Representatives from Us sports brand Nike will arrive today to investigate last week’s mass faintings at their supplier factory in Kompong speu province, officials from the Labor Ministry and an International Labor Organization (ILO) representative said yesterday. Pok Vanthath, deputy director of vocational safety for the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Youth Network (CYN) released a report on Tuesday noting the loss and deforestation of some 3,000ha of forest land in the Prey Lang Wildlife sanctuary because of logging since last year. The report was based on investigative research into illegal logging in the said ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Minister of Public Works and Transport sun Chanthol has urged Phnom Penh residents to use the capital’s existing public transport services rather than private vehicles, as it is leading to increased traffic congestion. He also called for the city’s public bus system to be expanded, with ss='cambodia-color'>...

Apsara Authority on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with three Japanese companies to conduct a feasibility study to solve various environmental problems in the Angkor area. The MoU was signed between Bun Narith, director general of Apsara Authority, shoichi Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan ss='cambodia-color'>...

Unions and labour groups fear a solitary sick day could cost garment workers their entire month’s attendance bonuses – about 15 per cent of their base wage – under a new scheme meant to make life easier. The Kingdom’s 600,000 garment and footwear workers will receive ss='cambodia-color'>...

The rumour mill has been in overdrive regarding the arrest of The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid svartholm Warg; however, various government officials yesterday shunned the conspiracy theories. Tom Abrahamsson, head of administrative and consular matters at the swedish Embassy in Phnom Penh, refuted speculation that svartholm ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh said foreign investors with production bases in Thailand ought to consider Cambodia for future expansion because of the Kingdom’s greater resistance to floods. speaking at Phnom Penh Honda’s 20th anniversary yesterday, the Commerce minister said that while Cambodia faces floods each ss='cambodia-color'>...

The price of paddy rice in Cambodia’s northwestern provinces jumped to 1,500 riel from 1,350 riel per kilogram in mid-October on a lack of supply, but quickly fell to 1,360 riel. Meanwhile, the prices in the Cambodia-Vietnam border provinces rose from 1,300 riel to 1,390 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers facing relocation from the site of the planned Lower sesan 2 dam in stung Treng province were told last week that they would be moved 15 kilometres from the river they rely on for fishing, a commune chief said yesterday. seak Mekong, commune chief in ss='cambodia-color'>...

PHNOM PENH—In its home country, the Cambodian riel has long played second fiddle to the U.s. dollar—but a new stock exchange and government de-dollarization policies could bolster it in coming years, policy makers and experts say. Dollars change hands with greater frequency than riel in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mobile payment company Wing was in talks on partnering with a Us technology firm that plans to assemble Android tablets in Cambodia, in what could be another step away from the country’s staple manufactured good – garments. Although a final partnership agreement had yet to made ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Health Ministry official said yesterday the government was still hoping to recoup the last $20 million of a Global Fund grant for fighting malaria that the international charity has held back because of Cambodia’s poor use of fund dollars. Last week, a spokesman for the ss='cambodia-color'>...

When 41-year-old Pheng Seng&rSquo;S brick-making buSineSS waS ravaged by flood in Kratie province a year ago, he loSt about US$5,000. Kratie town alSo flooded thiS time a year ago. It waS So bad that SpeedboatS were Seen zipping through the StreetS paSt Submerged motorcycleS with SS='cambodia-color'>...

Delegates from the Import-Export Bank of China will visit Cambodia next week to discuss loans for the rice-processing and exporting sector, according to government officials. son Kunthor, president of the state-owned Cambodian Rural Development Bank, said yesterday that Chinese delegates will come to study the feasibility of ss='cambodia-color'>...

An expected verdict in the unintentional murder case of the man accused of shooting slain environmentalist Chut Wutty’s killer was delayed at Koh Kong Provincial Court yesterday because the presiding judge was ill. Neang Boratino, Koh Kong provincial coordinator for the rights group Adhoc, said a ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 150 businesses and associations from around the world gathered on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich yesterday for the launch of the country’s annual food and hospitality exhibition. Two events, the International Food, Drinks and Wine show and the Cambodian International Hotel, Restaurant and Catering Industry ss='cambodia-color'>...

Laws protecting ethnic minorities’ communal land rights are good, but their implementation has a long way to go, said participants in a forum of minorities from Mondulkiri and Kratie provinces yesterday. After July’s parliamentary elections, legislators should take the opportunity of a newly constituted government to ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 600,000 workers in the lucrative garment and footwear industries, roughly 95 per cent of the sector’s work force, will soon take home an extra Us$10 a month, the Ministry of Labour said yesterday. Barely an hour after a protest involving garment workers at the capital’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new real estate joint venture between local sonatra Group and Japan’s Grand Corp launched a $6.5 million condominium project in BKK1 yesterday. The 26-storey tower, with 50 units, will be built with high-quality, energy-saving Japanese equipment, according to the new firm’s chief executive, Jun Takeguchi. ss='cambodia-color'>...