Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA), Cambodia&rSquo;S only liSted company, made a net profit of 9.68 million US dollarS in 2013, up 12.5 percent compared with 8.6 million US dollarS in a year earlier, the firm &lSquo;S audited financial Statement Showed Saturday. The Statement Said the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Conservationists Fauna and Flora International was to send a team to Pursat province today to investigate a man’s claim that he was attacked by a tiger. Ngem Nget, a 51-year-old farmer in Phnom Kravanh district’s santre commune, reported that while foraging in the Cardamom Mountains on ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than a year after it was established, the National Commercial Arbitration Centre (NCAC), Cambodia’s first third-party dispute resolution body, is finally ready to take on its first case. During its first annual assembly in Phnom Penh on Friday, the NCAC confirmed that it had finalised ss='cambodia-color'>...

The literacy NGO Sipar iS Set to expand itS fleet of mobile librarieS and place a new focuS on teaching the country&rSquo;S youth about road Safety aS part of itS partnerShip with global gaS giant Total. A “Safety” library&mdaSh;the 10th in Sipar&rSquo;S fleet&mdaSh;will join nine other SS='cambodia-color'>...

The number of inmates who died in the country’s prisons in the first quarter of the year dipped to nine from 15 during the same period last year, a rights group and the prison department said. From January to April, nine prisoners—five men and four women—reportedly ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Tuesday said his party will stand firm on its position that a simple majority vote in parliament be used to select members of the National Election Committee. His Cambodian People’s Party is in negotiations for electoral reform with the opposition, which ss='cambodia-color'>...

The governor of Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district Wednesday ordered the private firm heading a $3-billion real estate project on the peninsula to temporarily stop pumping sand onto land being contested by about 40 local families, but urged the families to reconsider the compensation on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Foreigners seeking to learn the Khmer language have long been restricted by a dearth of resources beyond beginner’s textbooks, often relying on conversation and the methods of individual teachers to advance their vocabulary and comprehension. Aiming to put a small dent in the situation, U.s. citizen ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday called on all undocumented Cambodians in Thailand to register for a legal work permit at one of that country’s newly opened one-stop service centres. Thailand’s junta began piloting the latest temporary registration centres at the end of June and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian people consider Vietnam a big friend that supported and provided valuable assistance for Cambodia during the course of history, the King said while receiving outgoing Vietnamese ambassador Ngo Anh Dung in capital Phnom Penh on July 18. He appreciated Dung’s contributions to cementing bilateral relations ss='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank’s ombudsman office says it will assess a complaint from indigenous groups in Ratanakkiri province that a bank-supported company has damaged the forest and surrounding communities. seventeen different groups joined in the complaint, claiming the Hoang Anh Gia Lai rubber company, which receives ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government yesterday accused Licadho of producing wildly misleading figures on land grabs, following the rights group’s announcement earlier this week that land conflicts in Cambodia have affected more than half a million people since 2000. speaking at a press conference yesterday, sar sovan, secretary of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s trade deficit expanded to almost half a billion dollars during the first three months of the year, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Commerce. Between January and March, Cambodia’s exports reached $1.99 billion, up 19 per cent compared to the same period ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 30 former employees of now-defunct mobile operator Mfone protested Tuesday outside the office of the company’s liquidator, demanding pay promised to them and more than 1,000 other employees after the operator collapsed last year. Mr. Darin said he was paid 70 percent of his ss='cambodia-color'>...

The proposed 2015 education budget is inching upwards from last year’s funding, however it still falls short of internationally recommended minimums. Education is slated to take up a $396 million chunk of the $3.75 billion draft budget, which has yet to be approved by the National ss='cambodia-color'>...

A senior official of the Cambodian government on saturday welcomed Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s pledge of 3.09 billion U.s. dollars aid to the Greater Mekong subregion (GMs) member countries, saying the offer is essential for socio-economic development and poverty reduction. The offer includes 1 billion ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Ratanakkiri deported two more Vietnamese nationals living illegally in the northern province last week, bringing the number of expulsions to 14 as the Ministry of Interior’s census of foreigners continues, police said. This year’s census—which is now complete in Ratanakkiri, according to officials ss='cambodia-color'>...

CPP National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun said saturday that there will be no investigation into why the parliament’s bureaucratic ranks are stacked with family members of one of its chief administrators, explaining that no law prohibits nepotism in the public sector. CNRP chief whip son Chhay ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mong Reththy, one of Cambodia’s most prominent tycoons, complained Tuesday that recent recipients of expansive land concessions from the government have less of a social conscience than entrepreneurs granted land in the 1990s. speaking on the sidelines of a conference hosted by UsAID and the NGO ss='cambodia-color'>...

Election monitors and other organizations in Cambodia are urging the country’s political parties to accept a number of principals in the reform of the National Election Committee. The Cambodian People’s Party and Cambodia National Rescue Party came to a compromise in July and have been working ss='cambodia-color'>...