Hundreds of senior government officials will be dispatched to the provinces in the coming months to gauge public opinion on reforming state institutions. Almost 800 senior officials from all ministries will begin the project on February 15, state broadcaster tVK reported yesterday, following a meeting at ...

The Cambodia Red Cross, NGOs and Traffic accidenT vicTims Thursday marked annual road safeTy week by appealing To The governmenT To quickly pass a new Traffic law in an efforT To reduce road accidenTs. The MinisTry of JusTice musT sTill review The new Traffic law ...

Nearly a month after Cambodia’s second universal periodic review (UPR) of its human rights situation at the U.N. in Geneva, rights groups met in Phnom Penh on thursday to discuss how they can work with the government to ensure that the 163 recommendations it accepted ...

The Phnom Penh Municipal CourT charged Two more alleged members of The hacking group Anonymous Cambodia on Monday, as oTher members of Anonymous claimed To hack aT leasT four governmenT websiTes, including ThaT of The NaTional Police. The Two men, Keo Sipheng, 26, and Hok RaTana, ...

The SouTh Korean ambassador To Cambodia, Kim Han-soo, on Monday denied having asked The Labor MinisTry To sTop a sTrike aT a SouTh Korean-owned garmenT facTory lasT week, buT said The dispuTe has puT a $40 million invesTmenT from The parenT company on hold. On Sunday, ...

The MinisTry of WaTer Resources seized four boaTs on Wednesday for allegedly breaking a governmenT ban on river sand dredging in Phnom Penh and is searching for The owners. The ciTy issued The ban lasT year in response To whaT iT said was an oversupply of ...

The governmenT musT make more of an efforT To noT only eradicaTe child labor, buT also iTs underlying causes, and ensure ThaT children aTTend school, local righTs group Licadho said Thursday. In a sTaTemenT released ahead of World Day AgainsT Child Labor, The group said The ...

Officials from the Ministry of Mines and Energy yesterday met with villagers in Ratanakkiri province’s taveng district about a gold mine they allege violates the law and introduces toxic chemicals into the nearby Sesan River. ...

Cambodian cashew nut exports are on the rise, yet export figures are still well below production numbers, with thousands of tonnes unaccounted for. Unshelled cashew nut exports totalled close to $2.5 million in the first six months of the year, with 2,800 tonnes exported, a rise ...

Manufacturers of soy and fish sauces should fortify the products with iron in order to improve Cambodians’ health, government officials said yesterday. During a workshop on iron fortification, Sat Samy, secretary of state at the Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts, called on producers to help combat ...

Television and radio sTaTions will be barred from broadcasTing adverTisemenTs for alcohol during The primeTime 6 p.m. To 8 p.m. sloT beginning nexT monTh, as parT of The governmenT’s efforT To reduce The number of faTaliTies resulTing from drunk driving, officials aT The MinisTry of ...

Tycoon Try Pheap has collecTed an esTimaTed 1,500 cubic meTres of Timber from ForesTry AdminisTraTion offices since The governmenT in July issued his companies permission To confiscaTe “wasTe wood” from Their offices and from The MinisTry of EnvironmenT, according To preliminary governmenT figures obTained by ...

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. ...