WHEN he introduced his novel rice production method to Cambodian farmers more than a decade ago, Yang saing Koma had to battle sceptics who laughed at his idea. How could less irrigation and shallower planting result in higher yield? But Koma, founder of the Cambo­dian centre ss='cambodia-color'>...

It was not her degree in finance and banking that encouraged Keo sopheap to start her own business. It was her sister’s marriage to an American that introduced her to foreign fast food. Now sopheap owns a sandwich shop in Phnom Penh. sopheap, a Norton ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia had exported 89,800 tons of milled rice in the first seven months of this year, a 2.6 percent drop from 92,200 tons at the same period in a year ago, showed the statistics from the Ministry of Commerce’s Camcontrol Department on Thursday. However, the revenues ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 450 Cambodians who were illegally working in Thailand were repatriated across the Battambang province border on saturday in one of the largest one-day operations along that border, officials said yesterday. Thai authorities had rounded up the 447 workers, who were busted without the required paperwork, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Families in the capital’s Por sen Chey district face a tense morning as they prepare for the familiar sound of authorities moving in to evict them. Nineteen families in Andong village were told in a letter from district authorities that today was the deadline for them ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seven SellerS of fake Shampoo have been detained for queStioning at the Kampong Speu provincial police Station after being arreSted thiS week while plying their Sub-par wareS at the Chbar Mon town market. Seoung Savuth, deputy police chief of anti-economic crime in the province, Said police SS='cambodia-color'>...

Union leaders representing workers on strike at the Tropicana Casino and Resort were served with a summons by the Banteay Meanchey provincial court yesterday after a complaint by the casino’s management. The court summons came around the time sum sam Ith, the Tropicana representative, sent ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has again ordered local officials to step up their efforts to stop illegal timber being cut down and transported from Cambodia’s forest’s in response to an apparent rise in forest crimes. Thousands of cubic meters of luxury wood, as well as ss='cambodia-color'>...

This year marks the 60th anniversary since the start of diplomatic relations between Cambodia and Japan – the country’s largest bilateral donor – and to celebrate, the Japanese Embassy is planning an array of cultural events. speaking at a ceremony to mark the anniversary, Japanese Ambassador ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 70 villagers in Pursat province’s Krakor district held a daylong prayer ceremony yesterday to request help from spirits to curse the powerful Pheapimex company for destroying their farmland, villagers said. Pheapimex, owned by the wife of CPP senator Lao Meng Khin, has maintained a 316,000-hectare ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia, surya subedi, was in Ratanakkiri province yesterday as part of his weeklong visit to the country to investigate the impact land concessions have on local communities. some rights groups have singled out land concessions as the premier human rights ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Memorandum of Understanding aimed at protecting maids sent to Malaysia may make headway in the next two months, a government official has said. secretary of state for the Ministry of Women’s Affairs san Arun said a meeting with Malaysian officials on an MoU is expected ss='cambodia-color'>...

In order to pacify concerns that filling in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak lake would lead to flooding, it was claimed by officials that 10 hectares of the 90-hectare lake would be preserved to absorb heavy rainfall. Now, four years after sand began streaming into Boeng Kak, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Boeng Kak protesters continued their fight for the release of 14 women and one man imprisoned since May 24, delivering a petition to the senate and the Japanese Embassy on Friday that they hope will spur new intervention in the long-running land dispute. More than 100 ss='cambodia-color'>...

After the Philippines government issued their own policy regarding milled rice exports the Ministry of Commerce of Cambodia has expressed its disinterest in exporting milled rice to its neighbour, Cambodia’s Commerce Minister said yesterday. Local rice millers will not be encouraged to make any efforts to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodians are starting to learn about insurance, thanks to Canadian company Manulife, which held a press conference on the topic on Friday. Low awareness and a limited pool of skilled talent are challenges facing insurers in Cambodia according Prudential representative Pankaj Banerjee. Despite this, he said Prudential ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of families in Ratanakki­ri province have asked rights group Adhoc to intervene, saying local authorities in Bakeo district’s Laminh commune are illegally forcing them from their homes. Village representative, Ek Orm, 52, said that authorities were forcing villagers to relocate to make way for a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The locally based Global Media Group is bringing the latest LED lighting technology to the Cambodian market in an effort to reduce people’s electricity bills. GMG assistant chief executive Bun sim said the company would use all its know-how, as well as experts from south Korea, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bonna Realty Group yesterday signed an agreement with the National 6A Investment, a Malaysian real estate developer, to be an authorised sales agent for a 10-storey condominium that is currently being constructed and is expected to be finished by the end of 2014. The National 6A ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 700 workers at the sH International factory in the capital’s Po sen Chey district have vowed to keep striking, despite the Ministry of Labour saying it could not help solve their dispute because their demands were “excessive”. The workers protested again yesterday outside the ss='cambodia-color'>...