Malaysia wants to reach bilateral agreements with Cambodia and other labor-sending countries that would allow foreign maids to keep their passports, limit their work-day to eight hours and give them one day off per week, Malaysian news media reported yesterday. Malaysian Human Resources Minister Datuk Subramaniam ...

Nautisco Seafood Manufacturing Inc, a Canadian-Cambodian shrimp producer in Preah Sihanouk province, has accused the private equity fund Leopard Capital, one of its shareholders, of draining the company of its finances. In a statement released Friday, Nautisco said that Phnom Penh Municipal Court had ordered the ...

BETAGRO Group, one of Thailand’s largest integrated agro-industry businesses, announced this week that its US$16.3 million animal feed plant in Cambodia is 95 percent complete. The plant, 12 kilometers from Phnom Penh, will initially produce 12,000 tonnes of animal feed per year, but that number ...

The Ministry of Labour instructed factories and enterprises in the Kingdom to give workers three days off in order to cast their ballots in the July 29 national elections, stating that salaries and bonuses should remain unaffected. The move raised eyebrows with a former opposition ...

The Forestry Administration and Military Police seized an assortment of wildlife parts, including those from rare and almost extinct species, from a sculpture shop in Chbar Ampov district, Phnom Penh on Monday. One military policeman who participated in the crackdown but asked to remain anonymous ...

Mondulkiri provincial authorities are hunting poachers who shot at environmental rangers with an AK-47 assault rifle at the Srepok Wildlife Sanctuary, injuring one. Provincial environment department director Keo Sopheak said the incident happened​ at around 3:30am on Tuesday when six rangers equipped with two AK-47s ...

Villagers in Battambang province on Wednesday found nearly 40 unexploded ordnances left over from war while they were clearing land in Kors Kralor district’s Chhnal Moan commune. Colonel Chhang Vanchhai, district police chief, yesterday said that 39 unexploded ordnances, including one DK rocket, 21 B rockets, ...

The Ministry of Health formally launched the Kingdom’s first digital hospital service, using the new Peth Yoeung system, on Thursday at Preah Ang Duong Hospital in Phnom Penh following a successful one-month trial. Peth Yoeung, an innovative web-based hospital operating management system for the digital ...

Asian Development Bank yesterday approved a $60 million loan to Cambodia to boost labor skills and competitiveness and help the government’s efforts to transit the economy into a skills-driven one. Cambodia is ranked 110th out of 140 economies in the 2018 Global Competitiveness Report, based on ...

The newborn Irrawaddy dolphin which was discovered earlier this week in Kratie province is the first one recorded this year, a World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)-Cambodia report said. According to the report, a group of dolphin-watching tourist-boat operators on Monday spotted a dolphin calf, ...

An agreement signed between Alcatel-Lucent and Cambodia’s Chuan Wei Ltd. is expected to pave the way for expanding mobile ultra-broadband connectivity across the country. According to data from Alcatel-Lucent, approximately one-third of Cambodians are connected to the Internet, with the majority accessing data on their ...

An agreement signed between Alcatel-Lucent and Cambodia’s Chuan Wei Ltd. is expected to pave the way for expanding mobile ultra-broadband connectivity across the country. According to data from Alcatel-Lucent, approximately one-third of Cambodians are connected to the Internet, with the majority accessing data on their ...

In the tumultuous lead-up to and aftermath of the 2013 national election, when tens of thousands of people turned out for rallies and marches across the country, it was easy to think that those calling for change were speaking with one voice.But Moeun Tola and ...

A recently published study of a 2012 enterovirus outbreak that killed at least 54 Cambodian children has found that flare-ups of the virus tend to occur in a cyclical pattern, and that another one could be in store soon.Widespread in the Asia-Pacific region, the virus ...

About 50 protesting villagers in Sihanoukville’s Mouy commune blocked National Road 4 yesterday for about one hour in an effort to stop authorities from demolishing their houses illegally built in the Kbal Chhay protected forest. Heng Sokhom, a representative of the group, acknowledged that their houses ...

In defiance of an order by Phnom Penh Deputy Governor Khoun Sreng, more than 100 people protested outside the offices of Equitable Cambodia (EC) yesterday. They held signs denouncing the NGO, as community representatives inside submitted a letter withdrawing their consent for the group to represent ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday signed a $180 million package of loans and grants to Cambodia that are meant to improve the country’s roads, water supply and small-scale farms. One $70 million loan will go towards improving 147-kilometres’ worth of flood-prOne stretches of National Road ...

The opposition CNRP will meet on Monday to discuss the validity of their three vice-presidents after the Interior Ministry insisted the appointments were invalid.“Our president Kem Sokha is abroad, but we will invite him to a video conference for the meeting,” Pol Ham, one of ...

Officials are negotiating cash compensation for hundreds of villagers in Kandal province who will likely be displaced to make way for a massive airport project. Villagers and officials met at Kandal Stung District Hall yesterday to discuss the land dispute, one of several that have ...

“They talk about the multi-party problem, but I want to confirm that when the one party is dissolved, there will be five parties that will replace it. That means that it will go from two parties to six parties in the National Assembly,” Hun Sen ...