The Thai province of Buri Ram and Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province officially reopened the border on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia announced two major bilateral trade agreements last month, with the Philippines and Thailand, that are expected to further expand the country’s rice export sector. Over the last few years, Cambodia has emerged as a major rice exporter in the region, due in large part ss='cambodia-color'>...

Danish beer giant Carlsberg, a partner in Cambodia’s largest brewery, Cambrew, said it is not concerned by a call to boycott its popular Angkor Beer brand over a partner company’s investment in a Laos dam. Ben Morton, vice president of Carlsberg’s international media relations and issues ss='cambodia-color'>...

As leaders from the CPP and CNRP sat down for a round of top-level negotiations aimed at breaking the country’s prolonged political impasse on Monday, opposition supporters once again poured into Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park for the second day of demonstrations against alleged fraud in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The cabinet chief of CPP Interior Minister and Deputy Prime Minister sar Kheng has blamed internal strife within the opposition CNRP for stalled negotiations that might break the present political impasse that has led the CNRP’s 55 lawmakers-elect to boycott parliament. In a statement issued ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen agreed to upgrade Cambodia’s diplomatic relations with Japan to a “strategic level” during talks in Tokyo on sunday, but also thanked his Japanese counterpart, shinzo Abe, for making efforts to mend relations with neighbor China, according to media reports. During a state ss='cambodia-color'>...

Russian businessmen Nikolai Doroshenko and sergei Polonsky are locked in a legal dispute over sihanoukville’s Victory Beach following Mr. Polonsky’s release from prison last month, according to copies of court documents obtained Monday. The Preah sihanouk provincial court has temporarily prevented Mr. Doroshenko from transferring the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sugar plantationS that benefit from the European Union&rSquo;S Everything But ArmS (EBA) Scheme, which allowS preferential acceSS to the E.U.&rSquo;S market, have further impoveriShed Cambodia&rSquo;S poor, and an inveStigation needS to be launched, a member of the European Parliament (MEP) Said on Friday. Patrice Tirolien, MEP SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen publicly castigated the Kampong Thom provincial governor in a speech on saturday for allegedly claiming a large portion of land and saying it was needed for the local office of the Cambodian Red Cross, an agency lead by Hun sen’s wife, Bun ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nine non-governmental groups issued a statement late last week urging the country’s National Election Committee (NEC) to enforce laws that bar political parties from using state resources. “The NEC has to punish the politicians and parties who use the state resources,” said Yong Kim Eng, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday to export 100,000 tonnes of rice per year to Indonesia. senior Cambodian officials hope the MoU will be the impetus for attracting more investments from other AsEAN member states. The MoU was signed between Cambodia’s Minister of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s casino owners need to up the ante on security, the owners of each of the Kingdom’s 61 operating gaming venues were told yesterday at a Phnom Penh meeting called by national police authorities. Lieutenant General sok Phal, deputy national police commissioner, said that in recent ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia spent more than $1.6 billion importing fuel oil and petrol last year, a figure 14.3 per cent higher than for 2011, the Ministry of Commerce said yesterday. The money spent on importing 1.6 million tonnes of petrol and fuel oil – 100,000 tonnes more than ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Petrochemical Company and Sinomach China Perfect Machinery InduStry Corp jointly announced on Friday to build the firSt oil refinery in Cambodia and the conStruction iS expected to be completed at the end of 2015. Zhang Sugang, preSident of Sinomach China Perfect Machinery InduStry Corp, Said SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Taiwanese-owned garment company Grand Twins International (Cambodia) Plc says it intends to list on the Cambodia securities Exchange (CsX) next month, in a boost for the Kingdom’s nascent stock market. Phnom Penh securities (PPs), an underwriter for Grand Twins International (GTI), said yesterday the company ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some queStionS remain about whether hydro damS on the upper Mekong River in China exacerbated conditionS during Cambodia&rSquo;S devaStating drought of 2010, environmental groupS Say, aS China&rSquo;S dam program powerS ahead. When the firSt power-generating unit waS Switched on laSt month at China&rSquo;S giant 262-metre tall SS='cambodia-color'>...

Lawmakers from the European Union (E.U) are again urging the block’s trade commissioner to investigate Cambodia’s Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) over a raft of alleged rights abuses and consider revoking the duty free access their owners currently enjoy to member states. Going mostly to industrial ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government on Friday released a draft of a new public policy guide on the county’s contentious land sector, a move that was welcomed by NGOs, who also called for the government to hold further consultations on the draft. Local rights groups have singled out ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 5,000 Cambodian workers took to the street on Wednesday to mark the International Labor Day, calling for pay rise, better labor conditions and decrease in petrol prices, a union representative said. Marchers, mostly garment workers, held banners and walked from the Freedom Park near the ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 police and security guards, including  riot squad members, were deployed to the capital’s Boeung Kak lake community yesterday to block a protest that, at times, involved only three shouting women. About 50 members of the Boeung Kak community tried to march from Village ss='cambodia-color'>...