Economic land concessions remain a major concern, with more than 230 people arrested in 2012, an increase of more than 150 percent from the year before, according to an annual report by the rights group Adhoc. That means land conflicts have increased, Thun saray, president ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s authorised distributor for Mercedes-Benz will also be selling Volkswagen vehicles in May, as it hopes to cash in on higher growth in the mass-market car sector. Though the sole distributorship deal was signed in 2009, Hung Hiep Group received approval last week from VW to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction costs in the Kingdom have increased only 1.36 per cent year-on-year, compared to Cambodia’s inflation rate, which is projected at 3.5 per cent for 2012, according to a new report from global estate agents CBRE. The company says the minimal increase is due to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Another witness to the fatal shooting of prominent environmentalist Chut Wutty and military police officer In Rattana has said he did not see who shot the men after testifying in Koh Kong provincial court yesterday. Puom Ravin, a 37-year-old employee of the logging firm Timbergreen said ss='cambodia-color'>...

State power company Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) planS to increaSe the price of electricity to make up for a drop in revenue thiS year, according to a MiniStry of InduStry, MineS and Energy official. “ThiS year, oil priceS went up, which meant the EDC did not SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Dutch mobile telephone operator Beeline has replaced its general manager Gael Campan with siddhanta Kothari, who previously worked in Vietnam as chief financial officer of GTel Mobile JsC, a subsidiary of Beeline’s owner VimpelCom. Beeline spokeswoman Nhem socheata said on Friday that the change in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thai police investigating allegations of myriad labor violations at a seafood factory employing hundreds of Cambodian migrant workers have given the facility a clean bill of health. A report last week by a Cambodian NGO, the Community Legal Education Center (CLEC), based on interviews with workers ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of protests over land disputes increased in 2011 as forced resettlement, restrictions on freedom of assembly and the harassment of peaceful protesters continued to tarnish Cambodia’s human rights record, Amnesty International said in its annual report released yesterday. Noting the huge impact of economic ss='cambodia-color'>...

Against the backdrop of the ongoing Thai government’s rice-pledging policy, Thai rice exports are expected to further decline this year. While it may provide opportunities for Cambodia, the country has not yet benefitted much from the policy, industry experts said. “I think the Thai rice scheme ss='cambodia-color'>...

Considering the growth potential of Us$400-million worth in bilateral trade between the United Kingdom and Cambodia for the past five years, the British Trade and Investment office plans to establish its permanent branch in Phnom Penh. British companies are eyeing investment opportunities in education, construction and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kirirom III Hydropower Station in Kompong Speu province Started operating laSt month, providing 18 megawattS of electricity to both Kompong Speu and Phnom Penh, an official at State-owned Electricite du Cambodge Said yeSterday. The additional power from the $47 million dam will help alleviate Phnom SS='cambodia-color'>...

Despite recent efforts by the authorities to improve drainage systems around the capital, heavy flooding and swamped roads were the norm over the past week as the kick-off to the rainy season saw pelting rain almost every afternoon, residents say. Old drainage systems put in place ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite facing criminal charges, 70 villagers from Kompong Chhnang province embroiled in a long-running land dispute with the KDC Development Company have moved back onto the contested land, court officials and villagers said yesterday. KDC, which is owned by Minister of Industry, Mines and Energy suy ss='cambodia-color'>...

The case of the 13 imprisoned Boeung Kak women is in the hands of the Appeal Court now, the women’s defence lawyer said yesterday. Lawyer Harm sunrith said that Phnom Penh Municipal Court had sent the case to the Appeal Court on Tuesday, adding that he ss='cambodia-color'>...

A union representative led a 1,000-strong protest at a garment factory in the capital’s Russey Keo district yesterday, alleging the company hired a gangster to beat him up on sunday – a claim the manager has denied. Chhim sam On, a union leader with the Coalition ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chinese-owned Avic International plans to export 8,000 tonnes of dried cassava from Cambodia to the Chinese market this year. According to Chan saron, minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, there are currently 31 companies listed as exporting cassava to China from Cambodia, but only 17 ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 residents of Mondulkirri province’s sen Monorom City have protested yesterday for the third time in the past 2 weeks in front of the provincial office of state electricity provider Eletricite du Cambodge (Edc), demanding that their electricity be decreased. Vann Neang, who ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia recorded about 2.7 million internet users as of December last year, a 60 percent rise year-on-year, a senior official said Thursday. Meanwhile, he said the country has 6 mobile phone operators. As of last year, those operators had sold out 19.1 million sIM cards, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local private airline Aero Cambodia intends to launch domestic chartered flights by the end of this year once it receives approval from the government. The airline is preparing to apply for its air operator certificate from the state secretariat of Civil Aviation (ssCA) and hopes to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The father of three youths allegedly beaten by DM Group workers earlier this month said court officers yesterday threatened to imprison him if he did not agree to compromise with the company and drop the case. Ry sarun appeared at Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday to answer ss='cambodia-color'>...