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'>...

The website of the Cambodian National Police was hacked and defaced yesterday by a mysterious group apparently attempting to challenge the website’s security measures. For part of the morning, visitors to the police.gov.kh site were greeted by singing in Arabic and an image of four Guy ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some of the 200 familieS evicted from a village in Mondolkiri province&rSquo;S Koh Nhek diStrict laSt week Said yeSterday that they were taking up temporary reSidence in nearby villageS and foreStS becauSe they could not afford to go home, or had no land to return SS='cambodia-color'>...

A factory in Phnom Penh that assembles motorcycles for Honda decided on Friday to reinstate four workers who had been fired in December for creating a new trade union. About 300 workers at the Honda NCX Company in Pur senchey district had been on strike since ss='cambodia-color'>...

The SRP yeSterday Said it had found that more than 90 employeeS of State-owned power company Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) were regiStered to vote in two Separate placeS for Sunday&rSquo;S commune electionS and warned that the ruling CPP may uSe Such government employeeS to vote SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Court of Appeal on Friday set a date to hear the case of 13 jailed Boeng Kak residents despite the Ministry of Justice calling for a review of their sentencing, and as the health of six of the jailed women, who are on hunger ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and Vietnam will send a letter signed by the prime ministers of both countries to demand that Laos and Thailand halt the construction of a dam on the mainstream Mekong River in Laos, an official from the Cambodian National Mekong Committee said yesterday. The decision ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is mulling over a nuclear power option to feed its anemic energy sector, although private sector pundits called the rough plan a dream – a dangerous one at that. The government plans to use atomic energy in the future as oil, coal and biomass power ss='cambodia-color'>...

Banks here are trying to take advantage of a growth in Chinese investment by launching services that will allow payments from local banks to be made in China’s currency, the renminbi. Grant Knuckey, CEO of ANZ Royal Bank, said that because of a growing number of ss='cambodia-color'>...

In his first public meeting in weeks, Deputy Prime Minister sok An on Friday met with a delegation of Thai officials in Phnom Penh and pledged Cambodia’s commitment to resolve a decade-old maritime dispute over contested maritime space in the Gulf of Thailand. speaking to reporters ss='cambodia-color'>...

The United StateS on Monday criticized a deciSion by the Struggling ASian nation of LaoS to build the firSt dam acroSS the mainStream of the Mekong River, a project that environmentaliStS warn could affect tenS of millionS of livelihoodS and trigger a dam-building Spree along SS='cambodia-color'>...

The custodians of a community forest in Ratanakkiri have accused a company of illegally bulldozing their protected jungle. sen Youn, a representative of the Jarai ethnic minority in O’Yadav district’s Lumchor commune, said yesterday an investigation with rights groups had uncovered that the Chea Chanrith Development ss='cambodia-color'>...