Ten former Borei Keila residents who were relocated to a site in Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district known as Phnom Bat filed a petition with the Ministry of Land Management yesterday requesting they either be given $5,000 and moved back to Phnom Penh or be ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 critically endangered royal turtles will be moved to a new center in Koh Kong’s Mondol seima district today with 13 siamese crocodiles also being relocated. Eng Mengey, communications officer for the Wildlife Conservation society (WCs), said royal turtles were now facing threats to ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the United states commits to admitting 10,000 refugees from the current conflict in syria, Cambodian refugees who arrived in the U.s. some 35 years ago say more needs to be done to help refugees resettle in order to prevent further suffering and future social ss='cambodia-color'>...

France’s BRED Bank, one of the largest lenders in Europe, plans to open its first branch in Cambodia by the end of the year as it expands its network in AsEAN, its CEO said, adding that it aims to assist  small and medium-sized enterprises (sMEs) ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia canceled two offshore licenses of Malaysia’s operator Resourceful Petroleum, due to violations of the concession agreement and not performing obligations of petroleum agreements. The two licenses were for development and operations of offshore oil Block B and Block F, which has sufficient resources of oil ss='cambodia-color'>...

Plaza Premium Group, the Hong Kong-based company that opened its first lounge in Cambodia at Phnom Penh International Airport last month, will open its second lounge in siem Reap airport by the end of next month, according to the firm that manages the Kingdom’s three ss='cambodia-color'>...

Yon Kob’s cassava fields in sala Krao district have usually been harvested by now, but this year the thicket of thin, knobby cassava plants is still standing. Mr. Kob has delayed his harvest in the hope that the price of the tuber would rise, but ss='cambodia-color'>...

Furious investors who claim they were cheated out of thousands of dollars by a now defunct financial firm that directed them to buy stock in a Hong Kong-based ponzi scheme set up camp in front of Prime Minister Hun sen’s house on Thursday, imploring him ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s cassava growers have been asked to target Thailand as an export market due to the high demand for the starch-tuber in the neighboring country to produce ethanol, animal feed and flour, while little is done at home to stabilize prices and provide assistance to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s market regulator has released listing criteria for a new trading platform – with reduced accounting and capital requirements – aimed at making it easier for small- and mid-sized firms to list on the fledgling stock exchange, sok Dara, deputy director general of the securities ss='cambodia-color'>...

Doubts have been cast on long-standing plans for a 34-hectare dumpsite in Pailin’s samlot Protected Forest following an inspection by the environment minister on saturday. Ministry spokesman sao sopheap yesterday said that following the inspection, the minister has called for further research before the project ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is quietly reducing troop numbers on the contentious shared border with Thailand in Preah Vihear province.Citing the current good relations with the Kingdom’s western neighbour, Ministry of Defence spokesman Chhum socheath yesterday said members of three units had been ordered to leave the border ss='cambodia-color'>...

The author Ly Sambo Survived the Khmer Rouge and eventually made her way to America aS a refugee. Her Story iS not uncommon from that of other SurvivorS of Cambodia&rSquo;S atrocitieS and warS. But She SayS She helped herSelf reconcile with the brutal paSt by SS='cambodia-color'>...

Despite a slew of global investment banks slashing their oil price forecasts this week, KrisEnergy —the singaporean oil and gas firm with a controlling stake in Cambodia’s most promising offshore oil reserve, Block A—remains committed to helping Cambodia produce its first drop of oil, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The outgoing CEO of ANZ Royal Bank is leaving with a note of caution about the swift growth of lending in Cambodia, while noting that the banking sector had become much more competitive and technologically advanced during his four-year tenure at the helm of one ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia on sunday promised villagers in stung Treng province who are set to be displaced by the construction of the Lower sesan 2 hydropower dam that she would raise their plight with the government, a village representative said.    ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of kilograms of dead fish have washed up on the shores of the Mekong in stung Treng’s Thala Barivat district in the past month, and while environmental activists blame construction of the controversial Don sahong dam upstream, officials yesterday said the fish are being ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials at the Prey speu social Affairs Center in Phnom Penh’s Por senchey district are scrambling to deflect criticism after reports surfaced that a young boy and a man were beaten and injured there, with the director of the center saying the boy injured himself ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty families lost their homes when a riverbank collapsed into the Mekong yesterday in Kandal’s Loeuk Dek district, according to local authorities. Nov samnang, Loeuk Dek district governor, said yesterday that three houses were partially submerged in the river, while 17 others were intentionally dismantled ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Ministry of Defence has demanded an apology from Thai media outlets for reports linking Defence Minister Tea Banh to a recent case of alleged cross-border arms smuggling by a Thai air force officer, one which has also ensnared an official from Cambodia’s Interior Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...