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Grow Asia, which formally launched a partnership with Cambodia late last year, will reconvene on June 13 in Phnom Penh to kick-off working groups between the public and private sector, including NGOs, after targeting six crops for market potential. ...

The highest hotel complex in Phnom Penh city will soon make its debut with ample parking space for all its guests and visitors. The complex, Ding Li Sunshine City, will be 37 stories high with four levels of underground parking, said its developer Ding Li ...

The Foreign Affairs Ministry on Thursday released a statement accusing foreign delegations of hypocrisy for criticizing the government’s crackdown on the opposition, even suggesting that they were pretending not to know the law.   ...

A series of talks will be held next month to discuss the future of minimum wages in the footwear and garment industries, with their findings to be announced and enforced early next year, according to Ministry of Labor officials. ...

Banks and financial institutions are urged to provide more support to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially those owned by women, as access to capital remains a major obstacle for their growth. ...

National Election Committee deputy secretary-general Ny Chakrya has appealed to his NEC colleagues to help secure his release from prison so he can resume working on organising the 2017 local and 2018 national ballots. ...

More tourists and more investment. That will be the mantra when the Kingdom hosts the World Economic Forum on Asean in the capital next year. ...

Singapore-based Phillip Bank announced yesterday that Cambodian borrowers that can prove a consistent monthly income will be able to access lines of credit without putting down collateral. ...

The Ministry of Education has proposed the creation of three new departments, including one for special education, a move applauded by NGOs yesterday, though some questioned whether enough funding would be available.   ...

For small and medium sized Cambodian enterprises hoping to list on the local stock market – the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) – there is now an opportunity to realize their dream of seeing their stocks traded. ...

Despite earlier statements by company representatives that $500 compensation packages being offered to land disputants at Ly Yong Phat’s Kampong Speu economic land concession (ELC) were negotiable, attendees of a meeting between company representatives and residents yesterday said they felt pressured to take the offer. ...

Two days after Prime Minister Hun Sen told Phnom Penh municipal authorities to either improve the city’s notorious Prey Speu detention center or shut it down, a spokesman said on Thursday that officials had concluded that the “indispensable” facility would remain open. ...

Both Cambodian women engaging in sex work and their male clients engage in unhealthy alcohol use, according to the findings of a soon-to-be-published study.   ...

Research by the Asia Injury Prevention Foundation (AIPF) found helmet use by child motorbike passengers was still low in January despite the government’s much-touted Traffic Law, with observers blaming poor enforcement. ...

NagaWorld has just celebrated its 21st anniversary since its inception on May 1, 1995, and sited near the beautiful Mekong River in the capital city of Phnom Penh, NagaWorld is the biggest integrated entertainment resort in the Mekong region. ...

Rewards will be given to those who provide local police with the exact time and place that illegal timber is transported through the Ton Hon Cambodia-Vietnam border checkpoint, the Kampot provincial police chief said yesterday. ...

Cambodia is planning to be a member of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) to protect the intellectual property rights of foreign products coming into the Kingdom. This, a high ranking government official said, will shore up investor confidence and attract more foreign investment to the ...

Preparations are underway for the construction of a new border checkpoint to Thailand in Banteay Meanchey province, officials said yesterday. After signing a joint agreement to open a new checkpoint last August for the purpose of boosting bilateral trade, Banteay Meanchey authorities sent a letter to ...

Electricity du Cambodge (EDC) will cut the power supply in some areas of Phnom Penh and Kandal province starting on Friday to allow for maintenance work and upgrades. ...

Children in Cambodia face a range of threats to their safety including violence, sexual abuse and economic exploitation, with the justice system failing to prosecute alleged offenders, according to a 68-page report by a host of children’s welfare NGOs. ...

Malaysia may soon cooperate more closely with a number of the Kingdom’s ministries if all goes according to plan after this week’s 25th World Economic Forum on Asean (WEF) in Kuala Lumpur. ...

FWith voting set to take place on July 2 to elect the next president of the Cambodian Rice Federation (CRF), the organisation has pledged to further strengthen its mandate, while rice millers and exporters claim they have lost confidence in the organisation’s ability to achieve ...

Following a meeting with Vietnam’s new defense minister, Ngo Xuan Lich, Cambodian Defense Minister Tea Banh told reporters that rising tensions in the South China Sea were not even mentioned during their discussion. “.   ...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has provided a $13 million loan to support a higher education campus for the Acleda Institute of Business that will help raise education standards, enhance students’ employability and encourage sustainable economic growth. ...