<p>A Thai energy firm has completed a study for a 1,800-megawatt coal power plant in Koh Kong province, and had asked for prime Minister Hun Sen’s support in furthering the project, government officials confirmed yesterday. The plant would be the largest power generator in the energy-starved ...p>

<p>About 200 workers from the Chinese-owned pollysa (Cambodia) Home Textile factory in Sihanoukville protested Wednesday against the overtime they were being forced to work and the firing of 20 employees earlier this week who refused the extra hours, workers and a union representative said. Starting at ...p>

<p>A group of vendors who have been told to vacate their positions outside Siem Reap’s Angkor Kyung Yu Night Market on Monday got into a shoving match with city officials and police who were attempting to inspect the area prior to the deadline for their ...p>

<p>The opposition CNRp plans to screen the banned documentary film “Who Killed Chea Vichea?” this week to mark the 11th anniversary of the Free Trade Union (FTU) leader’s assassination in front of a newspaper stall in phnom penh on January 22, 2004. CNRp public affairs director ...p>

<p>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, ...p>

<p>Villagers in the Oral district of Kampong Speu province are digging in to protect what they claim as their community forest land, despite increasing pressure from the military to leave the site.​​ ...p>

<p>The phnom penh court on Friday ordered opposition Candlelight party vice president Son Chhay to pay the ruling Cpp 3 billion riel ($750,000) in damages, finding him guilty of defamation for saying that voting fraud occurred during the June commune elections. ...p>

<p>The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the 2018 bribery convictions of five current and former staffers of human rights group Adhoc, concluding the appeal process in a criminal case that critics have said failed to substantiate the charges. ...p>

<p>Tuon Sopheara, a Cambodian migrant worker in South Korea, wants to vote in the upcoming July elections but cannot afford the plane ticket home. ...p>

<p>Cambodia, a rapidly developing Southeast Asian nation, has been experiencing significant economic growth in recent years. With a GDp growth rate of 7.1% in 2019, the country has been making strides in various sectors, including agriculture, manufacturing, and tourism. One of the most critical challenges ...p>

<p>An ongoing NGO and Labor Ministry initiative aims to make garment workers’ commute safer by shifting their daily transportation from typically flatbed trucks to enclosed buses, but the costs of the expensive upgrades are being placed on drivers. ...p>

<p>prime Minister Hun Sen promised that 100% of people living in Cambodia’s cities and towns will have access to clean running water by 2025. ...p>

<p>The ruling Cambodian people’s party (Cpp) of prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen won a landslide victory in Sunday’s general election, said the National Election Committee (NEC)’s preliminary results released on Wednesday. &nbsp;&nbsp; ...p>

<p>SIHANOUKVILLE – Two months after Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) began operating flights between Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, demand for the route is not covering the national carrier’s costs, with planes running at little over half their capacity, an official at the airline said. CAA decided to ...p>

<p>A Cambodian woman who went to China to marry a man there was repatriated on Thursday after escaping from her husband’s house and finding refuge at the Cambodian consulate in Guangzhou. Yoeng Sreymom arrived at phnom penh International Airport at about 3:30 p.m. in the company ...p>

<p>Opposition Cambodia National Rescue party (CNRp) leader Sam Rainsy said Thursday that the party will defy a government ban on rallies during a two-week commune council election campaign, which kicks off on Friday. “The ban is a violation of the law on election, which states that ...p>

<p>US credit ratings agency Standard &amp; poor’s has ranked Cambodia’s economy and creditworthiness as the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Of 116 nations measured by S&amp;p as part of a vulnerability index published last month – with a number 1 ranking being the ...p>

<p>A maid who fled her employer after an attempted rape and was then thrown in a detention centre just two days after she gave birth was one of 26 distressed men and women who make up the latest repatriated abuse victims from Malaysia. Detained for ...p>

<p>The phnom penh Municipal Court charged three environmental activists with incitement to disturb social security on September 6, a move civil society groups have said is meant as a threat to others who dare to criticize the government. ...p>

<p>phon Touch and Teang Sreytouch have been working for years in Cambodia’s garment industry, but now the two women are worried they could join the thousands of others in the sector who’ve been laid off without proper compensation. ​ ...p>