More than 300 villagers from Kampong Cham province’s Chamkar Leu, Memot, and stung Trang districts gathered in Phnom Penh on Friday to protest against a plan to relocate them from their land in order to make way for rubber plantations. The villagers contend they have ss='cambodia-color'>...

An across-the-board trade and investment deal signed with China’s Yunnan province on Friday was a jump-start to Chinese President Hu Jintao’s pledge a week earlier to double bilateral trade with the Kingdom to Us$5 billion by 2017. The package signing, which brought a delegation of 45 ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of 17 union leaders will demand $179.60 when they sit down for the latest round of negotiations this week to determine the minimum wage in the garment sector, which employs more than 600,000 Cambodians. The monthly minimum wage is currently $140. The new figure ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hun Sen, Prime MiniSter of Cambodia, iS the PreSident of the Cambodian People&rSquo;S Party (CPP), the country&rSquo;S ruling party Since 1979. In recent yearS, when an oppoSition party, the Cambodia National ReScue Party (CNRP), Started gaining momentum and making their voiceS heard, Sen&rSquo;S government found SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s central bank yesterday again raised the issue of the country’s highly dollarised economy, suggesting that government policies and action plans will be enforced over the long term to promote the use of the riel, giving the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) more monetary control.speaking ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen’s middle son, Hun Manith, has been appointed as director of the Defense Ministry’s military intelligence unit, according to a sub-decree issued by his father last month, making him the second of the premier’s sons to ascend to the upper echelons of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has given permission for three L.Y.P. Group casinos to launch online gambling operations.The L.Y.P. Group, which is run by Cambodian People’s Party senator Ly Yong Phat, operates three casinos on the country’s border with Thailand; the Koh Kong Resort on the country’s southern coast, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing Cambodia’s fisheries conservation areas 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 “community fishery, fish sanctuary, and flooded ss='cambodia-color'>...

A defence lawyer for tycoon Kok An revealed yesterday that the senator had filed lawsuits in March against six relatives of Heng Chheang and his wife, Tep Kolap, both of whom were convicted last December of embezzling Us$58 million from An’s wife’s Anco Brothers Co ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 75-year-old man living near the former site of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak lake was detained by police on Thursday after he was found collecting thumbprints from villagers for a petition calling for the release of jailed independent radio station owner Mam sonando, villagers said ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Bank of China launched the first dual currency international bank card yesterday, part of a move to expand in the local market by offering both Us dollar and Renminbi accounts on a single card. People can get the card for a deposit of Us$10 at ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of domestic and foreign tourists visiting siem Reap’s ancient Angkor Wat temple and the Kingdom’s coastal areas increased sharply during this year’s three-day Lunar New Year. Data from the siem Reap provincial tourism department show that 52,909 tourists visited siem Reap during Lunar ss='cambodia-color'>...

The gap between Cambodia’s health rich and health poor is “devastating”, according to a report by World Vision issued yesterday. Cambodia is ranked 124 out of 176 countries on the global index based on four indicators used to measure the gap in each listed country: life ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials yesterday laid the blame for Cambodia’s deforestation on villagers gathering firewood. “Every day, they need fuel for cooking – that’s a lot of logging,” Chheng Kimsun, director general of the Forestry Administration, said at a workshop aimed at addressing sustainable forest management. Gathered at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

An ad hoc committee comprised of representatives from the European Union, the Ministry of Commerce, provincial administrations and the sugar industry met again yesterday at the ministry’s headquarters to continue its discussion of issues faced by those displaced by sugar plantations. The committee touched upon topics ss='cambodia-color'>...

The deputy governor of Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district was slightly injured yesterday in a clash that broke out during a remembrance ceremony to mark the day 39 years ago the Khmer Rouge seized the capital in 1975. Prach seyha, Dangkor’s deputy governor, was injured in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...