The Japanese International Co­operation Agency (JICA) on Tuesday announced it hoped to have a public bus system in place in Phnom Penh sometime in 2014, despite earlier assurances it would be up and running this year. The Japanese government’s international aid arm also presented options to ss='cambodia-color'>...

NEARLY three weeks after Cambodia’s general election, which both the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the opposition claim to have won, life in Phnom Penh remains tense. Tanks have been deployed, although only on the outskirts, and queues have formed at banks and supermarkets ss='cambodia-color'>...

Jarai ethnic minority villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district are demanding compensation from a villager they claim illegally cleared a sizeable portion of their community forest this year. The villagers seized two carts transporting rosewood – and the four buffaloes pulling them – out of the forest ss='cambodia-color'>...

With the floodwaters receding following weeks of heavy rains, the National Committee for Disaster Management met with officials from 20 provinces on Friday to determine the scale of the devastation and begin planning the cleanup. The NCDM on Wednesday launched a disaster management database in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The death of a miner on Monday in a pit collapse in Preah Vihear is under investigation by Adhoc, the rights group has said. Lor Chann, Adhoc coordinator in Preah Vihear province, said yesterday that the miner died while working for a private mining firm in ss='cambodia-color'>...

When Him Anna started to plant pepper crops seven years ago, she would have never thought that one day it would turn into a profitable business. Today, Anna is the chief executive officer of Bright starling Holdings Co, which owns starling Farm Kampot Pepper. Established ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the first seven months of this year, the bilateral trade between Cambodia and the U.s. has reached some Us$1.7 billion, up by 3.5 percent if compared to the same period in the previous year, according to the U.s. Trade Department’s figures. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Interior and Deputy Prime Minister sar Kheng said yesterday that the ruling party was waiting for the opposition to contact them regarding negotiations to break the ongoing political deadlock. CNRP president sam Rainsy yesterday said his party would “definitely” be contacting the CPP, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tep Bopha Prasidh, a wealthy businesswoman and wife of Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh, has been anointed with the sought-after royal title of oknha. According to an August edition of the Royal Gazette, King Norodom sihamoni signed off on the new title on July 11. Roughly translated as tycoon, oknha is a ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 90% of tourists visiting Cambodia will end up at siem Reap’s world heritage site Angkor Wat, despite efforts to open other areas of the country to tourism. Officials attending the Asean Tourism Forum admitted that efforts to convince tour operators to include trips to ss='cambodia-color'>...

European Union Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht will visit Cambodia this week, the European Commission announced, with rights groups hoping that land grabbing related to sugar plantations will be high on the agenda. Following bilateral meetings in Brussels last week between Cambodia and the EU during ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday ruled in favour of a mining tycoon and convicted a Chinese-Cambodian widow of defaming the oknha during an embittered land dispute. sok Neang Gek, 46, an interpreter at a garment factory in the capital, was fined $1,000 and ordered to compensate ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chroy Changva district security guards Thursday stopped villagers from preventing a private company from pumping sand onto the wetlands behind their homes. The Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC) is building a $3-billion real estate project, known as “Chroy Changva City, City of the Future,” on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of families descended on Phnom Penh yesterday to ask Prime Minister Hun sen and the United Nations to intervene in three separate land disputes. More than 800 families from across the country gathered in front of Wat Botum at about 9am, where they submitted petitions ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation says Cambodia’s aviation market grew briskly for the second consecutive year as national and foreign airlines added routes to China amid a surge in Chinese nationals visiting the country. The centre reported Cambodia has emerged as one of the fastest ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite the depressed market conditions throughout Europe in 2013 Cambodia’s export to the EU skyrocketed. The country is well under way to take over Taiwan’s leading position in bike export to Europe. Between January and October 2013 Cambodia’s bike export showed a huge increase of no ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism says the country’s tourism sector is growing at an unsustainable rate that will cause a massive shortfall in skilled tourism-related labour. The ministry’s statistics department director, Kong sopheareak, told local media that as tourist arrivals increase substantially every year, the challenge is ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sambo the elephant will not be allowed to return to work in Phnom Penh, becauSe both City Hall and the ForeStry AdminiStration oppoSe the idea, the FA&rSquo;S director-general Said yeSterday. The 54-year-old Sambo left the city in 2012 after decadeS of entertaining and giving rideS to SS='cambodia-color'>...

A ceremony marking the founding of the Kampuchean People’s Revolutionary Party in 1951 – a forerunner of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party – was used on saturday to lambaste the opposition for not joining the National Assembly following disputed elections last July. “Taking actions contrary to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leaders yesterday announced plans to hold a thousands-strong “people’s congress” in the capital’s Freedom Park on sunday, despite a ban on gatherings at the site. Cambodia National Rescue Party president sam Rainsy and vice-president Kem sokha, following their return from overseas trips to Australia, New ss='cambodia-color'>...