The $100 million Sokha Hotel and ReSidence on Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Chroy Changva peninSula will be ready to receive itS firSt gueSt by September, and recruitment iS under way for more than 1,000 employeeS, the hotel&rSquo;S owner Said Monday. “We plan to open in September aS a SS='cambodia-color'>...

Gender studies will be incorporated into the curriculum at Cambodia’s largest university in an effort to shape the country’s top students’ views on the role of women in society, educators and experts said on Wednesday at a workshop on the course. A pilot program will begin ss='cambodia-color'>...

The tripartite working group set up to negotiate and advise the Ministry of Labour’s Labour Advisory Committee (LAC) on next year’s minimum wage in Cambodia’s garment sector has stopped meeting after reaching a stalemate. Made up of 27 members – nine each from employers, the government ss='cambodia-color'>...

The International Republican Institute is urging the ruling party and opposition work toward political reform. Jessica Keegan, the group’s Cambodia country director, told VOA Khmer in an interview in Washington that the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and the Cambodia National Rescue Party should seek common ground ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy yesterday praised former ruling party president Chea sim, who died on Monday, calling him a national hero and comparing his patriotic ideals to those of the late King Father Norodom sihanouk.​ speaking to reporters after paying his respects at the former senate ss='cambodia-color'>...

Coca-Cola held the ground-breaking ceremony for its new $100 million production facility at the Phnom Penh special Economic Zone yesterday, which when completed in 2016 will double the beverage behemoth’s Cambodian output over the next six years.The new facility, which was announced last November after ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment factory workers are seeing their working hours cut amid China’s coronavirus scare and the EU’s announcement that it will partially withdraw Cambodia’s trade privileges. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce and Lanton Cloud service Technology Co., Ltd. have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on strategic cooperation to promote the kingdom’s e-commerce, said a ministry’s news release on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in partnership with Cambodia’s Ministry of social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation, is implementing the “Let’s Chat” digital campaign to address the vulnerability of Cambodian adolescents to online sexual predators. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand’s army and sa Kaeo provincial administration have joined hands with Cambodian authorities in tackling PM2.5 air pollution on the border between sa Kaeo province in Thailand’s eastern region and Cambodia’s Banteay Meanchey province, reported The Nation newspaper. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Human rights groups are warning that Cambodia’s new Prison Law will create financial incentives for violations of human rights within the Kingdom’s prisons and tarnish the image of the country’s most lucrative export industry: footwear and garments. They point to Article 71 of the new law, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials did not, and Lao students could not, attend yesterday’s Asean Peoples’ Forum in Phnom Penh, where more than 1,500 members of civil society groups discussed the region’s most pressing issues, including human rights, poverty, land usurping and domestic violence. The three-day forum, which is not ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s construction sector is facing a massive labor shortage due to a recent boom in construction projects throughout the country and workers migrating en masse to Thailand in search of higher wages. In 2012, the construction sector expanded rapidly with the total value of approved projects ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leaders sam Rainsy and Kem sokha on Monday visited supporters in Kandal province to encourage locals there to ensure that momentum behind opposition demonstrations over the contested national election result continues. Thousands of people turned out in Vihear suor commune, Khsach Kandal’s district, where Mr. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Kandal province alleged yesterday that officials had “tricked” them into thumb-printing a petition supporting tycoon Try Pheap’s claim that he is not involved in illegal logging and endorsing his defamation suit against two villagers. In a scathing report released last Wednesday, the Cambodian Human ss='cambodia-color'>...

Marches through the capital will take place as part of the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s days-long sit-in, scheduled to begin on sunday, opposition leader sam Rainsy said. “We will march through Phnom Penh. We will stay [at Freedom Park] day and night,” Rainsy told thousands of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh City Hall has asked the owner of a popular radio station to delay a mass rally in support of King Norodom sihamoni’s call for the opposition CNRP to attend this morning’s opening session of the National Assembly, asking him to wait until the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s opposition leader sam Rainsy, fresh from a trip to the European Union, called Wednesday on the country’s ruling party to return to the negotiating table in a bid to end a nine-month political standoff since disputed elections last year. sam Rainsy said that EU leaders ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. AmbaSSador William Todd on TueSday uSed hiS weekly newSpaper column to urge Cambodia&rSquo;S government to immediately conduct reformS that would even the country&rSquo;S economic playing field, curb corruption, reStore democratic freedomS and generally addreSS the concernS of citizenS who want change. “Corruption and nepotiSm contribute SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Coca-Cola Company on Thursday confirmed that it has sent a team to Cambodia to assess long-running allegations of land grabbing and forced evictions at the sugar cane plantations that help sweeten the global drinks giant’s sodas. The team’s visit follows the company’s pledge in November ss='cambodia-color'>...