Officials appeared to walk back a promise to issue larger-than-average electricity price reductions ahead of July’s elections, instead following a previously announced plan to make small reductions in costs. Ty Norin, chairman of the Electricity Authority of Cambodia (EAC), released a statement earlier this month announcing ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new marketing strategy has reached Phnom Penh’s streets, enabling companies to introduce their products on a moving TV screen. New Color Communications, a company started by Kim seong Bomb, instals TV screens on the back of tuk-tuks that show a series of one-minute advertisement clips. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four companies in Cambodia — EZECOM, Manulife Cambodia, Angkor Gold and Unilever — have demonstrated their commitment to corporate social responsibility this month by giving support to schools, a hospital and sustainable living. CsR Asia, the leading provider of information, training, research and consultancy services on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japanese Investment in Cambodia is steadily increasing as a result of sharply rising wages in China and other southeast Asian nations. But experts warned this week that for sustained investment growth and to avoid driving Japanese companies to other attractive investment destinations such as Burma ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police, military police and forestry officials evicted 100 families in Koh Kong province’s smach Meanchey district yesterday, shooting into the air during the forcible removal to disperse villagers with the threat of violence. It was the second day of evictions in an area authorities say ss='cambodia-color'>...

Turkey is willing to establish an embassy residence in Cambodia in order to promote bilateral relations and cooperation between the two countries, the newly- designated ambassador of Turkey to Cambodia, Osman Bulent Tulun said Tuesday. The two countries’ bilateral trade is relatively small. According to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Export-Import Bank of China (Exim Bank) planned to invest Us$235 million in two Cambodian mega projects, one of which was the modernisation of a TV station that one analyst said might not be necessary given the country’s level of development. During a meeting with Prime Minister ss='cambodia-color'>...

Anti-logging activists have accused authorities of attempting to collect the names of roughly 400 people who attended a memorial service in Koh Kong province last week for the outspoken environmental campaigner Chut Wutty, who was shot dead last month. Although the memorial service at the spot ss='cambodia-color'>...

China may not be in ASEAN, but it&rSquo;S looking more and more like an honorary member &ndaSh; at leaSt where the South China Sea iS concerned. ASEAN foreign miniSterS yeSterday took a Significant Step towardS involving the burgeoning Superpower in South China Sea diScuSSionS, adopting key SS='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition party whip son Chhay reiterated his call at a press conference yesterday for the government to raise taxes on economic land concessions from $5 to $7 a hectare up to $70 through an amendment to the draft of the 2013 budget. The sam Rainsy Party ss='cambodia-color'>...

An absence of public transport, improved roads and the economic development of Cambodia’s rural areas was reflected in an increase in vehicle registrations by 7.7 per cent from 2011 to 2012, official data shows. However, as an insider said yesterday, many cars and motorcycles will ss='cambodia-color'>...

Agricultural experts are urging Cambodian rice growers to choose seeds that can withstand drought and submersion in deep water in an attempt to make the country’s rice industry more competitive. Awareness of rice-seed selection was limited among farmers in the Kingdom, despite the importance of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Improved quality coupled with growing international demand has sent crab prices escalating over the past year, officials said on Wednesday. In some provinces, the price has jumped as much as 66 percent during the past 12 months. Lang Kery, chief of the Koh Kong provincial Fishery Administration’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ninety-one NGOs put their names to a statement yesterday condemning the government’s escalating use of armed force against peaceful protesters and urged the authorities to engage with them to “break the current cycle of violence and impunity.” Joined by local human rights groups such as Adhoc ss='cambodia-color'>...

Almost 3,400 new businesses were registered in Cambodia in 2012, an increase of 9 percent on the previous year, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce. In 2012, the ministry’s business registration department recorded some 3,385 new companies, compared with 3,104 new companies in 2011, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Pursat Provincial Court yesterday sentenced a military official, Poung Puthearith, to two years in jail – suspended to six months – on charges of threatening and obstructing the works of a forestry official, a court official said. Puthearith was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Unit ss='cambodia-color'>...

Beehive radio owner Mam Sonando, along with two otherS appeared in the Court of AppealS ThurSday to liSten to their verdictS. The Sentence waS changed from five yearS to eight monthS impriSonment, but will be releaSed on March 16, 2013 for having Spent the Same amount SS='cambodia-color'>...

The number of large-scale factories in Cambodia has increased by 29 percent to 907 in 2012, Minister of Industry, Mine and Energy suy sen said Thursday. Those large-scale enterprises employed 559,600 employees last year, a 38 percent increase from 403,560 a year earlier, he said ss='cambodia-color'>...

A commune official in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district has filed a lawsuit accusing a human rights worker of incitement and disinformation after villagers the NGO staffer spoke to traveled to Phnom Penh to protest over a land dispute involving a well-known businessman Try Pheap. Pursat ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police have cracked down on illegal large-scale rosewood smuggling at the Cambodia-Thai border in the district of Malai. In the sting operation Tuesday night, led by Banteay Meanchey prosecutor, Phan Pirom, the authorities have seized around three tons of rosewood, hidden in the truck bed used ss='cambodia-color'>...