Phnom Penh Autonomous Port plans to buy a rice-polishing machine from China, and will also look to build a rice storage facility in Kandal province. These moves, officials said, were intended to push along Cambodia’s rice trade during a period of uncertainty for the industry. Facilities ss='cambodia-color'>...

Corruption remains a major impediment to Cambodia’s development, but the systemic practices associated with it can be curbed if the government takes serious action, a transparency advocate says. Preap Kol, executive director of Transparency International Cambodia, told VOA Khmer in a studio interview recently that Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

A verdict in the land encroachment case against a prominent businesswoman was not delivered as expected yesterday, after a judge ordered the case be re-investigated due to a lack of evidence. Phnom Penh Municipal Court tried Chhin sokountheary, director of Layimex Holdings Group, in absentia on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Renaissance Minerals has raised $10 million for its gold-mining program at the Okvau deposit, in Mondulkiri province. The Australian company had estimated the area contained 729,000 ounces of gold. Renaissance’s biggest challenge would be to finance the project by equity investments world-wide, Tremain said. Renaissance is ss='cambodia-color'>...

One of Cambodia’s most active unions has filed a complaint against a Thai mobile phone provider, claiming it laid off more than 50 staff members without warning and without compensation. The complaint was filed with the Ministry of Labor against Mfone, a company that belongs to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Forte Insurance, a leading general insurance company in Cambodia, officially launched the region’s first online travel insurance product. Officials and insiders said the product is to serve the growing number of Cambodian outbound tourists. Youk Chamroeunrith, Forte Insurance general manager, told the Post yesterday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

The inclusion of 20 communes to the central Phnom Penh water supply in the past year has resulted in a dramatic increase in demand and subsequent shortages, Phnom Penh Water supply Authority officials said yesterday. “Water demand in Phnom Penh is growing fast day to-day, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s first life insurance company, Cambodian Life, launched yesterday, courting a market almost entirely unfamiliar with the service. Industry insiders said demand for the products would need time to grow. The establishment of Cambodian Life in the Kingdom would develop confidence in the market and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Daun Penh district rounded up more than 80 homeless people, drug users and prostitutes ahead of this week’s high-level meetings for Asean and regional delegates in Phnom Penh, a district official said yesterday. District governor sok sambath said that the 82 people rounded up ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia on Monday broke ground for the construction of a 19-million-U.s.-dollar flyover in Phnom Penh’s southwestern part to meet the growing number of vehicles. Prime Minister Hun sen said it will take 28 months to complete the construction of the 429-meter flyover. “The sky bridge will not ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s securities Exchange (CsX) may have its first private company listing early next year with Grand Twin International, a Taiwanese-owned garment factory, submitting its letters of intention to the securities Exchange and Commission of Cambodia (sECC). Industry representatives and government officials believe the listing will be ss='cambodia-color'>...

National carrier Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) recently bought a new Airbus 321 from Europe as part of its expansion into international routes to meet a rise in market demand. The CAA also plans to import one more plane early next year. CAA is a joint venture ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of complaints filed in Kampong Chhnang province by the families of maids working in Malaysia has jumped exponentially compared to the same period last year, a rights worker told the Post yesterday. Provincial Adhoc coordinator soum Chankea said 39 requests for the NGO’s intervention ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday 700 volunteers from the Cambodian People’s Party had fanned out across eight provinces to measure properties and provide titles to villagers who have been displaced by land disputes. speaking to about 10,000 villagers in the Kroch Chhmar district of Kampong ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 100 workerS, along with the preSident of the Cambodian Confederation of UnionS, delivered a letter yeSterday to the US EmbaSSy in Phnom Penh aSking AmericanS to boycott clothing made by Tai Yang EnterpriSeS. Surrounded by proteSterS, CCU PreSident Rong Chhun Said that the group waS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has reclassified 4,158 hectares of a massive land concession owned by the wife of senator Lao Meng Khin from his own party for displaced families in Kampong Chhnang province. A jubilant representative of the 4,506 families who have long battled against ss='cambodia-color'>...

It was only in July this year when German-owned internet start-up incubator Rocket Internet launched shop.com.kh in Cambodia, an online retail store selling electronics such as mobile phones, laptops and tablets. Rocket Internet Cambodia co-founder Karl seilern told the Post in July that the country’s growth ss='cambodia-color'>...

Oddar Meanchey province deputy governor Lon An yesterday confirmed CPP senator Ly Yong Phat’s involvement in a trio of sugar cane plantations that rights groups took to the National Human rights Commission of Thailand last week, but denied their allegations of rights abuses. The deputy ss='cambodia-color'>...

An information and communications technology (ICT) event will be held from July 5-7 this year, offering sales and networking opportunities amid a surge in ICT growth in the Kingdom. Expected to draw about 100 companies, the Mobile social Commerce International Conference and Expo at Phnom Penh’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Residents of three villages in Kompong Cham province’s Krala commune are growing increasingly frustrated with problems caused by a local garbage dump, saying it is a health hazard and that it emits an unpleasant odor. Khat seang, chief of Tuol Porpel village, said the frustration may ss='cambodia-color'>...