The Interior Ministry on Friday warned guesthouses and clubs that they will face the law if they do not step up their efforts to ban illegal drugs use in their facilities. As part of the ministry’s ongoing campaign against drugs, the ministry said it has ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union yesterday adopted a set of conclusions condemning “recent worrying political developments and the continuing deterioration of democracy” in Cambodia, though some politicians expressed regret about a missed opportunity to take concrete measures. The conclusions, passed by the European ss='cambodia-color'>...

Preah Sihanouk provincial authoritieS and relevant departmentS have aSked buSineSSeS and tour operatorS in Sihanoukville to enhance the city&rSquo;S beauty and prevent Sewage from flowing into the Sea, while warning of adminiStrative meaSureS for thoSe failing to comply.&nbSp;A notice concerning order at Ochheuteal Beach waS SS='cambodia-color'>...

A Social AffairS MiniStry delegation iS in Thailand to diScuSS the poSSible conStruction of a tranSit centre in Banteay Meanchey province&rSquo;S Poipet city SpecialiSed in facilitating the return of human trafficking victimS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

PTT, Thailand’s largest oil and gas conglomerate said it plans to conduct a feasibility study on petrochemical and oil refinery projects in three AsEAN countries – Cambodia, Indonesia and Myanmar, according to Dow Jones Newswires. Pailin Chuchottaworn, PTT chief executive said, however, that Indonesia and Myanmar ss='cambodia-color'>...

Provincial forestry administration officials in Ratanakkiri have dismissed allegations of illegal logging by community residents and chalked the deforestation up to legitimate clearing. A cursory examination of the land in question yesterday seemed to back the company’s claims, Ly sophan, a team worker at the provincial ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian authorities announced yesterday they would release six Laos who were arrested in Cambodia last Thursday on suspicion of illegal logging, provided that Laos cooperates with broader border negotiations in stung Treng province’s siam Pang district, where the men were arrested. svay Nhoun, a stung Treng ss='cambodia-color'>...

TTY director-general Na Marady, a well-known Cambodian tycoon, has been accused of owing money to farmers from whom he bought potatoes on credit more than a year ago in Memot district’s Koki and Kompoan communes in Kampong Cham province. The villagers complained on Friday that Na ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and Vietnam’s border shuffle in Kampong Cham won’t involve ceding the two previously discussed villages to Vietnam, a government official said yesterday, but it will include farmland meant to compensate Vietnam for the ethnic Khmer villages on what is believed to be the Vietnamese ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia planned to allocate 3. 1 billion U.S. dollarS, in equivalent to 19.8 percent of the country&rSquo;S GDP, for national expenSeS in 2013, a 12.9 percent riSe year-on-year, finance miniSter Keat Chhon Said Friday. Speaking to reporterS after a meeting at the National ASSembly, the miniSter SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Kratie Provincial Court yesterday issued a search warrant for the home of Chum Vuthy, a man who allegedly trades in luxury wood, in Kratie City, provincial police said. Mr. Vuthy had been transporting a load of illegal lumber from stung Treng City to Vietnam and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The families of six maids from Kampong Chhnang province who left to work in Malaysia have filed complaints with human rights group Adhoc after losing contact with the women for more than two years, rights workers said yesterday. soum Chankea, Adhoc’s provincial co-ordinator, said the complaints ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fifty-eight Cambodian migrant workers, 40 of whom who were reportedly arrested and beaten by the police in Thailand’s songkla province last month, returned to their home provinces on saturday after their employer gave back their passports, said a worker representative yesterday. “We don’t know yet if ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite receiving applications from banks looking to enter Cambodia’s market, the central bank has said it will offer no more commercial banking licenses as the market already has enough players. The decision appears to follow advice offered by the International Monetary Fund earlier this year that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc. (EGA), a U.s.-listed gaming firm operating primarily in Cambodia, posted a 93 percent decrease in profits for the first nine months of the year compared to the same period in 2011, according to the company’s financial statement released Tuesday. “The decrease ss='cambodia-color'>...

Myanmar Airways International (MAI) will resume its regular flights between Yangon and Cambodia’s two main international airports in early December after they were suspended for about three months. MAI started a twice-weekly schedule to siem Reap in late February, but suspended the route over the last ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s AsEAN economic minister said the official launch of the negotiations for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) will lead to potentially forming the biggest single market in the region and is much bigger than the traditional markets of the Us and the EU. An economist ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh, which currently has six satellite cities under development, may be jumping the gun in terms of the demand for them, according to a new report from global real estate firm CBRE. In its latest MarketView report, CBRE says bluntly that currently “demand for satellite ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian-Japanese bank Maruhan Japan opened an office in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on saturday, making it the second Cambodian bank and the first Japanese bank to come to that country. Maruhan’s presence in Laos would boost economic and investment ties between the two AsEAN member ss='cambodia-color'>...

Less than 30 per cent of complaints filed to the government’s National Authority for Land Dispute Resolution (NALDR) throughout 2012 were resolved, according to its annual report released yesterday. According to the document, distributed yesterday at the NALDR annual convention, the government body, which comprises representatives ss='cambodia-color'>...