Despite fears that a warning to users of social media and Internet blogs will dampen free speech, the head of National Election Committee (NEC) has insisted the intention was not to limit expression ahead of July’s national election. The NEC last week issued a statement requesting ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government revenues totalled more than $700 million over the first four months of the year, an 11 per cent year-on-year increase, data from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) show. In total, the revenue made by the General Department of Taxation (GDT) rose by about ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Chamber of Commerce (EuroCham) held its first annual general meeting Thursday at the sofitel Hotel in Phnom Penh where a board of directors was elected and the French and German chambers merged with EuroCham in order to reinforce the interests of European companies ss='cambodia-color'>...

The uncle of a man who died in Thursday’s ceiling collapse at the Wing star shoes factory in Kampong speu province claimed yesterday that the company had threatened to give the family nothing if they did not agree to an on-the-spot payout. It came as a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hui Tien Jien has eaten at a Chinese restaurant called Old Place seafood two times – and he’s been in Phnom Penh for only two days. Chinese restaurants in Phnom Penh are spreading in response to a flood of tourists from China: tourists who insist ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) on Tuesday stood firmly behind its refusal to consider a proposal by the opposition CNRP for an independent investigation into the July 28 national ballot. statements sent between the CNRP and NEC—the last day for political parties to file reports of ss='cambodia-color'>...

WASHINGTON &mdaSh; Local FM radio Station operatorS Say they are uncertain whether they will drop programming from the Voice of America and other foreign-produced media, following the iSSue of a government ban on broadcaSting leading up to Election Day. A June 21 directive from the MiniStry SS='cambodia-color'>...

By the time London Fashion Week comes to a close, 58 high-end designers will have shown their collections. Rail-thin models will have walked the runways. Debate will have raged over size zero. In Cambodia, meanwhile, garment workers stitching clothes that supply the UK high street are ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh City Hall has turned down two requests by non-governmental groups to hold rallies and marches to mark both International Teachers’ Day and the international day for housing rights. Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), a local NGO, was denied permission to organize a rally at ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian opposition leader sam Rainsy said his country has reached a political “stalemate” and is calling for a halt in international aid to the Phnom Penh government. Rainsy spoke to VOA during a visit to Washington, where he is trying to convince U.s. officials and others ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities said Thursday they were closely watching the development of the world’s big­gest storm to materialize so far this year as it hits the Philippines today before moving west toward Vietnam and Cambodia in the following days. “Our first step is to keep a close eye ss='cambodia-color'>...

There were major traffic delays along Phnom Penh’s Veng sreng Boulevard in Pur senchey district Wednesday after about 200 garment workers from the Alim Cambodia Co. Ltd. garment factory formed a gated roadblock and protested for higher wages. A line of halted container trucks stretched for ss='cambodia-color'>...

A ruling party lawmaker and parliamentary spokesman said yesterday that the National Assembly will consider invoking an internal rule that could force the opposition party to replace its elected lawmakers with lower-ranked candidates from within the party if their boycott continues beyond a deadline. Principle 83 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The sight of traffic moving easily and people milling about along Veng sreng Boulevard in the capital’s Meanchey district yesterday was a far cry from two days earlier, when the street was occupied by makeshift roadblocks, bonfires and military personnel carrying automatic rifles. While visible evidence ss='cambodia-color'>...

The five people killed by AK-47 gunfire from military police at a protest along Pur senchey district’s Veng sreng street on Friday were all striking garment factory workers, a union official confirmed sunday. Military police officers opened fire on the factory-lined street on Friday morning during ss='cambodia-color'>...

The death toll caused by severe flooding along the Mekong River increased by eight yesterday, bringing the total number of deaths over the past two weeks to more than 20, including 11 children, an official said. Keo Vy, deputy chief of the information department at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Inside a shop in a restored building on the corner of sothearos Boulevard and street 266, nearly 10 Cambodians wearing the same uniform are walking around and cleaning tables. By the end of this year, Brown Coffee will have a total of eight branches in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The aid sector needs more transparency to ensure that the public knows exactly where and how money is being spent, a consortium of NGOs said Tuesday. Tek Vannara, deputy executive director of the NGO Forum, said at a workshop in Phnom Penh that while the Council ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Environment on Thursday denied that a private agro-industry firm had been issued an “unofficial” land concession inside Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat Wildlife sanctuary, as stated on Monday by the provincial governor. In response to claims by local officials that Daun Penh Agrico Co. Ltd. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Air pollution from vehicles and electric generators inside the Angkor Archeological Park and in siem Reap City is soiling and darkening the monuments at the World Heritage site, an official at the Apsara Authority, which is responsible for the park, said Friday. Options to decrease ss='cambodia-color'>...