International tourist arrivals into Cambodia have soared in the past year, with arrivals into siem Reap up 30 per cent in the first eight months of 2012 over the same period the previous year. The tourist industry was hit hard by the global economic crisis in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tourism authorities are concerned that the role of siem Reap’s Cambodian tour guides catering to Korean tourists is being usurped by interpreters, with the tour guides being relegated to mere porters. This is mainly due to the lack of tour guides who can converse in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

This month’s eviction of villagers in Kratie province that resulted in the death of a 14-year-old girl was one of many such violent incidents over land that have erupted in Cambodia in recent years. But what set the May 16 violence apart was a word: ss='cambodia-color'>...

Less than a week after Prime Minister Hun sen called for land to be returned to villagers embroiled in land disputes, a Pursat province villager has been summonsed by the court in a scenario many see as all too common in these disputes. Kuch Veng, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Less than 36 hours after Wang Zia Chao provoked a strike by destroying two photos of the late King Father in front of hundreds of Cambodian garment workers, the Chinese factory manager was booked, charged and convicted by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, which last ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has won an arbitration case in a World Bank court, successfully countering a $300 million claim made by a U.s based company over a failed power plant project dating back to 1996. According to a statement from the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism on Wednesday finalized its 5-year strategic plan to attract at least 1.3 million Chinese visitors by 2018. speaking at a seminar on Cambodia tourism marketing strategy targeting China, so Visothy, director of the Tourism Ministry’s Marketing and Promotion Department, said that currently ss='cambodia-color'>...

Audits of the voter list which claimed that up to 1 million people could lose their right to vote in the July 28 national election were attributed to an “unavoidable margin of error” due to many citizens not having national identity cards or a permanent ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly all of Phnom Penh’s communes have voter registration rates in excess of 100 per cent, amounting to more than 145,000 additional names, with one commune topping the 200 per cent mark, an analysis of previously unseen government population data reveals. Further analysis of the already ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Vietnamese rubber tycoon has rejected accusations by Global Witness, a group that campaigns on resource issues, that it was involved in a land grabbing crisis in southeast Asia. Doan Nguyen Duc, the chairman of Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group, told Vietnamese media the information ss='cambodia-color'>...

As election data trickled in on sunday evening and a fear set in borne of uncertainty and a beefed-up police presence, demand for basic commodities surged, food prices briefly rose, and some banks saw an expected rise in withdrawals. sales of rice jumped from their normal ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Minister of Commerce and long-time ruling party stalwart Cham Prasidh said yesterday that post-election demonstrations could prevent growth and even result in small-scale looting. “If they want to destroy the economy, they have to protest more and more in order to destroy,” he said. speaking ss='cambodia-color'>...

A village chief in Kompong Cham province’s flooded Tonle Bit commune Thursday accused opposition leader Kem sokha of refusing to provide emergency supplies to CPP supporters during a donation run on Tuesday. Prek Touch village chief sar Bora said that Mr. sokha, vice president of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

While the political crisis in the country is still ongoing, Cambodia is now suffering another crisis due to flooding, which has had a big impact on the country’s real estate business. Kim Heang, the President of Khmer Real Estate, said the buying and selling of real ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia will submit a human rights report to the U.N. today for a universal periodic review (UPR), the second time it is participating in the process, according to the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit. Under the UPR process established in 2006, the Human ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Vietnamese rubber firm Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) has failed to keep its commitments to address human rights and environmental abuses at its plantations in Cambodia, Global Witness said in a statement yesterday. In May, the London-based NGO published an investigation into two Vietnamese rubber companies ss='cambodia-color'>...

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