Despite the depressed market conditions throughout Europe in 2013 Cambodia’s export to the EU skyrocketed. The country is well under way to take over Taiwan’s leading position in bike export to Europe. Between January and October 2013 Cambodia’s bike export showed a huge increase of no ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism says the country’s tourism sector is growing at an unsustainable rate that will cause a massive shortfall in skilled tourism-related labour. The ministry’s statistics department director, Kong sopheareak, told local media that as tourist arrivals increase substantially every year, the challenge is ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sambo the elephant will not be allowed to return to work in Phnom Penh, becauSe both City Hall and the ForeStry AdminiStration oppoSe the idea, the FA&rSquo;S director-general Said yeSterday. The 54-year-old Sambo left the city in 2012 after decadeS of entertaining and giving rideS to SS='cambodia-color'>...

A ceremony marking the founding of the Kampuchean People’s Revolutionary Party in 1951 – a forerunner of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party – was used on saturday to lambaste the opposition for not joining the National Assembly following disputed elections last July. “Taking actions contrary to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leaders yesterday announced plans to hold a thousands-strong “people’s congress” in the capital’s Freedom Park on sunday, despite a ban on gatherings at the site. Cambodia National Rescue Party president sam Rainsy and vice-president Kem sokha, following their return from overseas trips to Australia, New ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Phnom Penh-based factory supplying uniforms for police officers and firefighters in the Us city of Los Angeles continues to break Cambodian labour laws, a report to be publicly released today says. Kin Tai Garment factory, a supplier to 5.11 Tactical – which sells the uniforms ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction on Cambodia’s $2.3 billion oil refinery has been set back again, this time due to planning delays, the project’s local partner, Cambodia Petrochemical Company (CPC), confirmed yesterday. The landmark oil refinery was slated to begin construction in December 2013 following a $1.67 billion loan from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of more than 400 families who watched as their homes were burned during an eviction this month in Kratie’s snuol district were blocked by authorities yesterday as they attempted to take their grievance to Prime Minister Hun sen’s doorstep. Though tensions initially ran high, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

In many restaurants in Phnom Penh, wild meat is readily available. Walk into one of these, and you’ll be able to order deer, wild pig or even monitor lizards. some places sell even rarer meat, from endangered animals like the pangolin. Wildlife conservation officials say the ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 villagers in Kompong Thom province blocked a funeral procession in stung sen City on saturday to prevent the burial of a recently deceased ethnic Vietnamese man on land he owned in the vicinity of a local primary school, villagers and an officials ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Defense’s account that an alleged kidney trafficking ring at its Preah Ket Mealea military hospital was in fact a fully legal training program in partnership with China’s Defense Ministry was met with questions and confusion Tuesday. A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s tourist arrivals registered a 0.3% decline in June according to the country’s statistics and tourist Information Department. The country attracted 300,454 visits compared to 301,412 during the same month last year. Released officially by the Ministry of Tourism, last week, data showed Vietnam led the field ss='cambodia-color'>...

Like many developing countries, Cambodia’s mainly agricultural society is changing fast, driven by urbanization and falling fertility rates. As young workers move to the cities, older people are staying back in the villages, where they have little support. Although former civil servants and soldiers get ss='cambodia-color'>...

An illicit cross-border rubber trade is thriving in Cambodia amid plummeting global prices and is threatening legitimate processing operations in the country, according to business owners and industry experts. And while Cambodia’s natural rubber export tariffs are set at between 2 and 10 percent, Vietnam ss='cambodia-color'>...

Although Prime Minister Hun sen and opposition leader sam Rainsy on Friday agreed that no member of an overhauled National Election Committee could have multiple nationalities, it remains unclear whether rights activist and triple national Pung Chhiv Kek is out of the running for the ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 1,000 workers at a Takeo province garment factory who have been on strike since Monday are due to return to work today after negotiations between union representatives and the factory wrapped up successfully Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Many visit siem Reap province’s Angkorian-era temples for the views and the atmosphere, but the Apsara Authority wants to find out if that atmosphere is toxic. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An opposition lawmaker probing alleged irregularities in Angkor Archaeological Park’s ticket revenues says he’s sceptical about figures released yesterday by the site’s managers showing a boost in sales last month. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After breaking the conditions of their bail last month, causing public outrage from Prime Minster Hun sen, the parents of fugitive businessman Thong sarath are attempting to use their son’s lucrative development company to secure bail for the second time, their lawyer said yesterday.​ . ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following talks with indigenous villagers over the weekend, which saw promises of jobs and English language lessons, there are high hopes that a foreign company looking to extract gold in Ratanakkiri will be awarded the first-ever mining licence in the province. Representatives of Mesco Gold met ss='cambodia-color'>...