A 34-year-old Vietnamese man was arrested and put into pre-trial detention on Monday in Ratanakkiri province for allegedly putting a veritable menagerie on the black market. Prom Nol, Forestry Administration chief officer with Wildlife Alliance’s Wildlife Rapid Rescue Team, said yesterday that the raid on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

In an apparent departure from the usual diet of colourless press releases and updates on the travel plans of officials, the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit website yesterday posted two articles critical of Prime Minister Hun sen’s government. The articles – Reuters’ coverage ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s garment and shoe industry has lost roughly 275 million U.s. dollars due to outlawed garment strikes in the past two weeks, Van sou Ieng, President of the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC), said Monday. The garment and shoe industry comprise more than 900 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twelve representatives of 50 families in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district filed an appeal yesterday after being summonsed to court over a land dispute with a Malaysian company. The villagers gathered in Adhoc’s office in srayrong commune to draft and submit a letter requesting that their court ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fifty families who have lived in squalid conditions at Borei Keila in the capital’s Prampi Makara district since they were evicted and their homes destroyed have accepted City Hall’s offer of temporary shelter at the site, their representatives said yesterday. Evictee sar son said the 50 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia imported 453,000 tons of petroleum in the first three months of 2014, up 10 percent from 412,190 tons over the same period last year, the data of the Ministry of Commerce showed Tuesday. During the January-March period this year, the country spent 442 million U.s. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Human remains that an opposition activist claims are those of missing teen Khim saphath, who disappeared after a crackdown on Veng sreng Boulevard on January 3, will be brought to the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s headquarters in the capital today. Although no tests have been carried ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Joint-Committee on Electoral Reforms, established during a meeting between senior officials of the ruling and opposition parties last month, convened its first meeting on Monday to discuss topics for electoral reforms toward free and fair elections in the future. The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP)’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) senior official has appealed to opposition leaders to let their lawmakers to fight with the CPP lawmakers who are waiting in the National Assembly. “I appealed to sam Rainsy and Kem sokha to be brave, and free their 55 ‘roosters’ to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Red Cross, which bills itself as the country’s largest humanitarian organization, is building a six-story luxury hotel in Preah Vihear City. Government officials said Tuesday that the hotel would be used to generate revenue for the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC). The hotel is being ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s construction sector received a total investment of 851 million U.s. dollars in the first three months of 2014, up 311 percent compared with 207 million U.s. dollars over the same period last year, the official figures showed Thursday. During the January-March period this year, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

For the first time in the event’s 37-year history, Cambodia is to host the annual Pacific Asian Tourism Association Travel Mart (PTM), an annual tourism trade fair organised by the multinational tourism body. so Visothy, director of marketing and information at the Ministry of Tourism, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Pursat man’s reported encounter with a tiger in the Cardamom Mountains has left him injured and in fear, but it has left experts in doubt. On sunday afternoon, Ngem Nget, a 51-year-old farmer in Phnom Kravanh district’s santre commune, walked into the woods to forage ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 200 garment workers marched from Phnom Penh’s Wincam garment factory to the Ministry of Labor on Thursday to press their demands for short-term contracts and better benefits. The Korean-owned factory’s 800-plus workers have been protesting since June 11 to demand that the factory change their ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment and footwear industry, Cambodia’s largest income earner, reported a 16 percent surge in exports in the first three months of 2014, the figures of the Ministry of Commerce showed Monday. The southeast Asian nation exported apparel and footwear products in equivalent to 1.56 billion U.s. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In Cambodia, where the garment sector accounts for 80 percent of exports, hundreds of thousands of people depend on their slice of the $5 billion industry to survive. But for suppliers currently exhibiting their wares at a trade show this weekend on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich ss='cambodia-color'>...

On the 11th anniversary of labour leader Chea Vichea’s assassination yesterday, about 200 people attended a memorial service as many continued to call on authorities to find and arrest those responsible for Vichea’s 2004 murder. Opposition party leaders sam Rainsy and Kem sokha, along with the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s beaches and temples saw an increase in local and foreign tourists during the three-day Lunar New Year celebrations, according to figures released by provincial officials. siem Reap, home to the world-renowned Angkor Archaeological Park and a major tourist destination, received around 69,200 visitors, an increase ss='cambodia-color'>...

Workers in Cambodia’s capital earning less than $120 per month are living below the poverty line, according to the Ministry of Planning’s own calculation. At a september 17 workshop on the garment industry minimum wage, International Labor Organization Cambodia national director Tun sophorn cited Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s growth largely depends on a labor-intensive economy in agriculture, garment factories, and goods and services. Due to lower wages and poor incentives, there is a large outflow of Cambodian workers to Thailand, Malaysia, south Korea and China, and that, in the long run, could cause ss='cambodia-color'>...