Revenue at the General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) saw a significant increase during the first nine months of the year, growing by 35 percent over the corresponding period last year, GDCE’s director said last week. From January to september, the department collected almost $2.4 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kong Korm, one of the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party’s top advisers, on Thursday criticised his former colleague sam Rainsy for calling on voters to boycott the July 29 national elections. He said the people should honour the King and head to the polls. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has lashed out at a European Parliament resolution passed last week that calls for former opposition leader Kem sokha’s treason charges to be dropped and human rights to be restored, arguing the resolution was biased. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian rice exports in the first nine months of the year rose two per cent year-on-year, led by the Chinese market, a Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) report said. Rice exports to China increased more than 44 per cent, the report said, while exports to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s construction sector continues to grow given the gradual increase of investments in the sector and large imports of construction materials into the country, according to the latest report released on Thursday by the World Bank. The World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Economic Update predicted ss='cambodia-color'>...

Blame is being passed around on the cause of flooding along the Boeung Trabek canal which inundated people’s homes after two consecutive days of heavy downpours on Monday and Tuesday as the rainy season moves into full swing. The finger is being pointed at pumping ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Mondulkiri provincial Environment Department launched a campaign among the Banong, Krueng and Tumpuon ethnic communities to create awareness about the importance of wildlife to the ecology and tourism sector. The communities live close to wildlife sanctuaries. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Ministry has rejected the decision of the royalist Funcinpec Party to appoint Prince Norodom Ranariddh’s son as acting president while the Prince continues his recovery from a car crash in Thailand. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Industry and Handicraft on Tuesday rejected the salt Producers Community of Kampot-Kep’s (sPCKK’s) proposal to dissolve, saying it needed more time to figure out the issues facing the industry, its spokesman Oum sotha said. The decision was made during a meeting on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s retail petrol price has increased more than 20 per cent during the first four months of this year due to rising costs on the international market, the monthly oil prices set by the Ministry of Commerce reveal. According to the price lists, which have ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) last week approved two Chinese-invested hotel projects in sihanoukville worth $379 million, it said in a Facebook post. The two five-star hotels by Xigang V-Continent International Investment Co Ltd and Hai Gang Grand Hotel Co Ltd have ss='cambodia-color'>...

Research from Cambodian urban NGO sahmakum Teang Tnaut (sTT) has found that Phnom Penh is failing a large number of its inhabitants by falling far below minimum UN standards for open public spaces. ssT warns that the situation “will have negative consequences” unless planners begin ss='cambodia-color'>...

The former right-hand man of disgraced Phnom Penh Municipal Court president Ang Maltey, convicted on Friday of meddling in a court investigation, has been slapped with a new charge that could extend his stay behind bars. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hun Manet, a senior military official and eldest son of Prime Minister Hun sen, took to Facebook this weekend to defend himself from unnamed detractors who, he said, had accused him of spending millions of dollars buying Cambodian expatriates’ support during a youth recruitment drive ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nagacorp Ltd, the Cayman Islands-registered operator of Cambodia’s NagaWorld casino and hotel complex, recorded $153.8 million in gross gaming revenue during the first quarter of 2016, a 35 per cent increase over the same period last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s second-largest port, Phnom Penh Autonomous Port, says it plans to have its initial public offering before the end of the year.The Post’s sorn sarath sat down with the port’s chairman and CEO, Hei Bavy, this week to talk about the progress of the IPO ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s economy will feel turbulence from beyond its borders as China’s heavyweight economy faces softer growth prospects and major industrial economies experience a lethargic recovery, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in a report released yesterday.In an update to its flagship annual economic publication, Asian ss='cambodia-color'>...

Philippe Broaly, the former French judge and child-protection NGO director who was convicted in May for sexually assaulting boys in his care, had his sentence extended to three years by the Appeal Court on Friday, according to anti-pedophile NGO Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE). ss='cambodia-color'>...

An Australian mining firm exploring a significant copper and gold deposit in northern Cambodia has reached an agreement with the tenement’s former owner to amend the terms of its 2013 acquisition of the project, it said this week. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy has been in hot water since he told an EU parliamentary meeting on July 13 that he wanted them to consider decreasing garment imports from Cambodia in the hope it would pressure Prime Minister Hun sen and his government into complying ss='cambodia-color'>...