Cambodia’s tourism industry is making a strong comeback with the sector contributing significantly to the country’s economic growth.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a fiery speech attended by thousands, opposition leader sam Rainsy yesterday vowed that his party would boycott the National Assembly if a thorough investigation of election results is not undertaken and vowed mass demonstrations if preliminary numbers aren’t revised to reflect a Cambodia National ss='cambodia-color'>...

If Phoeung Sophoan haS hiS way, Phnom Penh&rSquo;S dayS aS Cambodia&rSquo;S capital city are numbered. A Secretary of State at the MiniStry of Land Management, Urban Planning and ConStruction, Mr. Sophoan haS big planS for a new 35,000-hectare capital city north of Phnom Penh called “Samdech SS='cambodia-color'>...

The high-ranking government officials and global clothing brand representatives who took part in a meeting in Phnom Penh on Wednesday both raised concern​s​ about the media coverage of last month’s lethal repression of a nationwide strike by garment workers and its aftermath. The meeting was called ss='cambodia-color'>...

CAMBODIA’s trade with south Korea grew 38 percent in the first half of 2011 on the same period last year, according to Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KORTA) statistics. The growth is partly due to increasing numbers of south Korean importers seeking business in Cambodia, KOTRA’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

THE government expressed disappointment yesterday with the World Bank’s announcement that it had halted new country loans due to the ongoing land dispute at Boeung Kak lake in Phnom Penh and vowed to raise the issue with the bank’s executive board. “We are very dissatisfied ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives from German, Finnish and Canadian development agencies were awarded honorary medals by Minister of Land Management Im Chhun Lim on Wednesday for their work in the country’s land sector. The awards ceremony comes just weeks after it emerged that the World Bank had frozen ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s tertiary system is not producing enough of the right type of graduates to meet the economy’s demands, says a report launched by the World Bank last week. The 222-page report, titled “Putting Higher Education to Work”, states that “quantity gaps are particularly strong in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Residents of an ethnic minority village in Mondolkiri’s seima Protected Forest on Monday became the first community in the province to receive a communal land title, land management officials said yesterday. About 500 indigenous Bunong families from Andoung Kraloeng village in O’Reang district’s sen Monorom commune ss='cambodia-color'>...

Telecom Cambodia, one of three state-owned enterprises with plans to list on Cambodia’s stock exchange, saw revenues decline by 3 percent to $31 million last year, an official at the company said yesterday. Lao saroeun, director general of Telecom Cambodia, said that revenues at the company ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chip Mong Land, one of the Kingdom’s leading construction developers, has launched the “Park Land 50M” residential project. The project broke ground on Thursday in Dangkor district’s Prey sar commune along the capital’s second ring road, which – hence the name – is 50m wide. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 6,400 residents of Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia have signed and thumb-printed a statement on the Don sahong Dam project, airing concerns ranging from the river’s diminishing fish stocks to the lack of transparency of the Mekong River Commission. The statement, presented last week ss='cambodia-color'>...

Conservationists remain wary of the government’s recent pledge to sideline construction of the controversial Chhay Areng hydropower dam after finding the project on the Mines and Energy Ministry’s new to-do list.After a February 17 Council of Ministers meeting, the government announced that plans to build ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 60 people yesterday rallied at the National Assembly, the UN Human Rights Office, the Danish Embassy and the German Embassy as part of a petition campaign to seek the release of two jailed women from the Boeung Kak and Borei Keila communities. Villagers and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the deciSionS of the lower courtS in the caSe of Seng Chenda, wife of well-known tycoon Khaou Chuly, upholding a 20-year priSon Sentence for attempted murder, a court official Said. According to judge Khim Pon, preSiding, the court agreed with SS='cambodia-color'>...

Violence erupted yesterday morning during a long-running protest at a Phnom Penh factory that produces clothing for international brands H&M, Gap and Levi strauss when about 1,000 workers broke the factory’s gate and started hurling rocks to break its windows, protesters and military police officers ss='cambodia-color'>...

Land governance policies in Asia, especially concessions made to private companies, are leaving the region’s poorest vulnerable to human rights abuses, experts say. “Land-grabbing by the rich and powerful continues,” suson Bunsak, executive secretary of the Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee, said at the recent Asia ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court has summonsed for questioning Kim seanglay, a military policeman who was the subject of one of slain journalist Hang serei Oudom’s articles on the illegal timber trade, Chhay Thi, an investigator for the rights group Adhoc, said yesterday. According to their ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian and Thai officials are having trouble resolving tensions over border checkpoints in Oddar Meanchey, Cambodian authorities said yesterday. Following a verbal request from Thai border police that their Cambodian counterparts rejected last week, Thai officers submitted a letter last Friday asking Cambodian authorities to move ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Malaysian-base[d] energy service group has plans to spend roughly $10 million to build a biomass power plant in Cambodia. Wah seong Corporation Berhad’s plant would have a production capacity of up to 10 megawatts, said the group’s chief executive, Chan Cheu Leong, in an article ss='cambodia-color'>...