More than 400 workers at the Hwa sin Print  factory, in the capital’s Choam Chao commune, had resumed their strike yesterday after management failed to meet their demands, a union official said. Khat Lot, vice-director of the Collective Union of Movement of Workers, said workers had ss='cambodia-color'>...

Year-end travelers have fully booked sihanoukville province’s hotels and guesthouses for the first-ever sea Festival, which is expected to attract thousands of visitors this year, tourism officials said. Tith Chantha, general director at the Ministry of Tourism, confirmed that all hotel and guesthouse rooms were booked ss='cambodia-color'>...

Australian transportation solutions provider Toll Holdings remained silent yesterday on whether it would be pulling out of its 30-year contract to operate Cambodia’s railway system. In a report published on Tuesday, the sydney Morning Herald cited “reliable sources in Cambodia” as saying that the company would ss='cambodia-color'>...

The UN Children’s Agency has called for a new policy to protect Cambodian children from bullying. In a statement released to coincide with safer Internet Day on Tuesday, Unicef said young people between the ages of 15 and 25 years olds were particularly at risk. Natascha ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government will transfer 6,000 civil servants from the national level to the sub-national level in order to provide better service to people in the capital and provinces. speaking during the closing ceremony of the Interior Ministry’s two-day 2018 stocktaking and 2019 Directive settings Conference ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation has told The Rabbit school, a local NGO that educates autistic students, to move its operations from government-run National Borei for Infants and Children (NBIC) to a new premise, school director Hun Touch said. The ministry’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s first mental rehabilitation centre was formally opened in Kandal province’s Kandal stung district on Wednesday, with the government planning to build a specialist facility to house jailed minors. speaking during the opening ceremony, Minister of Interior sar Kheng said the Kingdom’s socio-economic progress meant ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Labour says it will investigate the claims of a Royal Holloway, University of London research team’s report alleging modern slavery in Cambodia’s brick kilns, said Minister of Labour Ith sam Heng. The report entitled Blood Bricks: Untold stories of Modern slavery and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Situated in Stung Treng province&rSquo;S SeSan diStrict, the hydropower dam iS ASia&rSquo;S longeSt at 6.5km. It iS a joint venture by ChineSe company Hydrolancang International, Cambodian company Royal Group, and VietnameSe company Vietnam Electricity.&nbSp;The project iS a 45-year Build-Operate-TranSfer contract, in which five yearS waS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Siem Reap provincial authoritieS are Searching for the ownerS of two confiScated boatS which were uSed for illegal fiShing during the cloSed fiShing SeaSon in Chi Kreng diStrict&rSquo;S Anlong Samnor commune.&nbSp;Colonel Sok Theavuth, diStrict police chief, yeSterday Said that provincial anti-economic crime police, in collaboration SS='cambodia-color'>...

Work on the $110 million National Road 4 upgrading project in the Kingdom’s main economic corridor could start as early as next year, a Ministry of Public Works official has said. The project, which will affect a more than 200km stretch of road, will take ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia must focus on building a single recognisable brand for its premium fragrant rice to strengthen its international marketing efforts, Minister of Commerce sun Chanthol said yesterday. Cambodia’s Phka Rumduol – a long-grain, aromatic variety of rice – has been awarded the World’s Best Rice ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three of the alleged attackers in last week’s savage gang-bashing of two opposition lawmakers outside the National Assembly turned themselves in and confessed yesterday, the government announced late last evening.In a statement, Interior Ministry spokesman Khieu sopheak listed the suspects as Chay sarith, 33, and ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the weather pattern known as El Niño threatens to wreak havoc on climatic conditions across the globe, the Cambodian government has warned that higher-than-usual temperatures, which already sparked droughts this year, will cause next year’s rainy season to be even shorter.What’s more, the heat ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s casino industry generates close to $2 billion in revenue a year and accounts for nearly 40 per cent of the Kingdom’s tourism revenue, a central bank official said yesterday.Chea serey, director-general of the National Bank of Cambodia, told a workshop on statistics in international ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a wide-ranging speech to ruling Cambodian People’s Party supporters in California yesterday, Prime Minister Hun sen slammed the Us government as well as the opposition, and said his presence at the Us-AsEAN summit at Rancho Mirage was no different than that of Us President ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rice millers in the country will now be able to access the government’s promised emergency loan of $20 million to purchase paddy rice from farmers in a bid to prevent rice prices from falling further, the Rural Development Bank (RDB) announced yesterday. Rural Development Bank CEO ss='cambodia-color'>...

Investigations are continuing after siem Reap’s economic police conducted four raids last saturday on shops selling knock-offs of products from Us-based outdoor apparel and equipment brand The North Face, police sources said yesterday.The raids were conducted on four stores – Cambodia Outlet, Duty Free Outlet, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some rice buSineSSeS in the Southern province of Tien Giang have begun Sourcing rice from Cambodia to diStribute to Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring localitieS, inStead of that grown in Vietnam&rSquo;S Mekong Delta, known aS the country&rSquo;S granary.Trung, who runS a major rice firm SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Vietnamese government distanced itself on Wednesday from angry posts its citizens made on Prime Minister Hun sen’s Facebook page, saying the platform should not be used to inflame tensions between “good neighbors.” The statement from the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs stopped short, however, ss='cambodia-color'>...