Cambodia is campaigning to boost its luxury fragrant rice exports to China, the world’s largest market, said Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) vice-president Chan sokheang on Thursday. sokheang told The Post on Thursday that the CRF plans to achieve the quota that China provided Cambodia – ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 100 people in land disputes with powerful officials and investment companies in Tbong Khmum and Kratie provinces gathered at the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction yesterday afternoon to urge the ministry to expedite a land dispute resolution for them. Chan Yong, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Two Muslim Rohingya refugees have volunteered to resettle in Cambodia as part of a controversial deal in which Australia has promised to pay more than U.s. $40 million in costs and aid to the southeast Asian country for taking refugees off its hands, a Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is likely to come under scrutiny as parties to the UN’s anti-landmine convention gather in Geneva this week, with a recent report saying the Kingdom is unlikely to hit its mine clearance targets, even under an already-extended deadline.The 14th meeting of states parties to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Forty-six-year-old Phon Chet, who lost his left leg to cluster bombs 14 years ago, sits with other impaired people at a rehabilitation center in Kampong Cham province during a media tour on Thursday. Due to unexploded ordnance left over from the civil war in the 1970s, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A lack of knowledge about sex is posing a risk to the health and education of adolescents, according to the Ministry of Education, which has created an online program to help better inform and equip the young people who make up 60 per cent of ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a joint statement, 48 civil society organizations have urged the Appeal Court to overturn a ruling by the Koh Kong Provincial Court in a case against three Mother Nature activists. The statement says the three activists are not criminals,but brave environmental protectors who had contributed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Environment NGO Mother Nature on Saturday debuted a new video about threatened mangroveS in Koh Kong province featuring an unlikely SpokeSperSon, or rather, SpokeS-puppet.&nbSp;The video iS about a plot of mangrove foreSt inSide the Peam KraSaop Wildlife Sanctuary that waS illegally filled in with Sand, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Several of the oppoSition-led commiSSionS in the National ASSembly have planS to Summon three miniSterS to clarify Several ongoing iSSueS, including the Sand exportS to Singapore and the murder of political analySt Kem Ley.&nbSp;During a TueSday evening preSS conference at the Cambodia National ReScue Party SS='cambodia-color'>...

One of four new mining exploration permits, advertised publicly this week, is within the Prey Lang Wildlife sanctuary map, coordinates reveal, sparking concern among activists and community members about the strength of the forest’s recently-acquired protected status.In the first public tender of fresh exploration licenses ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 27 June 2017, the Embassy of Japan and the Council of Ministers are going to hold the inauguration of the Legal Documentation Centre (LDC) relating to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Japan has contributed about 2.354 million Us dollars through the Japanese ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union will be funding conservation efforts in Mondulkiri’s srepok and Phnom Prich wildlife sanctuaries to the tune of $3.3 million over the next five years, according to a press release yesterday. The project, Advancing CsOs Capacity to Ensure sustainability solutions (ACCEss), will be ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ngin Chhay, the director-general of the General Directorate of Agriculture at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, on Thursday urged the private sector to set up more mango packaging plants that comply with south Korea and China’s hygiene and quality standards. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tyre manufacturer MRF Ltd was looking at acquiring rubber estates to meet the company’s long-term raw material requirements and to bring down costs, a top official said. “We are scouting for acquisitions of estates abroad to meet long-term rubber needs,” said Koshy Varghese, executive vice-president, marketing, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Canadian Trade Minister Ed Fast yesterday said he would urge Canadians to invest in Cambodia as opportunies become more viable to potential foreign direct investment from countries that have thus far played a small role in the Kingdom. Fast attended a ceremony recognising the first ss='cambodia-color'>...

WHEN he introduced his novel rice production method to Cambodian farmers more than a decade ago, Yang saing Koma had to battle sceptics who laughed at his idea. How could less irrigation and shallower planting result in higher yield? But Koma, founder of the Cambo­dian centre ss='cambodia-color'>...

It was not her degree in finance and banking that encouraged Keo sopheap to start her own business. It was her sister’s marriage to an American that introduced her to foreign fast food. Now sopheap owns a sandwich shop in Phnom Penh. sopheap, a Norton ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia had exported 89,800 tons of milled rice in the first seven months of this year, a 2.6 percent drop from 92,200 tons at the same period in a year ago, showed the statistics from the Ministry of Commerce’s Camcontrol Department on Thursday. However, the revenues ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 450 Cambodians who were illegally working in Thailand were repatriated across the Battambang province border on saturday in one of the largest one-day operations along that border, officials said yesterday. Thai authorities had rounded up the 447 workers, who were busted without the required paperwork, ss='cambodia-color'>...