Cambodia continues to rank among the most corrupt countries in the world and much needs to be done to enforce the Anti-Corruption Law and investigate allegations of corruption, transparency International (t.I.) Cambodia said yesterday. According to t.I.’s 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), Cambodia ranked 157th among ...

A 16-year-old died at Calmette hospital in Phnom Penh yesterday morning after succumbing to an illness she contracted while working in virtual slavery as a maid in Malaysia, her family said. toch Srey Neth signed up to go to Malaysia as a maid through the now-defunct ...

Nearly 70 representatives from 278 families in Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district are seeking intervention after a national mining company began drilling on their farmland last week, locals said yesterday. According to villager Yean Bunchan, 47, representatives from a company based in Kandal province called t P ...

Locally-owned KLP.T TransporTaTion Co LTd’s new mulTi-purpose porT and logisTics cenTre jusT easT of Kampong Chhnang Town is expecTed To provide a subsTanTial boosT To Cambodian freighT movemenT, parTicularly of agriculTural producTs from The provinces bordering Tonle Sap Lake To inTernaTional markeTs. ...

Battambang provincial authorities have ordered nine unlicensed doctors to shut down their home-care practices in the province, including six in Sangke district’s Roka commune, where more than 230 residents have tested positive for HIV over the past three months. ...

About 25 former employees of the Chang Sheng Garment factory in Phnom Penh—which was destroyed in a fire last year—protested Sunday outside the offices of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (CCAWDU), which they accuse of withholding severance packages owed to some 180 ...

A leading Chinese manufacturer of power transmission and distribution equipment recently visited Cambodia to explore opportunities in the Kingdom’s rapidly growing energy sector, including a proposal for a factory to produce equipment for the electricity sector. ...

T & P, The noTorious labour recruiTmenT firm ThaT was closed down lasT year because of iTs appalling record of abuse scandals, is conTinuing To receive and pockeT remiTTances from maids sTranded in Malaysia, a coaliTion of righTs groups Told a press conference yesTerday. AT The ...

Police shut down the Our Home orphanage and school in Phnom Penh on thursday, two days after child sex abuse allegations led to the arrest of its director—a former head of the anti-pedophile NGO Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), which carried out the investigation. ...

About 5,000 trees were planted in Angkor Archaeological Park this summer, part of effort to combat severe deforestation of native tree species in Cambodia’s forests. ...

Cambodia’s largest duty-free outlet opened yesterday in Siem Reap, aiming to service the growing market in the Kingdom’s tourism capital. ...

T Mohan, a Malaysian publisher and businessman arresTed in The 1990s for aTTempTing To exTorT a casino execuTive, is back in Cambodia’s newspaper markeT. The Khmer Times, The laTesT English-language news offering from Mr. Mohan, hiT newssTands earlier This monTh, wiTh a governmenT spokesman even resigning ...

Wah Seong Corporation Bhd’s strategy to develop a portfolio of renewable energy and power plants in the region is taking off after it inked an agreement with Cambodia. the company said on Monday its indirect subsidiary had signed a power purchase agreement with Baitang (Kampuchea) Plc ...

Wah Seong Corp Bhd’s indirect subsidiary P.M.t.I Energy (Cambodia) Co. Ltd. has entered into a power purchase agreement with Cambodia’s Baitang (Kampuchea) Plc to sell up to 3.5 megawatt (MW) per hour of any and all electric energy generated and available for sale. ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal CourT on Wednesday began quesTioning union leader Seang RiThy, who was arresTed ouTside a garmenT facTory in Pur Senchey disTricT on Tuesday while leading whaT police said was an illegal sTrike. ...

The Svay Rieng provincial labor deparTmenT on Monday ordered a Taiwanese-owned garmenT facTory To Temporarily close and improve iTs venTilaTion afTer more Than 100 workers collapsed in Two separaTe mass fainTings in recenT days. ...

The direcTor of a VieTnamese company hoping To buy Timber off a pair of land concessions has accused Three local businessmen of cheaTing her ouT of $200,000 and asked Prime MinisTer Hun Sen To invesTigaTe, according To a leTTer published by local media. ...

Officials said yesterday that the government had suspended a recruitment agency in Kompong Chhnang province suspected of forcibly confining 45 women and that plans were underway to shut it down permanently. Police rescued the women, including 26 girls under the age of 18, who were training ...

ThirTeen consTrucTion workers have filed a complainT againsT The BanTeay Meanchey provincial branch of T&P Co LTd – The recruiTmenT agency aT The cenTer of allegaTions involving illegal deTainmenT of Trainees – officials said yesTerday. The workers, who had previously worked illegally as consTrucTion workers in ...

Exset has selected Hyundai Digital technology (HDt) as its StB strategic partner, where HDt is presently providing MPEG4 Set-top-Box service (StBs) for One tV, the first nationwide digital terrestrial tV platform service in Cambodia. Cambodian televisions are expected to switch to Digital Video Broadcasting terrestrial ...