AirAsia, the Malaysia-based low-cost airline, will soon have an office in Cambodia to boost the number of tourist arrivals to the kingdom. The airline’s office will open soon, said AirAsia CEO Anthony Fernandes, after holding a meeting with Prime Minister Hun sen in switzerland on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Try Pheap, director general of the Try Pheap Group and widely known for his extensive involvement in the kingdom’s timber trade, told a government news outlet yesterday that he has ended his involvement in the logging business and did not burn down a lumber warehouse ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chip Mong Group is the latest conglomerate to invest into local production of animal feed, announcing this week that it will sink $60 million into building a large-scale feed mill and industrial piggery, a move that agricultural experts welcomed but said would still not be ss='cambodia-color'>...

At least six people were injured and 150 properties damaged during a storm in Pursat, Preah Vihear and Rattanakiri provinces. Preah Vihear province’s deputy police chief Chorm sam Ol said yesterday that based on preliminary reports, the storm started on Tuesday afternoon and destroyed 83 homes ss='cambodia-color'>...

The prime minister has gone as far as to warn that “civil war” could follow an opposition victory at the polls and equating the fallout to a return of the Khmer Rouge regime. Prime Minister Hun sen has frequently warned of impending conflict and instability ss='cambodia-color'>...

A remark by an opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) senior adviser that Minister of Interior sar Kheng would remain deputy prime minister if the opposition party won the 2018 national elections drew a terse response from the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), with the minister ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia National Rescue Party sent a letter on Monday to Interior Minister sar Kheng asking for clarification on a recently amended prakas that now requires eligible voters to get a police verification letter before a commune chief can attest to their place of residence, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 60,000 people have registered to vote in next year’s national election during the first week of registration. Hang Puthea, spokesman for the National Election Committee, said yesterday that 59,185 people across the country went to register from september 1 to september 10. Voter registration runs ss='cambodia-color'>...

Commercial lenders have said the central bank’s requirement that banks and microfinance institutions (MFIs) increase the share of local currency in their loan portfolio to at least 10 percent by the end of 2019 could prove challenging to implement as their biggest clients exhibit a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government recently laid out the framework for the creation of a National Council of Logistics, a specialised interministerial team designed to tackle the high costs of the Kingdom’s logistics sector to promote the efficient flow of exports, according to a royal decree issued ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new study has found that external donors wield outsize influence in determining national health care policies in Cambodia. The research was published earlier this month in the journal of the London school of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The study focused on Cambodia and Pakistan, ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 300 overloaded trucks were fined nearly $135,000 last month, causing the Transport Ministry to call for stricter action to protect the country’s roads.A Transport Ministry report said a committee comprised of ministry officials and law enforcement officers seized 307 overloaded trucks, resulting in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 400 members of the Prey Lang Community Network will hold the annual Prey Lang ceremony in late March to commemorate and preserve indigenous identities and promote the forest’s potential. Meanwhile, Prey Lang activists have claimed illegal logging still exists in the area, even though the ss='cambodia-color'>...

China’s Ministry of Defence yesterday provided 24 kinds of medical equipment to the state-run Preah Ket Mealea military hospital to support heart and blood treatments. During a ceremony in Phnom Penh, Lieutenant General Ly sovan, director of Preah Ket Mealea Hospital, said the hospital has often ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tax on nearly 6,000 vehicles across the country has not been paid on time as required, according to an inspection by the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Taxation. A press release by the GDT signed on March 16 and released yesterday said the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen and the United Nation’s Educational, scientific and Cultural Organisation will officially inaugurate a museum at the Preah Vihear World Heritage site on March 20. Nov sokuna, the director of the provincial culture and fine arts department, said the museum has been named ss='cambodia-color'>...

The General Department of Prisons has dismissed a report made by rights group Licadho which claimed there are violations of basic human rights in the Kingdom’s prisons. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) is sourcing for an advanced IT system in singapore to modernise the Kingdom’s tax system and improve its collection process and efficiency. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Surya Subedi, the UN&rSquo;S human rightS envoy to Cambodia, expreSSed concern Friday over land conceSSionS provided to private companieS that are forcing people from their land in the provinceS. “the royal government haS the primary reSponSibility for reSpecting, protecting and fulfilling the rightS of itS SS='cambodia-color'>...

A “public morality” clause in the draft AsEAN Declaration on Human Rights threatens the most basic rights of women and sexual minorities and should be scrapped, a coalition of women’s groups said in a statement released yesterday. Civil society groups met with foreign ministers at the ss='cambodia-color'>...