With a number of homeless, beggars and street sellers who were rounded up in caged vans last week still unaccounted for, several of those targeted by the street sweep claimed yesterday that they had been held in Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey speu social affairs centre. Homeless ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 50 families gathered under a timber roof here sunday among muddy fields granted to them as compensation after China’s Union Development Group (UDG) began to turn their coastal homeland into a $3.8-billion tourist mecca. The families, who now live in timber houses dotting the barren ss='cambodia-color'>...

The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) has suspended its participation in election reform talks with the ruling party at the senior officials level, calling instead for a meeting between opposition chief sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun sen to break an eight-month stalemate. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Democracy is in retreat since July’s national election as the ruling CPP has increasingly used armed forces to protect its grip on power and stubbornly refused to reform state institutions, the Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) said in a new report ss='cambodia-color'>...

CAMBODIA National Rescue Party deputy leader Kem sokha pledged his party’s foreign policy allegiance to the United states over China in no uncertain terms to top officials in Washington, last week, according to a summary of his meetings posted online. A document released by the Us-based ss='cambodia-color'>...

Familes living near Phnom Penh’s airport yesterday again called on civil aviation officials to drop an expansion plan that would cut into their property. Following a press conference in Por sen Chey district’s Choam Chao commune, community leader Kao sovann said members of 63 families will ss='cambodia-color'>...

Realco Cambodia Ltd., a U.S.-owned company, planS to inveSt $7 million to build a market at the Phnom Din checkpoint on the border with Vietnam in Takeo province&rSquo;S Kirivong diStrict, a Senior official at the Takeo, Kampot and Kep Provincial Chamber of Commerce Said Friday. Realco SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday concluded the trial of two former employees of Canadia Bank and two alleged accomplices charged in October with embezzling more than $2 million from fraudulent credit card accounts. Presiding Judge Kor Vandy heard closing arguments in the case—believed to ss='cambodia-color'>...

While Cambodian officials say the Thais have not responded to a request for an inquiry into the shooting death of a man they say illegally crossed the border, Thailand is denying the incident even occurred. Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs last month called for an investigation ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 Cambodians were deported from Thailand yesterday after Thai security forces conducted operations over the weekend aimed at stemming the flow of illegal immigrants. Net sary, Cambodia’s consul-general in Thailand’s sa Kaeo province, said yesterday that 120 Cambodians, including four minors, were deported after ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of Thai visitors crossing the border to place bets at Cambodian casinos has fallen since that country’s military staged a coup late last month. Kim Ledaro, managing director of Crown Resorts Co, which operates three Crown-branded casino resorts in Bantey Meanchey province’s Poipet town, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The nation has received approval from the Cambodian government to open a trade center in Phnom Penh, the semi-official Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) said. The center, which is expected to be officially opened next month at the earliest, will raise the number of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Trade unions at either end of the political divide Wednesday said they were eager to renew their agreement with garment factories to abide by the rulings of the country’s Arbitration Council, with some changes, despite a new report showing that both unions and employers often ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday applauded the recent creation of the BRICs New Development Bank (NDB), saying it could ease Cambodia’s dependence on institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). BRICs member nations Brazil, Russia, India, China and south Africa announced ss='cambodia-color'>...

Russia is set to approve duty- and quota-free imports for up to 3,000 Cambodian agricultural products, according to local government officials. A statement issued by Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce on Friday states that Russia’s Minister for Economic Development, Alexey Ulyukaev, agreed in principal to increase the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment and footwear industry, Cambodia’s largest income earner, reported a 12.6 percent rise in exports in the first seven months of 2014, according to the data of the Ministry of Commerce on Thursday. The country exported apparel and footwear products worth 3.47 billion U.s. dollars during ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thai soldiers shot and seriously injured at least four illegal loggers who crossed into Thailand from Oddar Meanchey province’s Trapaing Prasat district last week, a rights worker said sunday. A group of about 10 loggers were searching for luxury rosewood across the border in Thailand’s sisaket ss='cambodia-color'>...

A yearlong investigation by immigration police culminated in the arrest on saturday of 17 Bangladeshi men hiding in Phnom Penh and Poipet City to avoid charges of human trafficking in their home country, police said sunday. Three of the fugitives, arrested   at a guesthouse in Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

The governor of Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district said he has asked the Overseas Cambodia Investment Company (OCIC) to compensate the owners of two restaurants that were flooded Wednesday after the firm’s excavator ruptured a nearby levee that had been holding back a pool of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng has agreed to answer questions about last year’s fatal crackdown on striking garment workers but has called on opposition and NGO leaders who “incited” the violence to do the same. Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu sopheak said yesterday that Kheng was willing to ss='cambodia-color'>...