Tiger Airways’ first flight from singapore to Cambodia is scheduled to land at Phnom Penh International Airport on Monday morning, making it the latest airline to offer direct flights to the country. Deborah Yeo, a public relations consultant for Tiger Airways, said that beginning Monday, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s total export of milled rice via the single window office slightly increased by two per cent over the first nine months of this year compared to the same period last year, according to data from the Ministry of Agriculture. speaking at the Cambodian Rice Forum ss='cambodia-color'>...

Trade between Cambodia and Thailand increased by about 40 per cent to Us$3 billion in the first nine months of this year in comparison with the same period last year, according to figures provided by the Royal Embassy of Thailand in Cambodia. According to Nat Vimonchandra, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia imported almost 10 times as many used clothes as new ones in the first 11 months of last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. some 79,217 tonnes of used garments worth $61.5 million were brought in during that period, compared ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) said yesterday that it had still found no replacement donor to commit long-term to carrying on its work helping indigenous ethnic minority groups secure communal land titles once it pulls out in May. Kan Vibol, project field manager for CIDA’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

The legitimacy of a lawsuit filed by prominent businesswoman Chhin sokountheary, also known as “Crocodile Grandmother”, accusing Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema of abusing his power by stealing some 34 hectares of privately owned land is being called into question by the Phnom Penh Municipal ss='cambodia-color'>...

As many as 40 workers are cutting down trees, marking other trees they plan to fell in protected forest areas and piling up luxury timber in a flood-safety zone in stung Treng’s srekor commune, a local official said yesterday. Commune chief seak Mekong said the workers ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. liSted gambling firm Entertainment Gaming ASia Inc. (EGA) will next month hold a grand opening for itS Second caSino on the Thai-Cambodia border, the company Said. In a Statement iSSued on Monday from Hong Kong, it Said that Dreamworld Club in Poipet, which haS been SS='cambodia-color'>...

As much as $16 billion of investment is needed in Cambodia over the next decade if the country’s infrastructure is to keep up with the pace of economic growth, ac­cording to a regional think tank. At a seminar in Phnom Penh on Thuesday, Jakarta-based Economic Research ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia saw a one per cent rise in inflation in April compared with the same month last year, according to the latest data from the National Institute of statistics (NIs). sim Ly, an official at the NIs said there was a slight increase in food and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cargo shipments moving in and out of the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP) increased 29 per cent in the first six months of this year when compared to the same period in 2012, according to official data. The figures show that imported and exported goods amounted ss='cambodia-color'>...

CONSTRUCTION iS progreSSing on a $1.5 million baby-productS factory that will be among the largeSt in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ). Combi (Cambodia), which ownS the factory, announced the planS for itS new facility in an online job liSting yeSterday. The five-hectare factory waS Scheduled SS='cambodia-color'>...

Yet another resident of Phnom Penh’s sen sok district came forward yesterday to join “Crocodile Grandmother” Chhin sokoutheary in accusing city and district officials of issuing a false sub-decree to acquire land in the vicinity of Pong Peay Lake in Phnom Penh Thmey commune. Chea savean, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Violence broke out twice yesterday at the Maru Chuen garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district – first, between police and strikers, and later, between strikers and employees who remained at work. In the morning, seven workers and one police officer were injured after police intervened ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ten families locked in a long-standing land dispute with the Pheapimex Group in Pursat provinces’s Krakor district said yesterday that the company was refusing to recognise titles recently granted to them and blocking them from the land.“We 10 families have been given more than 30 ss='cambodia-color'>...

A community forest patrol group trying to fight the destruction of protected forest in Kratie province’s snuol district have, for the second time in two weeks, seized equipment from those they accuse of illegal logging. About 100 people from svay Chreah, snuol, sre Cha, Pi Thnou ss='cambodia-color'>...

When 46-year-old Than Thol got a $900 loan from Samic Microfinance laSt year, he took advantage of a little-known and&nbSp; lengthily worded inSurance program called MeaSure for Economic and Accelerated Development for All, or MEADA. MEADA provideS coverage for familieS of moStly lower-income borrowerS in the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Communities living in the protected snuol wildlife sanctuary in Kratie province said yesterday that the sanctuary was being destroyed by private companies acting in collusion with local wildlife officers. snuol forest community representative Mom sakim said private interests were claiming large areas of the sanctuary without ss='cambodia-color'>...

The French and German chambers of commerce have both merged into the larger European Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia in order to gain combined strength and be more effective as an interface between European business and the Cambodian government. The agreement is set to be formalised ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local cadastral land officials, a district governor and RCAF personnel all own plots of a social land concession in Preah Vihear originally intended to be distributed to poor villagers, local rights group Adhoc alleged. In 2007, the government granted 556 hectares of land in Choam Ksan ss='cambodia-color'>...