LocaLLy-owned AcLeda Bank PLc wiLL become the first commerciaL bank to be Listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX). It received an officiaL Letter to this effect from the NationaL Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on November 26, which aLLows it to proceed with its pLans for Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is pushing forward with the US$67 million flood reconstruction project aimed at rebuilding roads,bridges and irrigation systems hit by the devastating high waters of 2011, improving the nation’s infrastructure and providing livelihoods to people in six severely affected provinces, according lass='cambodia-color'>...

Students finishing their secondary education this year are carefully looking at market demand to decide what to study to ensure solid future earnings. Many educators say the recent growth of the construction sector in Cambodia is encouraging parents and students to enroll at the universities of lass='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Phnom Penh yesterday raided nine DVD shops at Tuol Tom Poung market in Chamkar Mon district, confiscating hundreds of illegally reproduced movies at the joint request of the Ministry of Culture and local movie distributor Westec Media limited. Sao Bunthoeurn, deputy director of lass='cambodia-color'>...

While the Kingdom’s biggest industrial pig farming company is seeing steady growth as the nation’s population and hunger for pork grows, small pig farmers are having a hard time of it in the face of fluctuating prices and lower cost imports from Thailand, according to experts and insiders who came to a recent lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian authorities yesterday arrested French architect Patrick Devillers – friend and business associate of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai – and may be moving to extradite him to China to face unspecified charges there, police said. Phnom Penh Police Commissioner Touch Naroth confirmed the arrest to lass='cambodia-color'>...

Fishermen representing five Cambodian communities will publicly express their support for a ban on gillnet use in a ceremony highlighting the importance of the Mekong River Irrawaddy dolphin. The event organised by the Commission for Dolphin Conservation and Development of the Mekong River Dolphin Eco-tourism Zone, lass='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in the Cambodian capital on Sunday to attend the ASEAN and East Asia Summits which will provide an opportunity for India to enhance its economic cooperation with the region amid lingering financial crisis in the western world. Singh is here for lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia-Laos-Vienam (CLV) DeveLopment TriangLe Area has achieved an average economic growth of 10 percent in 2011 and 2012 period, meeting the target set for the period. The CLV DeveLopment TriangLe Area comprises four provinces in Cambodia , four in Laos and five in Vietnam. DeLegates from Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

China treasured its traditional friendship with Cambodia, and would take strategic approaches to step up the bilateral cooperation to a new height, visiting senior leader of the Communist Party of China He Guoqiang said here on Tuesday. In his meeting with Heng Samrin, He spoke lass='cambodia-color'>...

Jobs are a cornerstone of development in developing countries, reducing poverty, making cities work and providing youth with alternatives to violence, according to a new World Bank report. Jobs are crucial for achieving economic and social development, the World Development Report 2013 said. According to lass='cambodia-color'>...

Many restaurants, shops, supermarkets and tourist sites in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap will operate at a limited capacity or close entirely this Sunday as Cambodians line up at voting stations to elect a new government. “We will close the whole day on the 28th,” Kong lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian voters are urged to refrain from violence, as they will go to vote on Sunday to elect for 123 members of parliament. “Free political environment and the ability of the people to exercise their rights and freedoms, such as the right to vote, freedom of lass='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) began collecting thumbprints from voters nationwide in order to present to King Norodom Sihamoni, requesting he not attend the first session of parliament, according to a source. A CNRP senior official on Thursday said that his party held a lass='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng on Monday blamed stalled negotiations over the disputed results of July’s national election on divisions within the opposition CNRP, whose leaders he said were of two minds about resuming talks. Top-level talks between Prime Minister Hun Sen and CNRP President Sam Rainsy, lass='cambodia-color'>...

The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) has no plan to establish a new coalition government with the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) after the general election on July 28, CPP’s spokesman and Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said Saturday. “Up to now, we don’t have lass='cambodia-color'>...

Several tour guide associations in Siem Reap received a prepared statement from the Provincial Department of Tourism asking them to sign and thumbprint a note of acceptance of the election results released by the National Election Committee on Monday. At least half a dozen of lass='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) said Friday that talks with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling party over political dispute will be resumed on Tuesday next week. “Officials at working group levels of the two parties will meet on Tuesday, Nov. 5 at the Parliament lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia requires effective policy measures to accelerate its development plans for the power sector, according to the summary of a market research report distributed Saturday. UK-based PR Carbon said the report noted that Cambodia’s power sector comprise targets for developing a national power grid to distribute lass='cambodia-color'>...

The rights group Adhoc says it is monitoring “at least 100” individuals who are complicit in forestry crimes across the country. These include “high-ranking officers” of the police and military police; business tycoons; and ordinary citizens across 11 provinces, Chan Soveth, a lead investigator for the lass='cambodia-color'>...