The mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts—which has the second-largest population of Cambodian-Americans in the U.s.—on Friday visited 10 anti-eviction activists inside Phnom Penh’s Prey sar prison, emerging to announce that he would lobby the government for their release. Wrapping up a five-day visit to Phnom Penh, Rodney ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police arrested two Russian men at a rented villa in sihanoukville on saturday after a Moldovan man was injured in a fight that began when one side allegedly demanded a portion of the profits from the upcoming Kazantip music festival, officials said on sunday.  ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new group of six Montagnards from Vietnam have arrived in northeastern Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province to seek political refuge, as a United Nations team tries to locate and assist other refugees in hiding, a villager who provided shelter to the Montagnards said. The villager, who declined ss='cambodia-color'>...

Russian businessman Nikolai Doroshenko was imprisoned Wednesday evening after being arrested at his family’s snake House restaurant in sihanoukville for failing to appear in court to be questioned over fraud charges related to a dispute with his rival, fugitive developer sergei Polonsky. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Standing inSide her Shop behind a heavy glaSS door Secured with an electronic lock, it would be eaSy to miStake Nguon Chorda for a jewelry boutique owner, not the manager of a Store that SellS dried bird Saliva. Mr. Sothy Said once the CBNF getS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Media experts are asking the government to consider granting citizen journalists the same safeguards as professional journalists under Cambodia’s Press Law. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Funcinpec party president Prince Norodom Ranariddh has called on the opposition and ruling parties to form a tripartite coalition with the royalists after Cambodia National Rescue Party president sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun sen embarked on a “honeymoon” after years spent at each others’ ss='cambodia-color'>...

An official at the National Committee for Disaster Management said Monday that abnormal weather conditions this year could lead to food shortages and that El Nino could be to blame. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Advocates for the disabled yesterday criticised the slow implementation of Cambodia’s six-year-old disability law and urged the government to hasten the process by starting the distribution of the monthly $5 pension that people with disabilities were promised in 2011 through a separate sub-decree. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sihanoukville AutonomouS Port, one of two State-owned companieS Slated to liSt on the Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange thiS year, yeSterday called the price decline in the country&rSquo;S firSt publicly traded company worriSome. The eight-day Slide in price that neared Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority&rSquo;S initial public offering SS='cambodia-color'>...

The finance ministry has authorised the extension of the Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia Plc’s (CGCC) $200 million Business Recovery Guarantee scheme (BRGs) beyond December 31, 2022, until all funds have been utilised, according to the CGCC. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia Plc (CGCC) reportedly issued a total of 1,155 Letters of Guarantee (LG) for loans worth $104.9 million equivalent as of February 28 – up 13 per cent year-to-date – as part of its mission to improve financial inclusion among small- ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and China’s shanghai Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT shanghai) Tuesday enhanced cooperation in trade and investment between the two countries. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Philip Hampden-Smith, general manager of SoutheaSt ASia operationS at Manulife, talkS about the company&rSquo;S entry into the Cambodian market and what the new few yearS might bring. Cambodia&rSquo;S naScent life inSurance induStry may be juSt only a year old but the nation of nearly 15 million SS='cambodia-color'>...

The bilateral C volume between Cambodia and the United StateS reached 2.2 billion U.S. dollarS in the firSt nine monthS of thiS year, a 2 percent riSe compared with 2.15 billion U.S. dollarS at the Same period laSt year, according to the StatiSticS of the SS='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton iS in Cambodia where She met with Prime MiniSter Hun Sen to diScuSS U.S. inveStment and Cambodia&rSquo;S outStanding debt. Cambodia wantS the United StateS to forgive more than $400 million in debt accrued by the US-backed military government of Lon SS='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N.’s human rights office in Cambodia expressed concern Monday that 22 detained protesters may not be allowed to attend their trials on Friday, while the government insisted that the prisoners will be transported to the court. Two minors were arrested for intentional violence for their ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union’s ambassador to Cambodia yesterday urged the government to heed the advice of the U.N.’s visiting human rights envoy, who has come under increasing rebuke from officials for his unflattering reports. Addressing a crowd of about 3,000, mostly garment factory workers, at Phnom Penh’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen on Friday criticized U.s. threats to cut aid to the impoverished southeast Asian nation if its election wasn’t free and fair, and dared American lawmakers to follow through on their warning. His comments came after U.s. lawmakers started processes in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Speaking during an annual workShop in Siem Reap province &ndaSh; Review on Child&rSquo;S Health and ProgreSS of Early ESSential Newborn Care (EENC) Implementation in Cambodia &ndaSh; Kumanan RaSanathan Said the mortality rate among children under five declined laSt year to 29 per 1,000, compared to SS='cambodia-color'>...