Maybank launched yesterday its locally incorporated company in Cambodia, Maybank (Cambodia) Plc, and will also build a 10-storey corporate office with the aim of becoming one of the top five banks there by 2015. Currently ranked seventh in terms of assets among 33 banks operating ss='cambodia-color'>...

A rubber plantation in Mondolkiri province targeted by a new government task force sweeping the eastern provinces for illicit timber stocks has denied any involvement in the illegal logging trade. ss='cambodia-color'>...

American packaging firm Crown Holdings Inc. announced Tuesday it would build a new can manufacturing plant in sihanoukville that will become operational in the second half of 2013. Although it did not say how much the project was worth, the factory will produce 725 million 33 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Health will investigate a baby milk formula sold in Cambodia that has been recalled over a risk it contains bacteria that causes botulism, an official said Tuesday. New Zealand dairy company Fonterra has advised eight companies that bought a whey protein concentrate produced ss='cambodia-color'>...

Internet search giant Google on Friday launched a new service that for the first time allows users to instantly translate Khmer script into other languages. Khmer is the most recent addition to the 66-strong collection of languages between which words, sentences or whole websites can be ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some of the U.S.&rSquo; moSt Senior lawmakerS are urging Barack Obama to Speak out on what they called Cambodia&rSquo;S deteriorating human rightS Situation when the U.S. preSident makeS what will be the firSt viSit to the country by a Sitting American leader later thiS month. SS='cambodia-color'>...

News that Laos will move ahead with the proposed 912-megawatt Pak Beng dam, which would be the third mainstream dam in Laos’ Lower Mekong River, has sparked criticism from environmental groups who say downstream countries should decide the fate of potentially harmful development projects. ss='cambodia-color'>...

It wasn’t until she was en route to the Ho Chi Minh airport that sok srey Touch knew she was in trouble. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Japan energy company yesterday said it planned to build a rice mill fuelled by rice husks in Cambodia’s Takeo province. New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with the Kingdom’s Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy (MIME) confirming cooperation ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. Senator LindSey Graham laSt week Submitted a reSolution to the U.S. Committee on Foreign RelationS requeSting the SuSpenSion of U.S. military aSSiStance to Cambodia until an independent inveStigation into July&rSquo;S national election iS conducted. The reSolution waS Submitted on WedneSday to expreSS “the SenSe of SS='cambodia-color'>...

Election monitoring groups are questioning the National Election Committee (NEC) recent decision to let a Phnom Penh casino fund its new multi-million dollar headquarters, a move they said would cast further doubt on the body’s independence. NagaCorp, the owner of Phnom Penh’s only licensed casino, NagaWorld, ss='cambodia-color'>...

It’s a mistake to consider Cambodia a nation under authoritarian rule by a single party; it comes down to a single man – Prime Minister Hun sen, a new paper argues. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) has released an observational report on the rights of woman defendant’s at the Appeal Court, claiming that many weren’t granted due process. Having monitors attend 453 trials from December 2016 to June this year, CCHR found that there ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has announced the resumption of the MIA programme to recover the remains of American service personnel missing after action on Cambodian soil during the Vietnam War. The programme was suspended for more than a year after the Us government imposed visa ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen, in a speech on Monday, ordered officials to “facilitate” the campaign process for all political parties, including the opposition, a seeming about-face, as they had recently reported being hindered and harassed. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In addition to the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) rally on saturday, which its spokesman says would see some 100,000 supporters attending, two other parties announced plans for events that day to kick off their parties’ campaign period. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) said on Wednesday that 50,000 party-affiliated election observers had signed up to monitor the July 29 national polls, even as many opposition parties announced they would not send any due to lack of resources NEC member and spokesman Hang Puthea ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Australia became the latest Western embassy to announce it would not be sending a representative to Wednesday’s opening of parliament, Council of Ministers spokesman Phay siphan dismissed the Us and EU Ambassadors being “unable to attend” as no loss because “they give no value ss='cambodia-color'>...

The spokesman for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) has said the government is in no way concerned after the European Parliament gave it three months to reverse what it called the “systematic repression of the political opposition”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s democracy has been in increasing trouble in recent months, with Prime Minister Hun sen dissolving the main opposition party and cracking down on independent media. Now there’s a sign that the U.s. government is paying attention. ss='cambodia-color'>...