Prime Minister Hun sen and a visiting top Chinese official on saturday presided over the signing of 29 letters and memoranda covering a broad range of business and military deals, including a $195.5 million loan for Cambodia to purchase Chinese-made military helicopters. A summary of ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. AmbaSSador to Cambodia, William E. Todd returned from a reverSe trade miSSion in the United StateS to promote trade and inveStment opportunitieS in Cambodia. Around 50 Cambodian buSineSS repreSentativeS accompanied Mr. Todd in meetingS with Several U.S. buSineSSeS, inveStorS, and trade aSSociationS in Long Beach, SS='cambodia-color'>...

A U.S.-Korean joint venture iS in talkS with the government to build a helicopter manufacturing plant and a training facility for helicopter pilotS and mechanicS, an aviation official and a company repreSentative Said thiS week. Richard Pak, a repreSentative of South Korean firm Samik Bio Energy SS='cambodia-color'>...

Two years after breaking ground, a sugar refinery situated on a pair of controversial plantation belonging to CPP senator Ly Yong Phat and his wife will have its first test run on Monday, Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday. He said the refinery would be ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Australian government yesterday said it has been aware of poor working conditions and inappropriate surveying methods used on Cambodia’s railway rehabilitation project since February and had ordered that the project’s partners investigate the matters. “The Australian Government was alerted to possible concerns about workplace health ss='cambodia-color'>...

Democratic Kampuchea’s commerce committee was under the leadership of co-accused Khieu samphan and Ieng sary, testimony by former national bank deputy director sar Kimlomouth revealed yesterday at the Khmer Rouge tribunal. Although the Khmer Rouge regime had eliminated currency and attempted to turn the nation into ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five people were arrested early sunday morning for allegedly stealing more than 8,000 articles of clothing from shipping container on its way to Phnom Penh for export to the U.s., police said. The five suspects are accused of removing the garments from the cargo container as ss='cambodia-color'>...

The chairman of the U.S. HouSe of RepreSentativeS Committee on Foreign AffairS called on Prime MiniSter Hun Sen to Stand down during an event attended by CNRP Vice PreSident Kem Sokha in California on Saturday night. Speaking at a CNRP fundraiSing event, Ed Royce, a Republican SS='cambodia-color'>...

As military police began a 10-day training program with the U.s. military in Phnom Penh on Tuesday, questions are being raised again over Washington’s ongoing support to Cambodian security forces involved in serious human rights abuses. On January 3, military police officers opened fire with AK-47 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers whose homes will be destroyed if the controversial Lower sesan 2 Dam is built are to deliver today a letter to provincial authorities announcing that they refuse to be resettled. Meach Mean, coordinator of the 3s Rivers Protection Network, said the villagers, who hail from ss='cambodia-color'>...

October marks the start of the main rice harvest in Thailand, the world’s largest exporter of the grain. Traders are waiting to see the full impact of flooding on the crop, but it’s already clear that output across southeast Asia will fall substantially. The U.N.’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

North Korea and Cambodia have attempting to increase trade between the two nations with Cambodia exporting rice and North Korea exporting knowledge. North Korea is set to share its knowledge of small scale hydropower and mining expertise in exchange for rice, beans and corn imports. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong will travel to the U.s. on saturday to hold separate discussions with secretary of state Hillary Clinton and senator Jim Webb, chairman of the subcommittee on East Asia and Pacific Affairs, the government said in a statement. Mr. Namhong’s visit comes ss='cambodia-color'>...

Poipet City authorities have given dozens of families living along a section of railway slated for renovation 10 days to move or face forcible eviction. Poipet City Deputy Governor An Vanak said that the eviction notice was sent Monday to about 40 families, only eight of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Capitalising on recent worldwide attention to their plight, some 200 villagers who say they’ve been robbed of their homes and land staged a vivid and stylised protest yesterday aimed at President Obama and secretary of state Hillary Clinton, calling for intervention in Phnom Penh’s land-titling ss='cambodia-color'>...

KOH KONG, CAMBODIA — A Thai force dubbed the “Rambo Army” couldn’t stop the gangs, armed with battlefield weaponry, as they scoured the forests. Neither could a brave activist, gunned down when he came to investigate. Nor, apparently, can governments across southeast Asia. The root of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of a massive hydropower dam project in stung Treng province’s sesan district approached local authorities late last month informing them that the government had granted the company permission to clear 36,000 hec­tares of land for a reservoir, officials said on sunday. The 400-megawatt Lower se­san ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chartered direct flights from Taiwan to Cambodia were re-launched on February 7 by Taiwanese airline Far Eastern Air Transport, one year after the company abruptly suspended the flights over a dispute with its Cambodian airline partner over unpaid aviation fuel. six flights have been ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 3,000 workers at a factory supplying clothes to U.s. brands Levi strauss and Old Navy blocked traffic for nearly five hours yesterday on National Road 4 in Kandal province, as part of a protest for more benefits and severance pay, protesters and police said. Protests ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 10 workers were beaten by police and military police during a protest over severance payments yesterday in Kandal province, workers and union representatives said. Protests at Tai Yang Enterprises—which supplies clothing to U.s. brands Levi strauss and Old Navy—in Ang snuol district have been ongoing ss='cambodia-color'>...