The Mayor of Xi’an in the People’s Republic of China, Ye Niuping, recently met with Cambodian Consul General Heng Poeu to discuss ways to enhance economic, cultural, and tourism cooperation between the two regions. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Manet recently urged investors from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to invest in Cambodia’s priority sectors such as tourism, agriculture, technology and clean energy infrastructures that can generate jobs in the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The heads of defence of Cambodia and China vowed to further enhance relations two days ahead of the Us defence chief’s visit to the Kingdom to further expand Cambodia-Us cooperation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The region’s first platform aimed at strengthening water resilience across southeast Asia while bolstering climate resilience has been launched in the form of the southeast Asia Partnership for Adaptation through Water (sEAPAW). ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives from the swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, National Committee for Disaster Management, Ministry of Women’s Affairs, and UN Women at a multi-stakeholder dialogue on gender action plans for disaster risk reduction. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The #BloodofKindness campaign is holding a crucial blood drive tomorrow, August 9, from 9am to 4pm at TheCommune in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district, with the aim of raising awareness and boosting blood donations across Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rangers paid by an internationally funded conservation organisation have been directly profiting for years from the very trade they are supposed to be preventing in southwest Cambodia, documents obtained by the Post allege. Former Conservation International (CI) staff members say when they spoke up about endemic ss='cambodia-color'>...

Deutsche Bank and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) have poured millions of dollars into Vietnamese rubber companies operating in Cambodia that have engaged in illegal logging and forced evictions of local farmers, the environmental rights group Global Witness says in a new report ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers on Koh Kyong island in Preah sihanouk province are preparing a complaint over more than 300 allegedly unlicensed fishermen who they say are illegally operating in local waters. Loung Bunny, chief of the Association for Natural Protection in Ochroy commune, said yesterday  that fishermen from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and Vietnam have agreed to increase the number of vehicles permitted to travel through the Trapeang sre border gate in Kratie province, aiming to boost cross-border commerce and tourism. The agreement allows 300 vehicles from each country to register to pass freely through the ss='cambodia-color'>...

With prices creeping upward and the central bank looking to take monetary action to fight inflation, the government has suspended the publication of the monthly Consumer Price Index, an official at the Ministry of Pallning said yesterday. sam saroeun, deputy director of the statistic department ss='cambodia-color'>...

A joint venture between Yayasan Restu, a Malaysian organization, and the Cambodian Muslim Development Foundation is set to establish a microfinance institution with $1 million in start-up capital. The institution will allow members of Cambodia’s Myslim community to obtain loans necessary to start small businesses. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An official at the Ministry of Planning said yesterday that a lack of funds may be to blame fo the Ministry of Finance and Economy suspending the publication of June’s consumer price index. sam saroeun, deputy director of the statistics department at the Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...

With the paving of the road from Sen Monorom City to a planned international border croSSing with Vietnam recently completed, croSS-border trade in the area iS expected to riSe, officialS Said. ChineSe-owned company Roch China ConStruction finiShed paving the 32-km road laSt month uSing a SS='cambodia-color'>...

About 60 people representing 1,850 families from seven villages in Battambang province’s sampov Loun district yesterday petitioned Interior Minister sar Kheng and Prime Minister Hun sen for intervention in a land dispute.  Villagers claim that district authorities leased 4,095 hectares of their land in Chrey ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 2,000 workers fled a garment factory on the outskirts of Phnom Penh and an estimated 30 workers fainted yesterday after sparks started flying from a generator and a fire alarm went off at 10:00am. Chea Mony, president of the Free Trade Union, said the episode ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 50 factory workers fainted on Friday at the Zhen Tai Garment (Cambodia) Co  Ltd factory on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, the day after  a group of workers fainted at the facility. On Thursday, roughly 30 workers fainted and about 2,000 fled the factory ss='cambodia-color'>...

The use of short-term contracts by employers in the Kingdom’s garment industry is threatening workers’ rights and could lead to decreased productivity in the sector, researchers said at a meeting yesterday. Following the release of a report by Yale Law school last week based on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tourists are still wary about travelling to Preah Vihear temple following border clashes in the area earlier this year, according to provincial officials. Visitor numbers had declined 15.5 per cent during the first seven months compared year on year, but had slowly begun rising in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dredging operations are causing whole sections of farmland along svay Rieng’s Toek Vel River to collapse, villagers said in a petition thumb printed by more than 300 affected families. Ros Mov, a chief of Romeas Hek samiky Land Community, said yesterday 389 families from four ss='cambodia-color'>...