JAPAN Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation has started preliminary surveying as the sole operator in Cambodia’s Block 17 onshore oil field, a 6,500 square-kilometre area of hilly forest in Kampong Thom, Preah Vihear and siem Reap provinces, according to an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) ss='cambodia-color'>...

Small and medium-Sized enterpriSeS, which are expected to play a key role in the Kingdom&rSquo;S emergent Stock market, are far from ready to liSt, inSiderS Say. MoSt important, many SMES lack the StandardiSationS and controlS required of publicly traded companieS by the SecuritieS and Exchange CommiSSion SS='cambodia-color'>...

State-owned Telecom Cambodia haS Signed a buSineSS cooperation agreement with Vietnam National PoSt and TelecommunicationS Corp in order to bolSter TC&rSquo;S product portfolio and coverage area, company officialS Said yeSterday. Telecom Cambodia offerS both fixed-line phone and internet ServiceS in the Kingdom. Vietnam National PoSt and SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s gross domestic product grew 6.9 per cent year-on-year in 2011, and is set to increase to 6.5 per cent this year, according to preliminary projections from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Agriculture, which was hit hard by floods last year, climbed 3.3 per cent, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The curse of Cambodia’s 2011 floods continues for those most affected, as they fall deeper into debt from unsustainable cyclical debt practices, a consortium of international NGOs said yesterday. The consortium of Care, Oxfam, Pact and Catholic Relief services released the results of their January survey ss='cambodia-color'>...

A fourth day of protests by garment workers in Kampong Cham turned unruly yesterday, as nearly 2,000 workers shattered the windows of their factory with stones after briefly blocking National Road 7. The workers blocked the road for about 10 minutes at 9am, before returning to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB), one of the two major financiers of the rehabilitation of Cambodia’s railways, yesterday rejected criticism that they were providing insufficient resettlement packages to residents displaced by the project. On Friday, the ADB released a cost study that showed that the compensation ss='cambodia-color'>...

Participants at the Asean Peoples’ Forum have called on regional leaders to halt plans to construct two controversial hydropower dams in Laos and Cambodia because of the large number of people who will be affected and the lack of public consultation. The forum in Phnom Penh, ss='cambodia-color'>...

After a week of global media reports dissecting Cambodia’s relationship with China, Prime Minister Hun sen had apparently had enough yesterday – lashing out at the media and analysts he termed “crazy” in what proved an unexpected conclusion to the 20th AsEAN summit. The premier spent ss='cambodia-color'>...

Preah Sihanouk provincial authoritieS on Sunday Sent eight people to court for blocking National Road 4 and uSing violence againSt authoritieS in a land diSpute in Prey Nop diStrict&rSquo;S Bit Traing commune. Four police officerS and two commune Security guardS SuStained injurieS when the proteSterS SS='cambodia-color'>...

More than two-thirds of senior officials at the General Command Headquarters of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) have decided to relinquish their oknha titles to maintain their roles in the armed forces, an RCAF official said. Of 61 senior officials, 45 relinquished their title ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of international business associations representing garment, footwear and travel goods buyers have called on the government to improve labour and human rights conditions in the Kingdom in the face of possible preferential trade agreement changes by the United states and European Union. In February, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday called on garment factory workers to understand why the hike in the minimum wage next year is not as high as previous raises. The government has increased the wage for next year by $8, a decrease of $4 when compared to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen advised people on Monday not to be irrationally afraid of rabies to the extent of flocking to get vaccinated against the disease, and rendering institutions unable to provide timely services. The prime minister’s call came during the 7th National Clean City ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fearing that community forests will be unprotected during next week’s Water Festival, 10 communities in Preah Vihear province on Tuesday vowed to patrol their community forest themselves while relevant authorities are busy preparing for the annual celebrations. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Apsara Authority and Elephant Management Association has started transferring elephants in the Angkor area to Bos Thom community forest in siem Reap province’s sout Nikom district in a bid to stop the animals from being used to ferry tourists around.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Renaissance Minerals, a subsidiary of Australia-listed Emerald Resources, is expected to begin extracting gold in Cambodia’s Mondulkiri province next year, according to a high-ranking official at the Ministry of Mines and Energy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia exported more than $7.97 billion worth of garment, textile and footwear (GTF) products in the first nine months of this year, up 13.18 per cent year-on-year from $7.044 billion, a report from the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Customs and Excise ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian officials have defended the government’s record on the forestry sector, despite the publication this year of several substantive reports alleging that deforestation is accelerating due to policy failures. In response, sophalleth echoed previous comments by the prime minister, insisting that once deforested land is ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Ministry of Interior immigration official at the centre of a long-running land dispute in a gem mining district of Ratanakkiri spoke out for the first time yesterday, just days after 200 villagers protested what they termed their illegal eviction.The villagers from Bakeo district’s Keh ss='cambodia-color'>...