Cambodia Bayon Airlines says it is getting closer to a launch date for its domestic services. The airline’s parent company, Bayon Holdings Limited ‘svice president, Taing Chung Leang, told local media that Cambodia Bayon Airlines plans its launch by the end of the year. “Bayon will sign ss='cambodia-color'>...

California-based real estate firm Century 21 enters the emerging Cambodian property market with today’s formal opening of its local operations in the country. According to Goos, the local franchise of Century 21 would concentrate on foreign buyers, especially on selling new condominiums, to avoid competing ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court will be seeing a lot of union leader Ath Thorn next week. From next Monday through Thursday, it has summonsed the president of the country’s largest independent union to three rounds of questioning over three separate cases in which Mr. Thorn ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new wetland protected area may be implemented in Battambang province following talks between scientists, Asian governments and conservation groups held in siem Reap this week. The message seems to have been heard, at least by the Ministry of Environment, which yesterday said it would ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police and Forestry Administration officials in Banteay Meanchey province confiscated more than 120 pieces of illegally logged luxury-grade wood in two separate operations on Tuesday and Wednesday, officials said Thursday. In one case, authorities on Wednesday found 75 pieces of beng and thnong wood inside a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police arrested another opposition activist Thursday morning for his alleged involvement in the violent July 15 protest at Freedom Park that the courts have labeled an attempted insurrection, a party official and police said. Tep Narin, a CNRP activist in his 30s, was arrested at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of people gathered yesterday morning in front of Phnom Penh’s Prey sar prison to demand the release of 17 incarcerated activists, monks and opposition members. The detainees include 10 land activists, three monks and four members of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party. Fifteen of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday wrapped up its three-day trial of self-exiled Cambodian sourn serey Ratha and three others accused of colluding to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Hun sen, hearing hours of old statements from the dissident. Mr. serey Ratha, president of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s local authorities will receive a pay bump of up to 60 per cent starting this month, the government revealed yesterday. A commune chief will now get 400,000 riel (about $100) per month, up from 300,000 riel ($75); first and second deputy commune chiefs will get ss='cambodia-color'>...

Civil society leaders on sunday called on the country’s two major political parties to scrap plans to ban them from giving media interviews during election campaigns and from issuing statements that “insult” any party. CPP Deputy Prime Minister Bin Chhin and senior CNRP official Kuoy Bunroeun, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A monday walk-out by cleaners at Phnom Penh International Airport has resulted in the company the airport enlists for sanitary services agreeing to hike employees’ monthly salaries by $20 yesterday. More than 30 employees at HCC Co, the airport’s cleaning service, walked off the job, demanding ss='cambodia-color'>...

The “temporary suspension” of construction works widely believed to have damaged Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building was officially lifted on the same day it was announced, according to a government notice. Large cracks appeared across the southern part of the historic apartment block on sunday evening, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A state secrets law being drafted by the Interior Ministry will not be used to target reporting on sensitive issues such as corruption, a senior military police official said yesterday. The National Police announced that the law was being drafted late last month following a ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Vietnamese-owned company in Preah Vihear province has cleared land claimed by hundreds of villagers to plant crops in violation of the law, a complaint filed with rights groups alleges. The community in Rovieng district’s Ruosroan commune, comprising 127 families, claims that since January last year, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s apparent unwillingness to take seriously evidence of continued large-scale illegal logging orchestrated by the Try Pheap Group is “disappointing”, Global Witness said yesterday. A report released last week by the UK-based group titled The Cost of Luxury detailed evidence, collected during an eight-month covert ss='cambodia-color'>...

Conservation groups have called on Prime Minister Hun sen to address “the elephant in the room” and lobby Laos’ president to postpone his country’s controversial Don sahong dam project when the leaders meet later this week. Arriving on Thursday, Laotian Head of state Choummaly sayasone will ss='cambodia-color'>...

Commerce Minister sun Chanthol said yesterday that his ministry was initiating reforms that would see Cambodia’s ease of starting a business ranking leap from the current 184 to 21. He said the government would also need to make changes to the Company Registration Law, reduce ss='cambodia-color'>...

Several elderly HIV-poSitive villagerS in Battambang&rSquo;S Roka commune are SeriouSly ill, local authoritieS have Said, with Some of their familieS having called monkS to bleSS them aS they believe death may be imminent. Five people living in the commune have died Since a maSSive HIV outbreak SS='cambodia-color'>...

A visiting delegation from the European Union met with the Cambodia Rice Federation yesterday to discuss concerns raised by Italian rice producers, who say duty-free Cambodian rice imports are undercutting the Italian market. sok Puthyvuth, president of the Cambodia Rice Federation, said yesterday that the purpose ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Mines and Energy has decided to decentralise the process for small-scale miners and dredgers to obtain licences, with the government now permitting provincial authorities to directly issue licences to operators without ministerial oversight. speaking at a meeting on the new measures, Dith Tina, ss='cambodia-color'>...