The former director of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, who was ousted last week amid allegations of serious corruption, gave a luxury sUV to his son—a local police official—after it was confiscated from a suspected drug trafficker, the National Police said in a statement sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia saw significant percentage gains in regional trade in the first six months of the year, though the gap between imports and exports remained large, according to data released yesterday by the Ministry of Commerce. According to the figures, the country saw regional exports to ss='cambodia-color'>...

An often flouted and publicly unpopular restriction forbidding Cambodia’s telecoms from offering lucrative mobile phone promotions was scrapped on sunday, just two weeks after it was introduced. In a letter from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC), signed by Minister so Khun, it announced a ss='cambodia-color'>...

An NGO director and a youth leader from two little-known organizations were elected by 2,779 NGO and youth association members at a meeting on March 15 to represent civil society at a meeting with Asean leaders next week, according to a statement released by state-run ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and China last week signed an agreement to exchange financial intelligence to combat money laundering and terrorism financing, though experts said the Kingdom should still be doing more to tackle an issue that has long persisted in the country, in part, due to local ss='cambodia-color'>...

People with disabilities and their families in two Cambodian provinces – Kampong Cham and Tbong Khmum – experience significant psychological distress, endure discrimination and stigma and their rights “re-main largely unrecognised”, a new study has found. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Tourism and service Worker’s Federation (CTsWF) is asking Minister of Labour Vong sauth to intervene in the case of one union worker fired from a Phnom Penh International Airport company with no reason offered. Nin Kosal, who worked as union secretary for the Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

Inside a mini-mart near Phnom Penh’s Olympic stadium, the shelves holding the beer for sale have a more Cambodian feel to them these days. While imported brand like Thailand’s singha and Japan’s Asahi, used to take up valuable retail real estate, now homegrown brands like Angkor ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...