Transparency watchdogs have warned that $1.5 billion of unallocated funds in next year’s budget will only encourage nepotism and embezzlement. The Draft Budget Law was approved at the National Assembly on Tuesday in a unanimous vote of 66 ruling Cambodian People’s Party MPs. The $3.4 billion ss='cambodia-color'>...

Raw sewage spewed onto street 105 from the antiquated discharge canal running parallel to it yesterday as heavy rains continued to create headaches in the capital. The putrid water lipped homes and local business on the street in Chamkarmon’s Boeung Trabek commune, alarming residents. Togo Uchida, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh’s garment factories are operating at a greatly reduced capacity as workers return home to the provinces in droves in response to the government’s decision to increase security after the opposition warned they plan to hold mass demonstrations against the election results. Ken Loo, secretary-general ss='cambodia-color'>...

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The opposition CNRP has decided to move a mass demonstration to mark International Human Rights Day on December 10 from Phnom Penh to siem Reap City, the party’s deputy president Kem sokha said on saturday. The CNRP will also hold mass demonstrations every sunday at Freedom ss='cambodia-color'>...

Switzerland on TueSday granted 3 million U.S. dollarS to Cambodia through the United NationS Development Program (UNDP) for mine clearance. The agreement waS inked between Rahel BoeSch, director of SwiSS Agency for Development Cooperation office in Cambodia, and SetSuko Yamazaki, director of UNDP office in Cambodia, SS='cambodia-color'>...

In an effort to put a stop to land swaps in Phnom Penh, City Hall has called on state institutions with offices in Chamkar Mon district’s Tonle Bassac commune to register or re-register for land titles, a municipal official said sunday. A letter signed by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite the opposition CNRP’s ongoing threats to boycott the opening of parliament next Monday, the National Assembly on Tuesday officially announced that King Norodom sihamoni will open the first session of the new legislature as scheduled. “On Monday, september 23, at 8 o’clock in the morning, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Defying a new ban on public gatherings, more than 50 activists and monks gathered outside the local U.N. human rights office Monday morning to demand the immediate release of 23 men who were arrested earlier this month during violent clashes between police and garment workers. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Ministry has summoned six union representatives for questioning following a complaint from Jack Liu, director-general of Tainan Enterprises (Cambodia) Co., Ltd., alleging that they incited violence at his Kandal province garment factory in late December. A letter dated Thursday, signed by the Interior Ministry’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers emerge from the shade of their homes and gingerly roll up their sleeves, turning their palms upwards to reveal skin braided with dark lesions, ulcers and decaying tissue. They point to houses up and down the street where people have died of symptoms like ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s cybercrime law, a draft of which was made available online Wednesday, could be used to arbitrarily punish people who share controversial opinions online or air complaints about the CPP government, rights groups said Wednesday. According to the law, people who publish content online that slanders ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the sun rises on Tonle sap Lake, fishermen head out from floating villages like this one, past half-submerged mangroves and flooded shrub land, to check their nets, much as they have for centuries. Every year, the lake yields about 300,000 tons of fish, making it ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N.’s human rights envoy to Cambodia, surya subedi, who began his 10th fact-finding mission to Cambodia on sunday, has been asked to investigate issues faced by ethnic Khmer Krom people after five monks were arrested for participating in garment worker protests earlier this month. In ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rubbish collectors went back to work in the capital yesterday after further concessions were made following the workers’ rejection of a deal struck on Tuesday evening between union representatives and waste disposal company Cintri. Union representatives had said they had reached a deal with the firm, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Labour Minister Ith sam Heng and ministry spokesman Heng sour yesterday accused unions and the opposition of derailing the government’s efforts at minimum wage reform by striking and stirring up violence for their own political gain. “The government has set up a committee to study the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 7-year-old boy and his 3-year-old sister died from bird flu at Kompong Cham Provincial Referral Hospital on Friday, Hong Palla, team leader of the rapid response unit at Kratie Provincial Health Department, said Tuesday. The two young siblings from snuol district’s sre Cha commune contracted ss='cambodia-color'>...

Promising to dramatically open up the region’s airways, the planned Asean single Aviation Market (AsAM) will bring with it fierce competition and price wars, experts said yesterday during a seminar on the subject at the Phnom Penh Hotel. The seminar brought representatives from the majority of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The scale of mass logging in once-dense woodlands in Cambodia’s north now more closely resembles the free-for-all of a gold rush than the sustainable forestry more often associated with these communities. With the financial backing of powerful businessmen, villagers in three districts of Preah Vihear are ss='cambodia-color'>...

The chairman of the Chinese company whose subsidiary will construct the Lower sesan 2 dam met with Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday to inform him that the dam would be completed in three years’ time, Mr. Hun sen’s assistant said. Zhang Tingke, vice president of ss='cambodia-color'>...