As world leaders vowed to dramatically step up the global response to the Ebola virus this week, the Cambodian government sought to reassure investors that they are making adequate preparations to contain an outbreak in the Kingdom. Speaking at an American Chamber of Commerce luncheon yesterday, ...

The Labor MinisTry laid ouT The ground rules for unions and facTories Monday aT The firsT meeTing of a new working group charged wiTh geTTing The Two sides To agree on a new minimum wage for garmenT workers, including a condiTion ThaT They address each ...

A government spokesman yesterday accused opposition deputy leader Kem Sokha of not doing his job properly after the politician claimed the government was bleeding more than $400 million in possible revenue per year due to corruption. ...

The European Union (EU) said This week ThaT iT has hired a pair of consulTanTs To help The governmenT design a sysTem for compensaTing The Thousands of families believed To have had Their homes or farms illegally confiscaTed by The counTry’s privaTe sugar planTaTions. ...

Almost a quarter of Cambodian students aged 7 to 14 are forced to give up school because their work intercedes, according to a new study by UNESCO. With 10 per cent of 7- to 14-year-olds classified as child labourers, Cambodia has more young children working ...

fter rights group Licadho released a statement thursday saying that more than 10,000 Cambodian families were newly affected last year by land disputes in the 13 provinces where it has monitors—a three-fold increase from 2013—a government spokesman on Friday slammed the NGO’s report as “baseless ...

Defense Minister tea Banh joked tuesday that the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) are “biased to the right people” in protecting the government from destabilizing political agitators. Speaking at the annual review of the military’s activities at the Defense Ministry, General Banh said the armed forces ...

Environment officials in Ratanakkiri have over the past 10 days confiscated more than 500 pieces of valuable Sokrom wood found stockpiled throughout the province’s Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary by illegal loggers, officials said Sunday. ...

The Council of MinisTers has granTed farmers in Kompong Thom province permission To sTarT farming on The floodplains of The Tonle Sap lake in an area previously off limiTs and home To flooded foresTs ThaT provide a criTical fish breeding habiTaT. The Council of MinisTers’ noTice, ...

Government officials remained mum thursday over a new sub-decree purporting to formalize monthly expenditures of senior government officials while the opposition and civil society groups said the regulation was a facade meant to conceal the real amount of money being made by CPP officials. ...

Contentious plantation giant Vietnam Rubber Group reportedly “lost” nearly $391 million of state funds over five years, including $22.75 million from a rubber plantation in Cambodia, an official investigation into the firm’s dealings has found, according to Vietnamese media. Hanoi’s anti-corruption body, the General Inspectorate, last ...

The Cambodian governmenT plans To formally requesT ThaT Unesco give Three of The counTry’s provincial capiTals World HeriTage proTecTion, sTaTe news agency Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) reporTed Friday.​ The ciTies are The capiTals of BaTTambang, KampoT and KraTie provinces, according To The AKP.​ ...

The elecToral reform working groups from The ruling CPP and opposiTion CNRP resumed Talks Monday afTer canceling Their meeTings lasT week, wiTh officials from boTh parTies again defending Their conTroversial push To ban NGOs from “insulTing” parTies during elecTion campaigns. ...

A state secrets law being drafted by the Interior Ministry will not be used to target reporting on sensitive issues such as corruption, a senior military police official said yesterday. the National Police announced that the law was being drafted late last month following a ...

In the wake of a nightclub fire in Bavet City that killed five people on Monday, the tourism Ministry has decided to begin more aggressively enforcing a 2014 sub-decree that requires all bars, nightclubs and karaoke parlors to have multiple exits, fire extinguishers and soundproofing, ...

Vietnam is planning to build a market in Cambodia’s tbong Khmum province, aimed at strengthening trade between the neighbouring countries and improving living standards for those whose homes lie along the border, according to local media reports. ...

The governmenTs of Sweden and SwiTzerland have pledged more Than $15 million To The sTrengThening of sub-naTional governance in Cambodia from 2015 To 2017. ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Monday extended a rare compliment to Cambodia’s foreign minister, who has sent two missives since Friday to Vietnam, accusing the government allowing encroachment in Ratanakkiri province. ...

Judicial police ignored an arrest warrant for former Khmer Rouge navy commander and accused war criminal Meas Muth, putting the government in breach of the rules of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, declassified documents released by the tribunal Wednesday show. ...

Opposition lawmaker Mao Monyvann on thursday rebuked the government over its repeated refusals to publicly release a copy of a map of Cambodia’s border with Vietnam, saying he would push ahead with a banned press conference to publicize the lack of transparency on the issue. ...