Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism on Wednesday finalized its 5-year strategic plan to attract at least 1.3 million Chinese visitors by 2018. speaking at a seminar on Cambodia tourism marketing strategy targeting China, so Visothy, director of the Tourism Ministry’s Marketing and Promotion Department, said that currently ss='cambodia-color'>...

Audits of the voter list which claimed that up to 1 million people could lose their right to vote in the July 28 national election were attributed to an “unavoidable margin of error” due to many citizens not having national identity cards or a permanent ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly all of Phnom Penh’s communes have voter registration rates in excess of 100 per cent, amounting to more than 145,000 additional names, with one commune topping the 200 per cent mark, an analysis of previously unseen government population data reveals. Further analysis of the already ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Vietnamese rubber tycoon has rejected accusations by Global Witness, a group that campaigns on resource issues, that it was involved in a land grabbing crisis in southeast Asia. Doan Nguyen Duc, the chairman of Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group, told Vietnamese media the information ss='cambodia-color'>...

As election data trickled in on sunday evening and a fear set in borne of uncertainty and a beefed-up police presence, demand for basic commodities surged, food prices briefly rose, and some banks saw an expected rise in withdrawals. sales of rice jumped from their normal ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Minister of Commerce and long-time ruling party stalwart Cham Prasidh said yesterday that post-election demonstrations could prevent growth and even result in small-scale looting. “If they want to destroy the economy, they have to protest more and more in order to destroy,” he said. speaking ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnam plans to build 13 new border gates along the boundary line with Cambodia to help boost trade that has already been growing between the two southeast Asian nations. Vietnam and Cambodia will work out plans to add 13 new border gates over the next seven ss='cambodia-color'>...

A village chief in Kompong Cham province’s flooded Tonle Bit commune Thursday accused opposition leader Kem sokha of refusing to provide emergency supplies to CPP supporters during a donation run on Tuesday. Prek Touch village chief sar Bora said that Mr. sokha, vice president of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

While the political crisis in the country is still ongoing, Cambodia is now suffering another crisis due to flooding, which has had a big impact on the country’s real estate business. Kim Heang, the President of Khmer Real Estate, said the buying and selling of real ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia will submit a human rights report to the U.N. today for a universal periodic review (UPR), the second time it is participating in the process, according to the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit. Under the UPR process established in 2006, the Human ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government proposed doubling the minimum wage for garment workers—from $80 to $160—within five years during a meeting with labor unions and garment manufacturers on Monday at the Ministry of Labor. “We have a plan to raise the minimum wage up to $160 for garment workers, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police briefly detained 13 garment factory workers on Thursday after about 20,000 workers, some throwing rocks, continued a strike that began Monday in svay Rieng province’s Bavet City over wages and working conditions, a union official and police said. Union leaders had on Wednesday evening agreed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnamese rubber firm Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) has failed to keep its commitments to address human rights and environmental abuses at its plantations in Cambodia, Global Witness said in a statement yesterday. In May, the London-based NGO published an investigation into two Vietnamese rubber companies ss='cambodia-color'>...

An official at the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) said Wednesday that the body plans to review and possibly lower the current minimum price per call after it recently ordered the country’s seven mobile phone operators to abide by a law that sets minimum call ss='cambodia-color'>...

A rice trader on Monday filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit, Prime Minister Hun sen’s Cabinet and three ministries alleging that officials in Kompong Cham province had wrongly fined her for an overweight truck after using improperly weighted scales. saing Darlin had her truck impounded ss='cambodia-color'>...

Notification that her son is being detained at Correctional Centre 3 in Kampong Cham came as a relief to Touch sart yesterday, after spending nearly a week wondering whether he was even alive. since her son, Theng saroeun, was arrested along with 22 others at demonstrations ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s decline in HIV/AIDs mortalities has made it a regional anomaly, according to a new study published today by a global health research centre at the University of Washington. While HIV/AIDs remains a leading cause of disease burden in Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, and mortality ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnam Dairy Products Joint-stock Co., the nation’s largest dairy producer, is building a milk factory in Cambodia as it plans a global expansion to more than double annual revenue to $3 billion by 2017. The company known as Vinamilk is opening a plant in the capital ss='cambodia-color'>...

King Norodom Sihamoni haS Signed off on a Royal Decree terminating the poSitionS of every miniStry-level adviSer in the government except for thoSe of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen in order to allow recently appointed officialS to appoint new adviSerS. The decree, Signed October 1 and obtained SS='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 400 workers at the UsA Fully Field (Cambodia) Garment factory blocked National Road 2 in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district yesterday after fears spread that the factory was winding down operations and that management wouldn’t pay necessary wages once it closed. soy Nakri, a worker representative ss='cambodia-color'>...