About 200 families in Koh Kong province’s Botum sakor district were threatened with legal action yesterday by the district governor, who told them their 100-hectare plantation had been earmarked for development by a Chinese firm, a village representative alleged. Two days later, Botum sakor district ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Heng Development Company on Monday unveiled the first-ever electric-powered cars manufactured by its factory in Kandal province. The show was made after the firm has completed the construction of a 20 million U.s. dollar car manufacturing plant branded ” Angkor” in Kandal province’s Takhmao district. speaking ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 300 striking workers from the International Fashion Royal garment factory in Phnom Penh appealed for assistance from the south Korean Embassy yesterday afternoon after police blocked their march to Por sen Chey District Hall, a union official said. Ten days of striking for a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia attracted 333,900 Chinese tourists last year, a 35 percent rise compared with 247, 200 Chinese visitors in a year earlier, according to a report of the Ministry of Tourism on Tuesday. “We see a steady rise of Chinese tourists to Cambodia from year to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thai and Cambodian foreign affairs officials have pledged to step up their efforts to stem the fatal shooting of Cambodians who illegally cross the border into Thailand to cut down rosewood trees, which fetch thousands of dollars per cubic meter on the black market. At a ss='cambodia-color'>...

A rights group has raised concerns that up to 100 Cambodian migrant workers at a Thai seafood processing factory will be stranded abroad in less than a week without any income because they cannot afford to pay a passport fee demanded by their employer. Of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 300 workers from a Phnom Penh factory that assembles Honda motorcycles went on strike yesterday to rally for the reinstatement of their union representatives, in accordance with an order by the Arbitration Council, union representatives said yesterday. Yoeurng sopheara, a legal officer at Cambodia Labor ss='cambodia-color'>...

While observers yesterday accused the government of censorship for ordering radio stations not to transmit international broadcasters over the election weekend, a government spokesman defended the move. On sunday, a Ministry of Information official said the ministry had ordered local F.M. stations not to transmit Voice ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Life Insurance Company Plc plans to bundle services with banks to offer guarantees on mortgages, company representatives said. The service is hoped to make mortgages more accessible in a country where housing loans are still considered risky business. Collateral is usually required to take loans ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government is seeking a new international border checkpoint in Preah Vihear province to link with Thailand’s Ubun province, officials say. Preah Vihear provincial governor Um Mara said officials from both countries had met to examine the possibility of opening a new international checkpoint. There ss='cambodia-color'>...

The four-day second Cambodia International Machinery Industrial Fair (CIMIF 2012) has begun in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh. Leading global brands of industrial equipment for textiles, garment and accessories are among the more than 200 exhibitors from 20 countries displaying their products. The exhibition provides a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Container traffic through Phnom Penh Autonomous Port, Cambodia’s second largest port, increased by 16 percent in the first nine months of this year thanks to increasing import and export activities in garments and construction materials, the port authority said on Wednesday In March last year, to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nagaworld Hotel was the venue for Monday night’s occasion, exactly 20 years after the very first silk Air flight into Phnom Penh on October 1, 1992. The event came on the same evening as the launch of Tiger Airways’ service between Phnom Penh and singapore ss='cambodia-color'>...

The entirety of three protected forests are now classified as private land, an investigation from rights group Adhoc has found, along with tens of thousands of additional hectares of what has once been state public land In three cases, Adhoc’s findings show that entire protected forests ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday convicted local tycoon Chhin sokountheary of encroaching on public lands and sentenced her in absentia to four years and six months in prison. Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Ly Lipmeng said yesterday that sokountheary, who is also known as ss='cambodia-color'>...

Malaysia-based Hong Leong Bank, a subsidiary of Hong Leong Financial Group Berhad, is planning to open a branch in Cambodia sometime this year, which would make it the fourth Malaysian bank and the 33rd commercial bank in Cambodia’s crowded banking industry. Ngoun sokha, director general of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government is planning to revise the Kingdom’s investment laws this year to draw more foreign direct investment as the country adjusts to the fast-changing regional and global landscapes, according to secretary General of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) sok Chenda sophea. speaking ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture (Cedac) Said yeSterday that it waS undertaking meaSureS to change itS StatuS from an NGO to a cooperative, a move that will eaSe the organization of donor money and puSh it to become more profit orientated SS='cambodia-color'>...

An explosion at a steel mill in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district left two employees seriously injured over the weekend, authorities said. Mao saroeun, stung Meanchey commune police chief, said that around 10pm on sunday there was a small, loud explosion at a mill owned by the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A worker was slightly injured and more than Us$100,000 in property destroyed yesterday in a fire at an oil factory in Kandal province’s Ang snuol district, police said. Thach Phalla, Ang snuol district deputy police chief, said the fire started at noon when some oil overflowed ss='cambodia-color'>...