Property development firm Hongkong Land (HKL) will not break ground on a 10,700-square-meter mixed-use office and retail project in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district until at least 2013, officials at the firm said Thursday. HKL acquired the property behind the U.s. Embassy in April 2011 as ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Owners of the upscale 240 Phnom Penh condo development said yesterday that they have stopped construction, for the time being, in order to ensure the security of the nearby Us ambassador’s residence. “Construction at ‘240 Phnom Penh’ luxury apartments has been temporarily suspended whilst our ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia continues to rank among the most corrupt countries in the world and much needs to be done to enforce the Anti-Corruption Law and investigate allegations of corruption, Transparency International (T.I.) Cambodia said yesterday. According to T.I.’s 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), Cambodia ranked 157th among ss='cambodia-color'>...

Exports of Cambodian fish and shellfish products reached 1,618 tonnes last year, worth $3.5 million, a 16 per cent increase from 1,391 tonnes in 2011, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce. “A major share of the total exports last year was from saltwater fish ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of residents in five villages in southern Cambodia have been deprived of their sole source of water as a massive pond in their area has dried up, villagers said. The affected villagers of sre Ronnong commune in Takeo Province’s Tram Kork district have been buying ss='cambodia-color'>...

Philippine Airlines continues to pursue talks to form a new Cambodian flag carrier with local telecommunications, banking and property tycoon Kith Meng despite missing a deadline to close the deal for a second time this week, its top executive said. PAL president Ramon s. Ang said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials involved in negotiating compensation offers between the developers of the Lower sesan II dam and affected villagers have kept a portion of the money paid out to 12 families for themselves, according to an official. Duong Pov, stung Treng provincial administration director, claimed that a ss='cambodia-color'>...

US Secretary of State John Kerry Said Saturday that hydropower development along the Mekong River could conflict with other benefitS. “You have thiS tenSion between the purpoSeS, unleSS they&rSquo;re approached thoughtfully and correctly,” he told foreign miniSterS from the Lower Mekong Initiative gathered in Nay Pyi SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is the third most at-risk country to money laundering and terrorist financing in the world, according to a global index released last month, trailing only Iran and Afghanistan. The Anti-Money Laundering Index, first published by the swiss-based Basel Institute on Governance in 2012, assigns the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday questioned five Chinese nationals after they were arrested during a seizure of more than 106 tons of chemicals police suspect were intended for the production of illegal drugs. The four men and one woman who were arrested on Tuesday, claimed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s armed forces have vowed to protect Chinese businesses and investors in the Kingdom and sought to reassure corporations fearful of the country’s potential hurdles in a statement released yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The hydro-power dams planned for three tributary rivers in north-eastern Cambodia will have unforeseeable social and environmental consequences for the regional and its people, according to a report released yesterday. Authored by International Rivers and 3s Rivers Protection Network, the report focuses on six hydro-power dams planned for the sesan, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials at the Cambodian securities Exchange (CsX) may increase the number of daily stock trading sessions from two to seven, giving traders more flexibility to buy and sell, an official at the bourse said yesterday. Currently, trading on the CsX occurs in just two sessions, starting ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 300 workers entered their sixth day of strikes yesterday at a bra factory in the capital, which manufactures lingerie supplied to Victoria’s secret and Valentino, but their hopes of a quick resolution were dashed when a Ministry of social Affairs official admitted he was ss='cambodia-color'>...

The price of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority Stock over the Sept. 27- Oct. 3 period waS only KHR 6,200 (US$1.54), under the IPO price of KHR 6,300 (US$1.56), for nearly the whole week. But on Oct. 3, the price roSe to the IPO price again, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition lawmaker Mu sochua departed for the U.s. yesterday in hopes of pressuring Washington into suspending all military aid to Cambodia over the government’s use of soldiers to defend the land holdings of powerful business families. “We have enough evidence that soldiers are providing protection to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Toll Royal Railways (TRR), the current operator of Cambodia’s dilapidated rail network, restarted freight services to Kampot province yesterday, four months after it suspended its work. TRR’s resumption comes on the heals of a rival proposal to manage the train network by a consortium that includes one ss='cambodia-color'>...

Revoking its decision to sack the vast majority of its work force for a prolonged strike, the Winson International garment factory agreed to allow the 868 workers back to work following negotiations late last month, worker representatives said yesterday. After mediation by officials from the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

E-commerce in the Kingdom would boom during the coming years as a result of technological developments and young Cambodians being eager to gain skills in new technology, a gathering of business people heard during “E-biz Tuesday”, a monthly meeting for discussion on Cambodia’s e-commerce industry. According ss='cambodia-color'>...