CapitaLand’s wholly owned serviced residence business unit, Ascott Limited, has entered the Cambodian market with a contract to manage somerset Norodom Phnom Penh, the company announced on Friday.“With our entry into Cambodia, Ascott is now present across nine out of 10 countries in AsEAN,” Ascott ss='cambodia-color'>...

Asia’s largest sugar producer, Mitr Phol, is responsible for violating the rights of hundreds of villagers in Oddar Meanchey who saw their land grabbed, homes destroyed and livestock killed to make way for plantations, according to the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand (NHRCT). ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Heath on Monday ordered pharmacies to halt the sale of unapproved diet pill Mazeta slim, a purportedly American drug that the ministry said actually likely originates in China. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s microfinance sector experienced another year of explosive growth, with both lending and deposits surging over 40 per cent in 2015, according to new data by an industry association. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Malaysian conglomerate Muhibbah Engineering Bhd reported that revenue declined 7.5 per cent last year, but gross profit increased in part due to its stake in the company that operates Cambodia’s three international airports. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s largest duty-free outlet opened yesterday in siem Reap, aiming to service the growing market in the Kingdom’s tourism capital. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 300 former workers at the Win shingtex (Cambodia) factory, a supplier for Us retail giant JC Penny, filed a petition to Prime Minister Hun sen’s cabinet yesterday morning asking the government to intervene after the workers had their wages and benefits cut as ss='cambodia-color'>...

Less than a week after taking over the Transport Ministry, sun Chanthol has established a committee to move more services online, including the process for applying for driver’s licenses, officials said on Monday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia received a new $130 million funding package from the World Bank last month that focuses on poverty reduction and bettering the lives of poor and vulnerable Cambodians in the country cooperation strategy set out in the new Cambodia -World Bank Group Country Engagement Note ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly yesterday approved a draft law on the implementation of the fifth freedom of the air, a commercial aviation right that grants airlines the privilege of using Cambodian airports as a stop-over on scheduled flights between their home country and another country. ss='cambodia-color'>...

There was little rain to settle the red dust in Krolah. The wells dried up. The cattle died. The people fell sick. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Provincial officials in Rattanakiri rejected a request by the Vietnamese government to allow them to construct buildings and a border checkpoint in O’Yadav district after a meeting between both sides in Banlung City on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) ‒ a liSted company on the Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange (CSX) ‒ reveled on Friday that by 2020, 50 percent of the company&rSquo;S revenue would be generated by SaleS of ServiceS. ThiS new target waS made after PPSEZ informed the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Stung Treng province Seized an unSpecified amount of luxury wood after Shooting out a tire of a Toyota SUV that tried to run a checkpoint on Sunday night in SeSan diStrict. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Cambodia next week will likely lead to an increase in agriculture exports to China, Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday.​ speaking at a graduation ceremony for law and economics students in Phnom Penh yesterday morning, Mr. Hun sen said that ss='cambodia-color'>...

An excavator driver and his supervisor had a shock when they found Unexploded Ordnance (UXOs) while marking land for clearing works in Kampot province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia scored very poorly on a perceived corruption index, put out each year by Transparency International, but a government spokesman says the report doesn’t reflect the “effort” the government has put into combating the practice. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a report released last week, Human Rights Watch (HRW) came to the predictable—and mostly well-supported—conclusion that Prime Minister Hun sen’s government was failing in its duty to protect its people. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Malaysia-listed Zhulian Corp Bhd plans to expand its diversified Multilevel Marketing  (MLM) business into Cambodia and Laos to tap the strong potential of both countries, media reports said yesterday.    ss='cambodia-color'>...

Political intimidation, the suppression of political expression and restrictions on freedom of assembly have Cambodia’s young democracy under threat, observers in the country say. ss='cambodia-color'>...