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'>...

On the shore of Koh Kong province’s Kiri sakor district overlooking a cluster of islands, a flourishing new golf course lies vacant but for a handful of workers tending its empty greens. The Romanesque hotel behind it, replete with a bold central dome, luxury VIP suites ss='cambodia-color'>...

The share price of Cambodian casino owner Entertainment Gaming Asia has fallen below the minimum requirement of the Nasdaq stock Market, threatening the gaming company’s Us listing, according to a statement posted on EGA’s website last week. EGA has been given 180 days – until October ss='cambodia-color'>...

It may not have all the glitter, adrenaline or the iconic tolling bell of Wall Street, but today, the uSually deSerted Cambodian Stock Exchange (CSX) will be a hive of activity. After firSt hinting at an initial public offering more than two yearS ago, garment manufacturer SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Arbitration Council Foundation, credited with helping resolve about 1,700 industrial disputes, has reached verbal agreement with a swedish aid agency to receive funding until the end of 2016, a spokesman said yesterday. But members of the labour-dispute resolution body desire a more permanent solution that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister, Hun sen, says Asia Atlantic Airlines’ upcoming flights that will connect Thailand, Cambodia and Japan will benefit the country’s tourism industry. The airline will fly from Thailand’s suvarnabhumi Airport and stop in Phnom Penh before flying to Toyko’ Narita, with full traffic rights. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Blood Transfusion Center hopes to boost the Kingdom’s blood stocks by targetting youth donors at a second annual Valentine’s Day blood drive. This year’s February 14 campaign will target university students and youth aged 18 and older, who make up about 70 per ss='cambodia-color'>...

The death toll from lethal floods has climbed to 27, with more than 10,000 families across 12 provinces evacuated from their homes to escape rising floodwaters, according to a report from the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM). The report, released yesterday, also shows that almost ss='cambodia-color'>...

Long considered the friendlier and less exploitative option for overseas Cambodian migrants, south Korea is now being slammed by Amnesty International for a number of abuses afflicting its migrant-dominated agriculture sector. The 20,000 foreign workers fuelling south Korea’s farming industry regularly encounter intimidation, violence, excessive working ss='cambodia-color'>...

The head of the country’s anti-graft body has said he has received two death threats since the unit responsible for directing investigations into public and private-sector corruption was established in 2010. ss='cambodia-color'>...