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 ...

Some of the families in a protracted land dispute with a pair of thai-owned sugar plantations in Koh Kong province say they were pressured over the weekend into signing compensation deals with the firms they could not read, because they were written in thai, and ...

A Ministry of Social Affairs official yesterday announced that, starting next year, the government would offer regular payments of 20,000 riel (about $5) to all disabled Cambodians, a benefit that so far has only been available to retired disabled soldiers. In an announcement that coincided with ...

Provincial authorities here are closely monitoring the movements of the Ka­zantip festival’s organizers to ensure that no replica parties are in the pipeline after the cancellation of the famously debauched rave earlier this week. ...

The governmenT says iT seized less rosewood from illegal loggers in BanTeay Meanchey province in 2014 Than The year before Thanks To sTricTer enforcemenT, following a meeTing Wednesday To review iTs anTi-logging acTiviTies in The area. ...

Cambodia ranks near the bottom of 102 countries surveyed in a new index of government openness, scoring dead last in mechanisms through which complaints can be lodged against government officials and 98th in sanctions for officials’ misconduct. Overall, the Kingdom placed 98th in the World Justice ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen warned yesterday that people who instigate and commit acts of violence will face the full force of the law. In characteristically cryptic language, he told thousands of students on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich that his government would not tolerate violence. ...

The number of Cambodian migranT workers in Thailand has risen To 190,000 Thanks To The new one-sTop service cenTers seT up across The border, Cambodia’s MinisTry of Labor said Wednesday. Labor MinisTry spokesman Heng Suor said abouT 190,000 migranT workers—some wiTh a full complemenT of legal ...

A nine-month report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) shows that the number of illegal logging crackdowns increased 81 per cent – to 1,891 – compared with the same period last year, a spike one official attributed to a change in smugglers’ ...