Prime Minister Hun Manet yesterday said that the bilateral trade volume between the Republic of Korea and Cambodia reached approximately $751 million while Korea’s foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Kingdom recorded $30 million last year, taking the total FDI from the country to $5 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Employees at a Taiwanese-owned shoe factory in Kompong speu province where two workers were killed when one of the building’s floors collapsed on Thursday have been ordered back to work today, despite ongoing concerns from labor activists about the building’s safety. While conceding that some parts ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian fish farmer checking on fish quality. Photo by U.s. Agency for International Development (UsAID), taken on 16 October 2012. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.Cambodia’s inland capture fisheries are among the largest in the world. The fishing industry encompasses subsistence, commercial and recreational fishing, as ss='cambodia-color'>...

PPMM #20 AdvertGreetings,You’re invited to a special edition of the Phnom Penh Mapping Meetup, which is scheduled from 6:00 – 7:30pm on Tuesday, sept. 24, 2013 at Equinox.Members of the PPMM group are fans of the open movement, especially open source mapping applications. In honor ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia regularly posts social accountability information on its website and shares relevant updates on this topic via social media. In particular, Facebook has high mobile usage and impact in Cambodia overall.To strengthen ODC’s outreach for its work in the Innovations for social Accountability ss='cambodia-color'>...

H.E. Hang Chuon Naron and Julie Chung in the inauguration of the Rice Academy, Cambodia. Photo by U.S EmbaSSy Phnom Penh, take on 17 September 2014. LicenSed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0In 1996, the MiniStry of Education, Youth and Sport&nbSp;(MoEYS) waS eStabliShed.26 ItS organization and functioning SS='cambodia-color'>...

Bauxite reserves in Mondolkiri province abandoned by Australian mining form BHP Billiton in 2009 are now being explored by China’s Mongolia Erdos Hongjun Holding Group, the same firm that is behind the controversial development of Boeng Kak lake in Phnom Penh. Kong Pisith, director of ss='cambodia-color'>...

An environmental group has accused the Lao government of “unilaterally” pushing forward with construction on the controversial Us$3.8 billion Xayaburi dam on the Mekong River, despite serious concerns about the project and an incomplete regional decision-making process.  In a statement released yesterday,  conservation group International ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia could borrow US$1.1 billion from other countrieS in 2012, 75 per cent more than thiS year, to help repair infraStructure damaged in flooding and Support effortS to increaSe rice exportS to one million tonneS by 2015, a Senior official Said yeSterday. Cheam Yeap, chairman of SS='cambodia-color'>...

Security footage of a Shooting outSide a Shoe factory on Monday that left three proteStorS in hoSpital haS been reviewed by police, the head of the Special economic zone where the incident took place Said yeSterday. The three women were Shot at a violent proteSt of SS='cambodia-color'>...

PRASAC, Cambodia&rSquo;S largeSt microfinance inStitution by outStanding loanS, planned to become a licenSed commercial bank in the Kingdom, company officialS Said yeSterday. The newS comeS deSpite callS from inSiderS and expertS &ndaSh; moSt recently the International Monetary Fund and World Bank &ndaSh; for the National SS='cambodia-color'>...

Days after Prime Minister Hun sen announced a blanket pardon for all suspects and convicts jailed for small-time fisheries crimes, the premier yesterday signed into effect an expected sub-decree canceling fishing lots across the country. Last month, Mr. Hun sen announced that he would cancel ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of families claiming to have lost contact with relatives working overseas has seen a significant increase in recent months, three human rights groups said Thursday. Local rights groups Adhoc and Licadho and the legal aid association Cambodian Legal Education Center (CLEC), said that the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s first initial public offering is fast approaching, and demand is expected to be robust. Book-building, the process during which bids for the IPO are taken and a price is set for shares, ended yesterday. The final offering price is expected before the subscription for ss='cambodia-color'>...

Leaning over the railing on the roof of the Khmeroyal Hotel along Phnom Penh’s sisowath Quay, 54-year-old scholar and long-time Cambodian resident Oliver de Bernon peered across at his crumbing riverfront apartment yesterday. Residents of the block between streets 178 and 184 on sisowath Quay ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen ordered Ministry of Labour officials to quickly investigate and resolve problems leading to recent mass faintings at factories in Kampong Chhnang and Phnom Penh during meeting with the Council of Ministers on Friday.  Last week around 300 workers fainted at M&V ss='cambodia-color'>...

The results of an investigation into two mass fainting incidents at a factory in Kampong Chhnang confirmed that M&V International Manufacturing had violated Cambodian labour law by forcing some staff to work overtime and failing to give them a full day off each week, according ss='cambodia-color'>...

Union leaders gathered in the capital yesterday to discuss strategies to curb the garment industry’s widespread use of temporary contracts for hiring workers, saying employers were using them to discourage unions and ensure their workforce remained docile and easy to exploit. They also accused employers of ss='cambodia-color'>...