Data Research and GIs specialistKalyan is a data research and GIs specialist at Open Development Cambodia (ODC). He used to work for ODC since it was firstly established in 2011 until 2015. Later he led GIs technical project of GPs navigation in a private sector. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Unions behind last week’s garment factory strikes said their members had largely gone back to work this week, although they have not ruled out resuming protests for a higher minimum wage later this month. Tens of thousands of workers went on strike starting on December 24 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Although China has undergone an unprecedented economic slowdown, Chinese and Cambodian officials believe it will not seriously affect Cambodia’s economy. Over the past nine months, China’s GDP grew slightly above 7 percent, its slowest pace in 13 years, and some economists expect poor performance for the ss='cambodia-color'>...

With the long-ruling CPP sworn in to govern for another five years despite the opposition CNRP abstaining from sitting in the National Assembly due to election irregularities, a new report argues that imminent threats to Cam­bodia’s future development can only be overcome with significant government ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen advised the country’s newest crop of teachers not to feel down about their poor salaries, recalling that were they embarking on their careers in the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime their pay would be a few bags of rice each ss='cambodia-color'>...

Meat prices on Phnom Penh’s markets have seen large gains over the first half of the year, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce’s Trade Promotion Department. Local vendors say the price increase comes due to a decrease in imports, forcing purchases of domestically ss='cambodia-color'>...

According to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks Us officials in Bangkok believed that Prime Minister Hun sen’s decision to name former Thai premier Thaksin shinawatra as an economic adviser in 2009 backfired after it increased support of the opposition. The Premier at the time of ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 400 chickens suspected of being infected with bird flu were culled Friday in Banteay Meanchey province’s Monkol Borei district after a died of the virus less than two weeks ago, officials said. Meanwhile, last week the Agriculture Ministry reported that H5N1, or avian influenza, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s 27 casinos are set to generate about Us$20 million in tax revenue for the government in 2011, a 25 per cent year-on-year increase, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. At least one government official, however, said the lack of a regulatory regime ss='cambodia-color'>...

An outbreak of a mosquito-borne virus new to Cambodia with similar symptoms to dengue fever has been detected in Kompong speu’s Kong Pisei district, a Health Ministry official said yesterday. Director of the Ministry of Health’s communicable disease control department Dr. sok Touch said that 98 ss='cambodia-color'>...

60 some Angkor beer promoters are going to hold a strike outside of the company’s Phnom Penh offices in order to draw attention to the labor violations and discrimination they’ve suffered. The strike is planned to be loud and colorful according to Cham Rong, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A return to work on larger construction projects in Cambodia is leading to an increase in the impartation of construction materials, experts said yesterday. Cambodia’s construction materials are generally imported from China, Vietnam and Thailand, and also as far afield as Europe, said Khuon savuth, statistics ss='cambodia-color'>...

THE supply of pharmaceutical products has outstripped demand, causing a decrease in the value of drug imports during the first half of 2011, experts say. An increase in the number of firms importing pharmaceutical products in 2010 led to this year’s drop, Medical Trust Company ss='cambodia-color'>...

A top executive from Cambodian company Vattanac yesterday denied the firm had damaged colonial-era buildings along the capital’s riverfront, as one local business owner sought a new home. Construction at a Vattanac building site – situated on Phnom Penh’s sisowath Quay – has been at ss='cambodia-color'>...

Trading on the Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange will be delayed once again until the beginning of 2012, MiniSter of Economy and Finance Keat Chhon Said yeSterday. He blamed an incomplete regulatory regime and the public&rSquo;S lack of confidence in the Stock market aS reaSonS for the delay, SS='cambodia-color'>...

A mother whose family face eviction from their home at Boeung Kak lake was farewelled at a funeral on saturday evening, hours after her body was found in the Mekong River. Chea Dara’s body was identified by family members on saturday in samraong Thum commune, Kien ss='cambodia-color'>...

The International Labour Organisation’s Better Factories program is seeking funding for a campaign to prevent “future fainting incidents” at the garment factories it monitors, following the release on Friday of the results of its investigation into them, according to a document obtained by the Post. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Child labour was draining the Kingdom’s brainpower and adversely affecting 750,000 of its children, officials at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said yesterday. speaking at a three-day conference on child agricultural labour, Kaing Khim, deputy director-general of fisheries administration at the MAFF, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

State-run Electricite du Cambodge (EdC), the main provider of electricity in the country, haS appealed to reSidentS of Phnom Penh to reduce electricity uSe due to a power Shortage, an EdC official Said yeSterday. The company iS only able to produce 70 percent of the city&rSquo;S SS='cambodia-color'>...

Approximately 65 percent of the country’s 3,492 registered international and local NGOs are inactive, leaving only about 1,350 active NGOs in the country, according to a report issued yesterday by NGO network Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC). The report, “CsO Contributions to the Development of Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...