Canadia Bank said on Thursday it was investigating how two fake $100 notes were allegedly given to a customer who cashed a check. The customer, Eam Sopheap, a human resources manager at The Cambodia Daily newspaper, said he received two fake $100 notes from a teller ...

Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong met with his visiting Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida on Monday morning, discussing ways to deepen bilateral ties and exchanging views on regional issues.     “We agreed on many issues to further enhance bilateral ties and cooperation,” Hor Namhong said at a joint ...

Media watchdogs on Wednesday expressed concern that the resignation on Saturday of Kem Gunawadh, long-serving director-general of state broadcaster TVK, was due to the station’s airing of an opposition campaign spot showing violent government protest repressions. In a statement, the Cambodian Center for Independent Media and ...

The opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Friday in his Facebook page that he has received a letter from Mr. Sorya Subedi, the United National Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Cambodia. In the letter to Sam Rainsy, the U.N. envoy said “I am writing ...

Every day Dr. Chhor Nareth treats injuries caused by the anarchy on Cambodia’s roads, where few drivers wear helmets, traffic lights are routinely ignored, and driving on the wrong side of the road is common. He has worked in the emergency Intensive Care Unit at ...

Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Prak Sokhonn, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation highlighted the importance of strengthening the EAS process to better serve common causes and stressed on the need to remain focused on delivering concrete outcomes on the nine priority areas under the ...

The Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts and UNESCO have produced a short video to shed light on the richness of the site of Koh Ker in the northern province of Preah Vihear, on the occasion of the National Culture Day in Cambodia on ...

The trial of fugitive tycoon Thong Sarath’s parents on possession of illegal weapons charges will begin on Friday, officials said yesterday. ...

More than 100 workers at a Kandal province footwear factory fainted on Monday, according to a report on the National Police website. ...

Islamic finance could help to boost trade between Cambodia and the Middle East, as well as attract investment from Muslim-majority countries, experts said on Saturday. Knowledge of Islamic finance and banking, which bars interest lending and discourages unfair trade advantages, is almost nonexistent among Cambodia’s Muslims, ...

The US House of Representatives has renewed a trade law experts said could have a substantial effect on Cambodia’s exports to the United States, as well as the future of the Kingdom’s manufacturing sector. The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program waived tariffs on about US$13 ...

The price of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority stock over the Sept 6-12 period fluctuated between KHR 6,350 (US $1.57 and KHR 6,300 (US $1.55). The price on Sept. 6, KHR 6,350 fell to KHR 6,300 (US $1.58) on Sept 7 and remained there ...

Villagers on Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia, who depend on fishing for subsistence, say their livelihoods are threatened by illegal commercial fishing, which continues after a government ban. And they say authorities in charge of enforcing the ban are being bribed to look the other ...

Welcome to CPP country. On the roads snaking up from Banlung through Ratanakkiri’s lush mountain passes up to O’Yadav district, samdechs peer down from billboards and farmers in dirt-streaked party shirts speed past On dilapidated motorbikes. It is perhaps a measure of how successful the ruling ...

An often flouted and publicly unpopular restriction forbidding Cambodia’s telecoms from offering lucrative mobile phone promotions was scrapped on Sunday, just two weeks after it was introduced. In a letter from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC), signed by Minister So Khun, it announced a ...

Economists and industry experts disagreed Tuesday on the effects that recent currency devaluations in China and Vietnam would have on the Cambodian economy. ...

PHNOM PENH – Cambodia imports all of its fuel from abroad, but little regulation in the sector means everyday Cambodians see all kinds of prices at the pumps. Prices are high in Phnom Penh, while sometimes cheaper on the outskirts of the capital and even ...

A U.N. rights envoy to Cambodia on Wednesday expressed “cautious optimism” that the parties of Prime Minister Hun Sen and opposition leader Sam Rainsy would move toward ending their seven-month political deadlock following an agreement achieved this week between the two sides on a set ...

Amnesty International yesterday launched a report on land evictions in Cambodia that details the impact that government-bestowed economic land concessions have had on women, and sets out recommendations for the government in light of those findings. The new report, titled ‘Eviction and Resistance in Cambodia: Five ...

Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities provided plots of land to 45 families on Saturday after they agreed to move off a roadside in Sihanoukville’s Buon commune. Provincial Governor Kuoch Chamroeun said on Saturday during a land distribution ceremony that the 45 families squatted and lived on a ...