As sihanoukville’s water shortage drags on, the price of water being delivered by private suppliers has skyrocketed with residents and business owners growing ever more desperate to get clean water into their homes, hotels and restaurants. Over the past week, since a reservoir supplying the city ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s tax revenues increased by more than 20 per cent in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the same period last year. Officials said the rise reflects an influx of new buinesses and investments. Opposition lawmakers, however, claim that the numbers are still far ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s insurance industry earned a total premium of 12 million U.s. dollars in the first three months of 2013, up 30 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the industry’s report released Wednesday. The main sources of the premium were from fire insurance ss='cambodia-color'>...

Since laSt year, up to a half of nearly 8,000 hectareS of community foreSt haS been encroached upon and cleared in Oddar Meanchey province&rSquo;S Banteay Ampil diStrict by SoldierS, community repreSentativeS Said yeSterday. Din Heng, chief of Ang Dong Bor community, Said the army haS cleared SS='cambodia-color'>...

China’s Yunnan province on Monday provided 200 agricultural engines to Cambodia’s northwestern Banteay Meanchey province for post-flood rehabilitation. A handover ceremony was held here between Yu Dingcheng, vice chairman of the standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial People ‘s Congress, and Oung Oeun, chief of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Smoke billowed over Phnom Penh International Airport and people lay on the graSS vergeS near an aircraft Simulator on Friday aS hundredS of reScue Service perSonnel and firefighterS took part in the airport&rSquo;S fourth-ever full-Scale emergency exerciSe. HundredS of SoldierS and police, aS well aS actorS SS='cambodia-color'>...

The bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and China rose by 31 percent in the first nine months of the year thanks to closer ties between the two governments, Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo said Thursday. From January to september this year, the two-way trade volume ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s construction industry took a major step forward in its development on Tuesday with the second summit of the Cambodia Constructors Association at DARA Airport Hotel. The summit occurred alongside an exhibition of construction products, materials and services. Association chairman Pung Kheav se said that was ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction on a new multi-purpose terminal at sihanoukville Autonomous Port is expected to begin in early 2014 to support Cambodia’s rising exports, port officials said yesterday. The new terminal, linking sea to shore, will occupy three hectares and is expected to be finished by late 2016. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s investigation into the bloody crackdown on unruly protesters on Veng sreng Boulevard one month ago wrapped up yesterday, officials said, though those familiar with the investigation remained tight-lipped about its findings. National Police spokesman Kirth Chantharith said yesterday that the three-week investigation had cooperated ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s long-awaited resumption of international adoptions will soon take another tenuous step forward with a Us state Department program that will see local adoption officials flown to the United states for training. The initiative, pegged an “informational visitor’s program”, follows on the heels of a January ss='cambodia-color'>...

Negotiators for Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties say they have reached agreements on key points of election reform, moving past a potential breakdown in talks last week. But they did not agree on an overhaul of the National Election Committee, widely seen as biased toward ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s tax department is under-resourced and understaffed, thereby hindering its ability to generate revenue, according to an Asian Development Bank (ADB) analysis released earlier this month. The analysis, which took into account survey results from 22 tax revenue bodies across Asia between 2012 and 2013, paints ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 50 Cambodian youths were prevented by city security personnel from performing a peace march in the capital on Tuesday. The youth, from the Working Group for Peace, had hoped to hold a non-violent march near Wat Phnom, a city landmark, to the Royal Palace, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Deputy opposition leader Kem sokha yesterday asked Prime Minister Hun sen to show more flexibility in negotiations in order to break the political deadlock. His request comes at a symbolic juncture: The political impasse following last July’s national election has now become the longest ever since ss='cambodia-color'>...

In yet another case of district security guards assuming the role of police officers, three evictees of the capital’s Boeung Kak lake area were detained in the capital yesterday morning and taken to a police station. Daun Penh district security guards seized Em srey Touch, 41, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A union leader among 21 workers and activists arrested in January demonstrations will appear in the Court of Appeal to argue for bail next week, despite the same court denying his request last month. Vorn Pov, president of Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA), and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP made another pitch for an end to free trade benefits for Cambodian sugar exports to the European Union at a meeting in Phnom Penh on Wednesday with visiting European Parliament members, blaming the benefits for effectively subsidizing companies that are evicting poor ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court charged two more alleged members of the hacking group Anonymous Cambodia on Monday, as other members of Anonymous claimed to hack at least four government websites, including that of the National Police. The two men, Keo sipheng, 26, and Hok Ratana, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Siem Reap Municipal Court on TueSday Sentenced Cambodian lawyer Mao Tan Eam to two-and-a-half yearS in priSon for purchaSing child proStitution, but he will not Spend a Single day in jail after the court SuSpended the entire cuStodial Sentence, an official Said. Deputy provincial proSecutor SS='cambodia-color'>...