The chairman of the National Assembly’s Commission on Legislation and Justice has called for a united effort to safeguard the rights and interests of indigenous peoples. Pen Panha said Cambodia paid attention to indigenous peoples in areas such as tradition, identity, land ownership, and rights to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite the widely condemned pre-election dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, the country’s only major opposition party, by the supreme Court earlier this month, the heightened risk of political instability is expected to have limited short-term economic spill-over effects, according to an assessment from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cabinet chief Phat Sikan waS elected aS the new preSident of the Beehive Social Democratic Party after the party held a congreSS on Sunday in Kandal province.&nbSp;Mr Sikan, 64, waS elected to lead BSDP at the congreSS in Kien Svay diStrict&rSquo;S Koki commune, attended by SS='cambodia-color'>...

Ratankkiri provincial authorities are trying to resolve a border dispute with Vietnam, urging the Vietnamese to reopen four recently blocked border crossings, according to National Police spokesman Kirth Chantharith. The conflict originated when Cambodia rejected Vietnam’s proposal to build four new, formal border checkpoints, only accepting ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s tourism sector earned $3.63 billion in revenue last year, an increase of 13.3 percent, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Tourism. Last year, international travellers visiting the kingdom spent 5.6 million, 11.8 percent more than in 2016, according to Kong sophearak, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The King has signed off on promotions for more than 300 Royal Cambodian Armed Forces officers in December and January, including at least six generals who recently joined the ruling CPP’s Central Committee. The mass military promotion – the second so far this year – brings ss='cambodia-color'>...

The German airline Condor Air launched its first direct flight from Frankfurt to Cambodia’s siem Reap province famous for its world heritage site on saturday morning. Landing at the siem Reap International Airport, the aircraft was cordially greeted by Cambodian government officials including Mao Havannall, secretary ss='cambodia-color'>...

Microfinance institution sathapana has increased its maximum loan size to Us$200,000, a 300 per cent increase from the previous level of $50,000. The upgrade in loan size is a result of Cambodia’s good economic climate and the expectation that there will be demand among customers for ss='cambodia-color'>...

A dispute over the sacking of 67 workers from the Angkor Village Hotel and Resort in siem Reap in August looks set for court again, but a labour rights advocate believes justice is no closer for workers. Dave Welshsaid even if a court again ruled in ss='cambodia-color'>...

A union employee representing striking workers from a factory that supplies Levi’s and Gap was left a bloodied mess near Wat Botum yesterday after police allegedly attacked him. According to rights groups, police set upon Long Panha, of the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (CATU), who ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s waterways go largely unused for domestic shipping, a factor hurting the competitveness of the country’s logistics and agriculture sectors, experts said yesterday. Cambodia lost ground this year in a measure of logistics performance. As rice millers and exporters push toward the 1 million-tonne rice goal ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) is constructing a spacious new office building in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district, though officials at the central bank yesterday insisted there were no plans in store to vacate their current, storied headquarters on Norodom Boulevard. “The headquarters will remain where it is ss='cambodia-color'>...

While the scores of new condominium properties appearing in Phnom Penh are selling well, their buyers are mainly speculators hoping to make quick profits, a leading property firm said. A report by international realty group CB Richard Ellis (CBRE), distributed Wednesday, says that the city’s property market in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bun Chhorn and Sok Tong &ndaSh; fugitiveS accuSed of orcheStrating a “SeceSSioniSt plot” in Kratie province &ndaSh; are refuSing to admit their guilt, and will hold a preSS conference Friday in Phnom Penh to Say aS much, deSpite Hun Sen&rSquo;S recent promiSe to drop their SS='cambodia-color'>...

Mobile operator Beeline yesterday announced the departure of siddhanta Kothari as its general director of Cambodian operations after just two months in the job. According to the statement, Mr. Kothari had been seated in the position for a fixed two-month term to “ensure the sustainability of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Pou Puy, president of the Cambodian Rice Millers Association, said that the export of Cambodia’s white rice faces challenges in terms of both quantity and competitive pricing, as exports of milled rice dropped about 35 per cent for the first half of 2012 compared to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipality issued a statement yesterday accusing the Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions of violating their agreement when a garment workers’ protest on July 11 turned violent. some 20 garment factory workers from the Tai Yang factory had marched to submit a petition to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Philippine ambassador in Cambodia is confident there will be more direct flights between the two Asian countries, apart from the current Manila-siem Reap route, which is six hours away by land from this capital. Ambassador Noe Wong expressed optimism there will be another memorandum of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite the spread of web-enabled smartphones and tablets in Cambodia, internet service providers expected the number of fixed-line applications to grow, two industry insiders said yesterday. “With the advent of tablets and faster smartphones, it’s inevitable that people will use their devices more and more for ss='cambodia-color'>...

At least one internet service provider in Cambodia still claims to have overlapping frequencies, which means losses for the affected company MekongNet. The company’s chief executive, sok Channda, reported that the internet service provider can’t use the frequencies that were supposed to cover the WiMAX service, ss='cambodia-color'>...