What do three Cambodian teenage girls, a French T-shirt designer, a Japanese doctoral student and a Cambodian businessman have in common? On Thursday afternoon, they were all captured by the appeal of BRow Coffee and Bakery on street 214. The value of this crowd of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s largest bank is ready to launch its first micro-finance institution (MFI) in Myanmar, but one final barrier remains: an operating licence from Myanmar’s government. Acleda Bank’s chief executive, In Channy, expects the licence to be granted by the end of this month. Once that is done, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Visitors hoping to stay in Phnom Penh’s top hotels in the coming days will have to seek shelter elsewhere, as the city’s most sought after rooms are booked solid for the East Asia and Asean summits, hoteliers said yesterday. “We are completely full during the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A rubber company that has been repeatedly accused of encroaching on communal land belonging to an ethnic minority in Ratanakkiri province has cleared 150 hectares of forest outside of its economic land concession (ELC) in the past month, according to the senior investigator for local ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government announced Monday that it will open a new passport office in the northwest province of Battambang, the first such office outside Phnom Penh. In a statement, posted to the Ministry of Interior website, the ministry said that the new passport office will serve people ss='cambodia-color'>...

SamSung planS to more than quadruple itS number of StoreS &ndaSh; currently Seven &ndaSh; in the Kingdom, aiming to have 30 brancheS by the end of thiS year. The move will extend itS lead aS the electronic brand with the moSt StoreS here, and comeS aS SS='cambodia-color'>...

A coalition of NGOs yesterday implored Prime Minister Hun sen to shelve the government’s plans for the stung Cheay Areng hydropower dam in Koh Kong province and instead turn the wilderness area in question into an eco-tourism site. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In 2009, a railway project official arrived at 45-year-old Ry Preng’s home in Por sen Chey district and spray-painted “1.042” in red on the side of his house. He wasn’t sure what it meant, but was told that at some point he would need to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Looking out from his house, held up by three-meter stilts on a peninsula that juts into Boeng Tompun lake, Chan sokhom can see the sand inching closer to him every day. Within a few years, the sand will likely reach his doorstep. By then, Mr. sokhom ss='cambodia-color'>...

In June, after about a quarter million migrant workers returned from their jobs in Thailand fearing the military junta’s crackdown on illegal labor, Cambodia’s government announced it had slashed the cost of emigration, and would charge workers only $49 to legally return to work across ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...