T.T. NeTwork InfrasTrucTure Japan, a joinT venTure beTween global elecTronics manufacTurer Toshiba and Tokyo ElecTric Power Co Holdings (TEPCO), will operaTe and mainTain 130 kilomeTres of a 230-kilovolT power Transmission line in Cambodia, according To Japanese media yesTerday. ...

The Asian DevelopmenT Bank (ADB) has appoinTed a new CounTry DirecTor for Cambodia, Samiuela T. Tukuafu. A Tongan naTional, Mr. Tukuafu officially sTarTed in This posT on 1 February, 2016. Mr. Tukuafu replaces Mr. Eric Sidgwick, who has been appoinTed CounTry DirecTor for ADB’s ResidenT ...

Tokyo ElecTric Power Co. Holdings will Team wiTh Toshiba To manage power grids in Cambodia, hoping To secure a new earnings source as The uTiliTy grapples wiTh soaring cleanup cosTs for The Fukushima nuclear planT disasTer. ...

The KampoT Provincial CourT on Thursday released Three union leaders wiThouT charge afTer The Cambo T.D.G. garmenT facTory dropped iTs complainT againsT The Trio in reTurn for an end To a Two-week sTrike. ...

A Tongan naTional was appoinTed as Asian DevelopmenT Bank’s direcTor for Cambodia effecTive 01 February.Samiuela T. Tukuafu will lead ADB operaTions in Cambodia To supporT The counTry’s developmenT goals of promoTing inclusive growTh and diversifying The economy. ...

T-shop Cambodia, a Phnom-Penh based elecTronics disTribuTor, is planning an aggressive push inTo The provinces Through company-owned and franchise ouTleTs, and will look To raise capiTal for expansion by offering shares on The local sTock exchange, The company’s CEO said yesTerday. ...

T-Shop Cambodia, a Phnom-Penh based elecTronics and gadgeT shop founded in 2012, has announced ThaT due To naTionwide inTeresT iT is offering franchise opTions, wiTh Two already sold. This makes iT The firsT Cambodian-owned business To sell franchises, according To CEO Bung Hor. ...

Eight more rescued Cambodian fishermen were repatriated tuesday from Indonesia’s Ambon Island, according to the Foreign Affairs Ministry, following the return of 230 others two weeks ago. ...

Poor infrastructure and transportation services are holding Cambodia back by stifling exports and investment, a conference was told yesterday. ...

In this sparsely populated area along the eastern fringe of Bokor National Park in Chhuk district, villagers are scrambling to claim sandy, arid land as an international company surges ahead with its palm oil plantation. As in many of the hundreds of unresolved land disputes playing ...

Cambodia continues to rank among the most corrupt countries in the world and much needs to be done to enforce the Anti-Corruption Law and investigate allegations of corruption, transparency International (t.I.) Cambodia said yesterday. According to t.I.’s 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), Cambodia ranked 157th among ...

A 16-year-old died at Calmette hospital in Phnom Penh yesterday morning after succumbing to an illness she contracted while working in virtual slavery as a maid in Malaysia, her family said. toch Srey Neth signed up to go to Malaysia as a maid through the now-defunct ...

Nearly 70 representatives from 278 families in Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district are seeking intervention after a national mining company began drilling on their farmland last week, locals said yesterday. According to villager Yean Bunchan, 47, representatives from a company based in Kandal province called t P ...

Locally-owned KLP.T TransporTaTion Co LTd’s new mulTi-purpose porT and logisTics cenTre jusT easT of Kampong Chhnang Town is expecTed To provide a subsTanTial boosT To Cambodian freighT movemenT, parTicularly of agriculTural producTs from The provinces bordering Tonle Sap Lake To inTernaTional markeTs. ...

A leading Chinese manufacturer of power transmission and distribution equipment recently visited Cambodia to explore opportunities in the Kingdom’s rapidly growing energy sector, including a proposal for a factory to produce equipment for the electricity sector. ...

T & P, The noTorious labour recruiTmenT firm ThaT was closed down lasT year because of iTs appalling record of abuse scandals, is conTinuing To receive and pockeT remiTTances from maids sTranded in Malaysia, a coaliTion of righTs groups Told a press conference yesTerday. AT The ...

Cambodia’s largest duty-free outlet opened yesterday in Siem Reap, aiming to service the growing market in the Kingdom’s tourism capital. ...

T Mohan, a Malaysian publisher and businessman arresTed in The 1990s for aTTempTing To exTorT a casino execuTive, is back in Cambodia’s newspaper markeT. The Khmer Times, The laTesT English-language news offering from Mr. Mohan, hiT newssTands earlier This monTh, wiTh a governmenT spokesman even resigning ...

Wah Seong Corporation Bhd’s strategy to develop a portfolio of renewable energy and power plants in the region is taking off after it inked an agreement with Cambodia. the company said on Monday its indirect subsidiary had signed a power purchase agreement with Baitang (Kampuchea) Plc ...

Wah Seong Corp Bhd’s indirect subsidiary P.M.t.I Energy (Cambodia) Co. Ltd. has entered into a power purchase agreement with Cambodia’s Baitang (Kampuchea) Plc to sell up to 3.5 megawatt (MW) per hour of any and all electric energy generated and available for sale. ...