Facilitated by Taiwan’s First Commercial Bank, seven foreign banks provided $35 million in a syndicated loan to sathapana Bank Plc, a newly formed Cambodian commercial bank, to expand its existing microfinance operations and broaden its commercial lending portfolio. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Meanchey district police and security guards yesterday clashed with about 70 Koh Kong province villagers at the capital’s samaki Rainsy pagoda, shoving and pushing them as they tried to make their way to the Ministry of Land Management. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The tripartite working group tasked with setting the minimum wage in Cambodia’s garment industry is slated to officially convene today, with the results of the negotiations to be announced on October 5 if all goes to plan. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new initiative led by Interpol will focus on improving border security in southeast Asia, with the international police body warning that increased cross-border criminal activity will be a likely unintended consequence of the region’s growing integration. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The lawyer of a 19-year-old high school student who has accused a district police chief in Kompong Chhnang province of raping her says her client will appeal a prosecutor’s decision to close the case without explanation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About $115 million worth of concessional loans to Cambodia and a mutual extradition treaty were approved during a meeting between Prime Minister Hun sen and French President Francois Hollande in Paris on Monday, according to Mr. Hun sen’s Facebook page. ss='cambodia-color'>...

At a time when he’s facing one of the tensest political periods since the 2013 national elections, Prime Minister Hun sen last saturday took time to tell a former bitter enemy he has a “very sweet” voice. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chea Chamroeun, who became a member of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party in 1993, submitted a resignation this week, claiming who would rather focus on communities than remain in a climate of political conflict. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has rejected a request from the Royal Academy for Judicial Professionals to provide observers at the upcoming exam for new judges and prosecutors, according to a letter posted to the unit’s website on sunday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition lawmaker Um sam An, who was at the fore of the CNRP’s efforts earlier this year to reveal Vietnamese encroachments into Cambodia, said on Monday that he had entered self-imposed exile along with opposition leader sam Rainsy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Around 50 people representing 83 households from Lor Peang village in Kampong Chhnang yesterday refused concessions offered to them during a meeting with the National Assembly’s Commission on Human Rights, Complaints, and Investigation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police officials yesterday called for tougher sentencing of drug dealers and for the government to make it “easier and faster [for police] to seize their property”, as the Interior Ministry’s annual drugs conference wrapped in the capital. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Every day, hundreds of tourists flock to the Tuol sleng Genocide Museum to hear macabre stories of killings and torture carried out inside the prison once at the heart of the Khmer Rouge’s security apparatus.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

A visiting representative of JsC Russian Railways, the state-run firm that manages rail infrastructure and operates passenger and freight services in Russia, met executives of Cambodia’s railway operator yesterday to discuss possible cooperation between the two companies. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The smuggling of illegally cut timber from northeastern Cambodia’s Ratanakiri  province to Vietnam has dramatically increased since around April 17, with smugglers traveling the roads between the two countries day and night, sources in the region say. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) held a workShop on “Nuclear SafeguardS and the Additional Protocol” at Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Sunway Hotel yeSterday, highlighting the need for more technical knowledge and greater information Sharing on nuclear power in Cambodia. SS='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 pieces of luxury rosewood bearing Cambodian names and a phone number were found by Thai police and forest conservation officers in a national park in Thailand’s sa Kaeo province on Tuesday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

While Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries aims to increase fish production by 1.3 per cent this year, members of fishery organisations believe that is an unlikely target as drought conditions have tapped out natural resources. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Tuesday told Phnom Penh authorities and the Ministry of social Affairs to either improve the city’s notorious Prey speu detention center or shut it down in order to spare his government more embarrassment. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A reporter in Mondulkiri province who climbed a mango tree to look into a police official’s compound for a rumored stash of illegal timber over the weekend says he was later detained and threatened with a beating. ss='cambodia-color'>...