Rights groups yesterday called on ANZ bank to help address alleged labour and environmental violations at Phnom Penh sugar Company instead of walking away from the problem. A joint statement released yesterday by Equitable Cambodia and Inclusive Development International said it would be wrong for the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is changing fast. Over the past decade, the capital city, Phnom Penh has expanded exponentially: its bodies of water have been filled in and green spaces diminished. Rural to urban migration has changed the shape of the countryside. Great shifts are under way and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police on Tuesday night arrested a 35-year-old man they say confessed to the murder of Dutch national Daphna Beerdsen and the brutal attack on her 19-month-old daughter in a burglary gone awry at their home just off Norodom Boulevard on Monday. National Police spokesman Kirth Chantharith ss='cambodia-color'>...

A large-scale hydropower dam in China began releasing a deluge of water from its overfilling reservoir on Friday, leaving downstream neighbours to fear imminent inundation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six Cambodian trade unionS led around 1,000 garment workerS to march through StreetS here on Sunday to demand a higher minimum wage aS annual talkS on a wage hike are Scheduled for next month. SS='cambodia-color'>...

A Turkish man who survived a drive-by shooting in sihanoukville only to be arrested less than 24 hours later over an earlier stabbing incident was charged by the Preah sihanouk Provincial Court on sunday—after which he attempted to flee while still in handcuffs. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Edible bird’s nest producers have called on the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) to facilitate the industry’s access to the Chinese market. Nang sothy, president of the Cambodia Bird’s Nest Federation, said yesterday that the association had requested the MoC to include the delicacy on the list ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials from southeast Asia’s natural rubber-producing nations met in Kuala Lumpur yesterday for the 12th International Tripartite Rubber Council (ITRC). Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) joined ITRC core nations – Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia – for the event, which is being touted as a joint ss='cambodia-color'>...

Environment Minister say sam Al on Friday pledged to protect the culture of Cambodia’s indigenous minorities, before going on to say that those groups need to learn to survive without relying on the forests they have depended on for centuries. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Eighty-two per cent of 1,200 people surveyed feel that Cambodia’s democracy works, despite 50 per cent calling corruption a major issue in the national government, according to figures released by the Center for Advanced study yesterday. The CAs, a non-partisan research NGO, disseminated the results of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), and the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) have agreed to further strengthen their cooperation in all domains including expanding the effectiveness of the existing mechanisms. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new microfinance institution (MFI), ORO Financecorp Plc, is set to open in Cambodia, according to the director-general of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC). Cambodia already has 35 registered MFIs, according to a recent report by the Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA). Last week, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials on Thursday said they are still waiting for the U.s. Embassy to make good on a 2012 offer to clean up several barrels of the riot control agent Cs that were dropped on Cambodia during the U.s.’ war with Vietnam and which the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Visiting Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Monday praised Cambodia for its rapid economic growth in recent years and political stability. Bob Carr said that Australian Development Assistance Program has allocated 77 million U.s. dollars to Cambodia in 2011-2012, focusing on agriculture development, health, services, infrastructure ss='cambodia-color'>...

Civil society groups from Thailand will boycott a meeting between NGOs and regional government representatives at this week’s AsEAN summit because their country’s delegate “does not represent Thai civil society”, a spokeswoman said yesterday. Premrudee Daoroung, a representative of Thai civil society groups, said her country’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 residents of Kampong speu’s Omlaing commune will accompany five fellow villagers to the provincial court today after  receiving summonses last week. ss='cambodia-color'>...

RCAF deputy commander General Ith Sarath haS requeSted the ChineSe military help teach the ChineSe language to military officialS.&nbSp;Gen Sarath on Monday met with Brigadier General Xu Wenhua, deputy director of the Royal Academy of Artillery and Air Defence of the ChineSe People&rSquo;S Liberation Army SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s upcoming general election on 29 July looks set to be its most controversial since its first national election in 1993. In late 2017, the main opposition party, the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), was dissolved and 118 of its senior members were banned from ss='cambodia-color'>...

A UN spokesperson has rejected a government reading of a UN convention used to justify banning people with disabilities from performing in the streets. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Japanese Embassy granted $256,317 in development aid to Cambodia on Monday, to be used by the Association for Aid and Relief, Japan (AAR Japan) to promote the educational inclusion of children with disabilities. ss='cambodia-color'>...