Cambodian microfinance institution (MFI) sathapana Limited will receive $15 million in loans to provide additional support to small- and medium-size enterprises (sMEs), which make up the vast majority of the country’s businesses. The loan comes courtesy of German Investment and Development Company DEG, a subsidiary of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Efforts by authorities to prevent the opposition CNRP from collecting signatures for a petition asking the international community to not recognize Prime Minister Hun sen’s CPP-led government have expanded to the provinces, local and CNRP officials said sunday. In Prey Veng province, sithor Kandal district Governor ss='cambodia-color'>...

A nearly four-month strike, punctuated by a violent clash between unionists and police that left one bystander dead, could come to an end this afternoon. Officials from sL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd and the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) – which represents a ss='cambodia-color'>...

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As two volunteers guided a man unsteady on his feet into a medical tent on the second day of a three-day pro-opposition demonstration at Freedom Park yesterday, Chan Bun Han instructed another to get the patient a bottle of water after they laid him on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Trade and tourism between Indonesia and Cambodia is growing but the two countries can still increase cooperation in those fields, according to participants in the 7th Indonesian Trade and Tourism Promotion exhibition on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich on sunday. The sale of Indonesian pharmaceuticals, food products ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thai forestry officials killed three Cambodians who were illegally logging on Tuesday, in what they said was a shootout in Thailand’s sisaket province, a border official said Wednesday. The latest deaths bring the number of Cambodians who have been shot while logging across the border this ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of people shot dead while illegally logging luxury wood in Thailand decreased significantly in 2013 compared to 2012, although a Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) official provided numbers much lower than provincial police officials, whose number also differed from human rights groups. Brigadier General ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia National Rescue Party is not done marching. speaking at party headquarters yesterday afternoon, CNRP leaders said they plan to establish “democracy squares” in provincial towns and cities to regain momentum lost following last week’s deadly attack on striking workers and the violent destruction of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Interior on Monday released guidelines instructing governors and police on how to manage the nationwide demonstrations planned by the opposition CNRP for saturday. The guidelines, signed by Interior Minister sar Kheng, say that to ensure that security and public order are maintained, local ss='cambodia-color'>...

PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) — Opposition party leader, sam Rainsy, on Thursday visited stung Meanchey market and temple, appealing to the people there to join in their mass prayer demonstration this weekend.The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) will hold a “violence-free” mass prayer demonstration ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 7-month-old baby, a woman and two men en route to Malaysia were rescued from two alleged traffickers near the Cambodia-Thai border in Banteay Meanchey’s Poipet town, police said yesterday. Heng Chhun, 48, and som Na, 38, will face charges related to human trafficking, Prum sonthor, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh municipal health department on Monday said that it would allow a health center claiming to cure diseases such as cancer and diabetes through “detox” treatments to remain open, despite previous claims that it had already been shut down. sok sokun, director of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

High school students are increasingly using methamphetamines and other stimulants to relax or help them study, according to the UN. A spike in trafficking of amphetamine-type stimulants (ATs) across the borders with Thailand and Laos over the past two years has gone hand-in-hand with a rise ss='cambodia-color'>...

An 18-year-old man became the third construction worker in three days to be killed on the job after part of a building collapsed on him and three co-workers – including two 15-year-olds – on Monday, police said. Yu Bunrong, from Kampong Cham province’s Koh sotin district, ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 30 truck drivers transporting fruit blocked National Road 5 in Banteay Meanchey province’s O’Chrou district for an hour yesterday after customs of­ficials arrested six of their fellow drivers for refusing to pay fees they thought were unreasonable, drivers said. Nou sal, 35, who transports ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s inflation rate has accelerated to 2.9 percent in the first six months of the year, up from 1.8 percent over the same period last year, according to a report of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on Wednesday. “The rate, below 3 percent, is low ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition president sam Rainsy will lead a delegation to attend talks with CPP leaders led by Prime Minister Hun sen, and officiated by King Norodom sihamoni, at the Royal Palace on saturday, but a mass demonstration scheduled for sunday would go ahead as planned, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following two dramatic incidents of violence in the capital on sunday evening, rights groups yesterday pointed to heavy police blockades at dozens of streets around Phnom Penh, including at several city arteries, as being partly to blame. Clashes broke out at sisowath Quay on sunday afternoon ss='cambodia-color'>...

The International Labour Organisation’s Better Factories Cambodia program (BFC) releases the first report from its mobile phone call-in project aimed at educating garment and footwear workers. The mobile phone project entitled Kamako Chhnoeum (‘Outstanding Worker’ in Khmer) received 3,245 valid phone calls in its first two ss='cambodia-color'>...