Trade between Cambodia and China’s Hong Kong increased by 19 percent in 2013, thanks to good ties between China and Cambodia, Raymond Yip, assistant executive director of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, said here Friday. The total trade value between Cambodia and Hong Kong amounted ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three parties – the Cambodian People’s Party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party and Funcinpec – were registered for the May 18 municipal, district and provincial council election as of saturday, according to the National Election Committee. “As the deadline will close on March 3rd, I think ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kratie Provincial Court on Sunday charged three villagerS with illegally clearing community foreSt, and Six more for clearing State-owned land, officialS Said Monday. The three people were arreSted in Snoul diStrict&rSquo;S Khyoem commune and accuSed of clearing protected foreSt while the other Six were arreSted SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Education has vowed to shift its focus from the quantity of the country’s universities to their quality by instituting a moratorium on the approval of new institutions, officials said yesterday. Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron said that with more than 100 universities already ss='cambodia-color'>...

Election officials said that there was no complaint filed at the first day of council election campaign starting from May 2. Five political parties – the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), Royalist Funcipec Party, League for Democracy Party (LDP) and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amret Microfinance received a $10 million boost yesterday by a loan from German development bank KfW, according to a joint statement from the finance institutions. Chea Phalarin, chief executive officer of Amret Microfinance Institution, said yesterday that the new loan – equal to nearly double its ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prey Lang is one of Cambodia’s few remaining large forests, covering approximately 3,600 square kilometers across four northern provinces. The forest is home to about 200,000 mostly indigenous people, who depend on it for their livelihoods, according to the Prey Lang Community Network. But, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Union officials and the garment sector’s factory association said yesterday they supported a new program meant to enhance relations between employers and employees, but remained sceptical of how effective it would be. In a ceremony yesterday, the Ministry of Labour inaugurated the program, which entails training ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Thursday called on Thailand’s ruling junta to ensure the safety of Cambodian migrant workers and to treat well those that are being deported. Up to 250,000 Cambodians have fled Thailand or been deported since the junta took control in a May ss='cambodia-color'>...

A public forum will be held next month to find a solution to the Borei Keila housing crisis, city officials said yesterday. During a meeting with about 50 representatives of the community, Nhem Chanthary, deputy director of City Hall’s poor community development office, said Governor Pa ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four more villagers from Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district embroiled in a land dispute with a powerful development company were questioned Tuesday as protests continued outside the provincial court. The villagers are the latest to be questioned over an ongoing dispute with the Phanimex Development company, ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 70 workers from the Xing Chang sin factory marched to the Ministry of Labor on Friday to demand intervention after the factory allegedly failed to pay wages for the past two months. Vong sovann, deputy director general at the Labor Ministry’s general department of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The death toll as a result of this year’s seasonal floods has continued to rise with officials now putting the number at 20. Keo Vy, cabinet chief at the National Committee for Disaster Management, said eight are confirmed dead in Kompong Cham province, three from stung ss='cambodia-color'>...

Approximately 3,000 HIV/AIDS patientS in Cambodia die per year, Ieng Mouly, chairman of the National AIDS Authority, Said ThurSday. According to the official, the Global Fund haS granted nearly 149 million U.S. dollarS to Cambodia for a four-and-a-half yearS fight againSt the diSeaSe. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Supreme Court yeSterday refuSed to hear an appeal filed by three garment workerS Shot by diSgraced Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith during a 2012 demonStration, Since Bandith&rSquo;S lawyer did not turn up to court. Bandith waS Sentenced to 18 monthS in priSon in June laSt SS='cambodia-color'>...

About 600 employees of a Phnom Penh garment factory were to return to work today after walking out with the demand of receiving their salaries before next month’s Water Festival. Ginwin Industry (Cambodia) Co yesterday agreed to pay workers a portion of their wages ahead of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police have warned coffee lovers there could be a couple of bad batches circulating and percolating in Phnom Penh after a raid on a fake coffee enterprise in sen sok district’s Khmuonh commune yesterday. Officers arrested four men during the joint operation in Banlar sa Et ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Supreme Court yeSterday ruled that phoneS, iPadS and other poSSeSSionS confiScated from Six oppoSition lawmakerS during the violent July 15 proteSt at Freedom Park would not yet be returned. PreSiding judge YoS Sokhoeun Said that the itemS could not be returned baSed on the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s leading human rights groups have condemned the ruling and opposition parties’ reported efforts to stymie their voices during election campaigns, arguing such restrictions would violate freedom of expression. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party and opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party have been negotiating changes to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amid reports of hundreds of workplace deaths at World Cup construction sites, Qatar invited Cambodia on saturday to discuss implementing a long-signed agreement to send labourers there ahead of the tournament in 2022. The issue was discussed during a meeting between Foreign Ministry secretary of state ss='cambodia-color'>...