Bilateral trade between Cambodia and Hong Kong rose more than 22 per cent year-on-year in 2011, according to data from the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, whose regional base is in Hanoi. Total trade was Us$741 million, compared with $607 million in 2010. Cambodia’s exports to Hong ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 400 villagers in Kratie province’s Chhlong district protested yesterday in an effort to stop Kasten agro-industrial company from building houses on contested farmland, the protesters said. The company used red paint to demarcate its boundary and started building houses on the farmland in January, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than one-sixth of Cambodian businesses in 2011 were part of the Kingdom’s information and communications sector, a government census showed. Of the 182,439 new enterprises that sprang up in the country between June 2009 and March 2011, some 95,590 serviced the sector, according to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opening statements started yesterday in a trial pitting Kompong Chhnang province villagers against the wife of Minister of Industry suy sem over a long-standing land dispute. However, the plaintiffs and human rights workers monitoring the trial criticized yesterday’s proceedings, which were allowed to proceed despite ss='cambodia-color'>...

GS Engineering & ConStruction broke ground on June 18, 2008 of Cambodia&rSquo;S largeSt building the International Finance Complex in Phnom Penh but Since then haS been SuSpend or forced to downScale like all of the other building projectS in the city. Worth more than $4.5 SS='cambodia-color'>...

Lion Forest Industries Berhad will seek to acquire a 9,995 hectare concession in Cambodia, the latest in a number of Malaysian firms eyeing the Kingdom to increase land banks this year. The firm aims to cultivate rubber and palm oil on the proposed concession in Preah ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand’s former Deputy Prime Minister suthep Thaugsuban has denied Cambodia’s recent claim that he initiated secret bilateral talks over coveted oil reserves in disputed Gulf of Thailand waters, Thai news service MCOT reported saturday. In a statement last week, the Cambodian National Petroleum Authority said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prices in Cambodia rose 5.4 per cent year-on-year in February, as fuel costs continued to push inflation higher, according to data from the National Institute of statistics released yesterday. Foodstuffs, however, saw declines following demand that was driven by Chinese New Year, though paddy prices were ss='cambodia-color'>...

Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong said yesterday that the contentious issue of the south China sea should not become an international issue, but must be solved among the region’s neighbors. speaking to reporters at the Foreign Affairs Ministry alongside visiting Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen’s nephew Hun To hit back strongly yesterday at allegations published in a leading Australian newspaper, The Age, which linked him to an international drug smuggling and money laundering ring, demanding that the publisher print a retraction. Mr. To sent a letter to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The future of a 1,000-year-old Khmer statue—which sotheby’s auction house in New York was ordered by the Us government on Wednesday to hand back to Cambodia—is now in the hands of the Us courts. The statue of the guardian Duryodhana is believed to have come from ss='cambodia-color'>...

An airline in China’s Yunnan province will begin offering flights from its capital, Kunming, to Phnom Penh and siem Reap City, Council of Ministers spokesman Ek Tha said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 tuk-tuk drivers, motorcycle taxi drivers, vendors and other informal transportation workers protested against the high price of gasoline yesterday at the National Assembly, claiming the high petrol prices are cutting into their small profits. Vorn Pao, president of the Independent Democracy of Informal Economy ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly is slated to approve the appointment of two senators from the royalist Funcinpec party on Monday to fill in the new 62-seat senate that will convene its first session at the end of this month. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Commission (EC) has reiterated the European Union’s (EU) demand for the immediate release of opposition leader Kem sokha and called on Cambodia to take the necessary measures to ensure that the court-dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) be swiftly reversed. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has decided to make Road 21 more accessible to motorists in Takeo province by alleviating the financial burden of paying tolls, the provincial governor said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon and Tuol Kork districts will continue to see investment in apartments, while sen sok will become a new target market, as the number of apartments in Phnom Penh is set to almost triple by 2030. According to a report issued on Tuesday by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mango production is expected to decrease this year as climate change severely impacts yields, according to a mango association in Kampong speu province – the Kingdom’s largest regional producer of the fruit. Kampong speu Mangoes Association president In Chayvan said the impact of climate change ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is not doing enough to combat human trafficking, the United states said on Thursday, leaving the Asian nation at risk of economic sanctions unless it takes firmer action. Corruption impedes law enforcement, prosecutions and provision of services to victims, the influential Trafficking In Persons ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mortgage loans in Cambodia continue to surge this year, according to Credit Bureau Cambodia (CBC). The credit body’s consumer report showed that outstanding mortgages hit $3.42 billion at the end of June. CBC’s data showed that loans have increased by 30 percent from the same ss='cambodia-color'>...