A court official said yesterday that the complaint that led to the imprisonment of a British man and two Cambodian staff at a troubled biofuel firm was filed last year by a senior Forestry Administration official. Gregg Fryett, 45, was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit ...

In 2012, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar will begIn to implement a multimodal transport operations project In order to strengthen the ASEAN regional cross-border transport corridors and promote regional and transport development toward the ASEAN-community Integration In 2015, senior officials said this week ...

The construction of a new $17.5 million women’s cancer hospital specializing in gynecological services will break ground this summer, one of the co-founders said yesterday. Janne Ritskes, the director of Tabitha Cambodia, an organization that works to improve the lives of poor Cambodians, said the 220-bed ...

According to Gray, the snaring crisis is worst in Vietnam and Laos, but is increasing in Cambodia – where he works – as well as Myanmar, indonesia and Thailand. in some places – even protected areas – it is so bad that scientists talk of ...

Cambodia’s economy lost more than $4 billion to illicit financial outflows in 2013, more than a quarter of its gross domestic product that year, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Washington-based think tank Global Financial integrity.Based on trade data reported to the ...

Nearly 150 garment and footwear factories in Cambodia have shut down this year, while more than 50 new ones opened, local media reported on Monday, citing a report of the Commerce Ministry. ...

The central bank injected $915 million worth of riel into the economy last year by buying up US dollars with the local currency, stabilising the exchange rate amid higher demand for riel, according to the bank’s latest report. ...

A young male elephant was found dead after getting stuck in a hole on Monday afternoon in Mondulkiri’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary, according to officials. ...

Pharmaceutical giant Thai Nakorn Patana plans to invest $30 million over the next two years in a three- to four-star hotel in Phnom Penh, as it hopes to cash in on the lack of big names in the capital’s mid-tier hotels market. For the new 200-room ...

Container traffic through Phnom Penh Autonomous Port, Cambodia’s second largest port, increased by 16 percent in the first nine months of this year thanks to increasing import and export activities in garments and construction materials, the port authority said on Wednesday in March last year, to ...

Cambodia’s General Department of Taxation said in a press release on Thursday that the country collected 122 million U.S. dollars of tax in the first two months in 2013, up 27 percent compared to the same period last year. in the whole year of 2012, ...

The UAE’s non-oil exports to Cambodia have risen by 639 percent from 2010 to 2011, with total Emirati exports to the Asian country going up by 271 percent during which the UAE achieved a surplus in trade between the two countries of around USD 2.3 ...

Approximately 1,686 workers in garment and shoe factories got fainted last year due mainly to overwork, poor health, exposure to chemical substances, and hysteria, a Cambodian labor official said Wednesday. Pok Vanthath, vice-chief of the Labor Ministry’s vocational training department, said the mass fainting incidents had ...

Garment industry, Cambodia’s largest foreign currency earner, reported a 22 percent surge in exports in the first 11 months of 2013, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday. The Southeast Asian nation exported apparel products in equivalent to 5.07 billion U.S. dollars during ...

Two more people died in Kompong Cham province on Monday as a result of flooding that has claimed at least 30 victims since heavy rains spawned by tropical storms over the past two weeks caused the Mekong to break its banks and inundate thousands of ...

Garment industry, Cambodia’s largest income earner, reported a 22-percent increase in exports in the first nine months of 2013, showed the data of the Ministry of Commerce released on Tuesday. During the January-September period this year, the country had exported garment products in equivalent to $4.2 ...

Cambodia had exported 288,300 tons of fresh and dry cassava in the first eight months of the year, down 56 percent compared with same period last year, the figures of the Commerce Ministry said Sunday. The country generated total revenue of 15.2 million U.S. dollars from ...

Cambodia has reported a 45 percent increase in dry rubber exports in the first eight months of the year, the figures of the Ministry of Commerce showed Saturday. From January to August this year, the country had exported 45, 530 tons of dry rubber, up 45 ...

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control announced on Thursday that there has been a strange increase in the number of cases of paratyphoid A fever from travelers returning from Cambodia. Since March 2013, there have been 34 cases of paratyphoid A fever reported from ...

The Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, Cambodia’s largest shipping facility, reported a 13 percent rise in cargo shipments in the first three months of this year, a port’s data showed Thursday. Some 862,380 tons of goods had been transported through the port during the January-March period this year, ...