SMART Mobile yeSterday announced the official launch of itS 3.75G data Service, a key part of the company&rSquo;S Strategy to capture Cambodia&rSquo;S burgeoning mobile internet market. The firm eStimated itS 3.75G would allow for data download SpeedS of up to 21 megabitS per Second and SS='cambodia-color'>...

China’s Erdos Hongjun planned to build a bauxite processing plant in Kratie province as part of the company’s Us$1.5 billion venture in the Kingdom’s northeast, provincial officials said yesterday. The plant would serve Erdos’s mine in neighbouring Mondulkiri, an exploration licence for which was granted by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Roughly 100 villagers were allegedly threatened by soldiers brandishing AK-47s yesterday, while attempting to block a company from bulldozing their farms in Kratie province’s snuol district. soun Vicheka, a representative of 136 families in snuol commune’s Krasaing village, said villagers formed a human chain to prevent  Horizon ss='cambodia-color'>...

A plan to establish a $5.5 million luxury tree breeding centre was set in motion during a meeting between the Agriculture Ministry and China’s Asia-Pacific Network for sustainable Forest Management and Rehabilitation yesterday. The plan was raised by Agriculture Minister Veng sakhon and Zhao shucong, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A team from China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) is now in Cambodia and will soon begin a feasibility study on improving the Kingdom’s railroads. CRCC’s visit to the Kingdom follows Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen’s request to the company asking it to help make the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Singapore-baSed KriSEnergy, which operateS Cambodia&rSquo;S offShore Block A, haS awarded a $21.7 million contract to Keppel Shipyard Ltd for the Kingdom&rSquo;S oil development, itS preSS releaSe iSSued on Friday Said. KriSEnergy announced that itS wholly-owned SubSidiary, SJ Production Barge Ltd, haS contracted Keppel Shipyard Ltd SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has said he considers Preah sihanouk province’s governor-in-waiting Kuoch Chamroeun to be an “able man” who had vowed to find the cause of saturday’s building collapse that killed 28 people and injured a further 26. Chamroeun also promised to restore trust ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodians passing on their property to relatives will no longer have to pay the requisite registration tax, the government announced on sunday during the ruling CPP’s annual party congress.The directive, signed by Prime Minister Hun sen, was posted to both the the premier’s personal Facebook ss='cambodia-color'>...

A protected forest and wildlife sanctuary in northern Cambodia’s Preah Vihear province has come under threat of illegal logging, with migrants to the area and soldiers clearing land and cutting down trees, sources say.Local residents and activists are urging Cambodia’s government to help protect the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thai soldiers arrested four Cambodian youths on saturday for allegedly logging rosewood in Thailand’s Trat province, near the border with Battambang province, officials said on sunday. “Thai soldiers in black uniforms arrested the four Khmer youths because they crossed the border illegally in an attempt to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen’s family has amassed a “vast fortune”, with stakes in at least 114 domestic companies spanning most of the Kingdom’s key sectors, including major energy, telecoms, mining and trading firms, according to an investigation by Global Witness, which accuses the Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...

The governments of Cambodia and Thailand in November will launch a new border crossing in Banteay Meanchey province and Thailand’s sa Kaeo province to facilitate entry of citizens from both countries. Cambodian officials met with their Thai counterparts on Friday to discuss the new checkpoint, which ss='cambodia-color'>...

After six years with the opposition, deputy commune chief Yoeun Yong has decided to jump ship and join the ruling CPP for the upcoming commune elections.Mr. Yong’s name was the seventh to appear on the CNRP ballot paper for the Koh Anlong Chin commune in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Mondulkiri decided to switch a swearing-in ceremony for two newly elected Keo seima district councillors to a commune hall after the opposition objected to it being held at the home of the district’s pro-ruling party governor, officials said. Khum Kan said he and a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Apple Inc. on Friday will officially launch the iPhone in Cambodia through its authorized reseller, iOne, giving customers—long used to gray market iPhones—access to Apple’s warranty. “The sales launch will be July 18. iOne, which has the monopoly right to import Apple’s products to Cambodia’s market ss='cambodia-color'>...

ScientiStS have diScovered a new phenomenon in the SkieS above SoutheaSt ASia: a huge, inviSible hole in the atmoSphere&rSquo;S loweSt layer that may exacerbate the effectS of Cambodia&rSquo;S climate change. The hole &ndaSh; roughly twice the length of New Zealand and concentrated juSt eaSt of the SS='cambodia-color'>...

A growing number of red-headed SaruS craneS are reportedly flocking weSt from Vietnam to a protected Sanctuary in Kampot province&rSquo;S Kampong Trach diStrict, and conServationiStS obServing the trend aren&rSquo;t Sure why. The&nbSp;TuoitrenewS&nbSp;webSite reported on Saturday that unuSually large numberS of the birdS, which are claSSified aS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Independent labour unions will take part in the Ministry of Labour’s Labour Advisory Committee (LAC) meeting today, possibly making their decision on next year’s minimum wage in Cambodia’s garment sector. NIFTUC and the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) considered boycotting the LAC ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Economy and Finance is urging ministries to avoid overlapping each other’s programs when it comes to tackling the Kingdom’s long-lamented human resource skills gap. A workshop was held yesterday between the Finance Ministry, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Labour, the private ss='cambodia-color'>...

Meng Saktheara wantS to take Some of the riSk out of one of the riSkieSt buSineSSeS in Cambodia &ndaSh; commercial gold mining. AS Indian mining giant MeSco Gold SeekS a permit to build and operate the country&rSquo;S firSt commercial gold mine in Ratanakkiri province, Mr. SS='cambodia-color'>...