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'>...

No mistake was made when former Anco Brothers executive Heng Chheang and his wife, Tep Kolap, were arrested last year, the supreme Court ruled yesterday. Pin Vannak, a defence lawyer for the couple, had argued they had been arrested illegally because the Phnom Penh municipal court ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 50 per cent stunting rate among Cambodian children contributed to lower-skilled labour and slower economic development for the Kingdom, a senior government economist said yesterday at a workshop on food security. stunted growth as a result of malnutrition led to ineffective learning among children and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police clashed with strikers as thousands of garment workers from factories that sell to Levi’s and Gap were blocked as they marched from Kandal province towards the capital yesterday, union representatives said. The 4,000-strong group’s march, as threatened by Cambodian Confederation of Trade Unions president Rong ss='cambodia-color'>...

A year ago, getting to Sihanoukville required perSeverance and a certain degree of bravery. There had been no flightS to Cambodia&rSquo;S premier beach reSort for yearS &mdaSh; at leaSt no Scheduled ServiceS &mdaSh; and cruiSe ShipS docking here were few and far between Following yearS Spent SS='cambodia-color'>...

Property experts say the Camko City project has a great deal of potential, after visiting and studying the satellite city last week. Kim Heang, general manager of Khmer Real Estate Co, said that he is very interested in Camko City because he has seen that it ss='cambodia-color'>...