Lieutenant General Hun Manet, deputy commander of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces Infantry Unit, on saturday said the United states lent money to the Lon Nol regime for weapons that were used to kill Cambodians.speaking to soldiers while inaugurating a new building in siem Reap ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee said yesterday that three political parties standing for next week’s senate election have done very little campaigning, while NGOs said it was a consequence of the main opposition party being dissolved. According to an NEC press release, the three parties that have ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government released a summary of the country’s industrial sector over the past five years, showing a marked increase in growth across a wide variety of indicators. The report, released by the Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts (MIH) last week, lacks specific data but shows a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of 175 families in Koh Kong province’s sre Ambel and Botum sakor districts have released their final demands to end their 10-year land dispute with Koh Kong sugar Industry (KsI) and Koh Kong Plantation. The families are asking for two hectares of land to be ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Agriculture Ministry will soon adopt a national standard for organic vegetable production to create product consistency and a single yardstick for farmers to work toward, according to officials.A logo that will mark the products as government-approved organics has been designed, and a draft law ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Commerce Ministry yesterday announced a 19 percent surge in exports for the year and a quadrupling of revenue collected from import licence fees, but would not provide analogous figures for total imports or explain what could be driving the increases. According to the ministry’s annual ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday threatened to fire Daun Penh District Governor sok Penh Vuth over growing disregard for traffic laws among the public as local authorities scrambled to enforce a new crackdown on offenders. Hun sen urged motorists to obey traffic laws, appealing specifically to ss='cambodia-color'>...

An ethnic Phnong community near Mondulkiri’s sen Monorom town on Monday claimed that at least 80 hectares of forestland, which they have long depended on for their livelihoods, were covertly sold, with local authorities allegedly signing off on the sale. While the Phnong villagers from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Flower prices soared considerably due to the official mourning period of Cambodia’s former king, Norodom sihanouk, according to vendors. Crowds of people set upon flower shops at different markets in Phnom Penh, where tens of thousands of mourners participated in paying their respects to the former ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...