Forests and wildlife near Pailin province’s O’Tavao Waterfall are being threatened by local deforestation and hunting, officials said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Star 8 ASia will launch itS electric-powered tuk-tuk Showroom on AuguSt 28, hoping for robuSt demand from the city&rSquo;S driverS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Japan’s swelling ranks of elderly citizens could soon be receiving care from Cambodians if one NGO’s plan comes to fruition. ss='cambodia-color'>...

PRASAC Microfinance InStitution, Cambodia&rSquo;S biggeSt MFI by outStanding loanS, haS received a US$2 million loan from the NetherlandS Development Finance Company SS='cambodia-color'>...

Israel’s oral vaccine is heading to southeast Asia, Oramed Pharmaceutical announced Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and Lao People’s Democratic Republic have pledged to continue strengthening parliamentary cooperation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The ruling Cambodian People’s Party saw its ironclad grip on the National Assembly weaken dramatically, dropping 22 seats in winning 68 of 123, with the opposition the beneficiary and the CPP’s royalist coalition partners winning none at all in an election rife with alleged irregularities. Though ss='cambodia-color'>...

The fourth annual Business and Culture Expo hosted by the Cambodian American Business Association, an event designed to bring together business owners, entrepreneurs and Cambodian community members, will be held sunday August 25 in the parking lot of the Mark Twain Library. However, the event that ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of Cambodian NGOs threatened on Monday to expose more cases of forestry crime involving businessmen and the police, saying they were unshaken by a defamation suit filed by top tycoon accused of illegal logging and land-grabbing. Representatives of the five organizations told reporters Monday ss='cambodia-color'>...

In 1990, Pen Hoeurng was out in the field tending her cows and buffalo when the rattle of machine-gun fire erupted in the surrounding forest and she was struck by a bullet from an M-16. Ms. Hoeurng, now 48, does not know whether she was shot ss='cambodia-color'>...

Frontier and emerging economies such as Cambodia present companies with a specific set of challenges and risk, both real and perceived, beyond those found in more developed markets. A risk category getting ever- increasing attention is that of “social risk”, roughly defined as the risk of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has slashed about 250,000 hectares of land from 79 economic land concessions (ELCs), forest concessions and wildlife protection concessions and will return it, replete with land titles, to “poor people”, January’s Royal Book says. The publication, issued on January 17 and obtained yesterday, says ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the past four years, families in Anlong Chrey village, in Kampong speu provinces’s Thpong district, have watched a small multipurpose dam being built at their back doors. For village chief soung Pao, 59, who gave up two hectares for the dam – one of ss='cambodia-color'>...

As night falls in Phonm Penh, thousands of weary workers stream from textile factories, reflecting the abundance of jobs created by the clothing industry’s desire for cheap labor. However, as the number of international clothes companies tapping into Cambodia’s workforce grows, so does anger at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The British chairman of a Biofuel firm is facing up to 15 years in jail after he was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) in Phnom Penh on saturday and charged with forgery, a court official said yesterday. Gregg Fryett’s company, sustainable Agro Energy, has been ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 70 ethnic minority Banong families from two separate villages in Moldolkirri province’s Keo seima district received communal titles to a combined 1,031 hectares of ancestral land from the Land Management Minister Im Chhun Lim on saturday. Communal land titles were established under the 2001 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The hunt for oil around northwestern Cambodia has unearthed “positive” results for Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (JOGMEC), which intends to continue exploring the area in a project that could last at least six more years, a government spokesman said. JOGMEC’s survey on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Free Trade Union of Workers (FTU) warned Tuesday to stage a protest if the authority does not release its eight members who were arrested by police on Monday during a demonstration at a Taiwanese-owned garment factory, a union leader said. FTU’s president Chea Mony ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange (CSX) haS Seen Slow progreSS in itS firSt year of operationS becauSe there haS been only one liSted firm and public knowledge about the Stock market remainS low, officialS Said ThurSday. The CSX waS officially launched trading on April 18 laSt year SS='cambodia-color'>...