Local conglomerate Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) will invest $60 million in the construction of Olympia Plaza, a seven-storey shopping mall being built inside the company’s mixed-use Olympia City project in central Phnom Penh, the company confirmed yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Experts say maritime territorial disputes over parts of the south China sea are unlikely to lead to military conflict, after a meeting between U.s. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart in Washington in september. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sam RainSy Party deputy preSident Teav Vannol yeSterday declined to Say whether he would take leaderShip of the party in the wake of preSident Kong Korm&rSquo;S retirement, though a fellow Senator Said it waS all but a foregone concluSion. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s telecom regulator has de-recognised 29 internet and voice-over internet protocol (VOIP) providers in the Kingdom, for failing to provide documentation to prove their active status, according to an official from the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC). ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government collected about $1.3 billion in tax revenue in 2015, a 21.67 percent increase over the previous year, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s general department of taxation on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 300 vendors from the Tumnup market in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district protested in front of the municipal court on Wednesday to demand that two of their colleagues who were arrested amid a dispute over market fees be released. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A former MEC Co. Ltd shareholder was tried in absentia by the Court of Appeals yesterday morning for allegedly defaming his former company and MEC’s chairman, former Cambodian Prime Minister Ung Huot, in 2014, according to a court official. ss='cambodia-color'>...

City Hall plans to privatize a 280-hectare plot of public land set aside for a $3 billion development by the Over­seas Cambodia Investment Cor­poration (OCIC) in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district, officials said Thursday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals have sold a royal residence in Koh Kong province to the government for about $6.5 million after it was donated to them in October by the king and queen mother.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

The core of one of Cambodia’s most important and abused forests —Prey Lang—was officially de­clared a protected area this week af­ter years of campaigning by local ac­tivists and foreign conservationists.    ss='cambodia-color'>...

Land rights activists from 10 communities in the capital yesterday submitted a request to City Hall requesting permission to march to the Anti-Corruption Unit’s headquarters and deliver a petition in support of human rights activists jailed this week. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two Ratanakkiri Referral Hospital officials have been ousted from their posts following an audit that found that more than $13,000 from the hospital’s travel allowance account was mismanaged, causing the hospital to run out of money to pay staff. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An elderly man and his two grandchildren were killed after he accidentally detonated an artillery shell yesterday morning in Prey Veng province’s Preah sdach district, after attempting to dismantle it to create parts for his bullock cart, according to police. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An overloaded truck’s owner was ordered to pay 7.8 million riel ($1,917) in fines yesterday after his driver was caught with 61 tonnes of wood in his truck, 26 tonnes above the legal limit.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

An NGO has filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit against senior National Election Committee members for “colluding to commit corruption inside an independent institution”, relating to a transfer of the body’s employees from independent contractors to government officials. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The garment industry is the linchpin of Cambodia’s economy, and the single biggest employer of women. some 500 factories hire almost 500,000 female workers, many of whom are young and have migrated to the city from the countryside. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The E.U.’s ambassador to Cambodia said he would weigh appeals from pro-government unions critical of a call by opposition party leader sam Rainsy to push the government to improve its human rights record through increased economic pressure. ss='cambodia-color'>...

 Cambodia’s foreign minister, Prak sokhon, has said that the country is working behind the scenes to mediate disputes between its ally China and partners in the Association of southeast Asian Nations over the south China sea. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The international community should put “maximum pressure” on the Cambodian government to improve the country’s human rights situation, including possible sanctions on top officials, former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans said on Friday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has implored those living along the border with Vietnam to stop renting land to Vietnamese nationals and ordered his government to speed up a demarcation process that has been slow to accurately define the country’s borders.  ss='cambodia-color'>...