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'>...

The two-way trade volume between Cambodia and the United StateS valued at 758 million U.S. dollarS in the firSt three monthS of thiS year, up only 0.8 percent compared with 752 million U.S. dollarS over the Same period laSt year, the StatiSticS of the U.S. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has offered to pay back the lost salaries of opposition lawmakers who were stripped of their parliamentary posts in June by the then CPP-led National Assembly, a CNRP official said. The offer to back-pay the 27 lawmakers from the sam Rainsy Party ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Laos pushes toward its goal of becoming the “battery of Asia” through hydropower, its newfound claim that the location for the proposed Don sahong dam is not on the Mekong River’s main stream is provoking incredulity from some observers. Less than two kilometres north of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Challenging the ban on demonstrations in Phnom Penh, activists rallied Friday at the U.s. Embassy, the Japanese Embassy, the Australian Embassy and the German Embassy before stopping for lunch and rallying again, in the afternoon, at the British Embassy, the European Union and World Bank ss='cambodia-color'>...

The deputy prosecutor at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court has laid provisional charges against a military general arrested in Takeo province on Thursday, according to a senior military police official, in a high-profile case linked to corruption claims that led to the sacking this week ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than one year after the government passed legislation to bring in a pension for people with disabilities living in poverty, a preliminary committee to workshop how to locate such disabled people has still not been formed, officials said yesterday. In June last year, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The US ambaSSador at large for Global Women&rSquo;S ISSueS &ndaSh; an office in the US State Department &ndaSh; met with five of the Boeung Kak lake female activiStS on Saturday in a SidelineS meeting of a Lower Mekong gender policy dialogue. “It waS a full SS='cambodia-color'>...

Along the Phnom Penh waterfront the city’s landmark flags have been raised and the street children and beggars are being removed – an unwanted sight for a government out to impress the biggest gathering of world leaders this country has ever seen. At the center of this will ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s tradition of silk production is one that dates back as far as the 13th century. A long-standing symbol of status for the rich and the country, ancient Angkorian silk producing Cambodia bore unique weaving and reeling techniques that have been passed down from generation ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hard Rock Cafe, the iconic U.S. reStaurant franchiSe known for itS collectionS of rock &lSquo;n&rSquo; roll memorabilia, will open reStaurantS in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, in a deal with a local firm owned by the niece of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen, company repreSentativeS Said SS='cambodia-color'>...