Chinese firm Huaxin Cement Co has purchased a 40 per cent stake in Cambodia Cement Chakrey Ting Factory Co, a cement-making factory currently under construction in Kampot province. Huaxin’s $24 million investment Cambodia Cement lifted the local factory’s working capital to $60 million, up from $32 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers representing families in Kratie province petitioned the south Korean Embassy for help Tuesday in their dispute with a south Korean agribusiness firm, after hearing that the embassy had lodged a complaint against them. About 200 villagers from Kratie province’s snuol district are staying at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh’s trash collectors ended their strike Wednesday after being promised increased salaries—leaving two days to clean the streets before Friday’s ceremony to inter the ashes of the late King Father Norodom sihanouk. Ngoun sipheng, the operations manager for Cintri, which has a monopoly on waste ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following First Lady Michelle Obama’s three-day visit to Cambodia to promote her “Let Girl Learn” initiative, Cambodian officials say they hope for positive changes in girls’ education. Cambodia has nearly 1.5 million female students studying at primary and high schools, he said. But only 42 ss='cambodia-color'>...

A meeting held for the “social network” Khmer for Khmer yesterday revealed trepidation among members about the group’s possible future as a new political party. The group, which currently claims to advise Cambodia’s parties on internal democracy, has scheduled a referendum next month to decide the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 10 monthS after leading proteStS during which VietnameSe flagS were burned outSide the country&rSquo;S embaSSy in Phnom Penh, memberS of the Khmer Krom community took a more conciliatory approach ThurSday aS they marked the 66th anniverSary of France&rSquo;S formal Splitting of Cochinchine. ThouSandS of monkS SS='cambodia-color'>...

The collapse of Digital star Media’s acquisition of mobile operator Excell emerged yesterday, nearly a year after the firms announced the potential buy-out. Digital star Media, branded under the name Emaxx, announced in late July last year it was in talks to buy GT-TELL’s Excell. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government has signed off on the Kingdom’s first dedicated marine protection area in a bid to save the Koh Rong Archipelago’s coral reef and sea life. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh’s beleaguered trash-collection company, Cintri, is in the process of creating new contracts with each of the city’s 12 districts, an official from the firm said on Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly’s permanent committee yesterday put forward sam Promnea, a former Tourism Ministry secretary of state, as a new member of Cambodia’s Constitutional Council.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh municipal authorities met on Wednesday with the city’s embattled trash-collection company, Cintri, to draft a new contract, according to a statement posted to City Hall’s Facebook page. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officers from Tbong Khmum provincial police’s anti-economic crime unit yesterday seized 36 pieces of luxury rosewood timber dumped in a pepper field in Memot district’s Memot commune. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A protest against city hall’s decision to clear residents’ land for a new road on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar peninsula without paying compensation yesterday entered its second day. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Angkor Air is studying a tourism air route linking Cambodia’s siem Reap province, home of the Angkor temples, and Vietnam’s Danang, a coastal city popular with tourists. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 200 villagers gathered in Ratanakkiri’s provincial capital of Banlung town yesterday, calling for a resolution to a longstanding land dispute in the province’s gem-rich Bakeo district. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, Frederica Mogherini, yesterday released a letter outlining Europe’s continued concern with what it perceives as a deteriorating political situation in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has reaffirmed the country’s commitment to supporting Beijing’s One China policy during a meeting with a Chinese official, a stance one expert called “obsequious”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s foreign ministry Monday condemned Thailand’s military for two shooting that it claimed left two Khmer nationals dead and one injured since sept 28. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian-American man was convicted by a U.s. federal jury in Alaska on Monday of attempting to travel to Cambodia to have sex with underage girls, U.s. media reported. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Indonesian authorities on Wednesday rescued 17 Cambodian migrants enslaved aboard two Thai vessels illegally fishing the archipelago nation’s waters, according to a statement issued by Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...