<p>The owners of the boats that ferry customers to the floating villages on Tonle Sap Lake have seen their profits increase as gas prices fall and ticket prices rise. But one group has not profited from the lake’s tourism boom: the men who pilot the ...p>

<p>plans were finalized last week for the first direct flight between Cambodia and Japan, which is set to launch in September, according to Tourism Minister Thong Khon, who met with Japanese Ambassador Kumamaru Yuji on Thursday. &nbsp; ...p>

<p>Researchers have released new photos offering a rare glimpse of endangered elephant herds seen traveling with calves through the Tonle Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary in Mondulkiri province earlier this month.&nbsp;The photos are part of a conservation supervisory project undertaken by Winrock International and the World Wildlife ...p>

<p>In its latest audit of domestic appliance sales for seven countries in Southeast Asia, German-based market research firm GfK found that consumer spending on refrigerators, air conditioning units and washing machines grew by 2 percent during the year ending June 2016, while washing machine sales ...p>

<p>The long-awaited railroad between phnom penh and Bangkok moved one step closer to completion yesterday after tracks on the Cambodian side were connected to those in Thailand.&nbsp;The poipet-phnom penh rail line was joined to the Bangkok-Sa Kaeo line during a ceremony at the international border ...p>

<p>Local government officials in a southern Cambodian province failed to evacuate villagers in time to prevent their homes and rice fields from flooding after the operators of a Chinese-built hydropower dam informed them a day earlier that they would open the facility’s gates to release ...p>

<p>The investigating judge involved in ongoing legal proceedings against human rights activist Ny Chakrya has said a warrant for the man’s arrest is under consideration after Chakrya failed to respond to a subpoena to appear in court yesterday. However, Chakrya’s employer, rights group Adhoc, said ...p>

<p>Bangladesh ranked 125th out of 132 countries on the Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI) for 2016, five places up from last year. However, there is a great internal variance within the region: Australia’s Attitude score stands at 75.2, whereas Cambodia’s 10.6, which is the lowest in ...p>

<p>parliament urges Cambodia to drop all charges brought against opposition leader Sam Rainsy and Cambodia National Rescue party (CNRp) members; calls on the Bangladesh authorities to restore the full independence of the media; and appeals to the government of Afghanistan to intensify cooperation with the ...p>

<p>In the wake of attacks in paris and San Bernadino, California, young Cambodians say they are concerned their country is not prepared for similar attacks. Cambodian officials say the government is ready to respond to attacks, though, as the recent mob beatings of two opposition ...p>

<p>Cambodia is unlikely to be able to produce offshore oil until prices rise, analysts say. Meng Saktheara, a spokesman for the Ministry of Mines and Energy, said he agreed with that analysis. Negotiations over production are not finalized with KrisEnergy, which must also finish its ...p>

<p>Each year, millions of dollars flow into the tourism hub of Siem Reap, the gateway city to Angkor Wat. Yet just outside of town, the effects of that economy are hardly felt at all. Out here, people struggle to make a living, and grinding poverty ...p>

<p>Food and beverage company park Café has sold a 30 percent stake in its company to Cambodia-Laos Development Fund (CLDF) for $3 million, and the investment will be used to expand its operations in the capital and the provinces, a senior executive of the company ...p>

<p>More than 100 workers from Japanese-owned quality control firm Kuwahara, whose office is located in the Cambodiana Hotel, gathered in a park across the street from the hotel yesterday morning to boycott their employer and demand they institute a litany of conditions that were born ...p>

<p>A Cambodian Monk in South Korea alleged that there are some officials in the Foreign and Interior Ministries illegally issuing service passports for Cambodian migrants in order to work in South Korea, according to video footage posted by a local media outlet on Monday. The ...p>

<p>Browse any online expat or tourist forum where people ask whether the tap water in phnom penh is safe to drink and you will likely find an adamant “No!”&nbsp;But according to water sanitation experts, these forums are wrong. phnom penh has some of the safest ...p>

<p>The Kingdom’s petroleum and gas imports fell in the first quarter of this year due to waning consumer and business demands, according to the Ministry of Commerce. However, a large petroleum, lubricants and oil importer said the fall in gas imports was just relative and ...p>

<p>A new treatment designed to stabilize those with post-traumatic stress disorder (pTSD) has pro­v­en highly effective and could be used to help the roughly quarter of Cambodians who have the mental illness, according to a new study. &nbsp; ...p>

<p>More than 100 striking workers at the Vanny Bio-Research company in pursat town agreed to go back to work yesterday after mediators promised to find an adequate resolution to their&nbsp;demands for a wage hike. The company breeds and cares for 30,000-40,000 monkeys they sell to ...p>

<p>Just weeks since the United States announced it would grant new trade privileges that allow Cambodian-manufactured travel goods such as luggage and backpacks to enter the US market duty-free under its Generalised System of preferences (GSp) scheme, a visiting American trade official hinted yesterday that ...p>