More than 50 representatives of Indian energy firms attended the opening of the Powering Cambodia conference in Phnom Penh yesterday, engaging local government officials and stakeholders in the Kingdom’s energy sector to explore investment opportunities in the field of electricity generation and distribution. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Quan, who is also head of the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, informed President of the ruling CPP and Prime Minister Hun sen and CPP Honorary President and President of the National Assembly Heng samrin about the outcomes of the CPV’s 12 th ss='cambodia-color'>...

One Belt One Road refers to the “silk Road Economic Belt” and the “21st Century Maritime silk Road.” Chinese President Xi Jinping first brought up the concept during foreign visits in late 2013. It is Xi’s signature world economic strategy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After a series of technical delays and setbacks, the Kingdom’s first industrial slaughterhouse is ready to begin operations and will start production upon receiving its first shipment of 2,000 heads of live Australian cattle in late May, the company behind the project said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An inter-ministerial meeting that took place earlier this month in Preah sihanouk was said to have been called to make concrete the seesawing plans of the province’s business and environmental development. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In an apparent attempt to distance himself from the savage beating of two opposition party lawmakers last month, Hun sen’s son and ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) lawmaker Hun Many threatened legal action against any individuals linking him to the incident.  ss='cambodia-color'>...

Just four years ago, the white sand beach at Koh Rong samloeun’s saracen Bay was empty. Now workers can be seen scrambling over the frames of new bungalows along the shoreline, and speed boats arrive hourly from the mainland to drop off crowds of tourists ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is a major player in AsEAN for realizing China’s Belt and Road Initiative, which Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed last year to connect China to neighboring countries and the world, Chinese officials said.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

A civil society organisation has raised concerns about the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), claiming that one provision of the sweeping trade agreement would limit the Kingdom’s ability to draft socially beneficial policies. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange (CSX) granted itS approval in principle of the liSting eligibility review application of Phnom Penh AutonomouS Port (PPAP), the exchange announced on itS webSite yeSterday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

As Prime Minister Hun sen ages, more and more talk is surfacing of his sons taking his mantle and leading the country into the future. Two were in the spotlight this past week as they bolster their credentials for their eventual rise to the top ss='cambodia-color'>...

After writing to Prime Minister Hun sen in July asking him to order an investigation into the sand dredging taking place in Koh Kong province, CNRP lawmaker son Chhay on Wednesday accused the prime minister of not fully addressing the issues in his letter of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s first listed company, the Phnom Penh Water supply Authority, yesterday reported a 41 per cent drop in profits after tax for the quarter ending september 30, with the company attributing the drop to an increase in expenses incurred over the quarter. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Banteay Meanchey provincial authorities yesterday promoted a new director of Provincial Customs and Excise to replace his predecessor, seven months after an office under his jurisdiction was at the centre of a riot. ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will pay an official viSit to Cambodia later thiS month to booSt bilateral tieS, Cambodia&rSquo;S MiniStry of Foreign AffairS Said on Saturday. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...

Claims that Prime Minister Hun sen’s recent spike in Facebook popularity is the result of purchasing “likes” from abroad are “completely twisted,” the government’s National Counter-Terrorism Committee concluded in a five-page report released on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police have started a countrywide manhunt after an anonymous caller attempted to extort money from district governors in Kampong Chhnang and Battambang while posing as Interior Ministry secretary of state sak sehta last month. On March 4 and then again on March 12, an anonymous caller ss='cambodia-color'>...

Increasingly closer ties between Phnom Penh and Beijing are spurring a rise of Chinese investment into the Kingdom, with businesses from the world’s second-largest economy now taking a closer look at Cambodia’s agricultural sector, Chinese officials said during a press tour last week to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s population of spotted Indochinese leopards will be extinct by 2018 unless action is taken to deal with the “snaring crisis” in Mondolkiri province, where the few remaining leopards live, according to the author of a forthcoming paper on the issue.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Environmental DNA collection could be a “silver bullet” for tracking and protecting critically endangered fish in the Mekong, according to a new report.   ss='cambodia-color'>...