Group Lease has decided to raise the capital of its wholly owned singaporean subsidiary Group Lease Holdings to serve as the main funding source for its Cambodian motorcycle leasing operations after six months of satisfactory trial operations there. Cambodia, which is managed by Group Lease’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prior to 2013, Dom Dorn, a farmer in Phnom Sruoch diStrict of Kampong Speu province, uSed oxen to farm hiS white-rice paddieS; now, after juSt hiS Second harveSt of Sowing phkarmaliS (alSo known aS jaSmine or fragrant rice), he iS uSing a kor yun, or SS='cambodia-color'>...

Employees reportedly working for the controversial Company 72 have allegedly been illegally felling timber in a community forest in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district and shipping it across the Vietnamese border, community members and Adhoc said yesterday. Romas svat, a community representative in Paknhai commune’s Lom village, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Posts and Telecommunications so Khun said Wednesday that the government’s decision last week to order all mobile phone firms to stop offering generous top-up bonuses came after one of the market’s competitors complained to the ministry. Ian Watson, CEO of Mobitel, denied complaining ss='cambodia-color'>...

King Norodom Sihamoni flew to Beijing on Monday, accompanied by Queen Mother Norodom Monineath for a routine medical checkup, but will return to Cambodia to preSide over the opening SeSSion of the fifth mandate of the National ASSembly, according to a Statement releaSed by the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand’s PTT Cambodia, a subsidiary of the kingdom’s state-owned oil and gas conglomerate PTT Public Company Limited, expects to more than double the amount of petrol stations it manages in Cambodia by the end of 2017, a senior executive in the company said this week. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia had exported 288,300 tons of fresh and dry cassava in the first eight months of the year, down 56 percent compared with same period last year, the figures of the Commerce Ministry said sunday. The country generated total revenue of 15.2 million U.s. dollars from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following the announcement of recent reforms to Cambodia’s customs department and Commerce Ministry, a revision of the country’s investment law is planned for next year, according to the secretary-general of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). speaking to reporters at a workshop at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 40 fresh land rows have emerged across the country – and many more could be going unreported, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) said yesterday. A study CCHR conducted into land conflicts between 2011 and 2013 has resulted in the rights group publishing ss='cambodia-color'>...

UN special rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly Maina Kiai, who visited Cambodia two weeks ago, has called on the Kingdom to embrace regular changes in leadership and to take lessons from Africa’s strongman-riddled history, in a column published in Kenya’s Daily Union newspaper on ss='cambodia-color'>...

The ruling party wants “biased” election watchdogs to be on a tight leash by the next election and wants the opposition to agree to it, senior Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker Cheam Yeap said yesterday ahead of the third meeting of a bipartisan election reform committee ss='cambodia-color'>...

Human Rights Watch says three draft laws on the verge of approval by the National Assembly, intended to assure the independence of Cambodia’s courts, would do just the opposite, and has called on the government to withdraw them. The Council of Ministers approved the trio of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Council of Ministers on Friday approved a five-year development strategic plan (2014-2018), which needs financial resources of 26.5 billion U.s. dollars to achieve the target, according to a news statement released after a weekly cabinet meeting. The plan is designed to develop infrastructure, ss='cambodia-color'>...

When Cambodia’s most prominent forest activist, Chut Wutty, was gunned down in April 2012, the community network he created to sabotage the rampant deforestation of this vast forest fragmented. The forest patrols that he organised nearly ground to a halt. Without money to fund large-scale expeditions, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ten years ago Wednesday, union leader Chea Vichea walked to his favorite newsstand in front of Wat Lanka to read the day’s headlines: Prime Minister Hun sen had ordered spending cuts, health officials were trying to handle the first outbreak of bird flu in southeast ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two suppliers of mosquito nets to Cambodia found to have bribed officials to gain contracts under the Global Fund’s health grant scheme have had their contracts renewed. The two firms, sumitomo Chemical and Vestergaard Frandsen, were found by the fund’s Office of the Inspector General in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dana Beerdsen, a 19-month-old Dutch girl who was critically injured last month in an attack in which her mother was stabbed to death in their Phnom Penh home, died in a Bangkok hospital on Wednesday night, according to police. Lieutenant Colonel Mom sitha, municipal foreign police ss='cambodia-color'>...

Deep in the forest, about an hour from stung Treng’s provincial capital through a rough and difficult road, just over half of the houses in an ethnic minority village have been tagged with bright orange spray paint saying, “Lss2”. According to a 2010 environmental impact ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local and foreign dignitaries offered their condolences to the royal family on news of the death in Beijing yesterday of King Father Norodom sihanouk, who led his country out of colonial rule in the 1950s and went on to play a leading role in the country’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s 2020 exports to the Us remained strong despite the COVID-19 pandemic crisis as the Kingdom’s exports to its other primary trading partners declined. Figures from the Us Census Bureau showed that Cambodia exported $6.577 billion of goods to the world’s largest economy, a year-on-year ss='cambodia-color'>...