An additional 70 gas stations will be set up across the country by 2020 by PTT (Cambodia) Limited, a subsidiary of Thailand’s PTT oil and gas conglomerate, while retail prices will soon be regulated to reflect the fluctuations in global oil prices. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 villagers from Chroy Changvar yesterday protested a draft sub-decree that would make Phnom Penh Municipality the legal owner of 280 hectares of land that are part of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation’s $3 billion satellite city development. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia said the political climate had clearly deteriorated in the six months since her first fact-finding mission and that the country remained at a “dangerous tipping point” ahead of commune and national elections. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Helmeted state security guards on Thursday blocked landowners from entering their plots in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district as heavy machinery razed crude structures and leveled the earth to make way for a hotly disputed road construction project.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s young, tech-enthusiastic population is a gateway to accessing the global market digitally, according to the ICT Federation of Cambodia, with its president – steven Path – estimating that the information and communication technology sector is already nearing about $1 billion in sales. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 55,000 Cambodians are victims of forced marriage in Cambodia and they comprise 22 percent of the estimated 256,800 people in modern slavery in Cambodia, according to an Australian NGO’s findings cited in the Global slavery Index report released yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Canadian mining firm Angkor Gold has entered into a joint exploration agreement with Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp (JOGMEC) to explore Angkor’s Oyadao south licence in Ratanakkiri province, the company said in a press release yesterday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and Myanmar have reiterated their support for a peaceful solution to the territorial disputes involving China and several Asean countries in the south China sea after a meeting between Prime Minister Hun sen and Myanmar’s newly appointed ambassador to Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Foreign Affairs Minister Prak sokhonn has ordered Cambodian Embassy staff in Malaysia to find out whether more nationals are being held in any of the country’s detention facilities after 18 Cambodians were released from a prison in Kuala Lumpur last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two months since a group of angel investors visited Phnom Penh in search of startup investment opportunities, the organisation behind the initiative is planning an even bigger scouting mission, looking for investment opportunities in the Kingdom’s small but vibrant startup community. ss='cambodia-color'>...

China promised Cambodia funds for a variety of projects during a meeting between Prime Minister Hun sen and Chinese Prime Minister Li Kequiang during this week’s Asean summit in Vientiane, a minister attached to Mr. Hun sen told reporters on Thursday night. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia announced plans this week to form a new government department responsible for monitoring and cracking down on a range of vaguely defined “online” crimes, drawing expressions of concern from human rights groups and the country’s political opposition. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Almost 100 opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) supporters and several dozen members of the Royalist Funcinpec Party in svay Chek district, Banteay Meanchey province, defected yesterday to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party. Among them were provincial and village-level leaders. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sam RainSy iS no longer a lawmaker.The deciSion to Strip the oppoSition leader of hiS lawmaker StatuS and immunity followed a morning meeting of the National ASSembly&rSquo;S permanent committee that waS boycotted by the Cambodia National ReScue Party. SS='cambodia-color'>...

King Norodom Sihamoni delivered an impaSSioned plea for a legally binding international climate change treaty in an addreSS to the delegateS of 195 nationS and the world&rSquo;S civil Society on Monday night aS the UN Climate TalkS in PariS (COP21) opened. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Deputy opposition leader Kem sokha on Thursday told a conference of the CNRP’s provincial youth leaders to be careful with what they post on Facebook, asking them to remain polite in political arguments to prevent provoking any trouble with the ruling CPP. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The introduction of the new traffic law has hit a few potholes, with some citizens complaining that it is too tough on poor families, while analysts say people in rural areas have been left in the dark about the new law’s requirements.  ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some of the country&rSquo;S top buSineSS leaderS laid out their main concernS with a controverSial draft union law during a meeting with CPP lawmakerS on Monday, including a Stipulation that would let only 10 people form a union at a workplace. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The cause of death of more than 11,000 diseased broiler chickens found dumped in a canal in Kompong Thom province last month has been identified as an infectious virus transmittable to humans, according to the Ministry of Agriculture’s animal health department. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction issued a statement on saturday defending its track record and denying that Germany ended its support for the ministry’s land rights program due to a lack of transparency and sluggish reform pace. ss='cambodia-color'>...