Four people were arrested in Sihanoukville on Saturday for beating two Chinese men after one of them caused a fatal road accident on Friday, police said Sunday. ...

The Mekong Tourism Festival, with the Mekong Food Tourism Summit as one of the highlights, starts today in the Kingdom’s tourist haven of Sihanoukville. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on political parties to avoid insulting and degrading one another as campaigning intensifies ahead of commune elections in June. ...

Seven Vietnamese nationals who are tied to a timber smuggling ring along with top Mondulkiri provincial officials were sentenced to one year in prison yesterday. ...

Disabled Cambodians were promised a “society without barriers” by Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday in a speech on Cambodia’s Day of Persons with Disabilities in Phnom Penh. About 1,500 disabled Cambodians marked the day at a gathering of more than 2,000 people in the capital’s Koh ...

As the new helmet laws go into effect on January first, with higher fines for not wearing one and a new requirement that motorcycle passengers also be helmeted, there is a push to publicize the dangers of riding without one. ...

The Royal group, Cambodia’s leading conglomerate and Fusionex Group, one of the largest multi award-winning and the leading data technology group in the region, signed a memorandum of agreement where both groups will cooperate in the area of Smart Trade Facilitation in Cambodia. This cooperation ...

A tycoon implicated in a land dispute involving a massive new airport in Kandal province defended her claims to the land yesterday, one week after the US Embassy cancelled her visa in connection with the dispute. ...

Exactly one year after the Finance Ministry indefinitely postponed its last top-level meeting with the international aid donors, there is still no sign that the government is ready to set a new date to engage face-to-face with the country’s development partners. The forum is held once ...

Education Minister Hang Chuon Naron yesterday slammed opposition leader Sam Rainsy for dismissing university degrees in the country as value-less and labeling the education system one of the poorest in the world. ...

Villagers in Preah Vihear’s Choam Ksan district confronted a group of soldiers, preventing them from felling timber in their community forest by confiscating one of their trucks, a local official said yesterday. ...

One hundred fishermen in Banteay Meanchey province’s Sisophon town filed a complaint with local authorities yesterday, accusing a provincial fisheries administration official in Phniet commune of selling their subsistence fishing lot to a businessman. ...

Thirty-one families in Chroy Changva district Monday agreed to move off land that has been slated for a $3 billion development project in exchange for an apartment and a market stall nearby, officials said. ...

The Tourism Ministry has downgraded the one-year operating licenses of two hotels where children recently drowned in swimming pools in an effort to make them compensate the victims’ families and carry out safety upgrades. ...

Cambodia’s reputation as a standard-bearer for apparel workers’ rights is wearing thin – and yet the country is a rising star when it comes to attracting foreign investment and increasing exports. There are many reasons to deter brands and retailers from sourcing clothing in Cambodia. The Kingdom ...

Local group OTK Royal One signed a partnership agreement this week with Chinese firm Huasi Group to build a 62-storey commercial building in Phnom Penh. ...

Three villagers hunting for edible ants and wild vegetables were injured when one stepped on an anti-personnel mine in Banteay Meanchey province near the Poipet border crossing. ...

The former country partner and staff of Grant Thornton Law and Associates in Cambodia have joined the accountancy and advisory firm BDO Malaysia effective July 1, according to a statement. As a result, BDO Cambodia’s team will now comprise over 30 staff and partners, a ...

Sathapana Microfinance Plc, one of the largest in Cambodia, will officially transform itself into a commercial bank late next month, a move in line with Japanese-owned Maruhan Bank acquiring a 95.1 percent stake in 2012. ...

Malaysian-owned Maybank, one of the largest banks in Cambodia, opened its 12th national branch in Phnom Penh on Friday. The bank aims to reach emerging businesses in the city’s Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) with the new office. ...