Disgraced former Phnom Penh Municipal Police Chief Heng Pov yesterday called for a speedy appeal trial before the Supreme Court in two of his cases – which relate to the possession of fake currency and to the illegal detention of a suspect – despite lamenting ...

The Cambodian Rice FederaTion (CRF) will hosT a compeTiTion on November 1 To deTermine The finesT rice in Cambodia, wiTh The winning brand represenTing The kingdom aT The ninTh ediTion of The World’s BesT Rice CompeTiTion Program, which will Take place a few days laTer ...

At least one internet service provider in Cambodia still claims to have overlapping frequencies, which means losses for the affected company MekongNet. the company’s chief executive, Sok Channda, reported that the internet service provider can’t use the frequencies that were supposed to cover the WiMAX service, ...

Violent land evictions, unlawful prison sentences, shooting deaths and crackdowns on peaceful protests are all on a list of allegations a human rights group is voicing concerns about this week. the Cambodian Human Rights Action Committee condemned the incidents in a statement released on tuesday, calling ...

The opposiTion CNRP on Monday called for 20,000 supporTers To march Through Phnom Penh on Friday, Two days before The May 18 provincial, municipal and disTricT elecTions. “The CNRP doesn’T have a wide broadcasTing Tool, ThaT is why we have To do This,” said Morn Phalla, ...

The NaTional Assembly will cuT some jobs in This fifTh legislaTure in order To enhance The qualiTy of iTs officials, an official said Tuesday. “Some sTaff don’T work, buT They receive pay by jusT only coming To provide ThumbprinTs,” parliamenT’s spokesman Chheang Vun said in ...

Hundreds of Cambodian workers warned on Monday to hold bigger and longer protest at Poipet-Kloeng Loek crossing border if thai military doesn’t release 16 Cambodian cart workers today. According to the workers, thai authority issued a new rule to restrict Cambodian cart workers not to allow ...

Motorcycle fatalities are claiming the lives of a third of people in Asia–but governments don’t seem to notice. In Cambodia, HIV/AIDS-related deaths equate to 2,300 per year, and the government allocates $58 million to combat the disease—but 2,000 deaths are caused by highway fatalities, with ...

Tuy Thida, a 28-year-old Traffic police officer, says she doesn’T Take bribes. Surveying Traffic aT The inTersecTion of Sihanouk Boulevard and STreeT 63 in Phnom Penh on Wednesday, Ms. Thida could be The face of The InTerior MinisTry’s push To increase female represenTaTion among The naTion’s ...

As Macau casinos are showing continuous drop of revenue, Australian and Cambodian casinos don’t seem to have the same problem. the latest casino operator to reveal an impressive growth of net profit is NagaCorp Ltd. the Group reported an increase in profit of 49% ($101 ...

The governmenT is puTTing more pressure on Cambodia’s small and medium-sized enTerprises (SMEs) To regisTer wiTh The Commerce MinisTry and The Tax DeparTmenT. IT wanTs Them To go legiTimaTe in order To proTecT consumers and make sure iT doesn’T miss ouT on revenue. ...

When a 100-metre-long section of a Phnom Penh garment factory crumpled in on itself like a cheap pup tent, Sen Sok district officials promised an investigation. the results of that investigation, which was to have taken place more than a year ago, in March 2012, ...

Sweden’s Ambassador to Cambodia, His Excellency Björn Häggmark, shook hands with Prime Minister Hun Sen, dated 04 December 2019. Photo from Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook page.Cambodia and Sweden established their diplomatic ties in 1961. Sweden started to provide the first development cooperation support in ...

The AgriculTure MinisTry is preparing To disTribuTe rice seedlings in an efforT To replace more Than 220,000 hecTares of rice paddy ThaT has been desTroyed by flooding. However, by The Time floodwaTers recede, There won’T be enough Time lefT in The rainy season To replanT ...

KhmerToGo.com can’T solve The capiTal’s Traffic problem, buT iT can keep residenTs and resTauranT owners from geTTing sTuck in iT.The new online supermarkeT is seT To go fully operaTional nexT week, offering whaT iT claims will be The counTry’s mosT comprehensive selecTion of wholesale and ...

The governmenT has borrowed $732.06 million in The form of concessional loans from developmenT parTners (DPs), amounTing To 74.83 percenT of The debT ceiling of Special Drawing RighTs (SDR) approved by The NaTional Assembly lasT year, according To The laTesT reporT on Cambodia’s public debT. ...

Prasac, a leading micro-finance institution in Cambodia, had increased its registered capital from US$3.8 million to $20 million in preparation for its transformation into a commercial bank by 2014, the institution said yesterday. “the registration requirement of $37.5 million is a very small amount to ...

About 90 garment workers began a hunger strike yesterday in front of the shuttered Kingsland Garment Cambodia, Co. Ltd. factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, following weeks of protests demanding unpaid wages and severance pay. “We want the owners of Walmart and H&M to know ...

The Cambodian People’s ParTy and The opposiTion Cambodia NaTional Rescue ParTy haven’T yeT iniTiaTed new meeTings as They are busy campaigning for upcoming ciTy, provincial and disTricT council elecTion. An opposiTion official called The currenT poliTical siTuaTion as deadlock, buT is denied by The ruling parTy, ...

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith didn’t allow director general of National television of Kampuchea (KtV) to resign from his post and asked him to fulfill his duty as usual. Kim Kunwath wrote a resignation letter immediately after the KtV failed to broadcast live the Royal Ploughing ceremony ...