Corruption, a weak judicial system and the potential for complicity with human and labour rights abuses are key risks for firms looking to invest in Cambodia, a new report [by Maplecroft, a UK-based global risk and strategic consulting firm] analysing investment risk in the Kingdom ss='cambodia-color'>...

Booyoung Co., a mid-sized south Korean conglomerate, said Tuesday that it broke ground for one of the largest housing projects in Cambodia, a project Cambodia hopes to spur foreign investments. Booyoung said it will build 40 apartments and seven residential and commercial complexes on 2.7 square ss='cambodia-color'>...

Both the National Assembly and the Constitutional Council of Cambodia, the highest legal authority in the land, convened closed-door meetings Thursday during which they decided not to reinstate opposition leader sam Rainsy as a voter and parliamentary candidate for sunday’s national election. According to a copy ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s highest court on Friday ordered the country’s electoral body to release secured ballot information from more than a dozen polling stations to investigate claims by the opposition of irregularities in last month’s disputed elections. Constitutional Council of Cambodia President Ek sam Ol issued an urgent ss='cambodia-color'>...

When the ruling CPP takes its seats in the new National Assembly, its members of Parliament will include a few new faces, and significantly less old ones, according to ratified election results announced by the National Election Committee (NEC) on sunday. The CPP’s poor showing in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s only U.N.-backed carbon trading scheme is still nowhere near making any money for communities and logging in the area continues to threaten the very forests supposed to generate tens of millions of dollars over the next 30 years, community representatives and officials in charge ss='cambodia-color'>...

A garment factory’s alleged efforts to wipe workers’ contract histories clean could be a “test case” for how much international buyers tolerate factories negotiating outside of legal requirements, a labour-rights advocate has said. After effectively being bought out of their contracts, about 300 employees of UsA ss='cambodia-color'>...

At about 10 a.m. Thursday morning, during a press conference at the CNRP’s Phnom Penh headquarters, opposition leader sam Rainsy dialed the phone number of CPP Interior Minister sar Kheng and told a few dozen reporters in attendance that he would broadcast their conversation over ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chea Serey, the daughter of National Bank Governor Chea Chanto, haS been promoted to director-general of the central bank, She confirmed thiS week. MS. Serey will replace Nguon Sokha, who Said that She left the National Bank about a month ago after being appointed aS a SS='cambodia-color'>...

Hun Manith, the second son of Prime Minister Hun sen, has suggested that the large turnout at the CNRP’s eighth consecutive day of marches through Phnom Penh on sunday was the result of paying protesters to show up. An estimated 30,000 people gathered at Freedom Park ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.K.’s fraud office plans to request the extradition of a British national currently detained in Cambodia, after it brought charges against four people for their part in a $36 million Ponzi scheme involving a biofuel plantation. Gregg Fryett was arrested in Phnom Penh in March ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.K.’s fraud office plans to request the extradition of a British national currently detained in Cambodia, after it brought charges against four people for their part in a $36 million Ponzi scheme involving a biofuel plantation. Gregg Fryett was arrested in Phnom Penh in March ss='cambodia-color'>...

The third phase of a project designed to revamp Phnom Penh’s drainage system, currently inundated by seasonal rains, began yesterday. Four areas of the city spanning a total of 369,445 metres will be witness to the next stage of the project’s implementation, part of an ongoing ss='cambodia-color'>...

Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun, the men wrongfully Sentenced to 20 yearS in priSon for the 2004 murder of Free Trade Union (FTU) leader Chea Vi&Shy;chea, were exonerated WedneSday by the Supreme Court of the crime. ReSponding to the acquittal, Chea Vichea&rSquo;S brother, Chea Mony, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Rights groups on Monday shared their concerns about the treatment of women in Cambodia with member states of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in Geneva. Cambodia last updated the committee—which meets three times a year to assess how member states ss='cambodia-color'>...

in response to the flood disaster in Cambodia, the Government of Japan on Monday decided to provide emergency relief goods such as generator, water purifiers etc worth 32 million yen (approximately 320,000 Us dollars) to the Kingdom of Cambodia through the Japan International Cooperation Agency ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Royal Group subsidiary has signed a deal with two Vietnamese firms to import fertiliser, a senior official with the company said yesterday. Among several deals agreed to during Prime Minister Hun sen’s trip to Vietnam this weekend, Nitrogen Chemicals and Fertilizer Cambodia Ltd, the subsidiary ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) on Sunday publicly releaSed official election documentS from Kratie province after receiving orderS to inveStigate allegationS of electoral fraud, though a SubStantial amount of the evidence waS unSealed, raiSing fearS the documentS had been tampered with. After receiving orderS from the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Amidst an opposition boycott of the National Assembly, CNRP leaders on sunday announced to about 10,000 supporters gathered in Phnom Penh their tentative plans to push the one-party CPP government to investigate irregularities in the July election and enact a broad slate of reforms. As patchy ss='cambodia-color'>...

Forest land in Asia-Pacific countries has grown overall since 2002, according to a study released last week, but Cambodia was one of only three countries surveyed to buck the trend. Out of 14 countries included in the study by the Regional Community Forestry Training Center (RECOFTC), ss='cambodia-color'>...