Diversified conglomerate san Miguel Corp. (sMC) will invest $1.5 billion for its airline venture in Cambodia, its top executive said yesterday. Cambodia Airlines will have about 20 aircraft in its fleet and add as much as $400 million revenues per year to Philippine Airlines (PAL), said ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N. and local human rights groups have condemned the government’s violent eviction of CNRP supporters from Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on saturday, as well as its indefinite ban on public protests in the city. On saturday, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court also summonsed opposition leaders ss='cambodia-color'>...

The push for gender equality must start within families and parents should encourage their daughters to speak their minds, Minister of Culture and Fine Arts Phoeung sackona said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

It wasn’t until she was en route to the Ho Chi Minh airport that sok srey Touch knew she was in trouble. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A glance around Battambang’s dilapidated train station reveals the monumental task it will be to complete the Cambodian segment of the ‘iron silk road’, which will connect southeast Asia to Europe by rail for the first time. Cows graze between missing rails in front of ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 600 garment factory workers continued their strike in Phnom Penh yesterday, setting car tires alight to protest what they said were unfair salary cuts but factory representatives and labor officials described as a normal tax on income. “The factory told us that they cut our ss='cambodia-color'>...

Less than a week after the arrest of alleged beauty parlour madam Chan sreynuch, military police say they are taking a closer look at a number of hair salons and beauty shops in Phnom Penh suspected of being involved in human trafficking and prostitution. According to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Total fixed assets of singaporean investment in Cambodia last year reached $82.7 million, a 500 per cent increase from $13.8 million in 2011, data from the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) show. singaporean entrepreneurs who have already entered the Cambodian market said they expect ss='cambodia-color'>...

Another senior United states official has said that President Barack Obama will visit Cambodia in November for the East Asia summit and the Us-AsEAN summit. ss='cambodia-color'>...

They’re known as the BK13 and they’re not prepared to let greedy developers take the very, very little they have. They’re 13 women – mothers, grandmothers – who live around what used to be Boeung Kak Lake – not far from the centre of Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prudential Plc, the U.K.’s biggest insurer by market value, plans to begin selling insurance in Cambodia in the first quarter of next year to extend its presence in Asia across 13 markets. The firm is hiring sales agents and expects to gain a license to operate ss='cambodia-color'>...

South Korea&rSquo;S Financial ServiceS CommiSSion (FSC) and the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on Friday Signed a Memorandum of UnderStanding (MoU) on the proviSion of technical Support for Cambodia&rSquo;S banking and financial SuperviSion, according to a preSS releaSe after the Signing ceremony. “The MoU will SS='cambodia-color'>...

The bilateral trade between Cambodia and the United StateS in 2012 roSe Slightly, while Cambodia&rSquo;S export decreaSed, according to a report of the United StateS CenSuS Bureau of the Department of Commerce. U.S. Department of Commerce. The Cambodia-US bilateral trade Saw itS increaSe 0. 61%, while SS='cambodia-color'>...

Fauna and Flora International says its has found three previously unknown populations of the endangered Indochinese hog deer in Cambodia. “This is a remarkable discovery given not only the species’ vulnerability to hunting, but also because all of the sites were outside the existing protected area ss='cambodia-color'>...

CPP and Senate PreSident Chea Sim waS awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the RiSing Sun by the JapaneSe government on Sunday in recognition of hiS contributionS to the Strengthening of relationS between the two countrieS. In the 1980S and early 1990S, Mr. Sim, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Members of the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) said during a conference sunday that they are “fed up” with the government for not controlling strikes by labor unions. “All of us have the same issue: illegal strikes,” Van Porphin, a member of GMAC’s executive committee, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The seizure on Friday of a large haul of African elephant tusks in svay Rieng province, only one month after police intercepted a large ivory haul in siem Reap, could indicate that Cambodia is becoming a major transit point for illegal ivory, experts said Monday. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

With time running short before Laos’s Xayaburi hydropower dam enters its final, potentially irreversible stages of construction, a group of NGOs has made another call for its suspension. In a joint declaration released today, 39 organisations based in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Australia set a one-year ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. EmbaSSy Chargé d&rSquo;AffaireS, a.i. Jeff Daigle viSited In Komar Primary School in Kampong Thom province today to highlight a $20 million U.S. government School feeding program funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and implemented by the United NationS&rSquo; World Food Programme (WFP), SS='cambodia-color'>...

As a child growing up in a poor family in Banteay Meanchey, Yang Leaphea struggled to imagine a world outside her province. she turned to her desperately under-resourced local library, but found few books there to expand her horizons. All that changed when the intelligent daughter ss='cambodia-color'>...