Cambodia has met 70 per cent of the basic requirements needed to join the AsEAN Economic Community (AEC), Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday, referring to a recently updated report issued by the economic block. The Kingdom ranked third in preparedness among the 10 AsEAN member ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite an economic forecast of 6.5 percent growth for Cambodia this year, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned in a report released Monday that the government must continue to develop infrastructure, increase public revenues and practice fiscal safeguarding in order to sustain growth in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 160 villagers from Kratie province’s Meanchey village cancelled plans to block National Road 7 yesterday after provincial authorities and a Vietnamese rubber company agreed to their requests regarding an ongoing land dispute, but some expressed skepticism that the agreement would last. Village representative saren ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith is the man who gunned down three unarmed women at a protest last week, Interior Minister sar Kheng alleged yesterday, saying an official complaint had been filed against him. Outside an unrelated conference, the minister told reporters the governor would ss='cambodia-color'>...

PHNOM PENH: The 8th Asia Economic Forum kicked off here on saturday, focusing on reviewing the AsEAN achievements in the past 45 years and looking at opportunities and challenges toward the realization of an AsEAN community by 2015. The 2-day forum has been attending by some ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnamese rice exporters will face tough competition from foreign countries looking to exploit advantages that Cambodia presents as a beneficiary of the the EBA (Everything But Arms) initiative, says an Econet report. Under the EBA, Cambodia, as a least-developed-country, enjoys zero tariffs and no quotas ss='cambodia-color'>...

England promised to invest in Cambodian around Us$ 2.22 billion make total investment projects in country during 7 month of the year increased up to Us$ 5.5 billion, Council for Development of Cambodia (CDC)’s reported to the media. According to the report, in the first ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chinese President Hu Jintao and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen agreed here saturday to advance the comprehensive relations of strategic cooperation and partnership between their two countries. In a meeting, the two leaders pledged to expand mutually beneficial cooperation in all fields and to double the ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Europe continues to navigate its way through a two-year debt crisis, EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht yesterday sought to put Europe at the center of southeast Asia’s future at the EU-Asean Business summit in Phnom Penh, and urged EU investors to take advantage ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has instructed the Minister of Justice to work with prosecutors to release on bail under court supervision those activists who had supported sam Rainsy’s plan to return and overthrow the government. speaking at the inauguration of a cement factory in Kampot ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thai firm B Grimm Power Pcl has invested in a 30MW solar project in Cambodia, Ministry of Mines and Energy spokesman Victor Jona said on Wednesday. Jona, who is the director-general of the ministry’s General Department of Energy, told The Post that he welcomed the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A remote jail opened more than five years ago to lessen chronic overcrowding in the prison system is also operating as a farming business, where free labour is seemingly used to yield big profits for senior staff.When Correctional Centre 4 (CC4) opened its gates in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Environment has announced that it will collaborate with Hungary to implement a pilot project to solve sewage system issues in towns in some provinces. A representative for the Hungarian Embassy in Cambodia, Zoltan Gyorgy Horvath, met with the ministry’s secretary of state, sao ss='cambodia-color'>...

The provincial administration and the Department of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction in Mondulkiri province planted 53 stone markers around the Doh Kramom mountain area to protect it from any further encroachments. But the indigenous community claimed that the planting of markers, which was ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand had been asked to supply more electricity to those Cambodian provinces close to the shared border, according to officials. suy sem, Cambodian minister of Industry, Mine and Energy, talked to reporters after a bilateral meeting with his counterpart, Thai Minister Arak Chonlatanon last week, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Investment in the Cambodian construction sector reached Us$1.38 billion in the first seven months of 2012, an 8s-percent rise over the same period last year, according to figures from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. During the January to July period this ss='cambodia-color'>...

One of the top three manufacturers of mobile phones for the Cambodian market, LG, is likely to roll out its new flagship product, the Optimus G, by the end of the year. success in the smartphone market would signal a successful turnaround for LG. Prior ss='cambodia-color'>...

Workers at shuttered plush-toy company First & Main claimed yesterday their bosses had forced them to thumbprint resignation letters they had not written, a plan they feared could deny them severance pay. Mech Mom, a representative of the 357 workers at the Us-owned factory, in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Residents of Kratie province had an education in conservation yesterday as the government and outside partners reiterated a september sub-decree banning gill nets on a sizable stretch of the Mekong in a bid to protect the badly endangered Mekong River dolphin. Touch seang Tana, head of the Commission ss='cambodia-color'>...

THE [sic] Ministry of Tourism plans to organize an annual River Festival along the Mekong and Tonle sap in a move to attract tourists, officials said. Additionally, it wants to raise awareness for environmental protection with a “Clean City Day” on February 27. The Minister of ss='cambodia-color'>...