Enterprise Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia firm Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a singapore-based company to develop a high-output rice seed factory in the Kingdom. The cooperation between major investment firm OCIC and agriculture research company smah Prum Royal International Pte Ltd is set to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Salt farmerS in Kampot and Kep may be unable to harveSt the roughly 90,000 tonS they Sell annually due to exceSSive rainS, and the country may have to turn to foreign marketS, producerS Said yeSterday. Ly Sreng, deputy chief of the Kep-Kampot Salt ProducerS Community, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is close to a deal that would ship as much as 20,000 tonnes of milled rice to Indonesia, according to sources familiar with the matter. Thon Virak, director of state-owned rice exporter Green Trade and chairman of Federation of Milled Rice Exporters Association, said Green ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is close to a deal that would ship as much as 20,000 tonnes of milled rice to Indonesia, according to sources familiar with the matter. Thon Virak, director of state-owned rice exporter Green Trade and chairman of Federation of Milled Rice Exporters Association, said Green ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 400 families in Kampong Cham province’s Chup commune had filed a complaint yesterday to local authorities over relocation orders issued last week, villagers said. Hom Hon, 55, a retired rubber plantation worker and former employee of sopheak Nika Investment Group Company, said that on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tumpuon ethnic minorities residing in seda commune, in Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district, on Monday accused authorities of colluding to sell 100 hectares of protected land in the Lumphat Wildlife sanctuary  that they say belongs to the community ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of election observers from six countries and leaders of the National Election Committee (NEC) claimed that sunday’s national elections were free, fair and transparent. They also congratulated the 82 per cent of registered voters who turned up at the polls. The statements were made ss='cambodia-color'>...

An assessement of plans to build a groundbreaking trade logistics centre west of Phnom Penh will begin soon, the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation said. An early stage feasibility analysis of the Phnom Penh Logistics Complex is set to begin early next year, supported ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has reminded newly-elected municipal, provincial, town and district councillors that they are obliged to declare their assets and debts within a maximum of 30 days after taking office or they will be forced to resign from office. But councillors who declared ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of patients with mental health disorders were admitted to the newly built Mental Health Rehab Centre in Kandal province’s Kandal stung district. The centre was established under the Ministries of social Affairs, Health and Interior. The three-hectare treatment facility was funded with a $500,000 budget ss='cambodia-color'>...

An international business conglomerate with roots in India and an Indian automaker are looking at partnering with the Cambodian government on a project that will strengthen the Kingdom’s public transportation system and make Cambodia a producer and exporter of electric buses. According to a press release ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly is drafting a law to take action against doctors and patients who collude with each other to cheat the National social security Fund into paying for false medical expenses. Chheang Vun, chairman of the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation, Information and Media ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has asked Germany to buy some of the Kingdom’s carbon credits earned from preserving its natural resources. Interior Minister sar Kheng made the request during a visit to Germany which concluded yesterday, a ministry statement noted. It said Cambodia requested Germany to study the possibility, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sexual haraSSment in the workplace could have an indirect coSt to the garment induStry of up to $89 million per year, Said Care Cambodia&rSquo;S acting country director Jan Noorlander.&nbSp;Speaking at a BuSineSS of Women at Work forum yeSterday, Mr Noorlander Said the organiSation waS very SS='cambodia-color'>...

Ten men were caught engaged in illegal logging during a three-day patrol by the Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) that began on Friday. This led a representative of the group to declare that illegal logging at the Prey Lang Wildlife sanctuary in Preah Vihear province ss='cambodia-color'>...

The first industrial park for small and medium enterprises in the Kingdom will open this October in Kandal province, just 12 kilometres from the centre of Phnom Penh. The sME Eco Park, referred to also as sME Cluster Zone by the developer, is located on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Today (Tuesday) marks the final day for the EU Commission for Trade to receive the opinions of the EU bloc’s 28 member-states before deciding whether to suspend the Everything But Arms (EBA) tariff preferences for Cambodia. However a unanimous decision will be required to withdraw ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has unveiled several measures to support local manufacturers and exporters in case the European Union (EU) decides to temporarily strip trade preferences from the country, according to China’s Xinhua News Agency. The Cambodian Ministry of Commerce issued a statement on February 12, saying that it ss='cambodia-color'>...

US-baSed SupporterS of Cambodia&rSquo;S former oppoSition party have launched a campaign to lobby US lawmakerS to Support legiSlation aimed at placing SanctionS on the Cambodian government. The activiStS are planning to call and petition lawmakerS to urge them to Support the Cambodia Trade Act and SS='cambodia-color'>...