A two-day meeting between union leaders, senior government officials and representatives of the sL Gar­ment Factory failed Tuesday to reach a solution for factory workers, who have been on strike since early August and on Monday demonstrated in front of Prime Minister Hun sen’s Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s garment manufacturers and trade unionists on Monday began a negotiation on pay rise for garment workers in 2014 but reached no any agreement because the union representatives demanded to double the current wage. The talk was made between the employers represented by Nang sothy, co-chair ss='cambodia-color'>...

Although some of its users have made a habit of posting content critical of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, Facebook will be not be banned or restricted in any way, Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said on saturday. Just days after Metfone customers were not able ss='cambodia-color'>...

Over eight months after Cambodian mobile operator Mfone filed for bankruptcy, the defunct provider’s former staffers should get their outstanding salaries in November, according to the case’s court-appointed administrator. Bankruptcy administrator Ouk Ry said yesterday that deals have been made on many of the failed telecom’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction on Phnom Penh’s CamKo City project will resume after a year’s suspension following a fraud scandal that left its original financial backer bankrupt, an official at the Ministry of Land Management said Wednesday. CamKo City, located in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district, was halted ss='cambodia-color'>...

A government request to create a new province in the eastern half of Kompong Cham, where the ruling CPP won its only districts in the province in July’s national election, was approved by King Norodom sihamoni last month, according to a copy of the Royal ss='cambodia-color'>...

An employers and businesses federation that took out paid newspaper advertisements claiming Cambodia’s workers have no fundamental right to strike has hit back at the International Labour Organization (ILO), asking it to retract comments it made in response to the ads. Last week, the Cambodian Federation ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian labourers may soon be recruited to construction sites in the United Arab Emirates, where conditions are described as “tragic” by human rights groups. The Lebanon-based company that would hire the workers under the prospective scheme, Agostine & Raphael Group, is run by Middle Eastern tycoon ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment workers’ calls for a $160 minimum wage are justified and should be honored, a new report by an international team of academics and labor experts has found. The authors—including a team from the University of London’s school of Oriental and African studies, south Korean and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Anti-corruption advocates say they want the Us government to help them push for transparency in the extractive industries, as ongoing mining continues to disrupt the lives of many Cambodians. At least 120 companies, most of them Chinese, have obtained mining licenses in the last decade, as ss='cambodia-color'>...

Last year across Cambodia’s cities, more and more people decided to take the plunge and invest in housing. This should be obvious to anyone who lived in Cambodia last year. The sounds of construction or renovation were more noticeable than before in cities across the Kingdom. Data ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two residents of the Borei Keila community remained hospitalized sunday after a Valentine’s Day clash with authorities on Friday that left 19 people injured, a community representative said. Although most of the 19 were only slightly injured, two women were more severely hurt and are still ss='cambodia-color'>...

The three-ton haul of illegal elephant ivory seized by port officials on May 9 originated in Kenya and was then shipped through Malaysia to Cambodia in two freight containers, the chief of sihanoukville Autonomous Port’s customs and excise department said Thursday. Most of the elephant ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP’s deputy public affairs director, Kem Monovithya, posted a statement to her official Facebook account on saturday distancing the party from Thy sovantha, a 19-year-old opposition activist with a large social media following, announcing that Ms. sovantha was “not involved” with the CNRP. Last ss='cambodia-color'>...

Trash collectors were working overtime Thursday to clean the vast piles of garbage that had accumulated in Phnom Penh this week after their four-day strike for higher wages. Although workers returned to their duties after agreeing to a pay rise of between $20 and $25 per ss='cambodia-color'>...

When Phnom Penh was flooded with free condoms during the Water Festival last week—a public health push to ensure revelers who came for days of debauchery did so safely—the city’s condom vendors weren’t happy about it. The global health organization Population services International (PsI), whose ss='cambodia-color'>...

Last month a study conducted by the University of New south Wales (UNsW) in Australia painted a bleak picture for Cambodia’s ailing healthcare system. While acknowledging progress made in the field of delivering quality healthcare and the government’s apparent commitment to its universal access, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Interior has launched a study on land service provision via the one-window service at select locations in the Kingdom. The move is to enhance people’s access to government services. The ministry’s director-general Prak samoeun said it decided to conduct the study in ss='cambodia-color'>...

While it is true that Cambodia has some women in politics and positions of leadership, a new report says they often lack true power. According to the study, issued by UsAID in December, women’s positions in leadership are more symbolic than substantive, and their political influence ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 15 July 2020, the Association of Banks in Cambodia and the Cambodia Microfinance issued an open letter to Cambodia League for Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, Cambodian Alliance of Trade Union, Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights and sahmakum Teang Tnaut, ss='cambodia-color'>...