Rights group Adhoc yesterday said it had seen a spike in complaints from families of migrant workers since last year’s government-ordered freeze on recruitment agencies sending maids to Malaysia. At a press conference in Phnom Penh, Adhoc said it had received 141 complaints from the relatives ss='cambodia-color'>...

A second police official in Ratanakkiri province has been suspended on suspicion that he demanded money from villagers so that their names could be included on a list of people eligible for land titles as part of Prime Minister Hun sen’s new titling program, police ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Lao government’s refusal to halt the construction of a controversial mainstream Mekong dam is “making a mockery” of an agreement between the four Mekong countries, international conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said yesterday. Though Laos had agreed in December to suspend construction of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

An expedition to expose illegal logging uncovered about 50 hectares of clear-felled forest yesterday that activists from the Prey Lang Community Network have filmed and photographed to lobby government officials, a group representative said. Chum Yin said more than 60 villagers had traveled to seven villages ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s service sector has seen significant growth in recent years, but the sector remains hampered by challenges, according to a report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The service sector’s real GDP share has expanded to 39 per cent in 2011, compared to 23.7 per cent ss='cambodia-color'>...

At the close of a case that remained shrouded in controversy until the end, Koh Kong Provincial Court yesterday found former security guard Ran Boroth guilty of the unintentional killing of military police officer In Rattana, the man on whom authorities pinned the murder of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three more international airlines will soon begin operating flights to Cambodia’s two main airports, according to Cambodia Airports, which owns and operates the facilities. Lao Central Airlines and Qatar Airways will offer flights to Phnom Penh, and Frankfurt-based Condor Air will fly direct to siem Reap, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Vietnam Association of Foreign Investment Enterprises, and the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Association for Economic Cooperation Development jointly held the Mekong sub-region Investment Cooperation Forum with the theme of Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle before the New Challenges and Opportunities in Buon Ma Thuot ss='cambodia-color'>...

Geopacific Resources, an Australian mineral exploration company focused on gold and copper projects in Fiji, wants to take over Worldwide Mining Projects Limited, a mineral assets searcher in southeast Asia. Worldwide Mining Projects Limited has signed a sales agreement with Golden Resources Development, a south Korean ss='cambodia-color'>...

Pirated computer software accounted for about $50 million in losses to the Cambodian economy every year, an industry expert said yesterday. According to Pily Wong, president of the ICT Business Association, about 95 per cent of the computer software used in Cambodia is counterfeit, crippling the ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 4,000 people attended a ceremony in December last year that saw Japan’s largest shopping mall developer and operator, Aeon, breaking ground on its three-storey mall in Phnom Penh, and the company says it is already considering building more in the capital. Aeon Mall ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prominent businesswoman Chhin sokountheary yesterday announced her intention to sue Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema for falsifying documents saying she illegally occupied state land in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district in a bid to steal the land and develop a sports stadium on it. sokountheary, 57 ss='cambodia-color'>...

K (Cambodia), an authorised dealer of Isuzu Motors, opened a new showroom near Phnom Penh International Airport yesterday that will be the cornerstone for Isuzu Motors’ planned long-term investment in the Kingdom, a K (Cambodia) official said. “The new showroom for Isuzu vehicle is to serve ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rough[ly] 40 representatives of some 370 families locked in a years-long land dispute with a rubber concessionaire in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district demonstrated outside the Phnom Penh offices of Adhoc yesterday to publicise their situation. The villagers, many of whom are family members of soldiers ss='cambodia-color'>...

EZECOM and Telekom Malaysia has [sic] signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Tuesday to install a submerged cable system called the Malaysia-Cambodia-Thailand Cable system (MCT). A statement reported that Cambodia’s leading Internet service Telcotech Ltd — a part of Ezecom — will sign the MOU with ss='cambodia-color'>...

The US Department of State on Monday called on Cambodian authoritieS to carry out a full inveStigation into “all credible reportS” of election malfeaSance, Saying that it waS “concerned” by variouS iSSueS taking place both on, and leading up to, laSt Sunday&rSquo;S vote. At a preSS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Siem Reap town &ndaSh; one of Cambodia&rSquo;S biggeSt touriSt deStinationS &ndaSh; faced yet another power outage yeSterday after the provincial energy Supplier cut power for 12 hourS during the day. Energy Supplier Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) informed reSidentS that power would be cut from 6am to SS='cambodia-color'>...

Mong Reththy Group (MRG), Cambodia’s largest exporter of palm oil, hopes to expand its exports to European markets this year. Mong Reththy, president of the firm, said the quota-free and duty-free trade frameworks provided by European governments factored heavily into the decision. “About 50 per cent of ss='cambodia-color'>...

A U.S.-baSed energy company haS announced that it iS planning a biomaSS project uSing genetically modified rice in Cambodia, in a purportedly maSSive deal about which little information haS been made public. In a Statement poSted online ThurSday, Sino Bioenergy Corp. Said it had Signed a SS='cambodia-color'>...

NAZA World, which is setting up its NAZA Bikes 3s showroom in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, hopes to win an over 10 per cent market share in the country or 30,000 units, within the next three years. NAZA Group of Companies joint group executive chairman Datuk Wira ss='cambodia-color'>...