Pirated computer software accounted for about $50 million in losses to the Cambodian economy every year, an industry expert said yesterday. According to Pily Wong, president of the ICT Business Association, about 95 per cent of the computer software used in Cambodia is counterfeit, crippling the ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 4,000 people attended a ceremony in December last year that saw Japan’s largest shopping mall developer and operator, Aeon, breaking ground on its three-storey mall in Phnom Penh, and the company says it is already considering building more in the capital. Aeon Mall ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prominent businesswoman Chhin sokountheary yesterday announced her intention to sue Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema for falsifying documents saying she illegally occupied state land in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district in a bid to steal the land and develop a sports stadium on it. sokountheary, 57 ss='cambodia-color'>...

K (Cambodia), an authorised dealer of Isuzu Motors, opened a new showroom near Phnom Penh International Airport yesterday that will be the cornerstone for Isuzu Motors’ planned long-term investment in the Kingdom, a K (Cambodia) official said. “The new showroom for Isuzu vehicle is to serve ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rough[ly] 40 representatives of some 370 families locked in a years-long land dispute with a rubber concessionaire in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district demonstrated outside the Phnom Penh offices of Adhoc yesterday to publicise their situation. The villagers, many of whom are family members of soldiers ss='cambodia-color'>...

EZECOM and Telekom Malaysia has [sic] signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Tuesday to install a submerged cable system called the Malaysia-Cambodia-Thailand Cable system (MCT). A statement reported that Cambodia’s leading Internet service Telcotech Ltd — a part of Ezecom — will sign the MOU with ss='cambodia-color'>...

The US Department of State on Monday called on Cambodian authoritieS to carry out a full inveStigation into “all credible reportS” of election malfeaSance, Saying that it waS “concerned” by variouS iSSueS taking place both on, and leading up to, laSt Sunday&rSquo;S vote. At a preSS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Siem Reap town &ndaSh; one of Cambodia&rSquo;S biggeSt touriSt deStinationS &ndaSh; faced yet another power outage yeSterday after the provincial energy Supplier cut power for 12 hourS during the day. Energy Supplier Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) informed reSidentS that power would be cut from 6am to SS='cambodia-color'>...

Mong Reththy Group (MRG), Cambodia’s largest exporter of palm oil, hopes to expand its exports to European markets this year. Mong Reththy, president of the firm, said the quota-free and duty-free trade frameworks provided by European governments factored heavily into the decision. “About 50 per cent of ss='cambodia-color'>...

A U.S.-baSed energy company haS announced that it iS planning a biomaSS project uSing genetically modified rice in Cambodia, in a purportedly maSSive deal about which little information haS been made public. In a Statement poSted online ThurSday, Sino Bioenergy Corp. Said it had Signed a SS='cambodia-color'>...

NAZA World, which is setting up its NAZA Bikes 3s showroom in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, hopes to win an over 10 per cent market share in the country or 30,000 units, within the next three years. NAZA Group of Companies joint group executive chairman Datuk Wira ss='cambodia-color'>...

A major Hong Kong investor in Cambodia has claimed that a government duty on seafood exports is stunting the country’s fish proc­essing industry. Hong Kong-based sunwah Group began operating a shrimp-processing factory in sihanoukville in 1994, and its plans in the country now include building a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The newly appointed Kompong Thom provincial governor on Tuesday promised more than 500 families who were forcefully evicted by a Vietnamese rubber plantation more than three years ago that they would be given replacement land to farm on early next month. security forces evicted villagers from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Delta Electronics (Thailand), one of the world’s leading producers of power supplies and electronic components, plans to expand to Cambodia and Myanmar, the Bangkok Post reported on Wednesday. “There is no indication of a specific timeframe for the expansion, but the company sees these countries . ss='cambodia-color'>...

The first three-day Koh Kong Investment and Trade Fair 2013 kicked off on saturday, promoting trade and investment in the southern provinces of Cambodia with neighbours Thailand and Vietnam. “The [fair] is aimed at promoting trade and development in Koh Kong province and other border ss='cambodia-color'>...

A reporter from Cheat Sachak newSpaper in Ratanakkiri province filed a complaint to provincial military police and rightS group Adhoc on Monday, claiming he had been beaten by a group of illegal loggerS to Stop him from reporting on their activitieS. Phon Bun Thoen, 53, Said SS='cambodia-color'>...

An employer who stands accused of beating her maid using a stick and the back of a meat cleaver will be summonsed by police in Kandal today for questioning, local officials have said. son Leanghou, 57, a brick kiln owner, is accused of beating 28-year-old sok ss='cambodia-color'>...

A district deputy police chief in Ratanakkiri province is to be summonsed to court for questioning after a police raid on his house Friday turned up more than 10 cubic metres of illegal luxury wood. Provincial anti-economic crime police, who carried out the raid, found three ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 50 repreSentativeS of Phnom Penh&rSquo;S embattled Boeng Kak community on Monday marched to the officeS of the European Union and World Bank to requeSt that the international bodieS Send obServerS to the upcoming Supreme Court hearing of anti-eviction activiSt Yorm Bopha on November 22. MS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

A two-year-old girl from northwestern Pursat province was confirmed positive for human H5N1 avian influenza after she was admitted to the Jayavarman VII Hospital in siem Reap province on Oct. 25 with fever, running nose, lethargy, dyspnea, cough and breathing difficulties. she died on Oct.26. This ss='cambodia-color'>...