Cambodian manufacturers on Wednesday received training from Korean designers on how to make apparel in line with current fashion trends in the hopes of assisting them in penetrating the lucrative but difficult Korean market. The event was organized by the AsEAN-Korea Center—an intergovernmental organization that aims ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia ranks last in travel and tourism competitiveness among eight southeast Asian countries, according to a recently published study by the World Economic Forum. The Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013, which excluded Laos and Myanmar, said Cambodia comes 106th out of 140 countries this year, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and South Korea Signed a memorandum of underStanding yeSterday, agreeing to work together to enSure worker protection. LaSt month,&nbSp; a Kampong Speu Shoe factory collapSe killed two workerS. The incident inSpired the MiniStry of Labour to implement a Health and Safety Network for workerS here SS='cambodia-color'>...

Despite facing a rampant graft problem that has seen Cambodians paying bribes far more often than their regional neighbors, they have growing faith in the government’s ability to fight it, a Transparency International survey has found. TI’s 2013 Global Corruption Barometer, which measures perceptions of corruption ss='cambodia-color'>...

When activists Mom sakin and sorn siyan took a stand against illegal logging in Kratie province last month, they were allegedly threatened with violence and lawsuits from officials. “Powerful people who wanted to intimidate us shot their guns into the air to prevent us from going ss='cambodia-color'>...

British sugar firm Tate & Lyle has denied knowing of the alleged abuses at two Cambodian plantations accused of illegally driving hundreds of families off their farms and says that the families have no right to ask the company for compensation, according to the firm’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rice farmers in Italy plan to block four major grain exchanges in the country this week over what they say is the European Union’s failure to keep Italian rice competitive against that of cheaper Asian rivals including Cambodia, which is given duty-free access to European ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen approved a request from Defense Minister Tea Banh last week to promote 29 lieutenant generals to the rank of four-star general, according to a statement from the Ministry of Defense. The promotions, which follow repeated calls from General Banh last month for ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia exported 176,581 tons of milled rice in the first quarter (Q1) of 2023, up 3.5 percent from 170,539 tons in the same period last year, the Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) said in a report released on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) office in Cambodia intends to commence the implementation of a range of new projects in 2023 in close collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and other partners, with total funding of over $65 million, according ss='cambodia-color'>...

An Insurance Regulator of Cambodia (IRC) report showed on Monday that Cambodia’s insurance industry recorded a gross premium of $150 million in the first five months of 2024, up 1.2 percent from $148.1 million over the same period in 2023. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The registration of voters for the year 2023 will take place from Oct. 1 to 19 at the communes/sangkat across the country, announced the National Election Committee (NEC) in a meeting with stakeholders held at the NEC’s headquarters in Phnom Penh this morning. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided approximately $4.8 billion for 207 development activities in Cambodia as of December 31, 2023, significantly contributing to the country’s socio-economic progress since its first loan in 1970. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Deforestation and Cambodia’s strong economic growth have resulted in an increase in the price of charcoal, an energy source the poor are dependent on, charcoal vendors say. The price of charcoal in Phnom Penh had increased at least 200 riel ($0.05) a kilogram compared to 2012, charcoal ss='cambodia-color'>...

The president of the Bar Association of Cambodia has hit back at the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), which called for assurances that the Bar Association’s newly launched Code of Ethics, which was unveiled on Friday, would allow Cambodian lawyers to freely express themselves without ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Information on saturday lifted a ban on the broadcast of all Khmer-language foreign radio programs by FM stations during the month leading up to the July 28 national election amid swift and harsh rebuke from the U.s. and the broadcasters themselves. The ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

Taiwan-based shanghai Commercial & savings Bank Ltd plans to open a representative office in Cambodia, joining an increasing number of Taiwanese banks and garment industry investors in the Kingdom. shanghai Commercial & savings would enter a crowded sector, behind other Taiwanese-based financial intuitions [sic]. Hua ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government on Wednesday insisted that its decision to postpone U.s.-backed military assistance programs following the July 28 election would not have a negative impact on relations between the two countries. Marie Harf, the spokeswoman for the U.s. state Department, also said on Tuesday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

The total trade volume between Cambodia and other countries around the world reached more than $6.8 billion in the first two months of 2023, down 21.8 percent when compared to the same period last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Training workshop on the basics of Geography Information system (GIs) and the use of QGIs (Quantum Geographic Information system) was announced on the Open Development Cambodia (ODC)’s platform and social media on 13th July 2023 to call for the participants to attend the workshop on ss='cambodia-color'>...