The capital’s listed water utility, Phnom Penh Water supply Authority (PPWsA), signed a construction deal yesterday with France’s Vinci Constructions Grands Projects to renovate the Chamkarmon Water Treatment Plan and enlarge its water production capacity from 20,000 cubic metres per day to 52,000 cubic metres. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly one hundred pieces of timber were found separately in Kratie province’s Prek Prasap and sambo districts over the weekend, but no arrests were made. About 40 pieces were discovered in sambo’s Vathanak commune after forestry officials unsuccessfully chased a truck they believed was carrying timber. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hong Kong financial giant The Bank of East Asia and sri Lanka’s LOLC announced on Friday that they have jointly acquired a majority stake in Prasac Microfinance, Cambodia’s largest microfinance institution (MFI) by assets, in what could be the largest acquisition of a Cambodian lender ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s telecommunications regulator has called on seven mobile network operators to give an assurance by september 1 that they have registered all their subscribers in accordance with a directive from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication and the Ministry of Interior. ss='cambodia-color'>...

For the city’s homeless, Phnom Penh’s busy intersections, pagodas, markets and tourist sites are places of work, where many beg for money, and often lay their heads. Others drag carts or bags around the capital, collecting recyclable waste and scrap materials to sell. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Singapore&rSquo;S KriSEnergy, the operator of Cambodia&rSquo;S offShore Block A in the Gulf of Thailand, announced on Friday that in 24 monthS the Kingdom will be an oil producing nation after the firm made itS final inveStment deciSion that day for extraction in the ApSara oil SS='cambodia-color'>...

Singapore&rSquo;S KriSEnergy, the operator of Cambodia&rSquo;S offShore Block A in the Gulf of Thailand, announced late laSt week that it haS Submitted documentation to the MiniStry of Environment for a propoSed 1,200-Square-kilometre 3D SeiSmic Survey of itS offShore tenement next year. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Nuth Sokhom, former Funcinpec lawmaker; Hel Sarat, formerly of the Cambodian Nationality Party; and Dim Sovannarom, former deputy director of the government&rSquo;S human rightS body, were all confirmed to the NEC, replacing three CNRP-nominated memberS who reSigned in proteSt of the party&rSquo;S diSSolution in November. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand and Cambodia are making moves to repair trade relations as 30 of Thailand’s provincial commerce departments hold a three-day trade fair in Phnom Penh’s Diamond Island Convention Center this week, according to Jiranan Wongmongkol, director of the Foreign Trade Promotion Office (FTPO) at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Diplomats, legal experts and political analysts all met in a forum in Phnom Penh Tuesday to discuss the implications of last year’s election and the ongoing political deadlock. some diplomats, like Dinesh Patnaik, India’s ambassador to Cambodia, questioned the legitimacy of a government the opposition refuses ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley, the site of a proposed hydropower dam opposed by most of the local ethnic minority Chong, say police deleted their photos and video of a visit by CPP lawmaker Ay Khorn on Friday to promote the project’s potential ss='cambodia-color'>...

CNRP Vice President Kem sokha said in a speech in the U.s. last week that he was unhappy with the opposition party’s decision to end its boycott of the National Assembly last year but was prepared to “swallow gravel and rocks” to maintain unity with ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 40 security guards armed with axes and AK-47s and working for the Chinese-owned Union Development Group (UDG) on sunday demolished the homes of three villagers who claim to own land on UDG’s sprawling $3.8-billion beachside tourist development in Koh Kong province, villagers said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Minister of Health on Tuesday vowed to eliminate the country’s unlicensed medical clinics and hire more health care providers, after an unauthorized medical worker who admitted to reusing syringes was linked to a mass HIV infection in a remote western village. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite Cambodia’s indigenous peoples being legally recognised and protected under the country’s Forestry and Land Laws, limited implementation combined with a lack of coordination have resulted in many indigenous communities being denied their land and legal rights, according to a report released this month by ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of Capitol Tours bus drivers—five of whom claim they were fired for attempting to form a union—say they were attacked Monday by a group of more than 50 tuk-tuk drivers while protesting outside the transport company’s headquarters in Phnom Penh’s Prampi Makara district. ss='cambodia-color'>...

For the third straight year in a row, Cambodia has found itself on the Tier 2 Watch List of the Us state Department’s annual Trafficking in Persons Report, a ranking reflective of a seeming inability to fully implement the country’s own anti-trafficking plan. ss='cambodia-color'>...

While there are many issues for Cambodia’s journalists to cover these days—from the tensions with Vietnam over border issues to land disputes, the law to regulate NGOs, the labor sector and others—the country’s reporters are often disrupted from their work. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s parliament will vote today to confirm Hun Manet as prime minister, completing a handover of power after last month’s election. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) iS planning to expand the fund&rSquo;S Scope of coverage to include familieS of NSSF&rSquo;S memberS Such aS retireeS, and domeStic and informal economic workerS. SS='cambodia-color'>...