The government has no intention of withdrawing its signature from the International Labour Organization’s freedom of association convention, despite calls for it to reconsider its position, a Ministry of Labour spokesman said yesterday. “I don’t think we will withdraw. The prime minister [Hun sen] has already ss='cambodia-color'>...

The main opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) threatened Tuesday to call off talks aimed at breaking an eight-month political deadlock with Prime Minister Hun sen’s ruling party, accusing it of using the negotiations to cling on to power. CNRP chief sam Rainsy said his party ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than a hundred monks and students from Vietnam’s Khmer Krom ethnic minority living in Cambodia clashed Tuesday with riot police and security guards in front of the Vietnamese embassy in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh as they marched to demand an apology for statements by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy said Tuesday that political negotiations with the ruling party have hit an impasse. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party “refuses to discuss any changes to the composition of the electoral commission,” he wrote in an open letter to the diplomatic community. The National Election ss='cambodia-color'>...

Lawmakers from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) would consider boycotting parliament again if Prime Minister Hun sen’s party continues to delay an agreement on electoral reform, according to CNRP deputy leader Kem sokha. The two parties have reached a deadlock in talks on forging ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Labor Ministry on Thursday launched a new three-year policy for improving the lot of Cambodia’s more than 700,000 migrant workers that includes plans to step up monitoring of the country’s often-abusive recruitment agencies and add labor attachés to more embassies. Nilim Baruah, a senior ss='cambodia-color'>...

A secretary of state at the Foreign Affairs Ministry on Tuesday defended the government’s widely criticized imprisonment of 11 activists and an opposition official during a closed-door meeting with a visiting U.s. diplomat. Daniel Russel, an assistant secretary of state at the U.s. government’s Bureau of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) launched its Cambodian chapter on Friday in the hope of further promoting the country’s second-largest sector by revenues. The sparsity of air routes to Cambodia was one of the main obstacles to the Kingdom’s tourism growth, PATA Cambodia chapter president ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh yesterday called on the Us to allow duty-free entry for Cambodian exports, a benefit the Kingdom already enjoyed with the European Union. The introduction of preferential tax treatment from the Us would result in the Kingdom’s share of that country’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 150 villagers embroiled in a long-running land dispute with CPP senator and tycoon Ly Yong Phat protested peacefully outside the Kompong speu Provincial Court yesterday as five villagers were questioned over accusations that they are illegally occupying the senator’s land. The villagers, from Thpong district’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday called on authorities to address all concerns raised by the the public in line with the Kingdom’s efforts to implement sustainable development goals. In a message to mark today’s celebration of the 30th World Population Day under the theme, “25 years ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six non-governmental organiSationS on TueSday praiSed the government&rSquo;S deciSion to increaSe electricity generated by Solar panelS up to 20 percent of national output by 2023. The organiSationS included the NGO Forum on Cambodia, 3S RiverS Protection Network, My Village, Culture and Environment PreServation ASSociation, FiSherieS SS='cambodia-color'>...

The honorary president of the CPP-aligned youth group involved in last week’s protest outside parliament, which ended with two opposition lawmakers being savagely beaten, is a deputy commander in the Prime Minister’s Bodyguard Unit, the Post has learned.Three soldiers were charged on Wednesday over the ss='cambodia-color'>...

WorldBridge Commerce announced yesterday the integration of Acleda Bank’s online payment services into its online shopping marketplace MAIO Mall. The partnership adds an online payment option to MAIO Mall’s existing cash-on-delivery model. The Post’s Ananth Baliga spoke to Tomas Pokorny, CEO of WorldBridgE Commerce, about ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing Cambodia’s hydropower in both Khmer and English. Together with the website’s map explorer tool, the profile page aims to provide the up-to-date information on the country’s “hydropower dams, reservoirs, substations and transmission lines,” and ss='cambodia-color'>...

One of China’s largest steelmakers is seeking partners in Cambodia to build a steel mill that will reduce the Kingdom’s dependency on imported steel for its construction sector, a company executive said. Weng Wei Min, director of the economic cooperation department at Hangzhou Iron and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh City Hall said Tuesday it would revoke the licenses of companies whose subcontractors are accused of routinely overcharging motorists for parking at some of the city’s markets unless the problem is fixed, according to a news release posted Wednesday on the municipality’s website. “If ss='cambodia-color'>...

NGOs say the Ministry of Labour’s use of its own method for determining the garment industry’s minimum wage is risking a repeat of the tensions that exploded in violent protests in January, when authorities killed at least five people. More than six months after the Labour ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sgnoun Vita can&rSquo;t communicate with moSt of her kindergarten StudentS. She teacheS them colourS and numberS, but can&rSquo;t underStand their queStionS or chatter. MoSt of Vita&rSquo;S StudentS at the Kater Primary School in Ratanakkiri&rSquo;S O&rSquo;Yadav diStrict Speak Jarai, one of Cambodia&rSquo;S 24 ethnic minority languageS. A SS='cambodia-color'>...

Formation of the National Silk Board (NSB) haS been delayed due to a lag in coordinating miniStrieS to create the induStry body, according to the SpokeSman of MiniStry of Commerce. The former miniSter of commerce, Cham PraSidh, Said in June laSt year that he waS aiming SS='cambodia-color'>...