Flooding continues to ravage 15 of Cambodia’s 23 provinces, acutely affecting Banteay Meanchey, Battambang, Pailin and siem Reap, and claiming 83 lives, according to the latest figures released by the National Committee for Disaster Management. Nhim Vanda, first deputy chairman of the NCDM, confirmed that while ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 80 monks and activists marching to Phnom Penh for International Human Rights Day blocked National Road 5 in Kampong Chhnang town yesterday evening after local authorities allegedly pressured a pagoda to deny them permission to rest there. Independent Monks Network head But Buntenh claimed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Malaysian-owned company VW Win Holdings Plc launched lottery operation Camloto in the Kingdom this week, making it the second to go live in as many months. Camloto CEO Jimmy Kong unveiled the new start-up, which will draw its first ball tonight on all major TV stations, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A week-long strike involving more than 100 work-study participants at Phnom Penh-based NGO Digital Divide Data ended on sunday following talks conducted by the social enterprise’s CEO, who flew in from New York to attend to the matter, participants and management said yesterday. Program participants, who ss='cambodia-color'>...

It will be years before oil starts to be produced by energy giant Chevron’s offshore site in the Gulf of Thailand, a senior Cambodian official said yesterday. Meng saktheara, secretary of state at the Ministry of Mines and Energy, said that negotiations over taxation have continued ss='cambodia-color'>...

As villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley continue to block sinohydro Corp employees from entering the area where the stung Cheay Areng dam is planned, conservationists and rights workers have spoken of the havoc it will wreak if it goes ahead. In terms of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

In their latest bid for a $160 minimum monthly wage for the garment industry, independent unions will lead a “stay at home” strike late next week. While the chances of that figure being approved anytime soon seem slight – the government has only just announced a ss='cambodia-color'>...

One month after the capital’s power provider promised to end chronic city blackouts for good this hot season, residents and businesses continue to find themselves sweltering in the heat and throwing away any spoilable goods due to the unpredictable losses of electricity. In March, Electricite du ss='cambodia-color'>...

Set to open next year, Cambodia&rSquo;S firSt cable-Stayed bridge iS now more than 70 per cent complete, according the government. Chhim Phalla, director of the MiniStry of Public Work&rSquo;S Department of International Cooperation, which iS overSeeing the Neak Loeung Bridge and improvementS to National Road 1, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Pursat’s Krakor district yesterday ordered a cassava company to stop clearing land on which more than 60 families claim they have planted rice and other crops since 1997, villagers and a company official said. Following protests in Anlong Tnort commune on Tuesday, villager Lim ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers from an ethnic minority community in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley continued their blockade over the Khmer New Year holiday of an access road leading to the site of a proposed dam they say would destroy their way of life. Members of the ethnic ss='cambodia-color'>...

The SecuritieS and Exchange CommiSSion of Cambodia (SECC) iS inveStigating a riSe in fraudulent get-rich-quick SchemeS that prey on Cambodian inveStorS, the market watchdog Said yeSterday. UnlicenSed inveStment SchemeS operating inSide Cambodia will go under the SECC&rSquo;S microScope, while multilevel marketing firmS that appeal to vulnerable SS='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 200 people from 25 different communities converged on the Mondolkiri Provincial Hall Monday to file complaints and petitions calling for an end to illegal logging and environmental degradation. The action comes two days after armed commune police blocked 16 rights workers and journalists from visiting ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ruling party lawmakers at the National Assembly pass the first of three draft laws in judicial reform, defying an opposition boycott and ignoring calls for further review by outside legal experts. The Law on the Organization of the Courts will put more power within the Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

A car belonging to Ly Thida, the director of the Kompong Cham provincial department of economy and finance, was involved in a fatal hit-and-run collision Thursday in the province’s Choeung Prey district, a police official said. District deputy police chief Cheang se said two people were ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of families from Kratie province’s snuol district who were promised new plots of land after a Vietnamese rubber firm evicted them last month have complained that provincial officials are allowing hundreds of interlopers to stake a claim instead. The 405 families were evicted from the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fewer cases of abuse of migrants were recorded last year than in 2012, but that doesn’t mean the issue is any less serious, a forum held by rights group Adhoc was told yesterday. Torture, a lack of food, and physical and sexual abuse are just some ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Government of Cambodia is making efforts at minimum wage reform, and it has set up a committee to study the minimum wage at garment manufacturing units as a way of continually working to increase it, Labour Minister Ith sam Heng while unveiling the Ministry’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

A fisherman who survived a deadly collision after his boat smashed into a towboat off the south coast earlier this year filed a complaint Tuesday with the Anti-Corruption Unit, accusing a Koh Kong Prov­incial Court judge and his clerk of corruption after the judge allowed ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the CNRP has taken to Phnom Penh’s streets and its provincial outposts to rally support ahead of the May 18 district, city and provincial council election, the ruling CPP said Monday it had no plans to match the opposition’s campaign push, confident that the ss='cambodia-color'>...