A group of 13 Vietnamese nationals were apprehended by Cambodian fishermen on sunday night while illegally fishing off the coast of Kampot province and are being held for repatriation, according to a village representative and the provincial governor. Neak sen, a representative of a fishing community ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen’s administration on Friday hit out at opposition leaders for accusing the government of ceding territory to Vietnam at a ceremony this week commemorating the 65th anniversary of loss of land belonging to the Khmer Krom ethnic minority to Hanoi. Government spokesman ss='cambodia-color'>...

After the development company 7NG completed the violent eviction of more than 1,400 families from Phnom Penh’s Dey Krahorm community in 2009, it set its sights on the adjacent White Building. The historic apartment block, which was built as a low-cost housing project under then Prince ss='cambodia-color'>...

Drive deep enough into Mondulkiri’s Pech Chreada district, and the rubber plantations that dot the roads fall away. Here, there is only mile after mile of lush, dark woodland: An ideal place to bury one’s dead and pay respects to the spirits that reside inside ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a rare moment of honesty a Cambodian official has admitted his doubts about his country’s ability to meet regional expectations in time for the launch of the much vaunted AsEAN Economic Community (AEC) by the end of 2015. “If you talk about short-term: Yes, we ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bank of China is in negotiations with Cambodia’s central bank on the promotion of business transactions in Chinese yuan. The official talks reflect rapid trade growth between the two countries at a time when several commercial banks in Cambodia have launched yuan remittance and trade-settlement products. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty anti-personnel mines and 60mm mortar tails found by residents in siem Reap province’s svay Loeu district and Preah Vihear province’s Choam Ksan district have been destroyed by the Cambodian self Help Demining (CsHD) team. svay Loeu district police chief Colonel sun Eng said yesterday ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new study has determined that cost and space are the biggest constraints to setting up canteens in Cambodia’s garment factories. The findings were presented on Monday night at a cocktail party attended by Cambodia’s former ambassador to the Us, Roland Eng, the swedish Ambassador Anne ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Youth Resource Development Programme (YRDP) and a group of youths have asked the government to include students and monks in the government’s National social security Fund (NssF) so they can receive social protection services for free such as health examinations and treatment. The proposal ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the market for lower to middle income housing, the line between ‘public’ and ‘affordable’ has been blurred.Post Property AnalysisLocal property developer, WorldBridge Land, Co. Ltd., and singapore-based construction company, strait Construction Group Pte, Ltd, last week announced a $100 million Memorandum of Understanding on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia could see less preferential economic treatment by Europe in coming years, as it graduates as a more developed country, the EU’s ambassador to Cambodia says. In an interview with VOA Khmer in Phnom Penh, Ambassador Jean-Francois Cautain said Cambodia currently enjoys tariff exemptions under a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Wages for Cambodian garment workers decreased by more than 20 percent in real terms between 2001 and 2011 despite the industry’s exponential increase in exports, which in 2012 were valued at more than $4 billion, according to a recent report by a U.s.-based workers advocacy ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite being one of the earliest proponents of the U.N.-sponsored Convention on Cluster Munitions, Cambodia was still not ready to sign on, an official said on the eve of the fourth annual meeting of state parties to the treaty in Zambia. Heng Ratana, director-general of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials in Cambodia’s capital on Wednesday ordered the country’s main opposition party to scale back plans for mass demonstrations aimed at backing mass demonstrations aimed at backing demands for an independent probe into election fraud charges. The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), led by sam Rainsy, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A student who filed a complaint to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court against the city’s municipal and military police chiefs over the fatal police shooting at the sL Garment Factory protest on November 12 said Tuesday that the court has refused to investigate his complaint. Neang ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) on Wednesday released a statement seeking to clarify an open letter it issued on December 12, which accused CNRP President sam Rainsy of making comments that are “both derogatory and discriminatory, againstpeople of Vietnamese origin.” The original letter, signed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) announcement that its Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) program will from January name and shame firms that contravene Cambodian labor laws, the Garment Manufacturers Asso­ciation in Cambodia (GMAC) has urged factory operators to refuse entry to ILO monitors, unless they ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some of the hundredS of familieS loSing land and community foreSt to VietnameSe-owned rubber plantationS in Cambodia&rSquo;S northeaSt will thiS week file a complaint with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) over the inveStment it haS made in the plantationS&rSquo; parent company. Eang Vuthy, executive director of SS='cambodia-color'>...

Hang Mao was among more than 11,000 Phnom Penh public school teachers who were told two weeks ago that corruption in the classroom would no longer be tolerated. The message came from senior city officials, including Phnom Penh Governor Pa socheatvong and municipal education director Chea ss='cambodia-color'>...

Anyone passing through Prey Doeum Thnoeng could be forgiven for pinning the tidy little village for a stronghold of the ruling CPP. Just about every second house along the red dirt road through town sports a bright blue banner with a checkmark next to the ss='cambodia-color'>...