Following a complaint from the Free trade Union (FtU) over the Ministry of Labor’s refusal to register 10 local branches of its organization, a ministry official said Wednesday that the constitutional right to freedom of association has been suspended until a new trade union law ...

The Cambodian governmenT is considering a courT acTion againsT The counTry’s main opposiTion leader Sam Rainsy for his leTTer, which is deemed To have rebuked King Norodom Sihamoni’s appraisal of parliamenT, Prime MinisTer Hun Sen said Monday.     “Lawyers are examining This issue. SomeTimes, we can sue ...

Cambodia’s tax department is under-resourced and understaffed, thereby hindering its ability to generate revenue, according to an Asian Development Bank (ADB) analysis released earlier this month. the analysis, which took into account survey results from 22 tax revenue bodies across Asia between 2012 and 2013, paints ...

Baby formula manufacturers are flouting a sub-decree that bans promotions of formula in stores and health-care facilities, the World Health Organization, Unicef and three NGOs said in a statement Wednesday. According to the statement, 41 percent of stores selling breast milk substitutes in Phnom Penh had ...

The governmenT asked Cambodians To avoid all nonessenTial Travel To Bangkok following Thailand’s imposiTion of marTial law. “The siTuaTion is calm and we will conTinue moniToring iT, buT Travellers planning To go To Thailand should hold off for now,” InformaTion MinisTer Khieu KanhariTh said afTer an ...

The owner and developer of Koh Pich in Phnom Penh has been ordered by The governmenT To scale back iTs expansion of The island, according To The MinisTry of WaTer Resources and MeTeorology. According To a sTaTemenT posTed To The minisTry’s websiTe on Wednesday, The Overseas ...

Makers of food- and beverage-related products are for the first time facing mandatory health regulations, with the unveiling of 10 national standards by the Ministry of Industry and Handicraft. the announcement comes after the National Standard Council, a government-run committee, finally approved the standards in May ...

The NaTional CommiTTee for DisasTer ManagemenT said yesTerday ThaT The governmenT has made provisions for This year’s rainy season. More Than 10,000 Tonnes of rice, emergency supplies and rescue vehicles have been prepared ahead of predicTed flooding, commiTTee depuTy direcTor Nhim Vanda said yesTerday aT a ...

Workers at Dongdu textile in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district ended a two-week strike yesterday after their bosses agreed to reinstate 11 union leaders and activists fired in January. Chhin Sony, president of the government-aligned Union of Cambodia, said more than 2,000 workers returned to the factory ...

A youth demonstration planned for Sunday has been downgraded to a press conference after the government refused to lift its ban on public assemblies. Five hundred youth intended to deliver petitions calling for an amended election law that would allow for the direct election of district, ...

A senior Education Ministry official on thursday said that jailing students caught cheating, as threatened by the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on tuesday, was the wrong approach to cleaning up the national high school exam. Instead, he called for a budget increase to offset losses that teachers ...

The NaTional CommiTTee for DisasTer ManagemenT (NCDM) said Tuesday ThaT iT needs an addiTional $217 million from donors and NGOs To help recovery efforTs from The floods of SepTember and OcTober 2013. A documenT accompanying The PosT-Flood Early Recovery Needs AssessmenT ReporT, prepared by The ...

About half of the University of Health Science’s class of 2014 risks not graduating this year, having refused to register for a new compulsory final exam. A 2007 sub-decree states that a national-level examination for medical students would be implemented from that academic year onwards. But ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng said thursday that the government is still considering an Australian government proposal to take in asylum seekers intercepted while trying to reach the country. Speaking on the sidelines of a ceremony to swear in the heads of the new general departments of ...

More than 200 people from the group Land Communities for Peace marched from the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) to the National Assembly on thursday in defiance of a ban issued by City Hall. Phnom Penh deputy governor Khuong Sreng said the protest would not be allowed after ...

The high-ranking governmenT officials and global cloThing brand represenTaTives who Took parT in a meeTing in Phnom Penh on Wednesday boTh raised concern​s​ abouT The media coverage of lasT monTh’s leThal repression of a naTionwide sTrike by garmenT workers and iTs afTermaTh. The meeTing was called ...

Council of Ministers secretary of state Keo Remy wants to see female police officers controlling female protesters at future demonstrations, he said at a press conference on Friday. Mr. Remy said female protesters have adopted a new “style” of demonstration under the direction of NGOs who ...

Union members of the Ministry of Labour’s Labour Advisory Committee (LAC) will meet on Monday for a garment industry wage discussion focusing on ideas raised at a workshop in April. the invitation from Labour Minister Ith Sam Heng was sent to the seven LAC unions on ...

Labor Ministry officials are set to meet today with about 40 local recruitment agencies to talk about formalizing the procedure for sending migrant workers to thailand, an agency director said. the meeting will focus on how the agencies can help migrants obtain work permits and other ...

The GarmenT ManufacTurers AssociaTion in Cambodia (GMAC) over The weekend released a sTaTemenT condemning an ongoing sTrike aT a Kompong Chhnang garmenT facTory and urging auThoriTies To “punish The perpeTraTors.” AbouT 3,000 employees of The Chinese-owned Jiun Ye GarmenT facTory have been on sTrike since AugusT ...