Cambodia’s exports to the Us were worth more than $5 billion last year, a sharp year-on-year increase. The latest data from the Us trade office shows that Cambodian exports to the world’s largest economy skyrocketed last year, growing by 40 per cent to reach $5.36 billion. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Switzerland will donate $6 million to Support demining work in Cambodia and clear all mineS in the country by 2025, itS ambaSSador announced on WedneSday.&nbSp;During a meeting with MiniSter of Foreign AffairS and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn, SwiSS AmbaSSador to Cambodia Helene Budliger Artieda Said SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen’s nephew Hun To has emphatically denied all allegations published by Australian newspaper The Age about his involvement in a heroin-trafficking and money-laundering syndicate targeting Australia. Hun To, whose wife and children reside in Melbourne, Australia, told the Post yesterday that he plans ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia representative for the world’s largest shipping company said exports from Cambodia to Europe grew by more than 60 per cent during 2011, but have since weakened. “Rice exports grew a lot during 2011 and a lot of it went to Poland and France,” ss='cambodia-color'>...

The private sector and industry professionals were engaged yesterday in the first consultation with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government in an effort to understand the factors affecting Cambodia’s economy, and ultimately determined that human capital, infrastructure, innovation and regulatory issues as the key areas ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Prey Lang Community Network, which works to protect Cambodian forests, has been selected by UNDP for an Equator Prize, for outstanding community organizing. In an interview with VOA Khmer, the group’s spokesman, seng sok Heng, says the government is “inactive” in protecting Cambodian forests, some ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new inter-ministry prakas is planned that controls and ensures the safety of bus passengers using the Kingdom’s growing bus network, and may include monitoring the behaviour of drivers and companies prior to granting licences, Cambodian officials said. Bus companies are now controlled by Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The lack of consultative process on three draft laws has set a worrying precedent for future key legislation, according to the United Nations special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, surya P. subedi. “For many years in my capacity as the special RapporteurI ss='cambodia-color'>...

SamSung SmartphoneS are dominating Cambodia&rSquo;S crowded mobile phone market in termS of market Share and the number Sold, company repreSentativeS Said yeSterday. “For the Smartphone induStry in Cambodia, we are abSolutely dominant. That meanS we Stand aS number one in termS of market Share, baSed on SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun sen will soon meet with heads of the gasoline importing companies to discuss the gasoline price in Cambodia, according to the state news agency-AKP. Cambodia has currently eight big petroleum companies and distributors including sOKIMEX, TELA, PTT (Cambodia), CALTEX, Bright Victory ss='cambodia-color'>...

Protests over construction of the controversial Xayaburi hydro dam project in northern Laos could spread from Thailand to Cambodia as communities along the Mekong River begin to feel its negative effects, an International Rivers programme director said yesterday. About 70 Thai villagers who rely on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia recorded 14.8 million mobile internet subscribers, accounting for 90 percent of the population, by May 2020, down 2.36 percent compared to May last year, according to a Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) report on Monday. In contrast, the number of fixed internet subscribers increased by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian total export values amounted to $5.9 billion, a year-on-year increase of 11.7 percent in the first five months of this year. The value of Cambodia’s total imports amounted to $8.1 billion,  a decrease by 1 percent in the same period, compared with 2019, according ss='cambodia-color'>...

Huawei Technologies held an event to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the American University of Phnom Penh (AUPP) and its Center for Leadership and Professional Development (CLPD) at the AUPP campus yesterday. The MOU was to work towards new digital technology projects and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Optimism prevails in the private sector that the Investment Law widely anticipated to launch later in the year will spell new momentum in the Kingdom’s industrial diversification in parallel with the region and beyond. The current edition of the law comprises 11 chapter and 39 ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the context of COVID-19, Germany donated $16 million to Cambodia for health projects that include complementing the Ministry of Health’s initiative to help the poor who cannot afford to pay for hospital treatments and fight against the coronavirus. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has issued a sub-decree establishing the Tuolporn Taley Boeung sne Multiple Use Area covering 3,557ha in one town and three districts of Prey Veng province.​ The sub-decree’s stated purpose is to ensure the preservation of the natural beauty, ecology, biodiversity, environment and culture while ss='cambodia-color'>...

Canada-based Angkor Resources Corp – formerly Angkor Gold Corp – has entered into a “ground-breaking” collaborative engagement with Ratanakkiri province’s Jarai minority ethnic communities on the Andong Meas licence. “The agreement covers exploration through mining and also includes reclamation,” Angkor said in a May 4 press ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union (EU)  will invest  about $3.5 million over a three-year period through the World Health Organization (WHO) to support Cambodia’s preparedness and response to Covid-19 and future health security threats. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An unnamed special economic zone (sEZ) is set to break ground on a one-million square metre plot in Kampong Cham province’s Cheung Prey district “soon”, according to provincial governor Un Chanda. The governor revealed this to the media on January 9 on the sidelines of a ss='cambodia-color'>...