Top business representatives including Kith Meng and Bretton Sciaroni raised corruption, electricity prices and the potential loss of European markets for export as the most pressing concerns for Cambodian businesses during the high-level Government-Private Sector Forum with Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday.
NGOs will be scrutinized as part of the government’s newly announced anti-money laundering policy.
A young woman suspected of killing a scholarship undergraduate literature student when she sped her Range Rover SUV through a busy intersection in Phnom Penh on March 26 has appeared in court after turning herself in to municipal police.
About 900 sacked workers from the W&D garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district returned to work on Friday, ending an almost three-month labor dispute after Prime Minister Hun Sen publicly demanded their reinstatement.
Criticizing legal attacks against NGOs and independent media and the “one-party election” held last year, international nonprofit Civicus rated civil society in Cambodia as “repressed” in its latest State of Civil Society annual report.
About 500 people protested outside the Land Management Ministry on Wednesday over a land dispute involving more than 1,200 families who say they have been dispossessed by with two sugarcane plantations in Koh Kong province.
Villagers affected by alleged land-grabbing for the construction of a massive Chinese resort development in Koh Kong province have appealed to the Land Management Ministry to expedite its work to find a solution.
Cambodia has signed more than $11 billion in concessional loans as of the end of 2018 – 41 percent coming from China – the Finance Ministry reported Tuesday.
The Commerce Ministry asked a visiting Washington State senator to encourage more U.S. investment to Cambodia, saying there were many opportunities for investors.
The secretary-general of the Bodybuilding Federation has publicly announced his resignation with a message criticizing the body’s president, as a string of athletes leave the sport over abruptly reduced cash incentives.
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