Phnom Penh municipal officials have ordered owners of eight sand-dredging companies that continued work despite a mandated moratorium to halt operations and show proof of their licences or shut down for good. On Saturday, the municipality informed the owners, whose names they declined to release, that ...

Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Monday that China congratulated the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) on its victory in the country’s general election. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang have sent congratulatory messages to CPP ...

A Malaysia-Japan joint-venture company, Hitachi Sunway Information Systems Sdn Bhd, is making a foray into Cambodia after securing a deal with Aeon Co to supply point-of-sales (POS) systems to the Japanese retailer. The POS systems will be used to facilitate transactions for the tenants of the ...

Thousands of Cambodians and Cambodian-Americans staged coordinated mass demonstrations in cities across the U.S. on Monday in support of opposition claims that Cambodia’s closely contested July election was rigged in favor of Prime Minister Hun Sen and his long-ruling CPP. In Long Beach and San ...

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 ...

A community forest patrol of locals yesterday confiscated a large haul of illegally logged luxury wood that was being transported to the Vietnamese border in Mondolkiri province, local officials said. Commune police chief Pech Sotheary said the case has been referred to provincial forestry administration ...

Local law and consulting firm HML, whose chairperson and founding partner is Hun Kimleng, a niece of Prime Minister Hun Sen and wife of National Police chief Neth Savoeun, has teamed up with Tokyo-based XAT Tax Corp. to form a consulting agency focused solely on ...

Legalisation of same-sex marriage, comprehensive sex education and non-discriminatory guidelines for health workers treating LGBT people and those living with HIV/AIDS are among a handful of ways to bolster human rights in Cambodia, according to a submission delivered to the United Nations ahead of the ...

Management at one of Asia’s largest garment producers yesterday fired at least 600 employees, days after thousands returned to work following a two-week strike. Most of the workers fired by SL Garment Processing (Cambodia) Ltd – which supplies Gap, Levi’s and H&M – were members of ...

The Cambodian and Lao governments pushed for the conclusion of demarcation between the two countries as soon as possible, according to a senior Cambodian government official. The decision was made during a visit of Prime Minister Hun Sen earlier this week, said KOA Kimhourn, Minister attached ...

In anticipation of today’s scheduled Municipal Court verdict for six men facing charges of violence and property damage in connection with a September clash on Phnom Penh’s Kbal Thnal overpass, rights groups yesterday called for their acquittal. A statement from Human Rights Watch (HRW) released yesterday ...

The opposition yesterday accused a senior army general of having ordered plainclothes soldiers to block the party from entering the former Khmer Rouge stronghold of Anlong Veng on Sunday, where they were set to hold a public forum. But Defence Minister Tea Banh strongly rejected the ...

Despite a stubborn refusal by the government to act upon his electoral reform recommendations over the past two years, U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi walked away from his meeting with National Election Committee chairman Im Suosdey on Tuesday espousing optimism. “The process of reform is ...

Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) – the first listed company on the Cambodian stock exchange – has recorded a profit of $1.33 million for the first quarter, a decrease of 60 per cent from the same period last year, according to audited financial statements ...

Former staffers of Phnom Penh Sorya Transportation will meet with a company representative tomorrow to demand reinstatement after more than two weeks of the firm’s continued refusal to comply with a decision by the Arbitration Council, they and the bus operator said yesterday. According to Yim ...

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 ...

The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party will hold a seminar this morning on election reform to “seek input” from civil society and election monitors ahead of the second meeting of a bipartisan election reform committee on Monday. According to an invitation issued on Tuesday, the CNRP ...

Local entrepreneur Ki Chong Tran believes he has the solution to many of Cambodia’s problems. On March 1, Tran submitted what he described as a “long-held weight off his chest” – a six-page proposal to the New York-based Bitcoin Foundation outlining all the ways the ...

A day after opposition leader Sam Rainsy said election reform talks were being “cut off” due to ruling party intransigence on the issue of National Election Committee reform, the opposition has asked the Cambodian People’s Party to officially declare its stance on the matter. Senior CPP ...

Citi Research, the strategy and analysis arm of Citigroup Inc, one of the world’s largest financial firms, has questioned NagaCorp’s VIP junket program in a recent report that also cites cross-border competition and tourism failings as potential threats to the program’s success. Citi Research’s analysis was ...