The German ambassador, Joachim Baron von Marschall, signed an agreement with the permanent Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon yesterday for €47 million ($64 million) in aid. The grant will be used for developing projects within the ministries of health, rural development and women’s affairs. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen used the unveiling of the stung Meanchey overpass in Phnom Penh Thursday morning to praise his government’s development of the capital and to warn the city’s poor not to take up residence under the new $19-million bridge. Mr. Hun sen also used ss='cambodia-color'>...

Members of the European Union’s parliament are calling for the Cambodian government to conduct an investigation into allegations of fraud in July’s election. A resolution passed by EU parliamentarians last week follows a violent crackdown on labor and opposition protests that have posed a challenge to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Tuesday said that the foreign direct investments in Cambodia would increase in 2014, thanks to the country’s favorable and open policies. Hun sen made the comments during a ceremony to launch Cambodia Trade Integration strategy at the Peace Palace. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Freedom Park was placed under lockdown and a march by land rights activists was blocked saturday morning as Phnom Penh’s security officials were out in force to ensure that peaceful rallies on International Women’s Day could not go as planned. Prime Minister Hun sen on February ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Kampong Khlaing commune in siem Reap province’s sotr Nikum district have halted Kamlearnh fish paste production due to lagging demand, according to the industry’s representative body. Proum Hong, president of Kampong Khlaing Fish Paste Producers Association (KKFPPA), said the inflated price of the product, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Muon Sokmean, a 29-year-old garment worker, Scrambled off Veng Sreng Street on January 3 with military police in violent purSuit, brandiShing their batonS. What had been a militant proteSt for a $160 minimum wage in the garment Sector&mdaSh;with many proteSterS lobbing rockS and crude Molotov cocktailS SS='cambodia-color'>...

When union leader Vorn Pov was finally allowed to give testimony yesterday on the third day of the trial of 23 men arrested during a garment strike in January, he found himself cut off by an attorney ordering him to answer only the exact question ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three months pregnant at the time, sam Ath doesn’t remember collapsing two months ago at the crowded, muggy garment factory where she works at the southwestern edge of the Cambodian capital. The 30-year-old woke up in a hospital bed, only to be told that she had ss='cambodia-color'>...

Megabank Sumitomo MitSui Banking Corp. Said TueSday that it will booSt buSineSS collaboration with Acleda Bank, Cambodia&rSquo;S leading commercial bank, and AbSa Bank in South Africa, Japan&rSquo;S Jiji PreSS reported. The Sumitomo MitSui Financial Group Inc. unit Said it haS diSpatched a Staff member to a SS='cambodia-color'>...

UN envoy on Thursday said that the political compromise is the only way to end the political deadlock in Cambodia, asking political parties to return to negotiation table to normalize the situation. speaking at a news conference, surya subedi, UN special Rapporteur on situation of Human ss='cambodia-color'>...

When talking about fine clay pottery in Cambodia, one always thinks of pottery products made in Kampong Chhnang province. The province, located some 91 kilometers north of the country’s capital Phnom Penh, is well known for its clay pottery. The name of the province “Kampong Chhnang” ss='cambodia-color'>...

The total number of serious and minor crimes in Cambodia increased by 1 percent, or 27 cases, in 2013 compared to the previous year, while Phnom Penh’s crime rate rose by 62 percent, a report released by the Interior Ministry on Tuesday says—laying the blame ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Thursday said that Cambodia’s economy remains strong with an expected growth of 7 percent this year. Hun sen made the comments during the 2014 Cambodia Outlook Conference on “Cambodia the next five years – Reforms and Competitiveness in Integration Region. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Auditors from the Coca-Cola Company visited Oddar Meanchey province on Friday to investigate allegations of land grabbing against sugar plantations that supply the global drinks giant, but called off a community meeting because of a heavy police presence, an NGO said sunday. Chun Bora of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following a visit by representatives of the Chinese company planning to build a controversial 108-MW hydropower dam in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley, local officials and residents say they fear that construction on the project, which will require the evacuation of an estimated 1,500 villagers, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The freedom of the press and expression in Cambodia becomes worse this year, according the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC). ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 19-month-old girl critically injured when her mother was stabbed to death in their Phnom Penh home last month has died in a Bangkok hospital, a Dutch Embassy official confirmed Thursday. “I can confirm this,” said an official at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Bangkok, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Mondolkiri province have found a pair of rusty barrels believed to date back to the early 1970s and which officials suspect hold chemicals the U.s. used in its war against the Viet Cong to defoliate trees and eliminate cover. The officials said they did ss='cambodia-color'>...

Just after sunrise in the slums surrounding the stung Meanchey dump, Lak Han, 45, sits in the dirt outside his home methodically chopping up a large pile of rodents. For many years, like hundreds of others at the dumpsite, Mr. Han made a paltry living collecting ss='cambodia-color'>...