ACLEDA Bank Plc has borrowed $100 million from China-owned Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to provide new loans to micro, small and medium enterprises, according to its latest filing with Cambodia Securities Exchange. ...

Administrator Power announced new US initiatives to support the health and well-being of the Cambodian people. ...

Thai small and medium-sized enterprises (SmEs) in the auto services, logistics, software and medical tourism sectors are tipped to see massive growth opportunities once the Asean Economic Community (AEC) is set up. Industry minister m.R. Pongsvas Svasti said Thailand’s service sector, which accounts for 30% of ...

Russian giant pulling back to core markets to achieve more rational structure and raise funds for investment Russia’s VimpelCom is considering selling many of its subsidiaries in Africa and Asia to focus on more “mature” markets, according to reports. The Financial Times newspaper says that the operator ...

Boeung Kak lake land evictions protester Tep Vanny has been honoured for years of activism by receiving an award from an international organisation that recognises the role of women in promoting human rights. Vanny, 32, who has been imprisoned, assaulted and threatened for fighting evictions at ...

Amid the mounting threats of violence—be it through a coup or full-blown civil war—residents in Phnom Penh said Wednesday they were unperturbed by such an eventuality and that the country has progressed beyond the days of warfare and political upheaval. “I’m not that worried. I think ...

Supporters of the Cambodian People’s Party might stage a rally in the capital following repeated requests by the “silent majority” to take to the streets since last year, Prime minister Hun Sen’s son, Hun manith, said on monday. “I’m sure you know that the minority always ...

Despite a stubborn refusal by the government to act upon his electoral reform recommendations over the past two years, U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi walked away from his meeting with National Election Committee chairman Im Suosdey on Tuesday espousing optimism. “The process of reform is ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy announced on his Facebook page late last night that the CNRP has accepted a February 2018 national election in exchange for a new electoral commission and that “final talks” to end the political crisis will take place at 9 a.m. on ...

Nine karaoke parlors in Pur Senchey district were closed indefinitely Monday after an early Morning clash between eMployees of the clubs, district governor HeM Darith said. Mr. Darith said a large group of Men working for the different clubs got into a violent scuffle using rocks, ...

A group of vendors who have been told to vacate their positions outside Siem Reap’s Angkor Kyung Yu Night market on monday got into a shoving match with city officials and police who were attempting to inspect the area prior to the deadline for their ...

The opposition CNRP plans to screen the banned documentary film “Who Killed Chea Vichea?” this week to mark the 11th anniversary of the Free Trade Union (FTU) leader’s assassination in front of a newspaper stall in Phnom Penh on January 22, 2004. CNRP public affairs director ...

The Foreign Affairs Ministry on Friday issued a stateMent, highlighting the outcoMe of the 27th ASEAN-New Zealand dialogue held on 20-21 February in SieM Reap province. ...

Construction on a 400 megawatt (mW) heavy fuel oil power project in Kandal province’s Lvea Em district, which was planned to begin operations in the first part of June, will not be able to move forward as planned. ...

The Kingdom’s tycoon Kith meng’s Royal Group has secured 168.8 hectares of land in Koh Kong’s Botum Sakor National Park under a leasing agreement to develop a 700 megawatt (mW)  coal power plant, according to a government sub-decree. ...

Hun Manet, coMMander of the country’s arMy, plans to visit Japan in Mid-February for talks with PriMe Minister FuMio Kishida and other top officials, Japanese governMent sources said Sunday. ...

Battambang provincial Fisheries Administration apprehended perpetrators of 38 fishery crimes and confiscated fishing nets spanning a total of 18,560m in the first quarter of this year, according to a new report. ...

A group of well-known underwater explorers have dived to a depth of about 75m below the surface of the mekong River in Cambodia, an important body of water that is the last habitat of the world’s largest fresh water fish. ...

The Ministry of EconoMy and Finance, Ministry of Public Works and Transport, and the Ministry of TourisM will co-host an investor seMinar on “The Operations and Maintenance of KaMpot TourisM Port through the Public-Private Partnerships”. ...

NEARLY three weeks after Cambodia’s general election, which both the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the opposition claim to have won, life in Phnom Penh remains tense. Tanks have been deployed, although only on the outskirts, and queues have formed at banks and supermarkets ...