<p>The preah Sihanouk provincial administration said a highway from phnom penh to preah Sihanouk province will commence construction by next year.&nbsp;The decision was made after a study of the 190-kilometre highway was recently completed, setting in motion a $1.7 billion infrastructure project with a Chinese ...p>

<p>Community forest chiefs and rights groups in Oddar Meanchey province say logging is now so rampant they have finally given up hope that a U.N.-backed scheme to generate millions of dollars worth of carbon credits for the area and the country will ever get off ...p>

<p>A group of 50 migrant workers on Wednesday protested outside a branch of a recruitment agency in phnom penh’s Sen Sok district that they say duped them out of $260 they paid for a guarantee of employment in Thailand. ...p>

<p>Despite failing in its latest attempt to win the philippine government’s bid to import rice, Cambodia will once again throw its hat into the ring when the offer is reissued, industry representatives said yesterday. ...p>

<p>The government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Friday arrested two reporters and a construction worker in Kampot City for their alleged role in extorting a deputy provincial governor, officials and a colleague of one of the suspects said Sunday. ...p>

<p>About 1,000 workers from a phnom penh footwear factory got an early start on Tuesday on a cross-union campaign for a $177 minimum wage, set to start today, protesting in front of their factory over internal workplace grievances. ...p>

<p>Some two hundred villagers from prey Veng and Svay Rieng provinces gathered yesterday and Wednesday to file complaints at the Svay Rieng provincial police station accusing the purported owner of a local water purification company of cheating them out of some $470,000 in investments. ...p>

<p>Villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley, the site of a proposed hydropower dam opposed by most of the local ethnic minority Chong, say police deleted their photos and video of a visit by Cpp lawmaker Ay Khorn on Friday to promote the project’s potential ...p>

<p>Defense Minister Tea Banh on Saturday said he would add some 700 additional soldiers to the ranks of the military’s phnom penh-based Brigade 70 next year so the unit can better help local military police quell protests. ...p>

<p>The Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) and the opposition CNRp on Sunday called on the National Election Committee (NEC) to suspend its annual update of the voter list until the new bipartisan election committee is created. ...p>

<p>The opposition CNRp walked out of a meeting of the phnom penh City Council in protest on Thursday after their Cpp counterparts refused to delay a vote on replacing one of the seven members of the city’s procurement committee. ...p>

<p>prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday that civil servants making less than 800,000 riel, or about $200, a month will be exempt from paying income taxes, just days after the Finance Ministry sent a very different message to the country’s garment workers. ...p>

<p>More than 1,000 garment workers gathered in phnom penh and marched through the city center Sunday, demanding a “decent wage” from their factories, the largest garment-sector demonstration in the capital since military police fatally suppressed a protest for higher wages in January. ...p>

<p>Cambodia’s Minister of Health on Tuesday vowed to eliminate the country’s unlicensed medical clinics and hire more health care providers, after an unauthorized medical worker who admitted to reusing syringes was linked to a mass HIV infection in a remote western village. ...p>

<p>A growing labour undersupply has been of the factors behind Thailand’s sub-par economic growth. A nationwide survey of companies in six key sectors by SCB Economic Intelligence Center last year found that at least half had trouble filling vacancies within a three-month search. ...p>

<p>About 3,000 union representatives, teachers and senior officials from the ruling Cambodian people’s party gathered at a ceremony on Koh pich yesterday to mark the 129th International Labour Day – as well as to bolster support for the ruling party, one official noted. ...p>

<p>Around 200 activists from northeastern Cambodia’s Ratanakiri province led by opposition lawmakers confronted dozens of soldiers and villagers from Vietnam Monday in a standoff over the digging of irrigation ponds in a non-demarcated area along the border shared by the two nations. ...p>

<p>With the approval last week of a draft NGO law by Cambodia’s Council of Ministers, many pro-democracy and rights advocates say they should now have a chance to add their comments on the bill, before it goes to the National Assembly for debate. ...p>

<p>Cambodia has deported 700 illegal immigrants in the past six months, the ministry of interior said on Thursday, as the detention of Vietnamese border guards who disguised themselves as local police to spy on a meeting underscored phnom penh’s difficulty in controlling its borders. ...p>

<p>prime Minister Hun Sen is set to take over the presidency of the ruling Cambodian people’s party, following the death of party leader Chea Sim last week. The move will shore up solidarity in the party, which has become increasingly united, party members say. ...p>