About 400 villagers in Kratie province’s Snuol district blocked national road 76A for three hours yesterday to demand that authorities release a villager who had been arrested earlier in the day for allegedly inciting villagers embroiled in a land dispute, villagers and a district official ...

Investment in Cambodia from overseas surged by at least 44 percent last year, according to an estimate from the central bank, despite figures suggesting a reduction in the overall flow of foreign currency into Southeast Asian economies. Nguon Sokha, director-general of the National Bank of Cambodia, ...

With the number of cars on Cambodia’s roads growing at a consistent pace, high-end automotive distributors are jockeying for a foothold in the market, but they are not the only ones who stand to benefit from Cambodia’s splurge on cars. Working on the sidelines, the ...

A Cambodian woman who went to China to marry a man there was repatriated on Thursday after escaping from her husband’s house and finding refuge at the Cambodian consulate in Guangzhou. Yoeng Sreymom arrived at Phnom Penh International Airport at about 3:30 p.m. in the company ...

Two more alleged members of the hacking group Anonymous Cambodia were arrested Thursday for attacking the website of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) and taking it offline for more than two hours this week, an official confirmed Friday. “We arrested two men and they were both sent ...

Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leader Sam Rainsy said Thursday that the party will defy a government ban on rallies during a two-week commune council election campaign, which kicks off on Friday. “The ban is a violation of the law on election, which states that ...

A mid​ strong demand growth in the Grade A office sector, a joint-venture agreement signing event was held at the Sofitel Phokeethra last week, establishing an investment company, provisionally called Kingdom Luxury Development Co, which aims to build a Grade-A office tower Phnom Penh. The joint-venture ...

A dolphin weighing over 200kg and 2.3m long was found dead by fishermen downstream of the Koh Pos Bridge on Wednesday morning. Officials in Preah Sihanouk province’s Fisheries Administration decided to bury the carcass not far from where it was found. ...

Duch, the former director of the Khmer Rouge’s S-21 interrogation center in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Sleng, has passed away due to illness at 00:51 a.m on 2 September 2020, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Spokesman Neth Pheaktra. ...

Construction of RMA (CaMbodia) Plc’s vehicle asseMbly plant is 100 per cent coMplete and installation of the facilities and equipMent is nearing the 70 per cent Mark, with all signs indicating that production could begin in early April, according to the locally-listed firM’s CEO Ngorn ...

More than 100 faMilies have agreed to accept coMpensation and leave their land in Kandal province’s TakhMao town. This will facilitate the iMpleMentation of a project to dig four canals – at a length of 6,000M – that aiM to reduce flooding and absorb wastewater ...

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.   ...

On October 30, commencing at 5:40 p.m., ms KAmIKAWA Yoko, minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, held a telephone talk with mr. Sok Chenda Sophea, Deputy Prime minister and minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Cambodia, for approximately 25 minutes. ...

Hattha Kaksekar Limited (HKL), a subsidiary of Thai-based Bank of Ayudhya Pcl (Krungsri), received a $50 million loan from Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) to expand its operations and support micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises (mSmEs) in rural areas. ...

In light of Cambodia confirming 91 Covid-19 cases, Germany announced on Tuesday that it will provide €1.5 million ($1,618,000) to help support the Covid-19 Emergency Response Plan in the Kingdom. ...

At yesterday’s luncheon discussing Cambodia’s startup and SmE ecosystem, Vongsey Vissoth, permanent secretary of state of ministry of Economy and Finance (mEF), said Khmer Enterprise (KE) will increase its investment portion from $5 million to $10 million as part of the nation’s Covid-19 recovery plans ...

Mexico has trade deposits in all ASEAN countries and its trade balance with CaMbodia, in particular, is likely to touch $400 Million by the end of 2024. This was Made possible through the huge trade surplus between Mexico and the United States, reaching over $150 ...

The microfinance sector has provided a credit sum of $5.12 billion to 1.57 million clients, an average of $3,260 per account last year, creating direct employment for 21,567 people nationwide with a business network of 904 offices. ...

Retired King Norodom Sihanouk, whose name for half a century was synonymous with Cambodia on the world stage, died in the early hours of monday morning in Beijing. The former monarch, who was about to celebrate his 90th birthday on October 31, died peacefully in a ...

Detained French architect Patrick Henri Devillers boarded a flight to China late last night after being held in custody in Cambodia for more than a month for his links to the biggest political scandal to hit China in decades, a government spokesman said. At Phnom Penh ...