Cambodians like pork. The average Cambodian consumes almost 9.29 kg of the meat each year, and local farmers supplied about 2 million pigs, more than 90 percent of the domestic demand, in 2008. But the market for small-scale pig farmers has flown. Live pig prices have fallen ss='cambodia-color'>...

UK-based BIW automotive company on Friday signed a Us$2 billion join venture investment with ACICA Automotive (Cambodia) to build a factory in Preah sihanouk province for a Cambodian-made vehicle within the next three years. The agreement was made between BIW’s director Robin Bowyer and ACICA’s Group ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rural Cambodian communities are seeing economic benefits as a result of a biomass and farming resilience project run by GEREs, a French NGO. As part of the AREA project, 200 households in Kampong Chhnang province are growing 22 varieties of trees to negate the effects of deforestation, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kampot pepper yields are expected to increase significantly in the first harvest since gaining Geographic Indicator status in April 2010, as increased demand from exporters drives up prices. Output this season is expected to surge by 17 per cent, from 23 tonnes in the last harvest ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rajah & Tann, SoutheaSt ASia&rSquo;S largeSt law firm, haS expanded to Cambodia through a tie-up with local law firm Sok & Heng, which haS taken on a new name, RT Sok & Heng Law Office. Rajah & Tann&rSquo;S deputy managing partner, Patrick Ang, eStimateS that there SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Justice Ministry has written to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court requesting that it review the case of 13 Boeng Kak women recently jailed for demonstrations against a CPP senator’s real estate project, a ministry official said yesterday. Bunyai Narin, deputy Cabinet chief for the Justice ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Prey Lang Community Network yesterday delivered a letter to authorities in Kampong Thom province’s sandan district calling for the postponement of a Vietnamese concessionaire’s forest clearing and notifying authorities of their intention to deliver a lawsuit to the provincial hall tomorrow, network activists said. According ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities have partially backed down on an order forcing 196 residents in Phnom Penh’s Por sen Chey district to move their homes, but refused to scrap the plan completely when confronted at Chaom Chao commune hall yesterday. Phuong sopheap, one of about 20 residents that congregated ss='cambodia-color'>...

Global brands Levi’s and Gap had slashed their orders from the Tai Yang and Camwell garment factories by 20 per cent, the factories’ boss said yesterday, amid the longest strike in the industry’s recent history. Tai Yang Enterprises manager Wu Minghuor said his company had shuttered ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 2,000 workers demonstrated in front of Phnom Penh’s Gladpeer Garment Factory yesterday, demanding a higher minimum wage and several other concessions. The workers decided to strike after the Por sen Chey district factory did not respond to repeated requests to raise their monthly minimum ss='cambodia-color'>...

A law on the management of farmland currently being drafted by the Ministry of Agriculture is a threat to private landowners as it imposes criminal penalties for farmers who do not abide by new powers the government would have to demarcate land, a human rights ss='cambodia-color'>...

Criticism has mounted against swedish multinational clothing company H&M in its home country following a documentary released last week that sheds light on wages in its source factories in Cambodia. The episode of swedish network TV4’s Kalla Fakta, or Cold Facts, focuses mainly on Cambodian garment ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rulling party Senator Ly Yong Phat&rSquo;S Phnom Penh Sugar Company announced yeSterday that it had amended itS hiring policy to forbid contractorS from employing children, while at the Same time, oppoSition parliamentarian Mu Sochua made public her planS to viSit the company to inveStigate itS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Four families who were violently evicted from Borei Keila in January last year built shelters yesterday in the rubbish where their houses once stood, claiming the land still belonged to them. The evictees erected small frames on the land, in the capital’s Prampi Makara district, irritating ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Thai owners of a pair of sugar plantations in Koh Kong province accused of forcing hundreds of farmers off their land will give the land back if it can be proved that those evicted legally own the land, rights workers and a village representative ss='cambodia-color'>...

A rights worker and forestry official yesterday contradicted a local newspaper report claiming that more than $100 million worth of timber had been illegally extracted from Ratanakirri province’s Lumphat Wildlife sanctuary. Adhoc’s provincial coordinator for Ratanakirri, Chhay Thy, denied having said a total of 16,000 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday that the rapid growth of Phnom Penh’s population coupled with the rampant construction of new property projects means that there would always be a shortage of water and electricity in the capital. speaking to a crowd of thousands who had ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of a Vietnamese rubber firm that has been accused of contributing to the illegal deforestation of vast tracts of land in northeast Cambodia joined local CPP-aligned government officials in Ratanakkiri province on Friday to hand out rice, salt and sugar to more than 400 ss='cambodia-color'>...

SaleS of Cambodia&rSquo;S World Trade Organization-certified palm Sugar from Kampong Speu province dipped to 12 tonneS at the end of the harveSt SeaSon thiS year, about a 30 per cent decline from 2012. Two diStrictS with palm treeS in Kampong Speu province were granted geographical indication SS='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) said Wednesday it will release final election results by september 8, while political parties and local authorities have filed a total of 14 reports on election-day irregularities since Friday. An NEC subcommittee will investigate the 14 reports, which include accusations of ss='cambodia-color'>...