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The government is planning to install surveillance equipment on the networks of Cambodia’s mobile phone operators and Internet service providers (ISPs), a senior Interior Ministry official said Tuesday, vindicating concerns about inspections the ministry quietly conducted on telecommunications firms in October. In October, officials from Lieutenant ...

Staff at the Phnom Penh Municipal Referral Hospital said Tuesday that they had no record of a recent visit from a man who died late last month at the Prey Speu social affairs center, contradicting claims made by a city official. Both a file search by ...

Many types of Vietnamese goods have faced strong competition of imported products from nations in the Southeast Asian region, while local businesses have met difficulties in broadening the presence of their products in these markets. For the last ten years, many businesses in Ho Chi Minh ...

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. ...

Binh Duong-Ho Chi Minh City-Cambodia bus line has been launched on December 6 by Phuong Trinh Joint Stock Company. The new service will be operational with six daily trips from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. using 45 and 28-seat high class luxury passenger buses. ...

The four-nation Mekong River Commission (MRC) this week holds public consultations on the development of a large hydropower dam in southern Laos. The project is one of a series of planned dams in the Mekong River Basin that environmentalists say could harm an ecosystem critical ...

Phnom Penh police are hunting for another four suspects for being behind the assassination of tycoon Ung Meng Cheu who was gunned down on November 22 in Chamkar Morn district. ...

Actress and Global Road Safety Ambassador Michelle Yeoh joined Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng to donate 6,652 helmets to students and teachers here on Tuesday, encouraging passengers to wear helmets while traveling on motorcycles. Yeoh also instructed students on the proper use of helmets and ...

The Thai and Cambodian governments need to reform migration policies to prevent a repeat of June’s exodus that saw up to 300,000 Cambodians leave Thailand, migrant groups said Tuesday. Workers from neighboring Cambodia fled Thailand following the May 22 military coup amid widespread rumors that the army ...

Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said Monday that the upcoming visit by Prime Minister Hun Sen to South Korea will broaden relations and cooperation between the two countries. ...

A conference on youth cooperation among Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia opened in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi on Monday, drawing participation of representatives from the three neighboring countries. ...

Human rights group (LICADHO) has called for the release of 18 activists who have been wrongfully imprisoned following a recent spate of arrests as Cambodia will celebrate International Human Rights Day on December 10th. In a statement issued today [Monday], the right group also condemns the ...

Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong has lauded China’s excellent ties and cooperation with ASEAN and Cambodia, saying that the close ties have brought peace, stability and development in the region. “China is the first country to establish with ASEAN in 2003 the ASEAN-China Strategic Partnership for ...

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni left here on Monday for Japan to attend the opening ceremony of the 6th World Buddhist Summit. ...

Cambodia’s earned more than US$6 billion (about RM21 billion) from exports of garment and leather footwear this year, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported. ...

As Cambodia prepares for a regional meeting over a contentious Lao dam on the Mekong River, fishing communities in Stung Treng province have appealed to Laos to cancel the project. The Don Sahong dam would be built on the Mekong, two kilometers from the Cambodian border. ...

A Vietnamese fisherman caught a 127-kg giant barb (Catlocarpio siamensis) in the Mekong Delta over the weekend, Dan Tri reported. The online news service said Nguyen Van Minh caught the critically endangered fish, known as trey kolreang in Khmer, in Vinh Long province on Saturday. ...

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 ...

Hundreds of monks are marching to Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh to mark International Human Rights Day, defying the orders of their own leaders and police and military roadblocks, local media reported Monday. Accompanied by rights campaigners, some of the monks have been walking towards the city ...

Kampong Speu palm sugar exports with geographical indication (GI) status have increased in the past year, as international buyers begin to appreciate the Cambodia-specific product. Export volumes of the sugar reached 50 tonnes in 2014, according to Kampong Speu Palm Sugar Promotion Association’s (KSPSPA) president, Sam ...

The Kratie Provincial Court has freed on bail two of three men arrested for the October slaying of 49-year-old reporter Taing Try after the third man told the court that he carried out the murder on his own, the court’s chief prosecutor said Sunday. Taing Try, ...

A London court on Friday convicted three British men of conspiracy to commit fraud following an investigation by the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into a British biofuel firm that swindled investors in its Cambodian venture. Gary West, the former director of Sustainable Agro Energy (SAE); James ...

Workers at Siem Reap International Airport have ended an 11-day strike after agreeing with the company on a plan to negotiate over their grievances, a union rep said yesterday. ...

About 8,000 professional and amateur athletes from 78 countries and regions took part in the 19th Angkor Wat International Half Marathon on Sunday at the complex of Angkor Wat Temple, a world heritage site. Cambodian Tourism Minister Thong Khon, president of the National Olympic Committee, said ...