Villagers in Cambodia’s capital are being coerced into signing a petition supporting preliminary results issued by the country’s electoral body declaring a victory for Prime Minister Hun sen’s ruling party in recent elections, despite opposition claims of widespread poll irregularities, a rights group said Monday. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

King Norodom Sihamoni announced Friday that the political impaSSe that haS been formed in the wake of the July 28 national election Should be reSolved by “competent inStitutionS Stipulated by the ConStitution and lawS” of the country. Both the ruling CPP and oppoSition CNRP claimed that SS='cambodia-color'>...

Election monitor Comfrel released its final assessment of the 2013 national elections yesterday, detailing a raft of irregularities, while at the same time acknowledging that the opposition’s claims of having won the election were undermined by its reluctance to provide concrete evidence. The 147-page report makes ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Singaporean-owned garment factory whoSe workerS have been on Strike Since early AuguSt iS no longer producing clotheS for American denim giant Levi StrauSS, a brand repreSentative and a factory worker Said Monday. The workerS of SL Garment Factory in Meanchey diStrict&mdaSh;which Still makeS clotheS for SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s National Election Committee (NEC), which oversees the country’s polls, should be revamped with representatives picked by an independent panel in a transparent manner with the involvement of all stakeholders, a group of non-governmental organizations said in a report after investigating the latest disputed elections. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen was scheduled to meet with Japanese counterpart shinzo Abe in Tokyo on sunday, a day after Japan and the member states of Asean agreed to ensure “freedom of overflight” in the region. The agreement will likely be taken as an affront by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh could have its first international-standard medical facility if a Japanese plan to construct a critical-care center equipped with state-of-the-art medical technologies and highly trained doctors, nurses and surgeons goes ahead, according to local officials and Japanese government documents. Japanese Prime Minister shinzo Abe announced ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh police released union leader sok Chhun Oeung from custody Monday, a day after dragging him off the street at a peaceful protest he had organized along Phnom Penh’s riverside against the detention of 23 men still in jail for participating in demonstrations over ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen passed a sub-decree late last year to expand the scope of his government’s Cambodian Human Rights Committee (CHRC) by creating new departments and placing rights monitors in villages, according to a copy of the Royal Gazette dated December 31 and distributed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ms. sIN Kim sean is the Deputy Chief of Party and Grants Manager in the East-West Management Institute’s Program on Cambodian Civil society strengthening (CCss). she is a lawyer, an arbitrator in labor field for Arbitration Council and arbitrator in commercial field for Cambodia’s National ss='cambodia-color'>...

SAMRAONG TONG DISTRICT, Kompong Speu Province &ndaSh; Laughing, Ouch Samnang jumped back and forth over a Skipping rope held by hiS claSSmateS. The 13-year-old goeS to School in a Small village in Kom&Shy;pong Speu province, he haS friendS, five SiblingS and loving parentS. Overall, he SS='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank recently ranked Cambodia 184th out of 189 countries for ease of starting a business, but you wouldn’t have known it at Phnom Penh’s recent startup Weekend. Pitches for Cambodia’s first commercial organic chicken farm and for an app to connect tuk-tuk drivers to ss='cambodia-color'>...

From the leadership of the opposition CNRP down to Phnom Penh’s street vendors, Prime Minister Hun sen’s explanation for once again canceling the city’s annual Water Festival—recent flooding in the provinces—is being met with mounting skepticism. In a government decree on sunday, Mr. Hun sen said ss='cambodia-color'>...

It may not be a milestone anniversary, but the significance of this day 22 years ago is something the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party wants everyone to remember when it begins its latest mass protest this morning, a spokesman said yesterday. From today until Friday, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The verdict issued Wednesday by the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court dropping the charges against a military police officer and his wife who were allegedly involved in the murder of an investigative journalist is a travesty of justice and a sign of impunity in the country, rights ss='cambodia-color'>...

A member of the European Parliament is in Cambodia investigating agri-business firms accused of evicting hundreds of families while benefiting from a free-trade scheme with Europe worth millions of dollars, according to the NGO Equitable Cambodia. The visit from France’s Patrice Tirolien follows a resolution the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment factory owners failed to turn up for what was supposed to have been a tripartite meeting with the government and worker unions on Thursday to help break an impasse in negotiations to increase the minimum wage for workers, officials said. The International Labor Organization (ILO) ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Council of Ministers spokesman Phay siphan has summoned a student from the country’s top state journalism school for a meeting at his office after she used a post on her Facebook page to question the sense of a guest lecture he delivered last week. Mr. siphan ss='cambodia-color'>...

Last year, the United Nations called for culture to be given top priority in the post-2015 global development agenda, citing its importance to economic growth, social inclusion, equality, and sustainable development. It is difficult to quantify the impact culture has on a nation, particularly for a developing ss='cambodia-color'>...