Cambodia’s government should make public a proposed law aimed at regulating the country’s labor movement, a rights group said Thursday, amid concerns that it includes provisions for the suspension of unions and for severely restricting their right to freedom of association. Requests from civil society to ss='cambodia-color'>...

T Mohan, a Malaysian publisher and businessman arrested in the 1990s for attempting to extort a casino executive, is back in Cambodia’s newspaper market. The Khmer Times, the latest English-language news offering from Mr. Mohan, hit newsstands earlier this month, with a government spokesman even resigning ss='cambodia-color'>...

Employees of the Ocean Garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Pur senchey district continued to protest Monday against management’s decision to ignore an Arbitration Council ruling on owed wages. Cheng Chhorn, secretary general of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers, said the workers will march to ss='cambodia-color'>...

NagaCorp recently announced it would invest $369 million in its latest project opposite the Buddhist Institute. The Hong Kong-listed casino operator’s latest Phnom Penh venture, Naga2,will include a casino, a hotel and a conference hall. The announcement of the investment by NagaCorp, Cambodia’s biggest casino operator, was ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local entrepreneur Ki Chong Tran believes he has the solution to many of Cambodia’s problems. On March 1, Tran submitted what he described as a “long-held weight off his chest” – a six-page proposal to the New York-based Bitcoin Foundation outlining all the ways the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Less than two weeks after a major rights group lambasted the Us’s training of Cambodia’s “abusive armed forces”, allegedly incriminating photographs have been removed from the official Facebook page of the joint training exercise. On May 20, Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a statement hitting out ss='cambodia-color'>...

A solution may be at hand for Phnom Penh’s degenerating traffic congestion problem as Japan’s International Cooperation Agency is readying a project aimed at completely overhauling the city’s non-intuitive traffic light system, City Hall announced Tuesday. The study, which will begin within the next month and ss='cambodia-color'>...

A local journalist was beaten to death in Kampong Chhnang province’s Cholkiri district on saturday night in an attack that authorities believe may have been related to his reporting on illegal fishing, police said yesterday. District police officer Tith Reth said that suon Chan, 44, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thirty-year-old Sam Hoiy never dreamed her Son would have the opportunity to live a life without the cleft lip that haS alwayS marred hiS otherwiSe delicate featureS. Hoiy&rSquo;S Seven-month-old Son iS one of more than 100 CambodianS being treated and Screened by a team of SS='cambodia-color'>...

An unsettled, decades-old $1.5 billion loan from the then-soviet Union to Cambodia’s Vietnam-backed 1980s government emerged as the key talking point during a meeting between Foreign Minister Hor Namhong and Russia’s new ambassador to Cambodia yesterday, a ministry spokesman said. The meeting between Namhong and Russian ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prominent businessman and Cambodian People’s Party senator Ly Yong Phat yesterday questioned what he had done to warrant a verbal attack from opposition party leader sam Rainsy, who said on Wednesday that the tycoon had grabbed land from people in Koh Kong province and should ss='cambodia-color'>...

A private utilities company owned by wealthy businessman and ruling Cambodian People’s Party senator Kok An is fulfilling only about half of Poipet’s demand for clean water, despite being contracted to supply the whole town, according to the city governor. With priority for the distribution of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday sang the praises of Cambodia’s first gold medallist in 44 years – suggesting sorn seavmey’s achievement was the “only thing Cambodia can brag about” – as the Kingdom’s Olympic Committee warned of bogus Facebook accounts in her name soliciting money. After ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Hong Kong company is hoping to attract a sizeable slice of Cambodia’s lottery market with the opening of outlets in Phnom Penh and around the country next month, according to the CEO of the firm’s local subsidiary. EGame solutions, the parent company of Cambodian Mark ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP plans to screen the banned documentary film “Who Killed Chea Vichea?” this week to mark the 11th anniversary of the Free Trade Union (FTU) leader’s assassination in front of a newspaper stall in Phnom Penh on January 22, 2004. CNRP public affairs director ss='cambodia-color'>...

Australia’s secret refugee deal with Cambodia is about to be signed, amid growing opposition to the transfer agreement. With a deal imminent, the office of Immigration Minister scott Morrison refused to confirm on Monday he was set to travel to Cambodia this week, while the Department ss='cambodia-color'>...

Even within the country’s notoriously overcrowded prison system, inmates in this northern province live in particularly harsh conditions. Approximately 120 prisoners, including 16 women and three children, are held in four cells in the Oddar Meanchey provincial police headquarters. “In one cell we keep 20 or more ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new study by the International Justice Mission (IJM) has asserted that Cambodia’s child sex trade – long a hot-button issue that has for years drawn international attention – has been reduced to a tiny fraction of its previous size. A statement from IJM that accompanied ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy said Thursday that he had secured pledges of at least $1.5 million in funding for the opposition’s planned television station, but had been forced to abandon a share-selling model to raise the funds. A private company created by the CNRP last year ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced four men to between 30 years and life in prison for a grenade attack in Phnom Penh last year, an attempted assassination that injured five people and killed the intended target’s 11-year-old son.Presiding judge Leang samnath convicted the ss='cambodia-color'>...