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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'>...

More than 30 families evicted from a former airport site in Preah Vihear province’s Chea Ksan district have filed four complaints with the provincial court since April against district governor sok Hay. Lor Chan, provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc, said a total of 31 families ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom imported 412,190 tonnes of petroleum in the first quarter of 2013, compared with 471,000 tonnes in the same period the previous year, a decline of 12 per cent, according to the Ministry of Commerce. A private sector representative said the drop does not mean ss='cambodia-color'>...

The beauty business in the Kingdom is growing rapidly as incomes are rising and the middle-class is growing, industry insiders told the Post yesterday. In the first three months of this year, the Kingdom imported cosmetic products worth $9.9 million, an increase of 130 per cent ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two days after Prime Minister Hun sen warned that an opposition boycott of Parliament would result in his Cambodian People’s Party gobbling up all 123 seats in the National Assembly, analysts said yesterday that the CPP lacked the legal grounds and the political legitimacy to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Growth in tourism is the key driver that is pushing up the value of Cambodia’s service sector, according to the Asian Development Bank report released last week. But to reach its full potential the country still needs to harness resources and tackle the problems that are ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 2,000 families have been evacuated from their homes and thousands of hectares of crops flooded in the wake of continuing rains and the opening of dams in Vietnam and Thailand. At least two people have died since Friday in the flooding, which has affected at ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fewer and fewer primary schoolteachers are willing to cope with poor pay and the worst student-to-teacher ratio outside of Africa, government data shows. Annual reports released by the Ministry of Education, Youth and sport reveal that despite fervent recruitment efforts, every year since 2005 – when ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy has landed in hot water with women’s rights activists after publicly questioning whether Prime Minister Hun sen was being “weaker than a woman” by not calling for a new election like Thai leader Yingluck shinawatra in the face of popular protests. speaking ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of foreign and local tourists who spent time in Cambodia’s coastal destinations increased in 2013, according to provincial officials in Preah sihanouk, Kampot, Kep and Koh Kong provinces. Foreign visits swelled to 302,325, a 42 per cent rise compared with the same period ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amid falling local production in Italy, officials there are calling on the European Union to scrap a preferential trade agreement that gives Cambodia’s rice exports duty-free advantages in the global market. According to a January 31 report from rice industry publication Oryza, members of the Italian ss='cambodia-color'>...

Through a canopy of palm leaves, sunlight falls onto 1,000 four-month-old pepper plants, each one climbing about two feet up a wooden pole in the ground. “We will be ready to harvest pepper from here in about 18 to 20 months,” says one of Kep ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of trucks, bulldozers and excavators have pushed Var sokhoeurn to the edge of his remaining land at the Lower sesan II dam site in stung Treng province’s srepok district. When Post reporters visited sokhoeurn’s family last month, much of his land, where he grew cassava and other ss='cambodia-color'>...