Cambodia’s exports to Thailand jumped 55 per cent year on year in the first quarter of 2012 on what experts and officials said was a smoother political relationship between the countries, as well as an easing of Thai border regulations. The Kingdom shipped Us$85.4 million in ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new US$3.5 million caSino will open in Ratanakkiri province, according to a repreSentative of Try Pheap Import Export Company. “We&rSquo;ll have a Similar kind of caSino to what they have in Bavet,” Bee Chivoan Dara Said. Try Pheap Mittapheap CaSino Entertainment ReSort iS built on more SS='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Battambang province’s Phnom Proek district shut down eight unlicensed gold mines saturday and sunday after a study revealed they were producing toxic runoff blamed for the deaths of three cattle last week, officials said. Deputy governor Pech Choun said four mines in the area ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 60 families in Mondulkiri province’s Roveak village in Rayum commune are worried about their safety and that of their housing after authorities deployed forces to surround their village on sunday following eviction orders from the government. Bun sokchea, 49, said that on saturday, Koh ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities are investigating the death of a Cambodian worker that took place on Monday outside a factory in Thailand’s songkhla province, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman said yesterday. Phan Chem, a representative of Cambodian workers at siam International Food Co said a 19-year-old worker ss='cambodia-color'>...

In Washington yesterday, sam Rainsy Party lawmaker Mu sochua lobbied Us government officials to withhold military funding to the Cambodian government if it does not meet two political demands ahead of her meeting with secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Monday. Mu sochua said she would ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of workers from Tai Yang Enterprise, a supplier for major brands including Levis and the Gap, will move their nearly three-week-old strike from their factory in Kandal province’s Ang snuol district to Freedom Park in Phnom Penh tomorrow in order to bring their petition ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cassava plantings in Battambang province dropped more than 18 per cent in the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2011, according to agriculture officials. The decease is a result of that previous year’s yield fetching a low price and farmers ss='cambodia-color'>...

Various smuggled goods, mainly cigarettes, brandy and sugar, are being brought from Cambodia to Vietnam’s Long An and Tay Ninh Provinces before being transported to HCMC for sale, a Tuoi Tre investigation has found. On November 9, Tuoi Tre reporters pretending to be traders went to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seven repreSentativeS of 415 familieS entangled in an unreSolved land diSpute with a deputy commander of the Royal Cambodian Armed ForceS have received a Second SummonS to appear in Battambang Provincial Court to clarify accuSationS that they had vandalized the commander&rSquo;S property, “They not only SS='cambodia-color'>...

Housing development company the Ly Hour Group said it has begun work on its second major project, called Vimean Phnom Penh The Commercial Zone, after its first project Vimean Phnom Penh was successfully completed. The company said the amount of traffic along Phnom Penh’s Chea sophara ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s inflation rate decelerated to 3 percent last year, down from 4.9 percent in a year earlier, Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) Chea Chanto said saturday. “This is a remarkable drop and the 3-percent rate last year is low and controllable,” he said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bangchak Petroleum, a majority state-owned oil refiner and retailer in Thailand, said it wants to open five petrol stations in Cambodia, with the first station opening in 2014, the Bangkok Post reported last week. Tui Rutten, president of the Thai Business Council of Cambodia did not ss='cambodia-color'>...

President Truong Tan sang has urged the planning ministries of Vietnam and Cambodia to effectively implement the agreements reached during recent talks. He made the comments at a meeting with Cambodian Minister of Planning Chhay Than in Ha Noi yesterday. Vietnam had contributed to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hun Sen Said SalarieS for civil ServantS and garment workerS will increaSe yearly coinciding with the growth in the economy. Speaking at a graduation ceremony for the Royal UniverSity of Phnom Penh (RUPP) at the Koh Pich center on TueSday, he Said during the general aSSembly SS='cambodia-color'>...

About 200 former Mfone employees gathered in front of the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh yesterday in protest over claims that Thaicom, the failed telco’s parent company, had paid Thai staff even though Cambodian staff were still owed compensation. Noun sam Ath, a former sales executive, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The volume of cargo passing through the sihanoukville Autonomous Port (sAP) rose 15 per cent in the first quarter of this year compared with the corresponding period last year. Experts say milled-rice exports and fuel imports contributed to the boost in activity. From January to March, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Land Management Minister Im Chum Lim awarded a community of ethnic minority Banong in Mondolkiri province a communal land tile to their ancestral land last week, only the eighth communal land title to be handed out since the 2001 Land Law made them available. The title ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s largest microfinance institution, (MFI) Prasac, has received a $60.5 million loan to strengthen its capacity in offering broader financial services in the country. On Friday, Prasac signed the agreement for the syndicate loan – provided by more than one lender – with the Netherlands Development ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of creditors have come forward alleging they are owed a combined $160 million by bankrupt mobile phone operator Mfone, the administrator appointed to the case said yesterday. “Mfone owes money to hundreds of companies and thousands of individuals totaling $160 million,” he said. Nim solida, ss='cambodia-color'>...