SupplierS to Wal-Mart StoreS Inc. (WMT) and HenneS & Mauritz AB (HMB) agreed yeSterday to pay about $145,000 in back wageS and Severance to about 160 workerS at a Cambodian factory that cloSed in November, a labor activiSt involved in the deal Said. The agreement, which SS='cambodia-color'>...

Four days after the Labour Advisory Committee approved a monthly minimum wage increase to $75 starting in May, more than 500 workers at the su Tong Fang garment factory yesterday demanded that their company begin the wage increase one month early. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Cooperative Agriculture and Processing New Progressive of Pailin (CAPNL) and Thai-owned CLMV Holding Company Ltd. yesterday signed an $11 billion, five-year joint venture agreement to build a network of pipes and reservoirs around the country to supply water for farming and home consumption. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Willowbrook Company, a New York-based reNewable energy development company, is seeking support from Cambodia to build a 250-megawatt solar power plant, the Cambodian Ministry of Commerce said in a statement Friday. Edward J.sappin, visiting chief executive officer of the Willowbrook Company, urged the support from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three Chinese men and three Cambodians were arrested in Phnom Penh on Wednesday on suspicion of running a trafficking ring in which Cambodian women are married off to Chinese men, police said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kheo Tha was driving outside Phnom Penh yesterday when she received a frantic phone call from her friend, a sex worker who works near Wat Phnom. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Women form an incalculable part of Cambodia’s economy, Prime Minister Hun sen has declared, as he praised efforts of the Cambodian National Council for Women’s (CNCW) in contributing to the Kingdom’s development over the years. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 300 road safety education banners have been put up along the streets of every province for display during the Khmer New Year as a reminder of the dangers of careless driving. Asia Injury Prevention Foundation director Kim Pagna told The Post on sunday ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) says it has greenlit a total of 148 Japanese investment project proposals planned outside of the Kingdom’s special economic zones (sEZ) as of July 31 worth about $2.85 billion since its establishment on August 5, 1994. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen and visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi agreed on sunday to further strengthen the strategic mutual trust and carry on the traditional friendship between the two countries. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sim Sitha, Under Secretary of State, MiniStry of InduStry, Science, Technology and Innovation and Chairman of the Board of DirectorS of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority haS Set up a plan to produce and Supply clean water of more than 245 million cubic meterS to SS='cambodia-color'>...

Forest land in Asia-Pacific countries has grown overall since 2002, according to a study released last week, but Cambodia was one of only three countries surveyed to buck the trend. Out of 14 countries included in the study by the Regional Community Forestry Training Center (RECOFTC), ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Children’s Fund (CCF) said on Tuesday that 48 families have been made homeless after a fire swept through their homes in Phnom Penh on sunday afternoon. No one was injured in the blaze, which happened in the sambok Chab area of Meanchey district’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Environment and Education ministries have unveiled the official textbook on climate change for upper secondary schools. Under-secretary of state of the Environment Ministry Khut Chandara said at the official launch of the book on Monday that education played an important role in social, economic ss='cambodia-color'>...

A total of 1,691 children were hospitalised at Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital between October 21 and November 21 after an outbreak of haemorrhagic dengue fever. Another 1,626 children were hospitalised at other Kantha Bopha hospitals during the same period, according to a report from the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Several weekS after villagerS on the outSkirtS of a community foreSt in Battambang Province began clearing treeS and Seizing land, foreStry adminiStration officialS Say there haS been a lull in deforeStation. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The first group of refugees to arrive in Cambodia as part of a controversial deal the government struck with Australia a year ago have moved out of their temporary accommodations in Phnom Penh, the Australian government said Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A joint commission of 10 lawmakers from the ruling and opposition parties yesterday met for the first time to review the draft law on trade unions, and two of 21 articles that were flagged as controversial by unions have changed slightly. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Environmental experts concern of a drop in the number of rare species of fish in the river in the northeastern province including of the Upper Mekong Basin, srepok River and se san river. The worry after a number of exotic fish caught in the area’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

A spending bill approved by the U.s. senate Appropriations Committee last week proposes to make U.s. aid to Cambodia in 2017 contingent on an end to the government’s harassment of the opposition and civil society. ss='cambodia-color'>...