About 250 villagers who turned out in Preah Vihear province’s srayong commune to protest against alleged land-grabbing by rubber firm siladamich Company yesterday found themselves blocked by company security guards and police, though arrests threatened a day earlier failed to materialise, villagers said. Villager representative Meas ss='cambodia-color'>...

Heightened global food and fuel prices continued to inflate Cambodia’s market in september, and experts said flood damages would elevate costs further toward the end of the year. Year-on-year inflation hit 6.7 per cent in last month, up 1 per cent from August, according to data ss='cambodia-color'>...

Workers at a garment factory in Kampong speu province that supplies global retailer H&M will return to work tomorrow, after more than 100 staff were hopitalised on Monday, following what they and union representatives described as a mass fainting incident. A spokesperson for H&M’s headquarters in ss='cambodia-color'>...

An Australian national airline would launch daily direct flights between Cambodia and Australia early next year, the secretariat of state of Civil Aviation said yesterday. The airline had conducted a feasibility study and a market survey in co-operation with a Cambodian technical team, Long Chheng, deputy ss='cambodia-color'>...

A woman summonsed to Kampong speu provincial court over a land dispute yesterday returned home without being arrested after about 150 protesting villagers turned out to support her. Rath Thavy, provincial monitor for human rights group Adhoc, speculated that the court decided not to arrest Khem ss='cambodia-color'>...

The owner of development firm Phan Imex Company said yesterday that 64 families from the capital’s Borei Keila community who were demanding compensation for houses demolished on January 3 did not have the documents to prove they had owned a house on the site. Phan Imex ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 400 villagers in Kratie province’s snuol district blocked national road 76A for three hours yesterday to demand that authorities release a villager who had been arrested earlier in the day for allegedly inciting villagers embroiled in a land dispute, villagers and a district official ss='cambodia-color'>...

Documents obtained by The Post have shed new light on the scale of Chinese investment connected with the controversial Boeung Kak lake real estate project. The Us$98 million project in northern Phnom Penh is the smallest of Mongolia Erdos Hongjun Holding Group’s planned investments in ss='cambodia-color'>...

A proposed increase in the reserve requirement would decrease lending and slow Cambodia’s economic growth, according to some bankers and experts.  The National Bank of Cambodia is set to hold a meeting later this month discussing a possible raise of the reserve requirement from 12 ss='cambodia-color'>...

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More than 100 workers from Cambo Handsome One garment factory gathered outside the home of Prime Minister Hun sen on Friday and saturday, after urging him on Thursday to intervene in a dispute with the factory’s Korean owners. The move followed an appeal to the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

Investment in Cambodian rubber plantations increased by 255 per cent in 2011 on rising global demand for the commodity. There were 20 new projects worth Us$675 million in the Kingdom last year, according to data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia. There were nine ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 Taiwanese tourists traveling to and from Angkor Wat in Cambodia were delayed yesterday after Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT) unexpectedly suspended its flights to the world heritage site. The Taiwanese airline, which resumed services in April last year, leased one of its aircraft ss='cambodia-color'>...

The dispute that grounded a Tonlesap Airlines plane on Tuesday and stranded more than 200 passengers in siem Reap and Taipei, Taiwain, continued yesterday, as plane owner Far Eastern Transport upped the sum it claimed Tonlesap owed for fuel. Far Eastern grounded a plane it had ss='cambodia-color'>...

Free Trade Union (FTU) President Chea Mony yesterday wrote to Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema, reiterating a request to set a date for talks over the construction of a statue honoring his assassinated brother, the late FTU leader Chea Vichea. Permission to build the statue was ss='cambodia-color'>...

Though less well-known than Kampot pepper, the price of Kompong Cham province pepper has increased by 44 percent from last year and is developing a following in Thailand, farmers and vendors said. With a total of 906 hectares of land dedicated to cultivating pepper in Kompong ss='cambodia-color'>...

A shortage of workers, particularly those with skills, is the biggest threat to economic growth in Cambodia today, sok Chenda, secretary general of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC), said yesterday. speaking at the Greater Mekong subregion Investment Policy Forum organized by the Organization ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rights groups pushed for increased employment of disabled Cambodians and the ratification of a UN convention on their rights at the launch of the AsEAN Disability Forum yesterday. Ngin saorath, executive director of the Cambodian Disabled People’s Organisation, said groups will draft a declaration over the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Chinese company from Yunnan province will invest $100 million to build a rice mill and processing plant in Cambodia with a local firm and export 200,000 tons of milled rice to China beginning this year, officials said yesterday. The Yunnan Pan-Asia Agricultural Cooperation and Development ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has renewed accusations of double standards by the European Union over the possible suspension of the Kingdom’s Everything-but-arms trade status during his visit to Geneva. Mr Hun sen is attending a three-day meeting on Aid for Trade Global Review in switzerland and ss='cambodia-color'>...