The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced a father who slapped a high school student across the face in a fit of rage to one year in prison, reduced to three months, with the rest suspended.​ ...

The Court of Appeal will on Monday hear opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour’s request to overturn a municipal court decision to seize his computer to reinvestigate the forged border treaty that landed him in prison in August. ...

A new VIP lounge was officially opened yesterday by Plaza Premium Group in the departure area of Phnom Penh International Airport, with the Hong Kong-based company saying it invested nearly $2 million in the lounge. ...

Tighter competition and a slowdown in international tourism growth has prompted airlines registered in Cambodia to scale back their fleet expansion plans and shift focus to serving the more promising Chinese tourist market, new research shows. ...

A group of companies from Taiwan are seeking joint ventures with partners in Cambodia, to export products and services to the Kingdom, amidst growing investor confidence that the Mekong country is developing in almost all sectors. ...

The completion of three new office buildings in Phnom Penh in the first half of this year has marginally boosted the city’s office space supply, according to the latest sector report by Knight Frank Cambodia. ...

Government rangers, paid to protect the Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary, allow loggers to process and transport illegally felled timber in exchange for bribes, an NGO alleged yesterday after conducting an undercover operation in the protected forest. ...

Clients of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the Kingdom can now expect some form of protection from over-indebtedness that arises from their inability to meet their financial obligations on time as agreed in a credit agreement. ...

Local authorities confiscated more than 30 kilograms of rare wildlife meat being illegally sold yesterday during a second raid in eight days at a market in Stung Treng province, though once again, no arrests were made.​ ...

Cambodia ranked third-worst for illicit trade out of 17 countries in the Asia-Pacific region in a recently released index by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) that analysed governments’ abilities to combat illegal trade operations.​ ...

About 100 workers from the Chung Fai Knitwear factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district protested in front of the capital’s municipal court yesterday, demanding a judge remove a fee they are unable to pay. ...

Cambodian mining firm Angkor Gold has agreed to accept payment by instalment on Mesco Gold’s final tranche for the purchase of its Phum Syarung gold mine in northeastern Cambodia, the company said in press release. ...

Two listed state-owned enterprises – Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) and Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) showed better results in the first quarter of the year due to a rise in revenue.   ...

Cambodian politics reached a new boiling point with the arrest of the opposition leader last week. Kem Sokha was handcuffed in the middle of the night in his house and accused of “treason” by the government. ...

The Prey Lang Community Network in Preah Vihear province has asked the government to investigate the building of homes in a protected area by a group of families claiming they were granted a social land concession.​ ...

City Hall officials urged the public yesterday to take fire safety seriously and called for help in dealing with fire-related problems beyond their current capacity, including handling infernos in high-rise buildings and construction sites. ...

State-owned Cambodia Post plans to launch a new e-commerce company in a move to latch onto the growth of online transactions in the Kingdom and diversify its revenue streams, a company executive said yesterday. ...

The Ministry of Land Management yesterday announced that the decades-old White Building in the capital will be demolished starting July 17 in order to make way for a new 21-storey structure.   ...

Authorities yesterday evacuated 190 households in four communes within Oddar Meanchey’s Trapaing Prasat district due to severe flooding, one day after 100 families were ferried to safety in Preah Vihear province, where two people died.​ ...

Fifty endangered sarus cranes have hatched from 27 nests protected by conservationists and villagers in Cambodia’s Northern Plains, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The nests are in Kulen Promtep and Chhep wildlife sanctuaries. ...