Mong Reththy Group (MRG), Cambodia’s largest exporter of palm oil, hopes to expand its exports to European markets this year. Mong Reththy, president of the firm, said the quota-free and duty-free trade frameworks provided by European governments factored heavily into the decision. “About 50 per cent of ss='cambodia-color'>...

A U.S.-baSed energy company haS announced that it iS planning a biomaSS project uSing genetically modified rice in Cambodia, in a purportedly maSSive deal about which little information haS been made public. In a Statement poSted online ThurSday, Sino Bioenergy Corp. Said it had Signed a SS='cambodia-color'>...

NAZA World, which is setting up its NAZA Bikes 3s showroom in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, hopes to win an over 10 per cent market share in the country or 30,000 units, within the next three years. NAZA Group of Companies joint group executive chairman Datuk Wira ss='cambodia-color'>...

A major Hong Kong investor in Cambodia has claimed that a government duty on seafood exports is stunting the country’s fish proc­essing industry. Hong Kong-based sunwah Group began operating a shrimp-processing factory in sihanoukville in 1994, and its plans in the country now include building a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The newly appointed Kompong Thom provincial governor on Tuesday promised more than 500 families who were forcefully evicted by a Vietnamese rubber plantation more than three years ago that they would be given replacement land to farm on early next month. security forces evicted villagers from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Delta Electronics (Thailand), one of the world’s leading producers of power supplies and electronic components, plans to expand to Cambodia and Myanmar, the Bangkok Post reported on Wednesday. “There is no indication of a specific timeframe for the expansion, but the company sees these countries . ss='cambodia-color'>...

The first three-day Koh Kong Investment and Trade Fair 2013 kicked off on saturday, promoting trade and investment in the southern provinces of Cambodia with neighbours Thailand and Vietnam. “The [fair] is aimed at promoting trade and development in Koh Kong province and other border ss='cambodia-color'>...

A reporter from Cheat Sachak newSpaper in Ratanakkiri province filed a complaint to provincial military police and rightS group Adhoc on Monday, claiming he had been beaten by a group of illegal loggerS to Stop him from reporting on their activitieS. Phon Bun Thoen, 53, Said SS='cambodia-color'>...

An employer who stands accused of beating her maid using a stick and the back of a meat cleaver will be summonsed by police in Kandal today for questioning, local officials have said. son Leanghou, 57, a brick kiln owner, is accused of beating 28-year-old sok ss='cambodia-color'>...

A district deputy police chief in Ratanakkiri province is to be summonsed to court for questioning after a police raid on his house Friday turned up more than 10 cubic metres of illegal luxury wood. Provincial anti-economic crime police, who carried out the raid, found three ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 50 repreSentativeS of Phnom Penh&rSquo;S embattled Boeng Kak community on Monday marched to the officeS of the European Union and World Bank to requeSt that the international bodieS Send obServerS to the upcoming Supreme Court hearing of anti-eviction activiSt Yorm Bopha on November 22. MS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

A two-year-old girl from northwestern Pursat province was confirmed positive for human H5N1 avian influenza after she was admitted to the Jayavarman VII Hospital in siem Reap province on Oct. 25 with fever, running nose, lethargy, dyspnea, cough and breathing difficulties. she died on Oct.26. This ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment workers have begun leaving the area surrounding embattled Veng sreng street en masse, following the outbreak of clashes early on Friday morning. An estimated 80 per cent of the more than 10,000 workers who live and are employed in the Meanchey district suburb have vacated ss='cambodia-color'>...

The United StateS embaSSy in Phnom Penh containS an intelligence-gathering operation that amaSSeS information about Cambodia, the&nbSp;Sydney Morning Herald&nbSp;reported yeSterday, citing a map firSt publiShed in Germany&rSquo;S&nbSp;Der Spiegel. The&nbSp;Herald&nbSp;article referenced Some 90 international Surveillance SiteS, including oneS houSed in embaSSieS in neighbouring Jakarta, Yangon, Bangkok and SS='cambodia-color'>...

A Vietnamese company has been transporting thousands of dollars’ worth of illegally logged luxury timber from Kratie’s snuol district to Vietnam on a nightly basis under the nose of authorities, an environmental protection NGO said yesterday. At least 10 trucks with an estimated five cubic metres of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Lawmakers from the ruling Cambodian People’s Party yesterday unanimously voted to pass legislation which will create three new government ministries. sixty-six CPP representatives voted to create a Ministry of Public Function, which will oversee the affairs of civil servants. The MPs also followed through on a floated ss='cambodia-color'>...

The rights group Adhoc says it is monitoring “at least 100” individuals who are complicit in forestry crimes across the country. These include “high-ranking officers” of the police and military police; business tycoons; and ordinary citizens across 11 provinces, Chan soveth, a lead investigator for the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh commuters fed up with navigating the city’s increasingly busy streets will have a chance to test a new public bus service beginning in February. Phnom Penh Municipality spokesman Long Dimanche yesterday confirmed a one-month trial of a bus service along a 7.5-kilometre route running ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Independent Civil servants Association (CICA) has written to the minister of education to request teachers and education officials be given equal access to an exam allowing them to move up the ministry’s pay scale. The association claims the ministry has made recent changes to a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Thursday urged the Ministry of Economy and Finance to eliminate the practice of bribery or greasing the palm to facilitate development projects funded by the Ministry itself or the National Treasury. New Finance Minister, Oun Porn Monirath, successor of Keat Chhon, ss='cambodia-color'>...