Internet service protocol company Mega will join the Cambodia’s gaggle of active providers today after launching an unconventional marketing campaign that sought to stir curiosity. Four billboards without a clear company name appeared around Phnom Penh in early January. “Something Mega is coming soon” the ad, ...

As Khmer New Year approaches, Phnom Penh Municipality has once again made its annual appeal to bus companies and taxi drivers not to raise fees during the holiday. But as usual, drivers and companies say they will be ignoring the request. Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema said ...

In a speech to workers yesterday, Prime Minister Hun Sen pinned the blame for any damage inflicted on Cambodia’s garment industry by potential economic sanctions squarely on the opposition party. “You must remember clearly that if the purchase orders are reduced, it is all the ...

When government-aligned Fresh News reported on Sunday that bilateral trade between the US and Cambodia had increased to $3.46 billion last year, up more than 8 percent from the year before, they weren’t using Cambodian government data. Nor was the state-run Agence Kampuchea Presse using government ...

The illegal filling of a mangrove foresT in Peam Krasaop Wildlife SancTuary is being invesTigaTed, Koh Kong provincial auThoriTies said yesTerday, Though officials say They sTill don’T know who is behind The crime. Sok SoThy, depuTy provincial governor, said The sand dredging and filling in of ...

More than 100 staffers protested outside a Honda NCX company in Por Sen Chey district’s Choam Chao commune yesterday because they say employees are being sacked for trying to unionise, among other grievances. Soeurn Sot, a technician at the company, said during the protest that if ...

Two sisTers from Preah Vihear’s Kulen disTricT hired To work in Malaysia as maids by Mey Yorn Services have noT been heard from in more Than Two years, Their moTher said yesTerday. Sok Noun, 45, hasn’T spoken To her daughTers Bien Phok, 17, and Bien Phoun, ...

Professor Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate who is considered the founding father of microfinance, urged an assembled crowd at the Royal University of Phnom Penh yesterday to start thinking about creating so-called social businesses. “Charity money goes, and does wonderful work, but it doesn’t come back,” ...

The NaTional ElecTion CommiTTee has expressed concern over wheTher The InTerior MinisTry will be able To issue enough new biomeTric idenTiTy cards – which ensure voTer names aren’T duplicaTed – in Time for iT To regisTer voTers ahead of The 2017 commune elecTions. The issue, among ...

SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia—In this quiet beach town, Lim Loeung says she spends up to 80 hours a week gluing soles onto shoes at a factory that does work for companies including Japanese sneaker-maker Asics Corp. 7936.tO +0.95% the factory believes Ms. Lim is at least 18 ...

Cambodia’s legal and policy framework provides little opportunity for citizens and civil society organisations to have a say in public financial management at the national level, said a study by NGO Forum which was released on tuesday. ...

Over the past 22 years, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has distributed 1,356,396.16ha of land to 487,157 households, including members of the armed forces, border police officers and poor people. ...

The NaTional Bank of Cambodia (NBC) will proceed wiTh anoTher aucTion process for The MinisTry of Economy and Finance (MEF) To borrow abouT $50 million from invesTors for The second Time of The governmenT’s plan of issuance for a longer period of Time of repaymenT ...

One of three women shot during a protest outside the Kaoway Sports factory in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet town on February 20 accused deposed town governor Chhouk Bandith of the crime yesterday, but told a judge she hadn’t been sure until seeing a media report ...

Four men were granted bail by Pursat provincial court on Saturday after they were caught illegally transporting 11 timber logs in Phnom Kravanh district on thursday. Provincial Department of Agriculture director Lay Visith on Sunday said provincial forestry administration officials sent the four to court ...

A ToyoTa SUV and The load of illegally logged luxury wood found inside iT on Monday belong To The wife of a disTricT police chief in Tbong Khmum province, according To local officials, who say They have no inTenTion of Taking acTion againsT The couple. “We ...

Nget Khun, a 76-year-old known to some in Cambodia’s capital as “Grandma Mommy,” hasn’t had a quiet retirement. A World Bank spokesperson said the bank is in discussions with the government about “how to support the country’s development in a way that benefits all Cambodians.” ...

Local private airline Aero Cambodia intends to launch domestic chartered flights by the end of this year once it receives approval from the government. the airline is preparing to apply for its air operator certificate from the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) and hopes to ...

Beginning this year, all public schools will be required to conduct regularly scheduled forums designed to function as a sounding board between teachers, parents and students, officials said yesterday. the meetings will encourage dialogue about what is and isn’t working in Cambodian schools, Education Minister Hang ...

The Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone has 77 TenanTs from nine counTries and 80 per cenT occupancy, buT high elecTriciTy cosTs and corrupTion remain a drag on profiTs. The main issue is elecTriciTy cosTs, says PPSEZ chief execuTive Hiroshi UmaeTsu. “If [elecTriciTy] goes from 19 ...