Thailand had been asked to supply more electricity to those Cambodian provinces close to the shared border, according to officials. suy sem, Cambodian minister of Industry, Mine and Energy, talked to reporters after a bilateral meeting with his counterpart, Thai Minister Arak Chonlatanon last week, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Investment in the Cambodian construction sector reached Us$1.38 billion in the first seven months of 2012, an 8s-percent rise over the same period last year, according to figures from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. During the January to July period this ss='cambodia-color'>...

Workers at shuttered plush-toy company First & Main claimed yesterday their bosses had forced them to thumbprint resignation letters they had not written, a plan they feared could deny them severance pay. Mech Mom, a representative of the 357 workers at the Us-owned factory, in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Residents of Kratie province had an education in conservation yesterday as the government and outside partners reiterated a september sub-decree banning gill nets on a sizable stretch of the Mekong in a bid to protect the badly endangered Mekong River dolphin. Touch seang Tana, head of the Commission ss='cambodia-color'>...

THE [sic] Ministry of Tourism plans to organize an annual River Festival along the Mekong and Tonle sap in a move to attract tourists, officials said. Additionally, it wants to raise awareness for environmental protection with a “Clean City Day” on February 27. The Minister of ss='cambodia-color'>...

An unintentional murder charge handed to security guard Ran Boroth on Friday for allegedly killing military police officer In Rattana has left rights groups asking why officials initially claimed the deceased man had committed suicide. Only three days after it was established by Prime Minister Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...

After a three-day blockade, soldiers pulled out over the weekend from the Kratie province village where a teenage girl was shot dead last week by government security forces, officials said yesterday. However, human rights workers denied a report by a provincial official that freedom of movement ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Stung Treng province on TueSday arreSted a Council of MiniSterS official and her huSband for trying to cheat a land-titling program Prime MiniSter Hun Sen announced laSt month, according to local officialS. It markS the Second time thiS week that authoritieS arreSted or detained SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s second conference on social enterprise is set to take place tomorrow with the aim of tackling poverty, social exclusion and health and environmental problems, organisers say. The all-day conference, at the Cambodia-Japan Conference Centre at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, will facilitate discussions among participants ss='cambodia-color'>...

The import flow of bicycles (excluding e-bikes) into the European Union is changing rapidly between countries What is in particular striking is the massive upswing in imports from Cambodia. In 2011 the European Union imported 366,000 bikes from Cambodia which took the country to the 9th ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thirteen women protesters from Boeung Kak lake were yesterday sentenced to two and a half years in prison after a three-hour trial that was widely condemned as illegal – and which prompted sRP lawmaker Mu sochua to urge the international community to suspend aid to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nagacorp will build an underground road and retail space linking its casino complex in Phnom Penh to nearby Koh Pich, according to the announcement released by City Hall yesterday. The underground road, which will be 23 meters wide and 447 meters long, will connect to National ss='cambodia-color'>...

An assistant to former Us president Bill Clinton said Cambodia has many potential areas for foreign direct investment (FDI) from many countries, including the Us. Karen Tramontano, founder, along with Clinton, and president of the Global Fairness Initiative and CEO at Blue star strategies, met with ss='cambodia-color'>...

It’s not a claim every country can make, but Cambodia builds its own cars. A country known for its low-skilled workforce, the Kingdom exceeded expectations with its January release of the Angkor Car, a mini-electric vehicle able to get up to 300 kilometres per charge. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank is under pressure to review some of its policies around the world to ensure that in countries like Cambodia it is not funding the wrong projects. In a discussion at George Washington University this week, panelists said the World Bank is needed for ss='cambodia-color'>...

After the listing of Taiwanese-owned garment company Grand Twins International (Cambodia) Plc on the Kingdom’s stock exchange was delayed indefinitely, its underwriter said yesterday that the firm hopes to list before the national elections in late July. According to the underwriter, Phnom Penh securities (PPs) Plc, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Reports have today emerged criminal allegations that BHP Billiton employees bribed officials in Cambodia and China were not thoroughly investigated by the Australian Federal Police, with the matter instead being passed over to corporate regulator AsIC, which also ran no in-depth investigation. The documents released ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 Banong ethic minority villagers in Mondolkiri province on Wednesday stopped and briefly apprehended a group of 11 outsiders who they say were caught illegally logging timber in the area, villagers said yesterday. The villagers say that they took it upon themselves to stop ss='cambodia-color'>...

Royalist party Fun­cinpec has joined the opposition in calling for international involvement in an investigation into election irregularities. “I have issued a request to ask for the creation of an independent committee to investigate the irregularities,” Funcinpec secretary-general Nhek Bun Chhay said. While the party failed to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Japanese athletics brand AsICs said Friday that it would push its four Cambodian sub-contractors to join a programme that monitors conditions in garment and shoe factories. “We will strongly request to our sub-contractors in Cambodia to sign up to this programme,” Katsumi Funakoshi, AsICs ss='cambodia-color'>...