Five SoutheaSt ASian countrieS, Cambodia, LaoS, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam, are targeting a double-digit growth rate of international viSitorS annually by 2015 under the theme “Five CountrieS &ndaSh; One DeStination”, according to Hoang Tuan Anh, Viet Nam&rSquo;S MiniSter of Culture, Sport and TouriSm. In a SS='cambodia-color'>...

International trade leaders say Cambodia’s workers and managers should continue to negotiate for an increase in wages, despite a deadly crackdown on worker protests earlier this month. Workers want a raise in the minimum wage to $160 per month to keep up with the rising cost ss='cambodia-color'>...

The International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) watchdog announced Tuesday it will proceed with an investigation into Cambodia’s leading microfinance firms, after the IFC withdrew a request for review of the decision to investigate. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A son of casino firm NagaCorp’s billionaire senior CEO has been accused by unionists of snatching and throwing to the ground a phone belonging to a striking employee of the company’s NagaWorld casino, with video also showing the identified executive lobbing a traffic cone at ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s employment rate continued to be strong at 99.3 percent and remained one of the best in the world. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nean Narin, a humble man and father of three children, says his family is going hungry. Narin lives in the village of Boeung Kak, situated on the edge of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. For years, he and other villagers relied on the Boeung Kak Lake ss='cambodia-color'>...

Their stories have become all too familiar – Cambodian fishermen enslaved on fishing boats after being promised lucrative jobs overseas. They’re also becoming increasingly common. Anti-trafficking NGOs told the Post this week that they have noticed an exponential increase in the number of trafficking complaints from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Labor rights activists and a government official accused the International Labor Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia program of ineffectiveness in its monitoring of factory conditions following a deadly ceiling collapse on Thursday at a shoe factory in Kompong speu province. Moeun Tola, labor program head of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

There has been a 13 percent increase to Cambodia’s two international airports since the beginning of the year. The UsA, China, south Korea and Vietnam along with Japan were the key factors in this growth. The government’s attempts to attract visitors and investors is cited ss='cambodia-color'>...

Atok-Big Wedge Co. Inc., a listed company owned by the group of former Trade minister Roberto Ongpin, acquired Tidemark Holdings Ltd., a Hong Kong company that owns 25.9 percent of Forum Energy Plc, an oil and gas firm controlled by Philex Mining Corp. Atok-Big Wedge said ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s latest brewery is set to launch on November 1, introducing a new player into the growing Cambodian beer market, insiders said yesterday. The Khmer Brewery plant, a Us$60 million joint venture between locally based Chip Mong Group and major international brewery manufacturer Ziemann Group, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Internet service protocol company Mega will join the Cambodia’s gaggle of active providers today after launching an unconventional marketing campaign that sought to stir curiosity. Four billboards without a clear company name appeared around Phnom Penh in early January. “something Mega is coming soon” the ad, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The timing couldn’t have been better. After a week in which one NGO was suspended and others warned to “readjust their work,” and the World Bank was finally forced to reveal that it had stopped loaning to Cambodia, the government announced over the weekend that ss='cambodia-color'>...

The evictions and so-called “land grabs” have angered aid donors, putting at stake hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid as well as a trade scheme that gives Cambodian produce tariff-free access to the EU. International donors and lenders such as the World Bank ss='cambodia-color'>...

Multiple government ministries and the International Labor organization will form a group to investigate the mass fainting that have plagued Cambodia’s garment industry over the past several months, Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh said yesterday. There have been at least 15 mass fainting since the beginning ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ratings agency standard & Poor’s yesterday lowered Cambodia’s long-term sovereign credit rating by one notch to B due to the country’s continued inability to diversify its economy and increase government spending. The decision by standard & Poor’s comes after the agency said in september that constraints ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hours after downgrading Cambodia’s long-term sovereign credit rating, ratings agency standard & Poor’s said it had also decided to lower the credit rating for Acleda Bank to B from B+, though it maintained its outlook for the bank as stable. The decision follows a similar decision ss='cambodia-color'>...

If the government continues to grant economic land and mining concessions at the current rate, there will be no more arable land left in the country to give away within one year, a researcher from the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights said yesterday. Pointing to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Economy and Finance Minister Keat Chhon yesterday urged consumers to limit their gasoline consumption in the face of rising prices, saying the Cambodian government would not boost the hundreds of millions of dollars he claimed it already offered in fuel subsidies. speaking at the Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The first trial in a long-running land dispute with the wife of Industry, Mines and Energy Minister suy sem will start today at the Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court, a human rights worker and court officer said yesterday. Court prosecutor Penh Vibol confirmed that the court would ss='cambodia-color'>...