Tiny Cambodia is emerging as a key pawn in the diplomatic struggle over one of the world’s busiest stretches of water: the potentially energy-rich south China sea. The country of 15 million people is this year hosting a series of regional summits in which China’s claims ss='cambodia-color'>...

After receiving a letter from the Ministry of Economy and Finance on the request to take actions against the Radio Free Asia and the Voice of America located in Cambodia, which have been actively engaged in broadcasting and renting airtime from other radio stations yet ss='cambodia-color'>...

American business group Akra, led by Cambodian-born former Us ambassador to the United Nations, sichan siv, has signed an agreement with a rice mill under a new co-operative structure it says puts ownership and profits back in to the hands of Cambodian producers. Akra’s managing director ss='cambodia-color'>...

At 9 a.m. yesterday, more than 200 soldiers, police and military police officers were gathered outside a large mansion on street 55 in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district. All were waiting for their promised “ang pao” – red envelopes containing cash usually handed out during ss='cambodia-color'>...

NagaCorp, a gaming and entertainment hotel complex operator in Cambodia, has raised HK$1.21 billion ($156 million) from a top-up placement, after fixing the price at the bottom of the indicative range. The deal was launched at around 6pm yesterday in Hong Kong time, and the ss='cambodia-color'>...

As air-conditioning units slow to a halt, computers die and the lights go out, the frustration of local business owners and organizations in Phnom Penh is boiling over once again as the annual hot season blackouts have arrived. The 190-megawatt, Chinese-built Kamchay hydropower dam in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday urged China to come up with enough funding for Cambodia to build a 3.5km bridge across the Tonle sap and connect National Road 6 in Kampong Thom with Kampong Chhang province. speaking at a ground-breaking ceremony for a $20 million Chinese ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials from the stung Treng provincial forestry administration have warned a local sRP commune chief against speaking to the media about the clearing of trees from a 36,000-hectare site to become the reservoir of a giant hydropower dam in the area, the commune chief said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite fears that a warning to users of social media and Internet blogs will dampen free speech, the head of National Election Committee (NEC) has insisted the intention was not to limit expression ahead of July’s national election. The NEC last week issued a statement requesting ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government revenues totalled more than $700 million over the first four months of the year, an 11 per cent year-on-year increase, data from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) show. In total, the revenue made by the General Department of Taxation (GDT) rose by about ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Chamber of Commerce (EuroCham) held its first annual general meeting Thursday at the sofitel Hotel in Phnom Penh where a board of directors was elected and the French and German chambers merged with EuroCham in order to reinforce the interests of European companies ss='cambodia-color'>...

The uncle of a man who died in Thursday’s ceiling collapse at the Wing star shoes factory in Kampong speu province claimed yesterday that the company had threatened to give the family nothing if they did not agree to an on-the-spot payout. It came as a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hui Tien Jien has eaten at a Chinese restaurant called Old Place seafood two times – and he’s been in Phnom Penh for only two days. Chinese restaurants in Phnom Penh are spreading in response to a flood of tourists from China: tourists who insist ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) on Tuesday stood firmly behind its refusal to consider a proposal by the opposition CNRP for an independent investigation into the July 28 national ballot. statements sent between the CNRP and NEC—the last day for political parties to file reports of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two thousand five hundred – for Mom Dalin, this is more than just a random number or the price of a coffee, it is her way of making a living. The 55-year-old sits at a small desk in her son’s shop on sihanouk Boulevard, within sight ss='cambodia-color'>...

WASHINGTON &mdaSh; Local FM radio Station operatorS Say they are uncertain whether they will drop programming from the Voice of America and other foreign-produced media, following the iSSue of a government ban on broadcaSting leading up to Election Day. A June 21 directive from the MiniStry SS='cambodia-color'>...

By the time London Fashion Week comes to a close, 58 high-end designers will have shown their collections. Rail-thin models will have walked the runways. Debate will have raged over size zero. In Cambodia, meanwhile, garment workers stitching clothes that supply the UK high street are ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh City Hall has turned down two requests by non-governmental groups to hold rallies and marches to mark both International Teachers’ Day and the international day for housing rights. Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), a local NGO, was denied permission to organize a rally at ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian opposition leader sam Rainsy said his country has reached a political “stalemate” and is calling for a halt in international aid to the Phnom Penh government. Rainsy spoke to VOA during a visit to Washington, where he is trying to convince U.s. officials and others ss='cambodia-color'>...

The roads surrounding In­dependence Monument will once again be blocked off as a planned three-day opposition rally kicks off this morning, but military police maintained yesterday that they will not be as tightly enforced as they were when frustration over delays erupted into violence last ss='cambodia-color'>...