Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun sen has promised to compensate thousands of garment workers demanding back pay they say they are owed since their factory owner fled the country to escape mounting debt, according to officials. Kandal provincial labor department director Thol Neang told RFA’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has gained the investments of 178 million U.s. dollars from its AsEAN member states in the first six months of 2012, according to a report from the Council for the Development of Cambodia said this week. From January to June this year, the country granted ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen lashed out at the UN’s human rights envoy to Cambodia yesterday, saying surya subedi’s latest report skewed too heavily toward the opposition and suggested his talents might be better employed elsewhere.   While the premier never mentioned the Nepalese national and Leeds ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday thanked voters for the CPP’s overwhelming victory in sunday’s commune election and told opposition parties that their plans for a coalition will not stop the ruling party’s dominance in the polls. speaking for the first time since the elections, Mr. Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen said this afternoon he would “welcome” an international investigation into the contested results of sunday’s election. The remarks, his first public comments since the election, came after opposition leader sam Rainsy announced the party had done far better than the preliminary government ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the remains of the county’s forests fall to rapacious illegal loggers and to make way for the government-awarded economic land concessions, officials tasked with forestry protection are hoping newlywed couples can build a last line of defense. “Wedding gardens”- green spaces where newly-married couples are ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s garment industry, the country’s biggest income earner, recorded 2.06 billion U.s. dollars in export value in the first five months of this year, up 22 percent on the same period last year, a Commerce Ministry’s report showed Tuesday. Garment export accounts for more than 80 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three more unionists have been suspended as a result of the violent strikes at a Kampong speu garment factory in May and June, a Free Trade Union official said yesterday. sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing factory’s FTU president sun Vanny, vice-president sem sopheak and general secretary Chi ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng, the ruling party’s chief negotiator with the opposition, has released a statement accusing the Cambodia National Rescue Party of an internal split over what concessions could induce its 55 lawmakers to take their seats at the National Assembly. A statement released on ss='cambodia-color'>...

ACLEDA officially launched its first credit card on Friday as Cambodia’s largest bank eyes the country’s rising middle income bracket, president and CEO In Channy said yesterday. “This is the right time for us to start this Visa credit card product. By 2020, Cambodia will change ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP on Thursday threatened to block traffic in and out of Phnom Penh along all major roads next month unless the government meets its demands, including new elections and Prime Minister Hun sen’s resignation. Mao Monivann, deputy director of the CNRP’s executive committee, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Friday confirmed that Cambodia was in talks with his government to take in some of the refugees trying to reach his country’s shores, according to Australian media. Mr. Abbott’s statement was the first official admission from his administration that Australia ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ruling party supporters are “burning with hatred” towards the Cambodia National Rescue Party leadership and are ready to take to the streets, according to a Facebook post by Prime Minister Hun sen’s second-eldest son, Hun Manith. Hun Manith, who is deputy head of the powerful ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Chinese developer with a “family-like” relationship to Prime Minister Hun sen’s bodyguard unit has accelerated construction at its $5 billion resort – ostensibly cancelled by royal decree in 2010 – in a protected national park in Preah sihanouk province. The 3,300-hectare Golden silver Gulf resort ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of a community locked in a land dispute with a Vietnamese company in Kratie province returned home from Phnom Penh late Tuesday after failing to garner support from Prime Minister Hun sen, while an official at the company said it had begun destroying villagers’ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s petrol retailers have been ordered by the government to hand over import information and financial records in what looks to be the first steps toward installing fuel-price legislation. The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) announced publicly yesterday via state-owned media Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP) ss='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank’s biannual report on Cambodia was largely positive given dire economic prospects in Europe, which economists agreed were closely tied to the Kingdom’s key export sectors. The report, released yesterday, predicted 6.6 per cent growth in gross domestic product Manufacturing is predicted to slow slightly this year, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three years after authorities demolished the last houses in Phnom Penh’s Group 78 community, evictees relocated to the outskirts of the capital are still struggling, the Housing Rights Task Force said yesterday. More than 200 members of the Group 78 community gathered close to the site ss='cambodia-color'>...

The pomelo grown in Kratie’s Koh Trong commune is now the third Cambodian product to obtain Geographical Indication (GI) status, following in the footsteps of Kampot pepper and Kampong speu’s palm sugar. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Interior has installed Interpol offices at eight major checkpoints along Cambodia’s borders, the Interior Ministry’s Interpol office acting director Major General Lim sokha Raksmey said yesterday.   ss='cambodia-color'>...