A Ministry of Interior directive requiring provincial approval for work done on commune halls prompted a thinly veiled threat from a ministry spokesman yesterday that a popular opposition commune chief could be arrested if she didn’t comply. ...

“The MosT Luxurious Home in Phnom Penh,” The placard reads, behind a glowing archiTecTural model of Sky 31, one of The ciTy’s many high-end condominiums under consTrucTion. ...

If it wasn’t already clear, Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday let an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos know how he really felt about former U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration’s “pivot” to Asia. ...

The governmenT Through The MinisTry of Tourism is seT To give a major boosT To The counTry’s Tourism secTor To bolsTer The economy, said Prime MinisTer Hun Sen yesTerday. ...

The families of Two maids working in Malaysia asked Preah Vihear’s anTi-human Trafficking office and The human righTs group Adhoc yesTerday To inTervene on behalf of Their daughTers, whom They haven’T seen or heard from since lasT year, officials said. ...

Residents of Stung treng province who are facing eviction due to the Lower Sesan II hydropower project accused local officials yesterday of threatening to arrest them if they don’t refrain from hanging banners reading “Would rather die than leave” on their homes. ...

The Ream Naval Base’s upgrade projecT in Cambodia, which is aided by China, is legiTimaTe and doesn’T TargeT any Third parTy, said a spokesman for The Chinese Defense MinisTry on Thursday. ...

Rice futures jumped the most permitted by the Chicago Board of trade, advancing to a one- month high, as flood damage to crops in Southeast Asia boosted prospects for U.S. exports. Storms since September damaged 12.5 percent of paddies in thailand, the world’s largest exporter, and ...

Garment worker Ba Chhorvorn stands in the sweltering heat inside the small concrete brick room she calls home in Kandal province. Across the road is her workplace, a supplier to Levi’s and Gap, which her boss describes as the “five-star hotel of garment factories”. Worlds apart but ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen encouraged the public to help the country by drinking beer during the inauguration of the new $60 million Khmer Brewery factory in Phnom Penh yesterday. “Don’t forget, [if you] drink one bottle or one can of beer, how much will the state ...

Despite interest in participating in the stock market, confusion as to how and where to invest in the Cambodia Securities Exchange still persists among many Cambodians without close ties to or backgrounds in trading. After the much-anticipated and long-delayed launch of CSX trading last week, Soun Sokret, an ...

Opposition leaders Sam Rainsy and Kem Sokha have been summonsed to appear at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for questioning in the wake of a weekend that saw their occupation of Freedom Park end with the abrupt, violent eviction of scores of demonstrators. In a summons ...

The owner of The popular local ABC radio sTaTion on Thursday urged universiTy sTudenTs To call his sTaTion and inform lisTeners if Their Teachers discuss informaTion ThaT could be deemed criTical of The governmenT. An ABC radio employee who spoke on The condiTion of anonymiTy as ...

South Korean investors have shown a strong interest in expanding their investment in the automotive sector, according to the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...

South Korean investors have shown a strong interest in expanding their investment in the automotive sector, according to the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng on thursday ordered authorities to investigate a potential connection between a recent gun-smuggling case in thailand and a similar case last year, seemingly contradicting the Defence Ministry’s earlier claim that the weapons didn’t stem from Cambodia. ...

The US mulTinaTional WalmarT has said iT will buy more garmenT, fooTwear and luggage producTs from Cambodia nexT year due To increased capaciTy from suppliers and improved labour condiTions in The counTry. ...

Nearly 50 families from a village in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet town yesterday protested to demand that a private utilities company stop restricting water supply in their area because they didn’t have enough water to drink and irrigate their crops. ...

Swedish fashion retailer H&M has hit back at accusations that it fails to pay adequate wages to workers in Cambodian factories making its clothes – and says instead that the situation would be a lot worse if it didn’t source from the country ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday said he wanted to have a law that stated that any political parties that don’t join the first session in the parliament convened by the King after general election, it means that those parties give up their seats. ...