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About 300 people from 11 provinces gathered at Prime Minister Hun sen’s cabinet near Wat Botum pagoda yesterday to ask for help in their ongoing dispute with Empire Big Capital Limited, an investment company that cheated thousands of victims out of nearly $60 million. In May ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia currently faces significant foreign policy challenges amid great power rivalry in the Asia-Pacific. Against the backdrop of Us President Donald Trump’s uncertain and unpredictable foreign policy in the region, China’s economic, military, and strategic influence over Cambodia continues to grow. China is now Cambodia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Tbong Khmum province seized two trucks that were about to break the government’s ban on timber exports to Vietnam by carting wood across the border for a company owned by business mogul Kith Meng. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s national debt stood at $5.8 billion at the end of 2016, totalling nearly a third of GDP, according to the latest debt bulletin released by the Ministry and Economy and Finance earlier this month. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Angkor Wat was yesterday named the world’s number one landmark in TripAdvisor’s 2017 Traveller’s Choice awards. The World Heritage site beat competition from the likes of India’s Taj Mahal, Peru’s Machu Picchu, and st Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City to take the top spot. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amnesty International today accused the ruling CPP of using its grip on the judiciary to systematically harass and intimidate civil society and urged the government to drop cases against opposition activists and human rights defenders. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The British government has attempted to assuage the fears of least developed countries (LDCs) including Cambodia by assuring them that they will retain their trade privileges to the United Kingdom following the country’s exit from the European Union ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Supreme Court yeSterday upheld a lower court&rSquo;S deciSion to deny jailed political analySt Kim Sok&rSquo;S requeSt for bail, alSo rejecting hiS requeSt to SummonS Prime MiniSter Hun Sen, the plaintiff in the two defamation and incitement caSeS that landed the analySt in detention. SS='cambodia-color'>...

he Kingdom’s biggest industrial park is moving beyond its initial development stage and looking to attract nearly 200 new tenants in the next five years as it doubles its footprint. ss='cambodia-color'>...

n a speech to 65 senior government officials yesterday, Cambodia’s acting foreign affairs minister said this month had been “the worst” so far in the history of Cambodia-Us relations. “Our relationship seems to be difficult,” said Ouch Borith, who is second-in-command at the Foreign Affairs Ministry. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new study on wind energy and its potential to diversify Cambodia’s energy sector is now being conducted, with results expected for mid next year, according to a representative of the Ministry of Mines and Energy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 30 families living in Koh Kong province’s Kiri sakor district yesterday protested against the work of a special Economic Zone company owned by tycoon Ly Yong Phat. ss='cambodia-color'>...

With the bidding process for the project coming to an end, the construction of a new seaport for tourist vessels in Kampot will begin in March, a representative of Kampot’s tourism department told Khmer Times. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following robust growth in cargo shipments, total revenue for state-owned Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP), the second largest harbor in Cambodia, increased by 14 percent in 2017, according to the Ministry of Public Works and Transport. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As authorities yesterday searched for officials suspected of killing three forestry patrollers in a brazen ambush near Mondulkiri’s border with Vietnam, families, friends and colleagues struggled to make sense of the sudden deaths of their loved ones. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday blamed Cambodia’s rampant deforestation on local villagers who he claimed had been “incited” by the opposition to clear the forestland, though conservationists were quick to point out that those behind illegal logging are actually often powerful tycoons connected to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Institute of standards of Cambodia developed 63 new standards last year, bringing the total number of certifications available from the government to 868, though one industry representative said the system still needed improvement in order to facilitate exports. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The United StateS SayS it will give Vietnam a loan of more than $100 million to buy a telecommunicationS Satellite from a U.S. companyLockheed Martin Ex-Im SayS the Satellite will provide coverage to Vietnam, Cambodia, LaoS and Thailand. It SayS PreSident Barack Obama waS required to SS='cambodia-color'>...

An official at the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy expressed concern that if the quality of Cambodian produced goods does not improve, Cambodia is likely to become largely a retailer of foreign goods when the AsEAN Economic Community (AEC) is realised in 2015. Meng saktheara, ss='cambodia-color'>...