Caffe Bene, South Korea&rSquo;S Second-largeSt coffee chain, on TueSday announced planS to open in Cambodia, according to a Korean media report. But while itS entrance addS one more competitor to the more than half-a-dozen coffee chainS already in the country, local franchiSeS Said the market iS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s opposition said on Thursday that it had filed a lawsuit against the kingdom’s poll authorities over strongman Prime Minister Hun sen’s disputed election win. The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) accused three top National Election Committee officials and their accomplices of faking voter names on ss='cambodia-color'>...

A meeting between representatives of the CNRP and Phnom Penh City Hall officials Monday failed to produce an agreement over the opposition party’s plans to march throughout the city during its three consecutive days of demonstrations starting Wednesday. City Hall officials last week decreed that the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s King Norodom sihamoni has invited Prime Minister Hun sen and opposition leader sam Rainsy for talks this aimed at resolving a standoff over recent elections as sam Rainsy’s party filed a lawsuit accusing the country election body of vote fraud. Both Hun sen and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday preSided over the opening SeSSion of the fifth legiSlature of the National ASSembly, which waS attended by only the ruling party&rSquo;S elected lawmakerS aS the oppoSition&rSquo;S elected legiSlatorS boycotted it. Sixty-eight elected lawmakerS from the ruling Cambodian People&rSquo;S Party (CPP) SS='cambodia-color'>...

About 200 workers protested outside sL Garment Factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district Wednesday demanding that managers reinstate 19 union representatives before a 15-day deadline set by the government elapses. The Council of Ministers has ordered the factory to rehire the fired unionists or face punitive ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Interior’s general department of prisons has been advised to address prison overcrowding and transportation issues between prisons and courts as it begins to tackle its 2013 to 2018 strategic plan for the country’s jails. The advice was given at the start of a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh governor on Tuesday told city officials to halt corruption and work harder to provide public services in an effort to restore confidence among the people who were so frustrated with the ruling party that they voted for the opposition CNRP in last ss='cambodia-color'>...

A U.N. rights envoy suggested Thursday that Cambodia lift a ban on public gatherings in the capital imposed amid a violent crackdown on demonstrators a month ago. Maina Kiai, the U.N.’s global special Rapporteur for freedom of peaceful assembly and association, made the suggestion to Foreign ss='cambodia-color'>...

The governor of Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district has been summonsed to court for questioning on allegations that he and his wife cheated a former secretary of state at the Ministry of Rural Development out of $730,000 through a fraudulent sale of state land and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ministry of Interior officials announced yesterday that three more villagers accused of involvement in a “secessionist plot” in Kratie province turned themselves in and confessed their guilt on saturday, taking advantage of the prime minister’s offer of immunity for those who agree to act as ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two more of the five accused secessionists from Kratie province’s Pro Ma village turned themselves in on Friday, Ministry of Interior officials said, just days after Hun sen declared that he would drop charges against them if they testified against the plot’s masterminds. [Bun] Ratha ss='cambodia-color'>...

Australian logistics company Toll Group is allegedly pulling out of its 30-year concession to operate the Kingdom’s national railway, according to the sydney Morning Herald. Citing “reliable sources”, an sMH report said Toll would leave its Us$145 million Toll Royal Railway joint venture with Cambodia’s Royal ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Wildlife Conservation society has found seven nests of the globally-threatened Lesser Adjutant stork in Mondulkiri province’s Keo seima Wildlife sanctuary. sot Vandoeun, WCs’ wildlife monitoring team leader, said on Tuesday that it is the first time that WCs has found the bird’s nest in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has officially signed an agreement to buy a power generator from Finland, according to Prime Minister Hun sen’s official Facebook page. The Cambodian government approved the purchase of the 200MW power generator from Finland for $175 million, with it set to further bolster Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 50 families living near a rubbish dump in siem Reap province’s Prasat Bakong district on Tuesday demanded authorities quickly find an alternative site. They said the current dump in Trapaing Thom commune’s Anlong Pi village is unhygienic, causing people to fall sick and producing ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ratanakkiri’s first cassava-processing plant will operate at full capacity starting next month, producing 300 tonnes of cassava products per day. The factory is now on a test run and is only producing 10 tonnes of cassava products a day, said soy sona, director of Ratanakkiri’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Speaking to the United NationS General ASSembly (UNGA) on Friday, Hun Sen defended July&rSquo;S national electionS and hit out at criticiSm from certain unnamed countrieS, calling them a “SeriouS inSult” to the will of the Cambodian people that Showed “the ambition to interfere” in the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Nhek Bun Chhay, who commanded the country’s military un­der the Funcinpec-led government in the 1990s and has remained a prom­inent figure in the royalist par­ty, on Wednesday announced that he had launched a new political party due to his dissatisfaction with Prince Norodom Ranariddh. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The private sector’s campaign to develop a single recognisable umbrella brand for Cambodia’s premium varieties of fragrant rice looks increasingly tenuous after a government body voiced objections to the name selected, and argued instead that the country should market each variety of rice under its ss='cambodia-color'>...