The number of Cambodians traveling overseas as tourists increased to nearly 700,000 in the first half of the year, up 26 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Tourism. Experts in the industry welcomed this trend and pointed out ss='cambodia-color'>...

A commission of experts will check nearly 50 new Cambodian national ID cards today amid suspicions the card holders do not hold Cambodian nationality after irregularities were found during voter registration in Kandal province earlier this month. Provincial police chief Eav Chamroeun said yesterday afternoon that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kep province’s Knai Bang Chatt hotel is the first in Cambodia to receive the gold certification in the international Green Growth 2050 initiative after it was accredited by industry experts. In August, an Australian team of experts conducted an independent audit and found that the hotel ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police arrested three people and confiscated about 1 kg of methamphetamine pills in a raid in Kompong Chhnang province on saturday afternoon, the latest case in a year that has seen nearly three times as many meth busts as in the same period last year, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Senior oppoSition member Son Chhay Said yeSterday that he and hiS fellow party memberS would enter the National ASSembly to reSolve Some ongoing problemS and planned to Summon four miniSterS for clarificationS aS well aS to appeal for the health miniSter&rSquo;S reSignation.&nbSp;After viSiting oppoSition officialS SS='cambodia-color'>...

After more than 10 months in pretrial detention, a trio of activists from environmental group Mother Nature yesterday faced court for allegedly threatening to destroy dredging equipment during a protest against sand mining in Koh Kong province last year. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian forests, some of the most biologically diverse areas in the world, are vanishing fast as a result of the Vietnamese, Chinese and Cambodian political interests. Cambodia has one of the largest deforestation rates in the world. Forest Trends, an influential organization with a mission to conserve ss='cambodia-color'>...

A spokesman for Cambodia’s aviation authority said yesterday that the Kingdom’s airports are “prepared and ready” for an audit by the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization that is set to commence on Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Acleda Bank, a leading locally-owned commercial bank, has received a $30 million loan from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the Us government’s development finance institution, through Goldman sachs’ 10,000 Women and the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Banking on Women program for supporting women-owned small ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers from stung Treng whose homes stand to be flooded by the Lower sesan II dam met with representatives of the Ministry of Mines and Energy at an NGO Forum-sponsored meeting in Phnom Penh yesterday, in hopes of establishing a dialogue towards a long-awaited compromise. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twelve years after being ousted as president of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) amid a bitter dispute with the prime minister’s attorney, human rights lawyer suon Visal has been voted back into the lawyer association’s top position. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Siem Reap Provincial Court charged the director of a recruitment agency with fraud for allegedly taking money from victimS in exchange for promiSing jobS in the U.S., a court official Said yeSterday. “Bich Bunara, head of the recruitment agency, waS charged with fraud and another SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has said the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) will never tax farmland. “It would burden our farmers,” he said in Takeo sunday. “Although national revenue that comes from land taxes is spent on building roads, water systems, hospitals and  schools, we still ss='cambodia-color'>...

Airports of Thailand (AOT) regards possible co-operation with Myanmar’s Airport Authority as a first step for engaging in airport operations and investment in Laos and Cambodia, the Bangkok Post reported AOT’s acting president, somchai sawas-deepon, as saying. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three ethnic minority communities in Mondolkiri province’s Pech Chreada district are drafting a petition to send to provincial authorities in an attempt to resolve a land dispute in which part of their communal land has been granted to other communities and private landowners. In June, officials ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday appointed incumbent Prime MiniSter Hun Sen aS the prime miniSter for the new five-year-term government after hiS ruling party won the July 28 election, according to a royal decree. “The Prime MiniSter of Cambodia haS dutieS to prepare the memberS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Ministry of Finance said that Asian Development Bank (ADB) would provide UsD773 million in loan for implementation of economic development projects from 2014-2016 in Cambodia. Of the loan, UsD573 million would be provided by ADB, while another UsD200 million would be lended by another partner through ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 30 residents of a planned community on the eastern outskirts of Phnom Penh gathered around the picturesque lake that forms the center of their neighborhood Monday to prevent its developer, a former opposition lawmaker, from reclaiming the land to construct condos. The residents, many of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Starting later thiS month, 10,000 Small and medium-Sized buSineSSeS will be queried aS part of a JapaneSe government-backed economic cenSuS intended to take a SnapShot of activity acroSS the private Sector. Beginning on February 23 and running through to March 31, Cambodia&rSquo;S National InStitute of StatiSticS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is forecast to receive 4.7 million foreign visitors in 2014, an estimated rise of 12 percent from 4.2 million in 2013, Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said Wednesday. Last year, the country’s tourism generated 2.5 billion U.s. dollars, contributing about 16 percent to the GDP, ss='cambodia-color'>...