With Myanmar’s telecom industry showing signs of gradually opening, operators in Cambodia’s overcrowded telecom market see opportunities for potential investment. But in stride with the market’s latent potential come challenges, industry experts say, and lessons learned locally need to be applied overseas. “Myanmar remains one of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of nearly 200 ethnic Kreung families living in Ra­tanakkiri province’s O’Chum district on Tuesday filed a complaint with local rights group Adhoc, accusing a Vietnamese rubber company of clearing their ancestral land, local officials and a rights worker said. Chhay Thy, provincial investigator for Adhoc, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Residents of a village in the middle of Cambodia’s Tonle sap “Great Lake” live surrounded by water, but don’t have enough access to clean water for drinking, cooking, and washing. The Tonle sap, a combined lake and river system that swells in the rainy season to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights yesterday expressed concern at a recent spate of land disputes coming on the heels of last month’s vote, and questioned whether campaign promises of resolving the Kingdom’s ongoing land issues had been forgotten now that the election has passed. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Asian Development Bank (ADB) seeks cooperation with Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) to fight against corruption in projects that ADB funds. In a meeting saturday between Nuon sothimon, ACU’s department chief of juridical affairs and Lorraine Wang-Reyes, ADB’s principal integrity specialist, they discussed cooperation in combating ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seven VietnameSe nationalS arreSted during SimultaneouS raidS on a pair of maSSage parlorS in central Phnom Penh on ThurSday night have been Sent to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for their role in the alleged trafficking of minorS, police and a child-protection NGO Said Sunday. “We SS='cambodia-color'>...

Rice exports to Thailand plummeted in the first four months of the year as a result of that country’s surplus, which reached record levels at the end of 2013. Between January and April, Cambodia exported just 1,550 tonnes of rice to Thailand, down 89 per cent ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia duty-free rice exports to the European Union have this week come under fresh attack from producers in Italy, who say the beneficial treatment is restricting the potential of Italian rice exports. An Italian agriculture collective of farmers, which includes representatives from the Italian Association of ss='cambodia-color'>...

In what is shaping up to be the first of several pivotal garment wage talks, unions are to meet for the first time today to discuss the amount they should request for next year’s minimum wage – but labour leaders and observers say coming to ss='cambodia-color'>...

It’s no secret. Weddings in Cambodia are big, colourful and extravagant affairs. Guests drink and eat to their heart’s content, music draws revellers onto the dance floor and the party lasts for hours. But guests aren’t the only people having fun. Rising affluence paired with a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government is drafting a series of changes to the Kingdom’s gaming laws in a bid to draw major players from Macau and the Us to the market and potentially create a new tax base from the growing, if currently illegal, online betting industry, ss='cambodia-color'>...

With momentum gathering behind a movement to renovate rather than raze Phnom Penh’s famous White Building, City Hall on Thursday backtracked on its assertion earlier this week that the building was destined for demolition. On Tuesday, Phnom Penh Governor Pa socheatvong said the iconic apartment block ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of Cambodian women caught in abusive marriages in China is increasing dramatically, according to rights groups, which last year helped repatriate nearly 50 brides who had been either trafficked abroad or lured by the promise of a better life. Local rights groups Adhoc and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japan’s Aeon Mall Co is to spend more than $200 million building its third shopping mall in Phnom Penh as the firm eyes the Kingdom’s burgeoning middle-class. Construction on Aeon Mall 3 in the capital’s Meanchey district is to begin early next year as a result ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following a bruising first quarter, the Cambodia securities Exchange (CsX) index has picked up over the last few days after Acleda Bank Plc’s (ABC’s) initial public offering (IPO).​ At Thursday’s close, the index ended 7.25 per cent higher at 793.59 points. Trading volume reached 280,791 ss='cambodia-color'>...

A union representative is accused of beating a rival over the head with a walkie-talkie during a factory protest yesterday in the latest burst of violence in one of Cambodia’s special economic zones. Bou sokray, 25, a representative for the Coalition of Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has created a committee tasked with monitoring Koh Kong sEZ Co Ltd’s development of Koh Kong Krao island in Koh Kong province’s Koh Kapi commune. The Council of Ministers first announced the development project on June 14, 2019, according to Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 15 March 2021, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) issued a press release providing $10M to increase Cambodia’s mine clearance and victim assistance efforts in 2021 and beyond, focusing on undertaking landmine and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW) clearance, increases victim assistance, mine risk ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and Malaysia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in order to cooperate and share Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in order to develop the health, government and logistics sectors. Cambodia’s National ICT Development Authority met with the Malaysian Ministry for science, Technology and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank is losing influence in Cambodia to “emerging donors” and making no major headway in stemming corruption, the Bank’s Independent Evaluation Groups said in a report released Wednesday. specifically focused on the World Bank;s 2007 anti-corruption initiative through 2010, the report uses six ss='cambodia-color'>...