Cambodia Airlines plans to spend $1.5 billion to acquire up to 22 planes, a move that might see the new airline’s eventual fleet size overtake that of national carrier Cambodia Angkor Air. “We [will be] starting to deploy 16 to 22 aircraft immediately once it’s ready ss='cambodia-color'>...

On November 19, 2012, President Obama met with the leaders of the 10 member states of the Association of southeast Asia Nations (AsEAN) to deepen our diplomatic, economic, security, and people-to-people ties with the key Asian multilateral organization. With a population of approximately 620 ss='cambodia-color'>...

In May Cambodia became a member of the World’s Most Beautiful Beach Club and as a result Koh Kong provincial authorities are not renewing leasing for beachfront stores and evicting those who work there. The leases are said to have expired two months ago, and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twelve civil society organizations submitted a joint statement asking the Us government and heads of democratic AsEAN members to raise issues of human rights violations in Cambodia and the misuse of courts to stifle the opposition at next week’s Us-AsEAN summit in California, in order ss='cambodia-color'>...

The planned theme of yesterday’s AsEAN defence ministers roundtable was military cooperation between countries, particularly in times of natural disaster, but it was a theme invariably pushed to the background by other regional developments. Among them was what appeared to be a cooling-off period in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Human rights group Adhoc released a report on the state of Cambodian migrant workers yesterday, saying that tales of abuse from migrant workers and their families have increased five-fold compared to the same period last year. seventy per cent of this year’s 141 complaints concerned domestic ss='cambodia-color'>...

Banteay Meanchey province’s former governor got a surprise Monday when he attended a ceremony in Phnom Penh expecting to receive a donation of 200 power tillers from Chinese officials, but received eight small water pumps instead. Former Banteay Meanchey governor Oung Oeun and the governor ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is now ranked as being perceived by investors as southeast Asia’s most corrupt country, surpassing Laos and Burma on Transparency International’s annual corruption index. Cambodia ranked 160 of 175 countries in the report, with its index score a mere 20 out of 100. That’s two ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Saturday charged Daniel JohnSon, an American miSSionary, with committing indecent actS againSt five boyS under the age of 15 at an orphanage he operated in Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Meanchey diStrict, police Said. JohnSon, 35, waS Sent to the court on WedneSday SS='cambodia-color'>...

Despite the country remaining trapped in a tense political stalemate that shows no signs of abating, Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday reiterated that the government would continue working as normal while the opposition’s boycott of parliament continues. “I will not talk about the political situation, as ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 30 U.S. collegeS and univerSitieS jointly organized an education exhibition here Saturday, aiming to promote education tieS between the two countrieS. “The fair iS the largeSt-ever event directly promoting U.S. higher education opportunitieS to Cambodian StudentS,” Said a preSS Statement from the U.S. SS='cambodia-color'>...

At least three workers were arrested Tuesday morning outside the Wing star shoes factory in Kompong speu province, where the Free Trade Union (FTU) has been leading a strike calling for benefits and back pay, according to police and a union representative. An FTU representative said ss='cambodia-color'>...

With National Assembly President Heng samrin attending a conference in Laos, CNRP Vice President Kem sokha on Wednesday hosted his first official foreign visit since becoming first vice president of parliament in late August. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian and the U.S. Senior military officialS met here WedneSday and vowed to Strengthen and expand bilateral tieS and cooperation for mutual benefitS. The commitment waS made between Gen. Pol Saroeun, commander-in- Chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed ForceS (RCAF), and viSiting Gen. Vincent K. BrookS, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Rice Federation (CRF) has approved to raise the requisite funding for rice sector development through the export fees paid by the rice exporters, according to local sources. The fund will be reportedly used for educating rice farmers about potential crop issues through television and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Environment, United Nations Economic and social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNEsCAP) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on March 9 held a forum on Cambodia’s Cooling Action Plan and Passive Cooling strategies for sustainable Development in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Trade between Cambodia and Canada for the first nine months of 2023 reached approximately $700 million, marking a decrease of over 22% from the corresponding period last year, according to the latest figures from the General Department of Customs and Excise’s (GDCE) International Commodity Trade ss='cambodia-color'>...

A young couple has confessed to trafficking Cambodian women to be sold to men in China after they were arrested at the Phnom Penh International Airport Tuesday night while preparing to board a flight to shanghai with their two latest victims, police said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has decided to go ahead with the construction of a dam on a Mekong tributary, but conservation groups are concerned that not enough study has been done on the hydropower project’s environmental consequences. Construction on the 400 megawatt Lower sesan 2 dam in northwestern Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Anti-eviction protesters set up camp in front of the U.s. Embassy in Phnom Penh for a second day yesterday, but ended their protest in the early evening when a petition to U.s. President Barack Obama was taken into the diplomatic mission by an embassy guard. “The ss='cambodia-color'>...