The listed Phnom Penh Water supply Authority (PPWsA) earned total revenues of 36.9 million U.s. dollars in 2012, up 25 percent year-on-year, according to the firm’s unaudited financial statement on Wednesday. The report said that the firm’s net income after tax was 8.56 million U.s. dollars ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia will spend about 21 million U.s. dollars to cover for the [sic] proceedings of the general elections on July 28, a senior official at the National Election Committee (NEC) said Friday. “The budget for the forthcoming elections is about 21 million U.s. dollars, up from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers locked in a land dispute with ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat’s Phnom Penh sugar Company have submitted a petition to the provincial court asking for a cessation of the court’s issuing of summonses and arrest warrants. The court has so far issued 37 summonses, ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 50 residents evicted from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood in 2008 and 2009 to make way for a senator’s real estate project once again protested in front of City Hall Monday to demand better compensation. They are among some 3,000 families who were forced ss='cambodia-color'>...

Lending by Cambodia’s commercial banks rose by 6 percent while deposits grew by 10 percent in the first quarter of this year, a National Bank of Cambodia (NBC)’s report said Tuesday. The report said the country’s 34 commercial banks had lent a total of 7.87 billion ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) will inveSt $1.3 million in a water treatment plant in Kep province to Supply clean water to more than 1,000 houSeholdS there, the company&rSquo;S head Said laSt week. Speaking at the announcement of PPWSA&rSquo;S 2013 reSultS in Phnom Penh SS='cambodia-color'>...

A military police official confirmed Thursday that his unit’s new headquarters were being built in the heart of Phnom Penh’s restive Boeng Kak neighborhood, meters away from the homes of some of the country’s most high-profile anti-eviction activists. About a half-dozen armed military police officers were ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N.’s human rights representative in Cambodia visited ethnic Bunong villagers in Mondolkiri province this week, days after local authorities prevented hundreds of them from marching to mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous People. Wan-Hea Lee met with villagers in Pech Chreada district’s Bosra commune ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials in Preah sihanouk province last week moved to bar prominent Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko from selling sihanoukville’s Victory Beach after the Appeal Court ruled that he had violated a contract to transfer the property to fugitive Russian oligarch sergei Polonsky, court officials said Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s defence minister lauded a decade of corporate sponsorship of the country’s military, which he said had enabled underfunded units to acquire weapons with the backing of affluent supporters.Prime Minister Hun sen’s policy on the relationship between Cambodia’s powerful tycoons – known as oknhas – ss='cambodia-color'>...

CNRP lawmakers on sunday took an oath in front of Angkor Wat swearing they would boycott today’s opening session of the National Assembly and promising “not to betray the conscience of the people.” With the opposition in siem Reap, the ruling CPP—which officially won a majority ss='cambodia-color'>...

growing behind his party’s call for an independent probe into claims of fraud and other irregularities in the country’s recent elections. speaking in Washington following his visit to Europe, sam Rainsy said that governments and parliamentarians in the European Union, the United states and several other ss='cambodia-color'>...

An “unofficial” land concession granted earlier this year to an agro-industry firm that has logged luxury hardwood in Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat Wildlife sanctuary is in violation of Prime Minister Hun sen’s 2012 moratorium on new economic land concessions (ELCs), a government spokesman said Tuesday. Phay siphan, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S. Department of JuStice (DOJ) and the country&rSquo;S financial regulator have informed AuStralia-baSed mining giant BHP Billiton it could Still be charged over allegationS the company bribed overSeaS officialS, which include claimS of improper paymentS to memberS of the Cambodian government. Prime MiniSter Hun Sen SS='cambodia-color'>...

As much as local people are benefiting from the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) recovery project following last year’s record floods, they aren’t receiving all the benefits they could, according to some accounts. Operating in five provinces of Cambodia to restore road access to those affected by the floods, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A day after being awarded the fledgling Gusi Peace Prize in Manila, Prime Minister Hun sen’s youngest son, Hun Many, returned home to a hero’s welcome on Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Recruitment of 741 short-term contract staff to help prepare for next year’s commune elections will begin on Wednesday, according to the National Election Committee’s spokesman. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly’s seventh Commission, which oversees tourism and culture, summoned four government ministers to answer questions yesterday regarding the development and future of Kampot province’s Bokor Mountain. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The head of a research team investigating the demarcation of Cambodia’s borders yesterday called for changes to the Kingdom’s constitution to avoid losing land to Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five days of rain wreaked havoc in Cambodia’s northwest, with hundreds of hectares of crops affected in Pailin province and heavy flooding in Banteay Meanchey’s Poipet town. ss='cambodia-color'>...