The Appeal Court yesterday rejected a bid by Hong sok Hour’s lawyer to secure the imprisoned opposition senator’s freedom and avoid being forced to hand over further evidence, including the lawmaker’s laptop. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s salt producers are suffering from a catastrophic harvest season that is likely to deplete their reserves and threaten the industry’s future prospects, according to leaders of the country’s largest salt federation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly’s permanent committee on Monday approved further study of amendments to Cambodia’s election law that would allow more than 1 million migrant workers to vote from outside the country’s borders. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly a week after Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report detailing systemic labour rights abuse in Cambodia’s garment sector, the country’s garment manufacturers association fired back, criticising the study’s methodology and alleged omissions. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The value of Cambodian exports to the EU is expected to decline between $513-$654 million per annum if the country’s tariff-free access is withdrawn, according to a World Bank report released on Monday. The World Bank’s assessment – made in a report named Cambodia Economic ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia reported a trade deficit of 34 percent in equivalent to 1.51 billion U.S. dollarS in the firSt Seven of thiS year, the report of the Commerce MiniStry Showed on ThurSday. During January-July period thiS year, the country&rSquo;S total import and export value waS 7.45 billion SS='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leaders brought politics to the forefront of a ceremony to mark yesterday’s anniversary of France’s official transfer of the former Kampuchea Krom provinces to Vietnam in 1949. speaking to a crowd of hundreds of monks, Khmer Krom and Khmer attendees at samaki Rainsey pagoda in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union announced yesterday that it is suspending all support for Cambodia’s National Election Committee, calling credible elections impossible in light of the government’s dissolution of the ruling party’s only legitimate competitor. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly will hold its first plenary session meeting on Thursday since Prime Minister Hun sen’s 68 members of parliament last month approved an Assembly president and chairpersons to head the body’s nine committees, and despite the opposition CNRP still refusing to take their ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kampong Speu provincial court iSSued SummonSeS yeSterday to five villagerS from Thpong diStrict&rSquo;S Omlaing commune, who are involved in a long-Standing land diSpute with Cambodia People&rSquo;S Party Senator Ly Yong Phat&rSquo;S Phnom Penh Sugar company. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Health Minister Mam Bunheng has been summoned for questioning next week by the National Assembly’s health commission over the outbreak of HIV among villagers in Battambang province’s Ro­ka commune, the commission’s secretary-general said Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia will allow inter-country adoptions to resume from January 1 next year, four years after the government stopped adoptions amid claims of corruption and baby selling, government officials confirmed yesterday. speaking after a meeting with susan Jacobs, the U.s. state Department’s special adviser on children’s issues, secretary of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has overturned two injunctions filed against bankrupt mobile operator Mfone, saying the decision will help the court-appointed administrator in charge of Mfone’s assets pay back creditors the money they are owed. The court issued Eltek’s injunction in October and Huawei’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

After a five-month IPO process steeped in anticipation, Grand Twins International ended its first day on the Cambodia securities Exchange (CsX) with results many observers found disappointing. GTI shares opened yesterday’s session at 9,700 riel ($2.41), with a ceremonial bell ringing at the CsX’s head office. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As much as $320 million is being lost annually as a result of Cambodia’s reliance on the Us dollar, while a longstanding mistrust in the riel means there is less of the local currency in circulation, restricting the national bank’s ability to respond in times ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian authorities have held two rounds of talks with garment factory owners and unions under a new mechanism to help break a deadlock over increasing the workers’ monthly minimum wage but to no avail. But Labor Minister Ith sam Heng said that he expected the Garment ss='cambodia-color'>...

The result of Cambodia’s general election, in which long-serving Prime Minister Hun sen’s ruling party Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) declared victory, must be fully rejected by the international community, the opposition said on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

South Korea&rSquo;S MiniStry of JuStice haS become the Second of that nation&rSquo;S miniStrieS to deny it iS working with Cambodia&rSquo;S ambaSSador to the country, Suth Dina, to clamp down on illegal migrantS and political diSSent. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Commerce Ministry has scrubbed its website of all corporate shareholder information since last month’s release of a report damned by Prime Minister Hun sen’s children for shedding light on the first family’s sprawling business empire. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has financially backed singapore’s sunseap Group’s project to build Cambodia’s first large-scale solar power project under a long-term agreement with the state-run energy utility Electricite Du Cambodge.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...