A company owned by a board member of the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce has been accused of illegally destroying more than 80 houses in Kampot province’s Chhouk district, a claim vigorously denied by the firm and local authorities. Chan Pheng, a villager from Chi Bak village ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of people fled in fear yesterday from the village in Kratie province where a bloody security forces crackdown the previous morning left a 14-year-old girl dead. Joint police and military police forces locked down the area where a land dispute has raged this year, and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nautisco seafood Manufacturing, once Cambodia’s premier seafood-processing company, will not undergo government-brokered restructuring after a Cambodian appeals court yesterday declared the company solvent. The ruling was a first test for the law on corporate restructuring and insolvency. The decision sounds positive for the company. But now the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 16-year-old died at Calmette hospital in Phnom Penh yesterday morning after succumbing to an illness she contracted while working in virtual slavery as a maid in Malaysia, her family said. Toch srey Neth signed up to go to Malaysia as a maid through the now-defunct ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ministry of Commerce officials maintained that low import taxes and increased demand from consumers were the causes behind the 45.26 increase in vehicle imports in the first half of 2012 compared to the same period last year. The data showed 486,827 vehicles, of all makes and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Due to the expansion of economic and business activities between Cambodia and China, since early August the Bank of China has been negotiation with National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on the promotion of business transactions in Chinese yuan. It is part of a larger but quiet ss='cambodia-color'>...

Members of the Prey Lang Community Network yesterday called on the government to approve a forest preservation sub-decree that has been in draft form since 2011. Hoeun sopheap, representative of the Kampong Thom provincial Prey Lang community, said the sub-decree would help protect the biodiversity of ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...