Photo byHeng Chivoan

A woman displaying jewellery at the third Cambodia Gems and Jewellery Fair yesterday at Phnom Penh’s Diamond Island. In a speech opening the exhibition, Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh said Cambodia aimed to become a regional centre for the gem and jewellery trade. The exhibition contained 84 booths representing 67 separate companies displaying gems worth tens of millions of dollars, the minister said.