An online petition has been launched calling on English Premier League football club Arsenal to break its ties with a Vietnamese rubber company accused of land grabbing and deforestation in Cambodia. A report by London-based Glob­al Wit­ness this month named Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) as ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is still a way off implementing World Trade Organization (WTO) rules on intellectual property rights, despite a deadline to do so in just over a month. At the end of June, the group of the world’s 49 least developed countries (LDCs), including Cambodia, run out ss='cambodia-color'>...

Naza Bikes sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Malaysia-based Naza Group of Companies, will enter Cambodia’s crowded motorbike sector, according to the local brand manager. “[Business] will probably be launched on the first of next month,” Hay Chamreoun, the manager, said yesterday, adding that construction for the ss='cambodia-color'>...

It was not the hero’s welcome that greeted Mam sonando when more than a thousand boisterous supporters cheered his release from Prey sar prison Friday and lifted the popular radio station owner onto their shoulders for an impromptu parade. But for the three unheralded farmers caught ss='cambodia-color'>...

Workers in stung Treng province have begun clearing forested land with chainsaws in order to make way for the reservoir of a massive hydropower dam that has drawn ire from local villagers who say they have not been informed about the dam’s construction plans. The National ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hennes & Mauritz AB, Europe’s second-biggest clothing retailer, said some H&M garments were produced without its knowledge or approval at a factory in Cambodia where workers were injured in a partial building collapse this week. A supplier of the stockholm-based company placed two minor orders with ss='cambodia-color'>...

Co-operation on the exchange of electricity will be very important in making the 10-country ASEAN bloc move forward to a Single market by 2015, expertS Said, but a Shortage of power Supply in each country remainS a challenge. Speaking to reporterS yeSterday after the opening of SS='cambodia-color'>...

The total weight of goods transported through the sihanoukville Autonomous Port in the first six months of the year was up 15 percent compared with the same period last year, according to figures released Thursday. some 1.51 million tons of goods passed through the port in ss='cambodia-color'>...

SIEM REAP CITY/KOMPONG THOM CITY &ndaSh; OppoSition leaderS Sam RainSy and Kem Sokha led a parade of more than 20,000 SupporterS on WedneSday through the StreetS of Siem Reap City in what waS the Second-largeSt turnout for an oppoSition rally Since Mr. RainSy landed in SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen will visit Macau in september to participate in the second Global Tourism Economy Forum. Prime Minister Hun sen called for more investment in the country by Chinese and Macau entrepreneurs, and direct flights between Cambodia and Macau. According to Xinhua, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian police clashed Monday with workers at a factory that makes clothing for the U.s. sportswear company Nike, arresting seven, in the latest violence linked to a strike over salaries, union organizers and rights activists said. The protest at the Taiwanese-owned sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing plant ss='cambodia-color'>...

WASHINGTON DC &ndaSh; The head of the election monitoring group Comfrel SayS a number of election irregularitieS and fraud have taken place during the campaign period, aS obServerS prepare for Election Day on Sunday. Voter liStS have numerouS flawS, with Some people unable to find their SS='cambodia-color'>...

Chris Leyland had forgotten about Cambodia’s national elections when he made plans to travel into Phnom Penh from Vietnam with Jess Jackson, 34, and her two children. Had Leyland, a 41-year-old from Oxford, UK, remembered that it wasn’t going to be a normal weekend in Cambodia, ss='cambodia-color'>...

India-based Tata International Ltd announced yesterday that it would import and distribute its Farmtrac Tractors in Cambodia to profit from the country’s growing agricultural sector. speaking at the launching ceremony at the Koh Pich exhibition centre, Jitendra Manghinani, country manager of Tata south East Asia (Cambodia), ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than a dozen journalism and hu­man rights groups have called on Cambodia’s political forces to protect journalists and guarantee citizens’ access to an open and unobstructed press during the current political unrest. In a statement released Wednesday, the Cambodian Center for Independent Media, along with ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian rights group said Wednesday that impunity is on the rise in Cambodia, hitting out at the authorities for failing to resolve a number of high-profile killings and bring the perpetrators to justice. Ahead of International Day to End Impunity on saturday, the Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five Tumpuon villagers have again been summonsed for questioning by the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court in a lengthy dispute after private firm Ly sokim Co Ltd accused villagers of destroying its property. In the latest summons, dated July 30, villagers are warned that failing to show up ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly half of defendants lack legal representation, 80 per cent are held in pretrial detention, and a sizeable chunk confess before they get a hearing, according to an online public database released yesterday by the Cambodia Center for Human Rights. The database reveals numerous infringements on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Traffic police across the country have still not resumed enforcing traffic laws after a pre-election enforcement moratorium that was meant to last just a few weeks ahead of the July 28 poll, according to government and U.N. officials. “The superiors ordered [police] to stop, for a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six prime government-owned propertieS in Phnom Penh and Battambang province have been reclaSSified aS privately held State propertieS in order to pave the way for the land to be Sold or Swapped with private companieS, according to a Sub-decree Signed November 8. Signed by Prime MiniSter SS='cambodia-color'>...