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'>...

A Phnom Penh-based factory supplying uniforms for police officers and firefighters in the Us city of Los Angeles continues to break Cambodian labour laws, a report to be publicly released today says. Kin Tai Garment factory, a supplier to 5.11 Tactical – which sells the uniforms ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction on Cambodia’s $2.3 billion oil refinery has been set back again, this time due to planning delays, the project’s local partner, Cambodia Petrochemical Company (CPC), confirmed yesterday. The landmark oil refinery was slated to begin construction in December 2013 following a $1.67 billion loan from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of more than 400 families who watched as their homes were burned during an eviction this month in Kratie’s snuol district were blocked by authorities yesterday as they attempted to take their grievance to Prime Minister Hun sen’s doorstep. Though tensions initially ran high, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

In many restaurants in Phnom Penh, wild meat is readily available. Walk into one of these, and you’ll be able to order deer, wild pig or even monitor lizards. some places sell even rarer meat, from endangered animals like the pangolin. Wildlife conservation officials say the ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 villagers in Kompong Thom province blocked a funeral procession in stung sen City on saturday to prevent the burial of a recently deceased ethnic Vietnamese man on land he owned in the vicinity of a local primary school, villagers and an officials ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Defense’s account that an alleged kidney trafficking ring at its Preah Ket Mealea military hospital was in fact a fully legal training program in partnership with China’s Defense Ministry was met with questions and confusion Tuesday. A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s tourist arrivals registered a 0.3% decline in June according to the country’s statistics and tourist Information Department. The country attracted 300,454 visits compared to 301,412 during the same month last year. Released officially by the Ministry of Tourism, last week, data showed Vietnam led the field ss='cambodia-color'>...