Despite attention from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and official development assistance, farmers are by far the largest source of investment in agriculture, the state of Food and Agriculture 2012 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization published last week said. Farmers in low and middle income ss='cambodia-color'>...

K-Cement workers who were told they could not form a company-wide union because their workplaces were “separate” entities have now had their application to register individual unions rejected by the Ministry of Labour, union leaders said yesterday. sok Kin, vice president of the Building and Woodworkers ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bilateral trade between Cambodia and neighbouring Vietnam increased by more than 10 per cent last year on the previous year, according to data from the Vietnam Trade Office in Cambodia. The data showed that total trade volume was $3.3 billion between January and the end of ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 200 former employees of bankrupt mobile phone operator Mfone yesterday protested outside the company’s shuttered offices, asking for the help of Prime Minister Hun sen in the fight to get more than $4 million in compensation from the company. Mfone declared itself insolvent in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Demand for Kampot pepper, the first Cambodian product to receive Geographical Indication (GI) status, is outpacing current supply even as areas of cultivation are expanding. Industry experts say the fast-growing demand is a result of the pepper’s newly earned GI label, which attests to its quality ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japan agreed Tuesday to provide a loan package of 90 million U.s. dollars to Cambodia for the improvement of a stretch of the national road No. 5 and two bypasses in northwestern provinces, according to a statement from Japanese Embassy to Cambodia. The statement said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local authorities met with Boeung Kak community members yesterday to register villagers left out of the oft-criticised resettlement scheme as a first step to providing them with titles and onsite housing. More than 10 officials including police, commune and village chief, as well as representatives of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rem Vannak remains in poor health after enduring about two years of 21-hour days working for no pay on a fishing boat in Fiji, where he was beaten when he complained. Lin Yu shin, who owns Giant Ocean – the company Vannak worked for that allegedly ss='cambodia-color'>...

Voters who travel to cast ballots in the upcoming poll sunday could face higher transportation fees as drivers and companies try to capitalise on heavier passenger volume. Phan Na, general manager at Phnom Penh sorya Transportation, which sells bus tickets to several provinces, said fees could ss='cambodia-color'>...

An indigenous ethnic Banong community in Mondolkiri province yesterday began the final stage in acquiring a communal land title, setting it up to become only the sixth community in the country to secure one of the coveted documents. Established by the 2001 Land Law, communal land ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japan-based Terra Motors Corporation viewed Cambodia as a potential market for its electric tuk-tuk, the company’s general manager of overseas sales said yesterday. “We’re thinking of entering the Cambodian market as well. But at this moment, there are no concrete plans. [We] just hope to enter,” ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite current tensions between North and south Korea, Cambodia’s tourism minister said yesterday that the number of tourists from south Korea to the Kingdom had not dropped. [Minister of Tourism Thong] Khong said that so far there appears to be nothing to worry about. “There are ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kep-Kompot Salt ProducerS Community SayS Salt production fell nearly 50 per cent below forecaStS becauSe of early rainfall, which iS aSSumed to end Salt harveSting for the year. Prime MiniSter Hun Sen, however, haS Stepped in to enSure that price remainS Stable. Hun Sen SS='cambodia-color'>...

Fourteen Phnom Penh families claimed yesterday that government maps showing their houses in the path of a road-widening project were inaccurate and would condemn them to eviction without adequate compensation. Ek Malin, 57, a representative of the community on street 347 in Tuol Kork district’s Boeung ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hong Leong Bank Bhd’s (HLB) subsidiary Hong Leong Bank (Cambodia) PLC (HLBC) has clinched a banking licence for its operations in the country from the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC). HLBC, a commercial bank with a capital of RM119.25mil, would begin operations on July 8, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Acting opposition leader Kem sokha will have a rare chance to face off against a ruling party opponent in a nationally televised debate before the election. The debate will be one of two broadcast on TVK on July 20 and 21 in a series organised by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Revenue from foreign tourists buying passes to see temples in siem Reap’s Angkor Wat complex amounted to about $51 million last year, according to a Post calculation of data that was released Friday in a letter by the Apsara Authority, which manages the site. [Bun] Narith ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition vice president Kem sokha on Thursday said he could not guarantee there would be no violence following sunday’s vote and appealed to the international community to be on alert and help ensure a peaceful transition after the election results are released. speaking to reporters after ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Chinese government on Thursday signed up to provide a free-interest loan of 200 million Renminbi (33 million U.s. dollars) to Cambodia for social and economic development projects. The agreement was inked between Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo and Cambodian Finance Minister Aun Porn Moniroth ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a 100 million UsD aid package to support the development of tourism infrastructure in the three Mekong River countries of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The decision was made at the annual meeting on tourism development of the Greater Mekong ss='cambodia-color'>...