The Australian-listed mining firm behind Cambodia’s Okvau gold project in Mondulkiri province released its definitive feasibility study (DFs) yesterday, confirming its predictions of 1.14 million ounces in gold reserves while reducing its projected investment costs for extraction. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng bemoaned Phnom Penh’s sewage infrastructure and criticised the Ministry of Environment for allowing untreated waste water to flow into the Mekong and Bassac rivers in unscripted remarks on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An investigating judge has rejected Kem sokha’s request that he interview a representative from the Us government in connection with the former opposition leader’s “treason” case, despite the fact that sokha stands accused of plotting a Us-backed overthrow of the Cambodian government. ss='cambodia-color'>...

SpeakerS at a government forum held yeSterday on macroeconomic management and the 2017 budget law Said Cambodia&rSquo;S Strong economic growth haS been largely unScathed by China&rSquo;S Slowdown, though cloudS were forming on the horizon. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Tourists wanting to visit Asia’s answer to Las Vegas will be able to fly from Preah sihanouk province to Macau after Cambodia Angkor Air unveiled the new route yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Acleda Bank spent about $1 million to produce 800,000 new ATM cards with EMV chips to enable them to be used globally and also to mitigate the risk of fraud, said the bank’s president and group managing director on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The consultation process for the controversial proposed Pak Beng dam in Laos concluded on Monday, allowing construction to begin even as local and international civil society groups continued to urge a delay until a forthcoming Mekong River Commission (MRC) environmental assessment is released later this ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone and the United NationS Development Programme yeSterday entered into an agreement to enhance PPSEZ&rSquo;S corporate Social reSponSibility in line with the UN&rSquo;S SuStainable Development GoalS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand’s Amata Corporation Plc., which is the country’s largest listed conglomerate in the industrial estate sector, is keen to set up a special economic zone (sEZ) in Cambodia due to the Kingdom’s strategic geographical location in the Greater Mekong sub-region. The plan was announced on sunday ss='cambodia-color'>...

Freshly pardoned CNRP deputy leader Kem sokha yesterday claimed the pardon that exonerated him on Friday was made without any conditions or concessions from the opposition party. The acting president of the opposition, who had been under de facto house arrest since May and had been ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Post’s services grew this year, thanks to a rise in foreign investment in Cambodia, more overseas tourists, and the rising trend of online markets. Ork Bora, Cambodia Post general director, said yesterday that the increase over all previous years was due to increased confidence of ss='cambodia-color'>...

This year’s prahok season has left a bad taste in the mouths of those involved in making the pungent dish that is a staple in Cambodian cuisine. There are concerns that the vagaries in the mudfish catch, due to climate change and illegal exports to Vietnam, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Council of Ministers on Friday gave the green light for construction of a transmission line from Koh Kong province’s stung Tatai hydropower dam to Phnom Penh, raising concerns from conservationists who fear the impact of cutting through largely untouched forest areas in the southern ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s garment exports grew slower than expected by about 4 percent in the first half of the year compared with 9 percent in the same period last year while foreign investment in the sector fell by 30 percent, according to a report released by the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following several warnings, officials in Prey Veng province’s Peamro district yesterday shuttered an illegal sand-dredging operation being run by a provincial police officer.Chum Chea, Prek Khsay Khor commune chief, said more than 10 officers on Wednesday halted the operation and confiscated machinery, with the operation ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nineteen eggs of the globally endangered Asian giant softshell turtle have been discovered after conservationists found a nest on a sandbar along the Mekong River between Kratie and stung Treng provinces. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Observers on site in the aftermath of a Kratie province military operation last week that lead to the shooting death of a 14-year-old girl noticed something odd about the attire of some soldiers. It was their helmets. Crude replicas of what appeared to be American flags ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six reSidentS of the Boeung Chhouk community in the capital&rSquo;S RuSSei Keo diStrict have been SummonSed to court to anSwer chargeS they uSed violence againSt the SuppoSed owner of their land &ndaSh; a perSon they claim never to have met. Khiev Chenda, 42, one of Six SS='cambodia-color'>...

Slumping garment exportS led yeSterday to an official downgrade for Cambodian&rSquo;S growth outlook thiS year &ndaSh; albeit a Slight one. MiniSter of Economy and Finance Keat Chhon projected 6.9 per cent year-on-year groSS domeStic product growth for 2012, down a tenth of a percentage point from SS='cambodia-color'>...

In a single factory that supplies some of the biggest international brands, faintings occurred every day for five years, a new investigation by the Cambodian Legal Education Centre has found. Until just weeks ago, when the management installed new fans, three to four garments workers were ss='cambodia-color'>...