Increased flight connections to sihanoukville helped boost tourism figures in the seaside province during the first five months of the year, tourism officials said yesterday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Disgraced anti-drug czar Moek Dara’s appeal against his life sentence for convictions in 25 separate cases of bribery and masterminding a criminal enterprise began yesterday morning in Phnom Penh. Co-accused, former Ministry of Interior anti-drug police department chief Chea Leng also appeared at the Court of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The exports of garments and textiles from southeast Asian nation of Cambodia grew to Us$ 4.61 billion, up nine percent over total textiles and garment exports worth Us$ 4.24 billion made in 2011, according to The Phnom Penh Post report. However, the rise in garment ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and the United StateS on Friday Signed a Memorandum of UnderStanding on low emiSSionS and climate reSilient development in Cambodia, according to a preSS Statement from the U.S. EmbaSSy to Phnom Penh. The deal waS inked between Cambodian MiniSter of Environment Mok Mareth and Rebecca SS='cambodia-color'>...

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The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) yesterday raised concerns over the ongoing election results verification process, saying the manner in which it was carried out makes it almost meaningless as a tool to check returns. From saturday to Tuesday, the National Election Committee carried out ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia saw a 1.7 per cent rise in inflation in February compared with the same month the previous year. Prices of food and fuel rose, according to official data from the National Institute of statistics (NIs). “The increase for all index group of a 1.7 per ss='cambodia-color'>...

Okhna Try Pheap’s ballooning empire of exclusive natural resource licences and concessions has been expanded even further with the granting of a special economic zone (sEZ) in Ratanakkiri province. The May 27 issue of the Royal Gazette reveals Pheap was granted a 136-hectare sEZ in O’Yadav ss='cambodia-color'>...

Welcome to CPP country. On the roads snaking up from Banlung through Ratanakkiri’s lush mountain passes up to O’Yadav district, samdechs peer down from billboards and farmers in dirt-streaked party shirts speed past on dilapidated motorbikes. It is perhaps a measure of how successful the ruling ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government has denied any agreement was signed to send women to Qatar to work as domestic workers, an official from the Labour Ministry said this week. The denial comes after a report late last month by Qatari newspaper Gulf Times – which said an ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the wake of a new report from environmental rights group Global Witness rebuking the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Deutsche Bank for investing in rubber plantations accused of illegal logging and forced evictions, both institutions have denied responsibility and deflected the blame ss='cambodia-color'>...

Gambia’s recent announcement that it would ban rice imports in about three years to spur local demand will only have a small impact on Cambodia, which sends a portion of its annual output to the west African country and other nations on the continent, data ss='cambodia-color'>...

South Korea will Soon give a four year loan package worth $200 million for dam and road projectS, according to Cambodian MiniStry of Foreign AffairS on Friday. The loan will be utilized to repair three national road lineS aS well aS rural roadS in nine SS='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy’s request to have his parliamentary immunity restored before sunday’s national election was refused yesterday by the National Assembly permanent committee — which consists wholly of ruling Cambodian People’s Party lawmakers. “The permanent committee has unanimously decided that because [Rainsy] has become a ss='cambodia-color'>...

When opposition leader sam Rainsy last touched down at Phnom Penh International Airport, he was greeted by some 100,000 supporters in what was the largest opposition rally in Cambodia’s 20 years of democracy. When he returns on Friday from the U.s., where he has been at­tending ss='cambodia-color'>...

Diminishing populations of hoofed animals in southeast Asia have hit Cambodia hard, with numbers of one of the Kingdom’s indigenous species dropping by 90 per cent. The current banteng census shows an 80 per cent drop in the world’s banteng population and a 90 per ss='cambodia-color'>...

Flooding is a perennial pain in Cambodia, the low-lying, deeply impoverished nation squeezed between Thailand and Vietnam. About this time each year, rivers swell, lakes expand and villages sink beneath soupy brown waters. But this year’s flooding woes are proving particularly miserable. More than 100 are dead, ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the first nine months of the year, Cambodia’s tax revenue increased more than 17.3 per cent from the corresponding period in 2012, data from the General Department of Taxation show. Total tax revenue rose to $678.1 million from $578 million. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The value of Cambodian exports to Thailand reached $163 million in the first half this year, an increase of about 21 per cent compared to the same period in 2012. Despite the rise, the number is minuscule next to imports from Thailand, because the Cambodian products ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Pursat Provincial Court has issued a summons to a soldier based on the Thai border for allegedly clearing protected land in Veal Veng district, a move the man believes was orchestrated by a company owned by tycoon Try Pheap, which is embroiled in an ss='cambodia-color'>...