The 22nd Asean Banking Conference and the 49th Asean Banking Council Meeting kicks off on Monday in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This is the Kingdom’s first time hosting the conference and the second time for the council meeting. The event is organised by the Association of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen left recommendations for the Veterans Confederation of Asean Countries (Veconac) to help it attain new achievements in the interest of the general welfare of veterans in each member-nation. The recommendations were made on Tuesday at the 19th General Assembly of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The United StateS and Cambodia have agreed to begin diScuSSionS on a bilateral inveStment treaty (BIT) in a bid to Spur trade and inveStment between the two countrieS, officialS Said on Friday following the end of the ASEAN-US BuSineSS Summit in Siem Reap. “A bilateral inveStment SS='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N.’s special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, has waded in to the furor surrounding the imprisonment this week of two anti-eviction activists from Boeng Kak and Borei Keila communities, posing with a poster calling for the release of the two women. Yorm Bopha, 32, ss='cambodia-color'>...

In parts of rural Cambodia, farmers’ primary source of income comes from harvesting rice — once a year. This is a poor outcome compared to other AsEAN countries which harvest twice or thrice a year. To help increase farmers’ income, Victor Combal-Weiss and Guillaume Virag founded ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni began a 3-day State viSit to Vietnam Starting on Monday at the invitation of VietnameSe PreSident Truong Tan Sang, local media reported. The viSit, the fourth made by Cambodian king Since he came to the throne in 2004, will likely elevate further SS='cambodia-color'>...

Former Khmer Rouge cadres who in return for laying down their weapons and swearing allegiance to the Cambodian government were granted plots of land in what is now Kampot province say local authorities aren’t respecting the deal. Representatives of 80 families in the province’s Chhouk district told the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Flooding  this year cost the government significantly less than expected due to better preparation and lower water levels than in previous years, first vice president of the National Committee for Disaster Management Nhim Vanda announced yesterday. The NCDM could not yet report the precise amount spent on flood ss='cambodia-color'>...

US-BASED OverSeaS Private InveStment Corporation (OPIC) yeSterday Signed a deal to provide a $5 million long-term loan to Thaneakea Phum (Cambodia) Ltd (TPC), a local microfinance inStitution (MFI), to Support TPC&rSquo;S expanSion of itS home improvement loanS for low-income CambodianS. Fernanda Lima, director of US-baSed Socially SS='cambodia-color'>...

Every day they come in the thousands and crowd under a blazing sun for hours, awaiting a moment that costs them more than two full months’ salary – a passport. And where are they going? “Thailand,” 21-year-old sem Pheaktra said, squinting under a harsh mid-morning sun. He, and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Kratie province have denied entry to journalists and rights workers to the site of violent land clashes that led to the death of a teenage girl on Wednesday. Rights workers say they fear for the safety of villagers in Broma village, but police say ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh municipal authority has called on Borei Keila residents evicted on January 3 to present official documents proving they are eligible for housing. City Hall’s request came as part of a statement criticising NGOs and political parties that encouraged “poor” residents, who were not ss='cambodia-color'>...

The family hotpot-style restaurant Master suki soup has opened its ninth restaurant in Cambodia, on sothearos Boulevard adjacent to Hun sen Park, with the newly relocated German Fresh Beer brew pub and German menu upstairs. The soft opening took place on Thursday night as Master suki ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian garment workers at a factory in Malaysia that supplies major international brands were on strike for a third day in a row yesterday, refusing an agreement on accommodation and demanding higher salaries. Representatives of the workers at the Honsin Apparel sdn Bhd factory in Jahor ss='cambodia-color'>...

The second Cambodia International Machinery Industry Fair 2012 (CIMIF 2012) will kick off this weekend from at the Diamond Island Convention Center in an effort to promote the industry development and foreign investment in Cambodia. It will run for four days from tomorrow to August ss='cambodia-color'>...

A co-operative of longan farmers in Pailin plans to build a processing factory to increase export capacity as output and demand rise. Meas Loeurn, the co-operative’s leader, told the Post on Wednesday rising demand from China was prompting growing numbers of farmers to cultivate the fruit. “During ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Finance Ministry has sent a letter to well-known businesswoman Choeung sopheap thanking her for paying her taxes on the highly controversial filling in of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak lake, and holding her firm up as an example of corporate professionalism. Though shukaku Inc., which is ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N. has said it is concerned about deforestation in Oddar Meanchey province in an area where it has launched a carbon trading scheme and confirmed that it is working with the government in order to “rectify the situation.” In an email on Friday, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four officials from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction arrested last week on bribery charges involving millions of dollars would be freed on bail in the next few days, officials said yesterday. Kuy Bunson, director of the Ministry of Interior’s prisons department, said he had ss='cambodia-color'>...

On the heels of a year in which the deaths of endangered Irrawaddy dolphins rose – as much as 100 per cent by some estimates – the government is paving the way for greater enforcement of conservation measures along a protected stretch of the Mekong. Touch ss='cambodia-color'>...