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Cross–border commodity exchange between Vietnam and Cambodia is thriving thanks to 1,270km of shared border, 10 international gates, 37 main and auxiliary border gates, and nine border economic zones. The southern province of An Giang, which lies on the Cambodian frontier, has two international and two ...

Shallow draft, lack of rail connectivity, uneasy relations with Vietnam, and the general slowdown may leave LM 17, Cambodia’s brand new $28-million container terminal near Phnom Penh, up the strait. Even if the terminal achieves the targeted throughput of 110,000 TEUs (it has moved 70,000 so ...

Cambodia has imported 871,000 tons of petroleum in the first six months of the year, a 5.6 percent decline compared with the 922,800 tons at the same period last year, the figures of the Ministry of Commerce showed Monday. During the January-June period this year, the ...

Maybank Investment Bank Bhd (Maybank IB) plans to leverage on its parent, Malayan Banking group’s presence in Cambodia, Laos to penetrate their capital markets there. Maybank IB chief executive officer Tengku Datuk Zafrul Abdul Aziz said on Monday he was looking at organic growth for the ...

Seven NGOs have raised their concerns that the government is using the law, media and Internet to further stifle freedom of expression, ahead of Cambodia submitting its first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rights to the U.N. The UPR is the process through which Geneva’s ...

Seven NGOs have raised their concerns that the government is using the law, media and Internet to further stifle freedom of expression, ahead of Cambodia submitting its first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of human rights to the U.N. The UPR is the process through which Geneva’s ...

A district deputy police chief in Ratanakkiri province is to be summonsed to court for questioning after a police raid on his house Friday turned up more than 10 cubic metres of illegal luxury wood. Provincial anti-economic crime police, who carried out the raid, found three ...

The Phnom Penh Municipality on Saturday launched a new campaign to clean up the city’s drainage system in an effort to alleviate chronic flooding during the rainy season. The campaign would encourage people to discard their waste correctly and would also see City Hall cleaning the ...

The U.K.’s fraud office plans to request the extradition of a British national currently detained in Cambodia, after it brought charges against four people for their part in a $36 million Ponzi scheme involving a biofuel plantation. Gregg Fryett was arrested in Phnom Penh in March ...

The U.K.’s fraud office plans to request the extradition of a British national currently detained in Cambodia, after it brought charges against four people for their part in a $36 million Ponzi scheme involving a biofuel plantation. Gregg Fryett was arrested in Phnom Penh in March ...

The Bar Association of Cambodia should consider stricter standards on admission to the bar, make lawyers take regular mandatory training and set up a new disciplinary committee in order to ensure that Cambodia’s legal professionals are independent, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has said. The ...

Following further unsuccessful negotiations with company management, garment workers and union representatives said yesterday that they intend to hold a 6,000-person demonstration in front of the Ministry of Social Affairs and City Hall in Phnom Penh. Demonstrations supporting employees at the two SL Garment factories in ...

Police detained nearly 100 suspected loggers from crossing into Thailand from Oddar Meanchey’s Trapaing Prasat district on Friday to illegally cut timber, Provincial Governor Sar Thavy said yesterday. The 95 would-be border crossers were arrested in several different groups and were in possession of logging equipment, ...

Aided by the recovery of large economies in the United States, the European Union and Japan, Cambodia’s exports jumped more than 20 per cent during the first half of the year compared with the same period in 2012. Ministry of Commerce data released at the end ...

A container storage facility off the coast of Preah Sihanouk province that allows Cambodia to blend oil before export could hold the key to sustainable growth in the country’s nascent energy sector, according to a Danish oil and gas expert. With Chevron positioned to lead offshore ...

Two Vietnamese women have been charged with illegally storing 102 kilograms of reptiles with the intent of transporting them from Kandal’s Loeuk Dek district to Vietnam. Forestry officials along with Wildlife Rapid Rescue Teams raided the two women’s rental house last Tuesday, ...

Shallow draft, lack of rail connectivity, uneasy relations with Vietnam, and the general slowdown may leave LM 17, Cambodia’s brand new $28-million container terminal near Phnom Penh, up the strait. Even if the terminal achieves the targeted throughput of 110,000 TEUs (it has moved 70,000 so ...

A top court ordered Cambodia’s electoral body on Monday to unseal voting records in a second province as the main opposition party held a 20,000-strong rally with an ultimatum to the government to set up an independent probe on widespread irregularities in recently-held national elections ...

The Australian National University has posted a map of the results of last month’s elections on its website showing the different levels of popular support for the ruling and opposition parties in all provinces. Colum Graham, a PhD candidate at the ANU College of Asia and ...

Cambodia has imported 871,000 tons of petroleum in the first six months of the year, a 5.6 percent decline compared with the 922,800 tons at the same period last year, the figures of the Ministry of Commerce showed Monday. During the January-June period this year, the ...

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Voter rolls at several polling stations appear to have been “intentionally manipulated” in advance of the election to allow large groups of individuals to cast fraudulent ballots in communes where they were ineligible, according to a report released Saturday by rights group Licadho. One of the ...

The National Election Committee, acting on orders from the Constitutional Council, yesterday examined ballots and original documents taken from 13 polling stations in a Kratie province commune, but the opposition and observers quickly questioned the process’s validity due to apparent irregularities. Despite the fact that “Safety ...

With a major opposition rally planned for this afternoon in Phnom Penh, City Hall and Ministry of Interior officials were at odds with CNRP leaders on Sunday over how many people would be allowed to attend the event. Though the Interior Ministry has said only 6,000 ...