A closed sign hung on the door of ClickNet’s Phnom Penh office during business hours yesterday, and the internet service provider’s siem Reap office had also reportedly closed. ClickNet’s internet service has been down in siem Reap since Monday, Thaddée Bechtold, CEO at internet technologies firm ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 1,000 villagers in Prey Veng province’s Prey Veng town blocked traffic on national road 11 outside the office of the Cambodian People’s Party yesterday to demand the price of water be lowered from 1,800 riels per cubic metre to 1,200 riels. The protesters, who ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Supreme Court yeSterday upheld the verdict of the Appeal Court regarding the diviSion of aSSetS in a high-profile divorce caSe that haS bounced back and forth between the courtS for yearS. YeSterday&rSquo;S ruling decreed that Nina Kanikar You, ex-wife of former Funcinpec Secretary of State SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s trade deficit with the rest of the world continued to widen last year to $5.2 billion, as the Kingdom’s imports outstripped its exports once again, a National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) report released on saturday said. The NBC figures revealed that the Kingdom imported $18.8 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has decided to revoke five land titles given to tycoon Ing Bun Hoaw after his company, ING Holdings, failed to develop infrastructure along Boeng Choeung Ek lake and erect a satellite city in Phnom Penh and Kandal province’s Takhmao city. The Council of Ministers ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 20 child laborers were rescued in Phnom Penh on Tuesday after anti-human trafficking authorities arrested a couple who had forced the children to work as fruit sellers in exchange for payments made to their families, according to police.Officers from the Interior Ministry’s anti-human ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Environment submitted an ambitious national climate change plan to the United Nations yesterday ahead of scheduled climate talks in Paris (COP 21), though observers yesterday questioned the plan’s feasibility given a lack of both funding and political will.According to sao sopheap, spokesperson ss='cambodia-color'>...

Concerns are that, while the middle class is growing, Cambodia’s consumer base is not yet able to support premium retailersThe throngs of Cambodian families streaming into Aeon Mall over the Water Festival holiday made it clear that Phnom Penh’s poshest mall has successfully positioned itself ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s northern railway line has been linked to Thailand at the border in Poipet City, officials said at a ceremony on Monday—although sections of track in Cambodia still need to be finished before trains can start running between the two countries. At a ceremony marking a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The multimillion-dollar project to revamp Phnom Penh’s Veng sreng toll road for profit is being carried out by a company controlled by the brother-in-law of ruling Cambodian People’s Party senator Lao Meng Khin.Choeung Thean seng, who is reputed to be an officer in the paramilitary ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Global Fund, provider of the lion’s share of money for Cambodia’s $12 million-a-year HIV treatment and prevention program, has told the government it expects it to begin footing more of the bill itself, a push that is prompting worries among local health-care providers. However, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A day after the US Federal ReServe increaSed intereSt rateS, which can potentially impact incoming inveStmentS and make debt more coStly, expertS Say the Kingdom&rSquo;S Strong underlying growth will help maintain inveStmentS flowS and leave the country largely unaffected.The Fed&rSquo;S 25 baSiS point rate hike SS='cambodia-color'>...

Instructors at the Royal University of Phnom Penh have just finished the first academic year of a landmark physics course. Launched in the fall of 2012, “Renewable Energy and Applications” aims to train students so they can seek internships and jobs in one of Cambodia’s fastest-growing ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of Cambodians and Cambodian-Americans staged coordinated mass demonstrations in cities across the U.s. on Monday in support of opposition claims that Cambodia’s closely contested July election was rigged in favor of Prime Minister Hun sen and his long-ruling CPP. In Long Beach and san ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hongkong Land broke ground on Friday on a $100 million mixed-use development project in Phnom Penh’s financial district. Called Landmark, the building by the Hong Kong-based property group will be on a 10,700-square metre site on street 106 near the capital’s Freedom Park. “One of Hongkong Land’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

The International Labour Organization (ILO) yesterday cast doubt on the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia’s (GMAC) bleak outlook for the rest of 2014, after the association claimed that deadly violence sparked by wage disputes would result in clothing brands reducing future orders. speaking from Bangkok, Maurizio ss='cambodia-color'>...

Management at one of Asia’s largest garment producers yesterday fired at least 600 employees, days after thousands returned to work following a two-week strike. Most of the workers fired by sL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd – which supplies Gap, Levi’s and H&M – were members of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s garment industry, the kingdom’s largest income maker, recorded 3.65 billion U.s. dollars in export value in the first eight months of the year, up 21 percent from 3.01 billion U.s. dollars over the same period last year, the Ministry of Commerce said Friday. Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s government should make public a proposed law aimed at regulating the country’s labor movement, a rights group said Thursday, amid concerns that it includes provisions for the suspension of unions and for severely restricting their right to freedom of association. Requests from civil society to ss='cambodia-color'>...

T Mohan, a Malaysian publisher and businessman arrested in the 1990s for attempting to extort a casino executive, is back in Cambodia’s newspaper market. The Khmer Times, the latest English-language news offering from Mr. Mohan, hit newsstands earlier this month, with a government spokesman even resigning ss='cambodia-color'>...