A ruling party politician has pledged to not only resolve a raft of land disputes, but push a policy of “on-site development” – redevelopment that does not remove people from their communities – over mass relocations. speaking to a crowd of about 1,000 outside the National ss='cambodia-color'>...

At least 50 opposition party youth members and supporters are asking for permission to join the Us-led fight against Islamic state militants, a leading activist said yesterday. In return, they hope the Us will help them fight Vietnamese encroachment in Cambodia and take back the island ss='cambodia-color'>...

It’s been a testing month for Taiwanese garment manufacturer Grand Twins International (GTI), with recurring worker demonstrations and a new sector-wide minimum-wage level set just this week. But despite the turbulence, GTI stock – one of just two companies trading on the Cambodian stock Exchange (CsX) ss='cambodia-color'>...

Forty NGOs from around the world have called on the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to begin preliminary examinations into claims that Cambodia’s “ruling elite” were accused of committing crimes against humanity. On October 7, British lawyer Richard Rogers submitted ss='cambodia-color'>...

Global garment brands who source their products from Cambodia should play a part in helping the industry absorb the new minimum wage of Us$ 128 per month, according to experts from the International Labour Organization (ILO). The new minimum wage for the approximately half-a-million workers in ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 staff members of the Phnom Penh Referral Hospital and 7 Makara Health Care Center met the capital’s health director yesterday to discuss concerns about a land swap after a recent announcement that part of the hospitals lost their land title. The meeting came ss='cambodia-color'>...

The facilities at O’Chrey Primary school in Battambang province are allegedly so basic that it’s difficult to conceive of it as an actual school. The 219 grade one to four students get their lessons crowded in a wall-less storage hut at the edge of a cornfield, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japanese and Korean tourists are being turned away from hotels in siem Reap City due to an increase in bookings by Chinese visitors, Tourism Minister Thong Khon said on Wednesday. speaking at the tourism industry’s three-day expo on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich island on Wednesday, Mr. ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the new public school year gets under way this week, grade 12 students reeling from en masse failure at the national exam have a choice to make: repeat their grade or forfeit their diploma. In total, just 33,997 test-sitters, or 40.6 per cent of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen is trying to ease concerns over the social and economic costs of the country’s plan with Australia to receive refugees. U.s.-based Human Rights Watch has called for the deal to be halted until Cambodia improves its refugee support system. Hun sen ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government has given the final nod to the main opposition party to operate a radio station and broadcast throughout the country as part of a deal reached in July, opposition leader sam Rainsy said Wednesday. sam Rainsy said that the party will begin ss='cambodia-color'>...

A UN special rapporteur will take the cause of Cambodia’s land-eviction battles and the abuses faced by those waging them to the UN Human Rights Council, according to a report released today. Michel Forst, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, will file ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Cambodia braces for a cold snap expected to last through early January, the Ministry of Health on sunday evening urged citizens to take precautions against common winter maladies. In a joint statement with the World Health Organization (WHO), the ministry warned that the Kingdom is ss='cambodia-color'>...

While offering no concrete solutions to the issue, Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday appealed for graduating engineers to be aware of generally lax building standards that could have a long-term impact on public safety. Much of Cambodia’s infrastructure was redeveloped after the civil war, and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Forty national and foreign NGOs yesterday called on the government to ratify the International Labour Organization’s 2011 Domestic Workers Convention in order to better safeguard the rights of Cambodian domestic workers, both inside and outside of the country. The missive, which says that the Kingdom’s domestic ss='cambodia-color'>...

A vigorous labour-rights movement outside factories has been paramount in the government essentially doubling the minimum garment wage over the past three years. sar Mora, president of Cambodian Food and service Workers Federation (CFsWF), said yesterday that the high-profile push for garment wage increases has ss='cambodia-color'>...

A global risk-analysis firm has released a grim – albeit partial – snapshot of Cambodia, noting that the Kingdom’s overreliance on essential resources from other countries leaves it vulnerable to instability, and that it is at “extreme risk” of a communicable-disease pandemic. The Global Risks and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union is increasingly scrutinising abuse of its Everything But Arms treaty with Cambodia, underscoring both the importance of the zero-tariff agreement to the Kingdom’s economy and the potential for its misuse. In Cambodia’s rice sector, fears that cheap rice from neighbouring countries is ss='cambodia-color'>...

Beneath a tree in Phnom Penh’s remote Prey speu social Affairs Centre – a de facto prison used to indefinitely incarcerate some of the capital’s most vulnerable citizens – a woman yesterday chanted loudly before bursting into tears and then laughter. Like many others at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new player joined the Kingdom’s hospital market yesterday in a bid to boost confidence in the country’s medical capabilities and change the mindset of Cambodians who prefer to go overseas when seeking medical checkups and treatment. ss='cambodia-color'>...