Vattanac Properties Ltd’s president has denied ownership of a building site where construction has damaged the surrounding block of historic French Colonial era buildings. Chhung Leang who is also a cofounder of Vattanac Bank has said that the site is owned by an individual but ss='cambodia-color'>...

A week after government officials ordered Vattanac Properties to halt work on a construction site causing damage to a string of colonial-era building along Phnom Penh’s sIsowath Quay, representatives from the company arrived at the scene yesterday to inspect the affected buildings. Three Vattanac employees, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Bank of India will move to a larger location on Norodom Boulevard, aiming to attract increased business from both Cambodian and Indian clients, said Chief Manager sripada Rao. The Mumbai, India-based bank first opened in the Kingdom in 2009 headquartered on the capital’s Monivong ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 workers collapsed at the Anful Garments Factory in Kampong speu yesterday after the cloth they were working with was sprayed with insecticide on sunday, a senior provincial health official said. Or Vanthen, director of the Kampong speu provincial health department, said 144 workers ss='cambodia-color'>...

TWO activists involved in last month’s Prey Lang forest protest against illegal logging fled their houses yesterday in sandan district in an attempt to evade local authorities, villagers reported. Roeun sopheap, village representative in sandan commune, said he fled his home yesterday after finding several police ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japan’s second-largest bank, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, officially opened a representative office in Phnom Penh on Friday. The office would serve as an information centre for potential investors and hoped to attract more Japanese companies, Masato Miyachi, general manager of the bank’s Asia and China division, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four former workers at the Angkor Villa Hotel and Resort appeared in the Appeal Court yesterday for questioning in relation to allegations that they ransacked the hotel during a strike last year. Korng Kimlean, union president of the Cambodian Tourism and service Workers’ Federation and the ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 high-ranking Cambodian People’s Party and Royal Cambodian Armed Forces officials were named and shamed by a Cambodian election monitoring organisation yesterday at a workshop on misuse of state property. The Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) distributed a detailed list ss='cambodia-color'>...

2,000 some fashionistas from around Asia will descend on Phnom Penh in October for 10 days during the country’s first fashion event, costing an estimated $1 million. According to sophy Ke, president of the Cambodia Fashion Council, Cambodia Fashion Week is intended to increase domestic ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian exporters ought to make further use of tariff-free entry to the European Union, particularly given loosened regulations governing rule of origin, EU officials said at a trade seminar yesterday. Least Developed Countries such as the Kingdom could export to the EU duty and quota ss='cambodia-color'>...

At least 50 garment factory workers fainted over the past two days in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district, bringing the number of workers who have fainted in the district in August to 60, workers and union members said yesterday. N Tuesday, workers from Heart Enterprise Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia firm Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a singapore-based company to develop a high-output rice seed factory in the Kingdom. The cooperation between major investment firm OCIC and agriculture research company smah Prum Royal International Pte Ltd is set to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Salt farmerS in Kampot and Kep may be unable to harveSt the roughly 90,000 tonS they Sell annually due to exceSSive rainS, and the country may have to turn to foreign marketS, producerS Said yeSterday. Ly Sreng, deputy chief of the Kep-Kampot Salt ProducerS Community, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is close to a deal that would ship as much as 20,000 tonnes of milled rice to Indonesia, according to sources familiar with the matter. Thon Virak, director of state-owned rice exporter Green Trade and chairman of Federation of Milled Rice Exporters Association, said Green ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is close to a deal that would ship as much as 20,000 tonnes of milled rice to Indonesia, according to sources familiar with the matter. Thon Virak, director of state-owned rice exporter Green Trade and chairman of Federation of Milled Rice Exporters Association, said Green ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 400 families in Kampong Cham province’s Chup commune had filed a complaint yesterday to local authorities over relocation orders issued last week, villagers said. Hom Hon, 55, a retired rubber plantation worker and former employee of sopheak Nika Investment Group Company, said that on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tumpuon ethnic minorities residing in seda commune, in Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district, on Monday accused authorities of colluding to sell 100 hectares of protected land in the Lumphat Wildlife sanctuary  that they say belongs to the community ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of election observers from six countries and leaders of the National Election Committee (NEC) claimed that sunday’s national elections were free, fair and transparent. They also congratulated the 82 per cent of registered voters who turned up at the polls. The statements were made ss='cambodia-color'>...

An assessement of plans to build a groundbreaking trade logistics centre west of Phnom Penh will begin soon, the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation said. An early stage feasibility analysis of the Phnom Penh Logistics Complex is set to begin early next year, supported ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has reminded newly-elected municipal, provincial, town and district councillors that they are obliged to declare their assets and debts within a maximum of 30 days after taking office or they will be forced to resign from office. But councillors who declared ss='cambodia-color'>...