A day after its opening session and still devoid of the 55 lawmakers-elect of the opposition CNRP, the country’s new, one-party National Assembly voted Prime Minister Hun sen in for yet another five-year term Tuesday and approved an extensive re­shuffle of his Cabinet. In a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has returned home from his trip to China a wealthier leader having secured upwards of Us$2.5 billion in Chinese investment and loans over the next year alone, officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday. The package includes a $2 billion ss='cambodia-color'>...

The former manager of Canadia Bank’s credit section has admitted to stealing $2.3 million from the bank’s accounts, the suspect’s lawyer said Tuesday, in what is one of the largest embezzlement schemes ever undertaken in Cambodia’s nascent banking industry. The testimony from Yeth so­pheaktra, 30, to ss='cambodia-color'>...

As political deadlock continues, Minister of Defence Tea Banh yesterday used the unveiling of 12 Chinese-made military helicopters to announce that the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces stand “ready to protect” the government and constitution, following what he called “free and fair” elections in July. speaking in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The four people charged with embezzling more than $2 million from Canadia Bank PLC were able to do so by creating fictitious bank accounts and using fraudulent credit cards to withdraw money from those accounts, the bank’s CEO said Monday, the first time Canadia has ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japan’s TriAsia Group is in talks to acquire a majority stake in local television station TV3 and plans to broadcast Japanese-language shows, the television channel’s owner confirmed Wednesday. According to TV3’s owner, Khampun Keomony, revenues at the channel have been dropping, which prompted him to look ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S. State Department on TueSday called for the ruling CPP and oppoSition CNRP to “work together” and repeated itS call for a tranSparent review of irregularitieS in July&rSquo;S national election. “The United StateS urgeS leaderS of the ruling Cambodian People&rSquo;S Party (CPP) and the CNRP SS='cambodia-color'>...

Mam Sonando, owner of the popular Beehive Radio Station, and hiS SupporterS will defy a government ban on public gatheringS and Start daily proteStS againSt the MiniStry of Information&rSquo;S rejection of Mr. Sonando&rSquo;S requeSt for a relay Station and a TV Station, Mr. Sonando&rSquo;S aSSiStant SS='cambodia-color'>...

A 44-year-old woman was run over and killed by a harvesting machine on sunday while working on a sugarcane plantation in Kompong speu province owned by CPP senator Ly Yong Phat, marking at least the second death on the plantation since December. Y Mom, originally from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen and opposition leader sam Rainsy on Thursday failed to reach a deal on the date of the next national election but reaffirmed that the point remains the last hurdle to a deal that would end the country’s political deadlock. Mr. Rainsy said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Most mornings, garment worker Vicheka buys food from the street vendors outside her factory in Kampong Chhnang province. The beef and pork dishes, she says, have a tendency to give workers a stomach ache – a reputation forged long before Vicheka and her co-workers at ss='cambodia-color'>...

The former country partner and staff of Grant Thornton Law and Associates in Cambodia have joined the accountancy and advisory firm BDO Malaysia effective July 1, according to a statement. As a result, BDO Cambodia’s team will now comprise over 30 staff and partners, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Angkor Beer promoters held a protest outside of Cambrew Ltd in Phnom Penh in order to receive more overtime pay on the weekends, following an Arbitration Council order that the company pay each employee $2 more and Angkor Beer’s failure to do so. The 30 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government is drafting a new law that will aim at improving auditing standards and management practices at all of Cambodia’s ports on the coast and rivers and at dry ports inland, officials said yesterday. speaking at a workshop on port regulation in Phnom Penh, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s foreign donors are staying largely mum about the government’s decision to indefinitely  high-level aid meeting, though one donor conceded that the move had caught it off guard. Economists also said yesterday that a delay in holding the donor meeting would have little effect, but ss='cambodia-color'>...

An ethanol plant planned for Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchey province would push local production of the crop, as well as decreased reliance on foreign markets, officials and cassava farmers said yesterday. Construction on the joint venture between a Chinese firm and Cambodia’s National Company for Development will ss='cambodia-color'>...

ScientiStS warn that planS to build damS acroSS Tonlé Sap, South-eaSt ASia&rSquo;S greateSt lake, could be an ecological timebomb threatening the food Security of millionS.&nbSp;In a few monthS&rSquo; time, monSoon rainS will more than quadruple the Size of Cambodia&rSquo;S Tonlé Sap, South-eaSt ASia&rSquo;S greateSt lake SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s ambassador to the United Nations pulled no punches in his response to a joint statement from almost 40 countries condemning the government’s recent actions and threats against peaceful protests, implying in his own letter that the opposition party was participating in “unlawful and anarchic ss='cambodia-color'>...

Pharmaceutical giant Thai Nakorn Patana plans to invest $30 million over the next two years in a three- to four-star hotel in Phnom Penh, as it hopes to cash in on the lack of big names in the capital’s mid-tier hotels market. For the new 200-room ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 50 workers at the M&V manufacturing factory in Kampong Chhnang province fainted yesterday morning due to overwork and exhaustion in the factory’s third fainting incident this year, officials said yesterday. Noun sam Ol, Free Trade Union representative at M&V, said that the collapse of a ss='cambodia-color'>...