All Nippon Airways (ANA) – Japan’s largest carrier – will begin flying between Tokyo and Phnom Penh on september 1, the spokesman for the secretariat of state of Civil Aviation told Khmer Times yesterday, adding that the first direct flight from Japan to Cambodia will ss='cambodia-color'>...

A vending machine dispensing driver’s licenses will be installed at Aeon Mall, according to the Public Works and Transport Ministry’s website, as part of newly appointed Minister sun Chanthol’s plan to bring in serious reform within his first 100 days in office. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) will send officials to south Korea next month to further investigate the case of former ambassador suth Dina, who was arrested and detained at Prey sar prison early last month on corruption charges. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japanese Prime Minister shinzo Abe appeared to rebuke Cambodia’s position on the south China sea dispute over the weekend, saying that an international tribunal’s ruling on China’s territorial claims should be respected.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s opposition party has called on the government to expedite a “dragging” investigation into a violent attack on two of its lawmakers and urged the United Nations to join the probe after the international body expressed concern over the assault. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Singapore-liSted HLH Group Ltd will inveSt $10 million in an agricultural food proceSSing park, which iS due to be fully operational next year, the Singapore BuSineSS Review reported yeSterday.&nbSp;The 400-hectare park will be in Kampong Speu province&rSquo;S Oral diStrict, Said Kim Koung, an official of SS='cambodia-color'>...

A Chinese state railway construction contractor has approached the government with a bid to conduct a feasibility study on connecting the capital’s river port to the Kingdom’s sole operating railway line, a state official said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A mixed force of 7,000 military and security personnel will be deployed to protect Chinese President Xi Jinping when he visits Cambodia later this month for his first visit since coming to power, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition lawmakers yesterday left a meeting at the Interior Ministry exasperated, as officials from the latter continued to deem the presidency of their leader, Kem sokha, and the vice presidency of three senior lawmakers, illegitimate, but offered no clear path to a resolution. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Ministry of Information department director denied wrongdoing yesterday after the Anti-Corruption Unit released a letter on Friday detailing allegations of bribery, nepotism and improper hiring practices, as well as the accused official’s response. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Grown in floods and thriving without pesticides, floating rice offers Cambodia a sustainable alternative for its eco-friendly food production amid threats from climate change. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Testing of a new batch of election ink to be used in upcoming commune elections showed that it cannot be removed, a spokesman for the National Election Committee (NEC) said on Thursday, a day after telling reporters that samples provided by the ink supplier could ss='cambodia-color'>...

Earlier this month, Makro, a well-known wholesale supermart based in Bangkok, Thailand, began putting up signs on the zinc walls surrounding its sales office in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district, advertising its imminent opening at the end of the year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fishermen on the Tonle sap river are smelling success: The season’s first harvest of the fish now being crushed into the famously pungent prahok has hauled in a bounty set to almost double last year’s catch. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As part of an ongoing Japan-funded project to reduce congestion in the capital’s clogged streets, City Hall turned on three new traffic lights on Wednesday in Phnom Penh—with two more set to follow today.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition spokesman Yim sovann said yesterday that if any of the CNRP’s more than 400 new commune chiefs who won office on sunday cannot follow through on the party’s campaign pledges, they will “give up” their positions.sovann said the Cambodia National Rescue Party had made ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Wildlife Conservation society has made its first discovery of siamese crocodile eggs on the sre Ambel River in Koh Kong province in six years, it announced yesterday in a statement. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Cambodia continues its upward trajectory towards becoming a lower-middle-income country, it will face even greater challenges in reducing high levels of poverty as the Kingdom loses its preferential trade privileges and donor funding dries up, according to a new World Bank report. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The cabinet will hold a debate on Friday and is expected to approve the 2018 budget of $5.86 billion, an increase of 16.2 percent from last year’s $5.04 billion, according to a government document seen by Khmer Times yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s budget process was slightly more transparent last year than in previous years, according to a new report, though scant information is provided to the public over the course of the budget process, with few opportunities for public engagement and limited oversight in its creation. ss='cambodia-color'>...