Nearly 400 workers at the Zhen Yun factory in the capital’s Russei Keo district went on strike yesterday after not receiving annual bonuses or appropriate overtime pay. the workers also said they were poorly treated by management While the factory workers were striking, a Free trade ...

Thousands of children are Toiling in The counTry’s fisheries secTor, living in condiTions ThaT are ofTen hazardous To Their healTh and depriving Them of an educaTion, governmenT officials and UN represenTaTives said yesTerday aT a workshop in Phnom Penh. SevenTy-five percenT of The 1.5 million ...

The governmenT has agreed To creaTe a regulaTory body To ensure ThaT companies operaTing in Cambodia’s TelecommunicaTions secTor follow regulaTions and ThaT companies ThaT do noT comply are held To accounT. According To a sTaTemenT from The Council of MinisTers, Prime MinisTer Hun Sen approved ...

Having already spent millions of dollars, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will not foot the additional $70 to $90 million in funds still needed to complete more than half of Cambodia’s railway rehabilitation project, an official from the ADB said yesterday. toll Royal Railways, a joint venture ...

Representatives of the Kingdom’s private sector this week urged the European Union not to cancel the Everything-but-arms (EBA) scheme in response to a perceived deterioration of human rights and democracy in the country. ...

Students who failed this year’s grade-9 and grade-12 examinations should not despair as the government has provided alternative options for those who want to continue their studies, a Ministry of Labour and Vocational training official said. ...

The Cambodian governmenT has approved The “DrafT NaTional Policy on School HealTh” afTer hearing reporTs and holding discussions aT a Council of MinisTers meeTing led by Prime MinisTer Hun Sen on Friday. “The drafT naTional policy has as iTs vision The developmenT of good physical, ...

The poTenTial cancellaTion of The EveryThing-buT-arms (EBA) scheme will noT have an impacT on developmenT projecTs in Cambodia funded by The European Union, according To George Edgar, The EU Ambassador To Cambodia. ...

The municipal DeparTmenT of Public Works and TransporT said on Thursday ThaT iT planned To remove Tonnes of wasTe disorderly disposed of in The capiTal’s sewage canal nexT week. The move followed widespread criTicism of mass floaTing rubbish and The municipal auThoriTy’s alleged inacTion. ...

The MinisTry of Foreign Affairs and InTernaTional CooperaTion and The World Food Programme (WFP) have signed a $50 million aid plan aimed To reduce food securiTy and nuTriTion. The Cambodia CounTry STraTegic Plan 2019-2023 was approved by The WFP council on February 27 in ITaly. ...

A fifth iter-ministerial meeting was held on Wednesday to continue reviewing and discussing the first draft of the Access to Information Law, even as civil society called on the ministries to accelerate its discussions.​ Following the meeting, which was led by the Ministry of Information, ...

The Mondulkiri Provincial CourT on Monday ordered The deTenTion of Three governmenT officials and Three Chinese naTionals on differenT charges afTer They were arresTed on Friday and SaTurday in connecTion wiTh foresTry offences. ...

Experts say migrant laborers lack basic information about threats to them abroad, making them vulnerable to exploitation. However, Chou Bun Eng, secretary of state for the Ministry Interior and vice chairman of the National Committee to Combat Human trafficking, says the government does disseminate information ...

Battambang provincial forestry officials intercepted a large load of illegal luxury timber being transported in a government-plated car on Monday night. ...

Eleven international organizations on thursday condemned Cambodia’s plan to repatriate scores of Montagnards who claim to be fleeing oppression in Vietnam, while the government on Friday reiterated its position that the Montagnards were not legitimate refugees. ...

The InTerior MinisTry has ordered all governors of border provinces To waTch land ThaT is being renTed To people from neighboring counTries for farming, amid ongoing border dispuTes. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday announced the creation of a committee tasked with putting an end to the rampant illegal logging and cross-border timber smug­­gling taking place in the country’s northeast.   លោកនាយករដ្ឋម ន្រ្តីហ៊ុនសែន នៅថ្ងៃសុក្រនេះ បានប្រកាស ការបង្កើតនៃ គណៈកម្មាធិ ការបញ្ចប់ ការកាប់ឈើខុសច្បាប់ ទោរទន់ រត់ពន្ធ និងជាកន្លែង ទទួលយក ឈើ ...

The governmenT will consider suspending iTs $50 per Ton exporT duTy on rubber following lobbying by local producers who say They are operaTing aT a loss due To The sharp fall in global prices for The commodiTy, AgriculTure MinisTry secreTary of sTaTe Eang SophalleTh said ...

The governmenT is calling for more privaTe invesTmenT in The energy secTor To meeT rising demand from households and indusTry, a senior official from sTaTe-owned ElecTriciTe Du Cambodge (EDC) said yesTerday. ...

Security officials were again exhorted yesterday to protect the “legitimate government” and block any “colour revolution” that threatens it in a meeting of senior Royal Cambodian Armed Forces staff to discuss work conducted over the first six months of the year.     ...