Prime Minister Hun sen has signed off on four more economic land concessions (ELCs), all in protected areas, despite placing a moratorium on granting such leases on May 7. since the May 7 sub-decree, the premier has now signed off on seven concessions totalling 56,586 hectares ss='cambodia-color'>...

Less than five months from the national elections, Prime Minister Huns sen yesterday warned the public that his ruling CPP party would stop making charitable donations towards infrastructure and national development if the party is not re-elected. speaking at the inauguration of a Chinese-funded expansion of ss='cambodia-color'>...

With competition rife in Cambodia’s telecommunication market, two of the country’s largest mobile phone operators have engaged in a battle over prices and are at odds over the tactics being used to gain market share. On Friday, the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) ordered all mobile ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday forced a family whose three children were allegedly beaten by DM Group firm employees last month to accept only $1,000 in compensation in place of the $40,000 the family initially had demanded, the children’s father claimed. Ry sarun, 52, said that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s opposition leader sam Rainsy called Friday for election officials to declare his party and Prime Minister Hun sen’s party joint victors in recent polls saying the move would be a first step toward resolving a deadlock over the disputed election. With the opposition Cambodia National ss='cambodia-color'>...

A local company has begun working in cooperation with ABA bank to streamline payments for services such as electricity bills and mobile phone top-ups by allowing people to pay through its website, mobile applications and electronic kiosks. PayGo sEA (Cambodia) Co. Ltd., which operates under the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Municipality will provide land titles to 33 more families living in the city’s Boeng Kak neighborhood, a municipal official said Tuesday, roughly a third of those still seeking property rights in the area that has seen some 3,000 forced evictions. “First, we will solve ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers and local authorities continued to argue over a 4-hectare plot of land in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district on Monday, a day after officials promised to measure and issue a title for it. District council chief Prak Channa on sunday promised to issue a land ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Appeal Court has reduced the already shortened sentence of the 31-year-old son of a high-ranking official who killed three women in a car accident, ordering him to serve just two months in prison, a court official said Tuesday. Bun Rattanak, the son of municipal finance ss='cambodia-color'>...

It was late at night when a torrent of water burst through the Kamping Pouy reservoir on October 8 and surged into more than 50 houses effectively sacrificed to stop a potentially catastrophic breach in the dam in Battambang province. With cracks appearing in a dam ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government claims to have finished nearly a third of the work needed to rehabilitate the long-dilapidated railway line from Phnom Penh to the Thai border at Poipet, twice the figure reported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the main financier of the over-budget and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Security forceS Started Searching vehicleS entering Phnom Penh along all major roadS ThurSday morning in advance of a maSS demonStration planned by the oppoSition CNRP for Saturday. The CNRP called the checkpointS an illegal and futile attempt to Stop itS SupporterS from attending the maSS meeting. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leaders sam Rainsy and Kem sokha on Tuesday ended the CNRP’s three-day demonstration in Phnom Penh, but vowed to hold further demonstrations if the National Assembly is convened on Monday without an agreement having been reached with the ruling CPP over the disputed results ss='cambodia-color'>...

A day after the Cambodia National Mekong Committee (CNMC) received impact assessment documents from Laos for their controversial Don sahong dam, Cambodian and Vietnamese officials criticized Laos’ lack of transparency on the mainstream Mekong dam. Located less than 1 km from the Lao-Cambodian border, the 240-MW ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ou Seathong SellS one of the moSt expenSive foodS in the world: edible bird Spit. At her Shop on Street 182 in Phnom Penh, She SortS edible bird neStS on the ShelveS. HundredS of yearS old, the ChineSe delicacy iS made of the congealed Saliva SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Constitutional Council on Wednesday upheld the decision by the National Election Committee (NEC) to reject a complaint filed by the opposition CNRP regarding alleged voting irregularities in Battambang province. Battambang marks the 13th rejection out of 15 provinces and municipalities that the CNRP has lodged ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 20-story retail and office building development opposite Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park by U.K.-based Hongkong Land Ltd. (HKL) is being built without pre-existing rental agreements, the company’s general manager, Daniel Parkes, said Thursday. Land Management Minister Im Chhun Lim last Friday hosted the groundbreaking of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Even as political instability led to a drop in Phnom Penh’s housing market over the last few months, construction and sales of De Castle Royal steamed ahead in the third quarter. Now fully over the fallout from the 2008 global financial crisis, a recent $28 million ss='cambodia-color'>...

German luxury car manufacturer Audi has expanded into Cambodia, joining the recent entry of higher-end automobile producers into a small but growing market. At a signing ceremony in Phnom Penh yesterday, Audi AG appointed Automotive Asia (Cambodia) Ltd as its official distributor in the country. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kompong Cham Provincial Court on Saturday charged the chief of Srei Santhor diStrict&rSquo;S Social affairS office with corruption following hiS arreSt by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Friday for withholding penSionS and other bonuSeS from retired teacherS, a court official Said TueSday. Provincial court deputy SS='cambodia-color'>...