A Google search for Cambodian Internet service providers (IsPs) turns up a dizzying number of results, some advertising monthly rates as low as $18 for 4 Mb/s. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japan is granting more than $3.3 million to Cambodia for this year’s Human Resource Development scholarship. ss='cambodia-color'>...

PHNOM PENH–Cambodian analysts believe that the visit of Thai Prime Minister Yingluck shinawatra to Cambodia on Thursday this week could restore mutual trust and trade and investment relations between the two countries. “From my point of view, the meeting of the two PMs will probably focus ss='cambodia-color'>...

Minister of Commerce Pan sorasak on Thursday expressed his optimism that garment, textile, footwear and travel goods exports will continue to enjoy strong growth over the next few years. He cited better working conditions and labour compliance as the main drivers of the Kingdom’s industrial ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has arrested two employees of a local company linked to a British biofuel firm currently under investigation by the U.K.’s serious Fraud Office (sFO), an official said Friday. ACU President Om Yentieng said that International Green Energy (IGE) director Oum sam­nang, and ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 villagers living on a 20-hectare swath of a rubber plantation in Ratanakkirri province gathered outside O’Chum commune hall yesterday to protest their eviction at the hands of a Chinese company, local officials and rights activists said. About 120 families from Trang Churng Village ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy on Monday vowed to return Phnom Penh’s beleaguered Boeng Kak neighborhood to its residents and to have those who filled the lake with sand thrown in jail, should the opposition CNRP ultimately prevail in contesting the unofficial results of last month’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Outstanding loans and deposits made at Cambodian banks grew by 32 per cent and 28 per cent respectively at the end of March this year from a year earlier, according to data from the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC). The data from the NBC that the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Singaporean Startup iS planning to inStall StreetlampS in three villageS in Kompong Chhnang province later thiS year in an effort to enhance Safety for people making their way home at night. FoSera Lighting iS raiSing money through an online campaign to conStruct 75 Solar-powered StreetlightS SS='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 military police officers stood guard outside a garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district on Monday and prevented workers from returning to work, employees and local officials said. Workers from singaporean-owned sL Garment Factory—which makes clothing for U.s. brands Levi’s and Gap—have been ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government has privately pledged that it will pass the long-awaited “three fundamental laws” aimed at reforming the judiciary during the first session of parliament in early 2014, UN rights envoy surya subedi said. The laws – which focus on codifying the court’s jurisdiction, laying ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has released a nine-month status report on 2013’s illegal timber seizures, saying it had confiscated, among other things, more than 2,000 kilograms of rosewood – a figure that represents only a tiny fraction of seizures reported by the Post this ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Friday assigned former Finance Minister Keat Chhon as the head of a newly formed committee tasked with researching the government’s capacity to introduce wage increases for civil servants and factory workers. The statement said that Mr. Hun sen also spoke ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition CNRP vice president Kem sokha on Thursday stood firmly by his party’s position that it would call mass demonstrations and boycott the National Assembly unless the U.N. takes part in an independent investigation of last month’s contested national election. so far, there has been no ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 5,000-square-meter plot of land owned by the local sokimex Group on Phnom Penh’s street 154, near Wat Ounalom and Kandal market, could be the site of a new, multi-story hotel, the conglomerate’s CEO said Tuesday. sok Kong, sokimex CEO, said Tuesday that construction of a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian and Thai military officials met yesterday morning to discuss the implementation of the International Court of Justice’s ruling on Preah Vihear, with both sides pledging to keep the peace and the Thais agreeing to withdraw to the new line of demarcation. Monday’s judgment declared that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Finance Minister Keat Chhon has signed a deal with China’s ambassador to Cambodia to secure a concessional loan of $121 million to fund irrigation and power projects. In the latest promise of cash from Cambodia’s biggest donor, Chi­na will fund a power transmission line con­necting Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

Labor activists at the bi-annual Buyers Forum in Phnom Penh on Thursday said that short-term contracts in Cambodia’s garment industry were fueling the high number of strikes affecting the industry. “Most of [the disputes] are over dismissals or dismissals of union leaders and the reason why ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Labor hopes that a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will see Cambodia resume sending domestic workers to Malaysia by February, but negotiations on the document have stalled after Malaysia recently rejected 90 percent of proposed provisions to protect workers’ rights. Most strikingly, Malaysia ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment workers at a Kandal province factory ended their most recent strike Thursday after management agreed to pay out part of their wages for the days they were absent during a previous strike, while workers at a Phnom Penh factory went back on strike because ss='cambodia-color'>...