Economy and industry

Many accomplices are involved in the sperm smuggling that was detected at a border checkpoint last week, the Health Service Support Department said. “There are at least three to four suspects involved already – two sperm owners, the person who picked up their sperm, the ...

UBER has expressed confidence that it can clear within five months the legal hurdles that have dogged its taxi-service operation in Thailand. The Thai operation of the US-based company put out the timeline after its representatives met officials from the Department of Land Transport late ...

Former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario on Tuesday urged the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to invoke the arbitral tribunal ruling that invalidated China’s expansive claims in the South China Sea in crafting a planned code of conduct in the disputed waters. The Permanent Court ...

Savan Logistics based in the Special Economic Zone or Savan Park has proposed establishment of Common Control Areas in the park, aimed at easing traffic congestion at the Lao-Thai border checkpoint. Currently the CCA proposal is being discussed among the officials concerned from line ministries, ...

Local and foreign investment in the Kingdom declined by nearly $1 billion last year, with the bulk of losses coming from fewer infrastructure and agriculture projects, while the manufacturing and tourism sectors continued to post massive gains, according to the Council for the Development of ...

Chinese construction machinery giant Sunward Group will set up an office in Cambodia this year to capitalize on the surge in infrastructure development in the country. He Qinghua, chairman of the board at Sunward Group, told Khmer Times his company is currently researching business opportunities ...

The Asian Development Bank has financially backed Singapore’s Sunseap Group’s project to build Cambodia’s first large-scale solar power project under a long-term agreement with the state-run energy utility Electricite Du Cambodge. ADB’s private sector operations department will provide Sunseap Asset (Cambodia) with a debt financing ...

Cambodia and Vietnam on April 25 agreed in principle to work together in a range of commercial activities following two-hour talks at Peace Palace between Prime Minister Hun Sen and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phu. Deals were struck relating to a major new highway, education, fisheries ...

The Labor Ministry spent more than four billion riel on help for garment workers involved in accidents in the first three months of the year, but unions say staff are still struggling to access healthcare. Labor Minister Ith Samheng said the National Social Security Fund ...

Thai police have rescued 65 Cambodians, including five children, from a two-story shop house near Rong Kluea market in Sakeo province where they had been locked up for three days. Local media reported the group of 37 Cambodian men, 23 women and five children had entered ...