The Kingdom’s cassava exports soared 94 per cent year-on-year in the first nine months of 2011, despite the recent flood devastation the agriculture sector has experienced, according to Ministry of Commerce figures. The statistics showed that Cambodia’s export of dry and fresh cassava hit about 22,652 ss='cambodia-color'>...

 A Millennium Development Goal Acceleration Framework action plan presented yesterday by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) seeks to address Panha’s and other women’s lagging economic opportunities in Cambodia. The plan will help Cambodia achieve targeted Millenium Development Goals by 2015. Though no date of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian authorities arrest a journalist who exposed the illegal smuggling of timber. Taing Try, a reporter affiliated with the Khmer Democratic Journalists’ Association, was taken into custody on Friday, police in Kratie’s snoul district told RFA on sunday. But Ing savoeun, a representative from the ss='cambodia-color'>...

On his second day of questioning by prosecutors at the Khmer Rouge tribunal yesterday, the deputy director of the foreign commerce bank during the Pol Pot regime, sar Kim Lomouth, said he feared for his safety following the purging of several superiors at the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government on Thursday dismissed media reports in Australia linking Prime Minister Hun sen to a mining company under investigation there for corruption. Earlier this week, The Age newspaper reported on Australian documents that described officials from BHP Billiton seeking a special meeting with Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) will allocate itS firSt dividend to ShareholderS Since liSting on the bourSe, on April 10. According to an announcement by PPWSA, the annual dividend will be diStributed in caSh. The dividend payout ratio iS Seven per cent, with a total dividend SS='cambodia-color'>...

In the middle of an election campaign in which wages have been a prominent issue, the Ministry of Education did something out of the ordinary Monday: It made public the official pay scale it uses to remunerate its teachers. The list contains figures that are somewhat ss='cambodia-color'>...

In response to a growing number of strikes in the country’s highly profitable garment sector, the government trained 15 handpicked commune officials yesterday to mediate and resolve factory disputes. The training was designed to teach commune councillors to defuse and resolve conflict, Buth Ji, director of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian People’s Party is prepared to make sweeping changes during its fifth government mandate, including improving the often-criticised judiciary and prioritising social justice, a government spokesman said. This “period of reform” would see deep-seated changes across a number of ministries in response to grievances expressed ss='cambodia-color'>...

The percentage of Cambodia covered in forest has fallen from about 72 per cent in 1973 to only about 46 per cent in 2013, satellite image data released yesterday shows. A series of animated maps that Open Development Cambodia (ODC) produced from NAsA satellite images detail ss='cambodia-color'>...

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With Sunday&rSquo;S commune electionS quickly approaching, the five main political partieS are all predicting SubStantial gainS over how they faired in the laSt election in 2007, though none deny that the ruling Cambodian People&rSquo;S Party (CPP) will continue to dominate the pollS. And with the entrance SS='cambodia-color'>...

From a devilish-looking bat to a frog that sings like a bird, scientists have identified 126 new species in the Greater Mekong area, the WWF said Tuesday in a new report detailing discoveries in 2011. But from forest loss to the construction of major hydropower projects ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 80 workers from a garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district – which supplies women’s underwear to U.s. retail giant Wal-Mart – protested yesterday, demanding that the factory owner settle their severance payments, workers and union representatives said. Workers at the Kingsland Garment Cambodia factory ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 moto-taxi and tuk tuk drivers who are part of a little-known workers union submitted a letter to the U.s. Embassy and the European Union Delegation yesterday, asking them not to intervene in the case of Boeng Kak activist Yorm Bopha. It is not ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four days after the Labour Advisory Committee approved a monthly minimum wage increase to $75 starting in May, more than 500 workers at the su Tong Fang garment factory yesterday demanded that their company begin the wage increase one month early. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Having seen rapid growth since launching in Cambodia two years ago, the Bank of China (BoC) plans to expand its business operations here. According to a Xinhua report, BoC’s deputy governor Zhu shuming said during his visit to Cambodia last Friday that its local operations have ss='cambodia-color'>...

Holders of shares in the Phnom Penh Water supply Authority (PPWsA) have criticised the level of dividend payment that they will receive from the company. PPWsA, which is the only company listed on the Cambodia securities Exchange (CsX), was to pay its first dividend to 1,500 ss='cambodia-color'>...