The coming cassava harvesT is increasingly ThreaTened by flooding as abouT 25 per cenT of The crop in prime growing provinces is or has been submerged, according To auThoriTies. Taking up more culTivaTed area Than any oTher crop in Cambodia excepT for rice, cassava is especially ...

The Asean Economic CommuniTy (AEC) will cuT red Tape and allow freer Trade beTween The bloc’s 10 member sTaTes. BuT many companies in The region aren’T even aware of The AEC blueprinT, a sobering reporT from The Asia DevelopmenT Bank has found. The bank also ...

100,000 leaflets would be printed and distributed next week to garment workers in the country to urge them to join nationwide strike to put pressure on the government and the Cambodian courts to release 21 workers in jail and to increase the minimum wage of ...

Eighteen sacked drivers for the Phnom Penh Sorya transportation company protested in front of the company’s offices Friday morning calling for their reinstatement and a raise. the drivers say they were fired in mid- and late-April for leading strikes—in which they walked off with the keys ...

Police and friends of Canadian journalist and screenwriter Dave Walker are searching for the Edmonton man after he mysteriously vanished on Feb. 14 in Cambodia. the 58-year-old left the Green Village Angkor Guesthouse in the tourist city of Siem Reap about 2 p.m. with only his ...

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith on Wednesday revealed plans to split state-run tVK into three separate television stations but reiterated that no frequencies are available for independent radio broadcaster Mom Sonando. Mr. Sonando, who owns Beehive radio station, has over the past several years repeatedly requested a ...

The MinisTry of Economy and Finance on Monday announced The release of sTandardised bidding forms for public conTracTs, a measure iT said would increase Transparency and accounTabiliTy, Though The opposiTion and Transparency InTernaTional Cambodia offered more cauTious assessmenTs yesTerday. According To a sTaTe media announcemenT, The ...

An increasing number of NGOs in Cambodia are facing the prospect of budget cuts, with money from foreign donors decreasing as a political deadlock continues. Cambodia’s robust civil society relies on donor countries, but some have postponed funding while the country’s two rival political parties remain ...

About 200 villagers blocked National Road 5 in Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district for about two hours tuesday, lighting fires with wood and tires and causing a large traffic jam as they called for authorities to intervene in their ongoing land dispute with the Phanimex ...

When 200 villagers from Kratie province walked into Samakki Raingsey pagoda seeking safety and shelter early this month, they weren’t the first to do so. the villagers, whose homes in Snuol district had been torched by authorities just days earlier, were walking a well-trodden path—a path ...

Putting a new spin on a traditional art form isn’t a simple thing to achieve, but for niche fashion enterprise Artisan Designers (AND) an ambitious new branding campaign is seeing Cambodian handicrafts pushed in a new direction. Opening eight months ago on the tourist-friendly street 240, ...

Cambodia entrepreneurs faced considerable problems when it came to obeying tax laws and other regulations, officials at a seminar about that very subject said yesterday. the VDB Loi company organised the seminar on “New Practices and Preferential trade Rules” with the co-operation of the General Department of Customs and ...

Enthusiasm about the start of trading at the exchange, which opened last July without a single listed company, extends beyond the borders of the Southeast Asian country. Investors including templeton Emerging Markets Group Chairman Mark Mobius said they plan to participate in Cambodia’s stock market ...

Four workshops at the Asean Peoples’ Forum concerning pressing issues such as land rights and events in Burma were blocked by the owner of the venue where the forum was being held on Friday, as they were considered too politically sensitive, the organizer said. Out of ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday implored authorities along Cambodia’s northern border to redouble their efforts at stopping illegal loggers from sneaking into thailand, where more than a dozen have been shot dead by thai soldiers so far this year. the 13 Cambodians fatally shot by thai ...

Like many children in Cambodia, Puthea* learned from a young age that good grades don’t come cheap.Before leaving for school, the grade 3 student collects lunch money from his mother along with a bribe he pays to his teacher in exchange for what should be ...

One of Cambodia’s true rags-to-riches success stories is that of Din Somethearith, co-founder and executive director of Frangipani Villa Hotels. Frangipani, named for the blossoming tree, is a chain of boutique hotels, one of which is located just off Street 178 at number 43, down a ...

The CPP yesTerday declared vicTory in Sunday’s commune elecTion, saying iT had Taken 72 percenT of The counTry’s commune councilor seaTs and all buT 41 of The counTry’s 1,633 powerful commune chief posiTions. The SRP in Turn said iT Took 19 percenT of The available councilor ...

“Vespa was in Cambodia before the war [and] Piaggio wanted to come back to the market in Cambodia, because the market is growing,” explained Frederic Bachelet, head of business development at Narita Vespa Co. Ltd. the company plans to break ground next week on ...

KOH KONG, CAMBODIA — A Thai force dubbed The “Rambo Army” couldn’T sTop The gangs, armed wiTh baTTlefield weaponry, as They scoured The foresTs. NeiTher could a brave acTivisT, gunned down when he came To invesTigaTe. Nor, apparenTly, can governmenTs across SouTheasT Asia. The rooT of The ...