Workers who directly witnessed the stung Atai dam accident more than a week ago have contested government accounts, telling the Post four, not three, men were still missing after an outlet pipe burst. Those working or living near the dam also told the Post investigations pledged ss='cambodia-color'>...

About two months after Phnom Penh-based Tonlesap Airlines suspended its chartered flights, the local carrier’s future seems as cloudy as ever. Vann Chanty, the director of air transport with Cambodia’s state secretariat of Civil Aviation, said yesterday that the airline had not resumed operations and that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen warned thousands of villagers yesterday that his most popular initiatives, including his far-reaching land-titling scheme, will simply disappear if he is not re-elected in July’s national election – amid suggestions his campaigning has unofficially begun. In a marked shift from his apparent ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s cassava exports reached 245,438 tonnes in the first quarter this year, a 47 per cent decline quarter-on-quarter, from 465,640 tonnes in the final quarter of last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce released early this month. While most exports went to Thailand, ss='cambodia-color'>...

For the first time in recent memory, the Ministry of Economy and Finance has released growth projections for the first half of the year, and the numbers are good. The ministry’s preliminary data claims that from January through June, economic growth stood at 7.6 per ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amid swirling rumors that Prime Minister Hun sen had left the country after his Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) suffered a large loss of National Assembly seats in sunday’s election, the CPP released a statement Tuesday insisting he was still in Cambodia and on the job. “Recently ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s opposition leader sam Rainsy has called on the country’s king to step in to resolve a political crisis over recent disputed polls as time runs out for legal challenges before officials announce final election results this weekend. The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president made ss='cambodia-color'>...

Peaceful and constructive dialogue will enable the ruling and opposition parties to “overcome the current impasse”, Us ambassador to Cambodia William Todd has said. In a frank column in local media on sunday, linked to from the Us embassy in Phnom Penh’s website, Todd said the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Viewers of local television on sunday would have had no idea the opposition CNRP was staging a mass protest, during which violent clashes with police occurred and water cannons and tear gas were used. Instead, anyone tuned into state-owned TVK or the pro-government broadcasters CTN, CNC, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Solar-powered tuk-tukS could be rolling off the aSSembly lineS in Phnom Penh aS early aS March next year, allowing local tuk-tuk driverS a coSt-effective and greener alternative to uSing petrol, according to the company manufacturing the vehicle. Star 8, the AuStralia-baSed alternative energy firm behind the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Nine garment workers and two Chinese managers were injured on Friday in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district after a riot broke out among 300 workers protesting for higher wages and improved working conditions, officials said sunday. Commune police chief Mao sovann said workers at the sL Garment ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials were still tight-lipped about the 2014 draft budget yesterday, though some details did continue to trickle out, such as the announcement of a sizeable increase in national defence spending. Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker and banking and finance committee member Cheam Yeap said yesterday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five years after first ratifying the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT), Cambodia remains delinquent in honouring some of its commitments under the treaty, UN representatives said yesterday. Under the OPCAT, Cambodia was obliged to create an independent National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) to ss='cambodia-color'>...

A two-day meeting between union leaders, senior government officials and representatives of the sL Gar­ment Factory failed Tuesday to reach a solution for factory workers, who have been on strike since early August and on Monday demonstrated in front of Prime Minister Hun sen’s Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s garment manufacturers and trade unionists on Monday began a negotiation on pay rise for garment workers in 2014 but reached no any agreement because the union representatives demanded to double the current wage. The talk was made between the employers represented by Nang sothy, co-chair ss='cambodia-color'>...

Although some of its users have made a habit of posting content critical of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, Facebook will be not be banned or restricted in any way, Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said on saturday. Just days after Metfone customers were not able ss='cambodia-color'>...

Over eight months after Cambodian mobile operator Mfone filed for bankruptcy, the defunct provider’s former staffers should get their outstanding salaries in November, according to the case’s court-appointed administrator. Bankruptcy administrator Ouk Ry said yesterday that deals have been made on many of the failed telecom’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction on Phnom Penh’s CamKo City project will resume after a year’s suspension following a fraud scandal that left its original financial backer bankrupt, an official at the Ministry of Land Management said Wednesday. CamKo City, located in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district, was halted ss='cambodia-color'>...

A government request to create a new province in the eastern half of Kompong Cham, where the ruling CPP won its only districts in the province in July’s national election, was approved by King Norodom sihamoni last month, according to a copy of the Royal ss='cambodia-color'>...

An employers and businesses federation that took out paid newspaper advertisements claiming Cambodia’s workers have no fundamental right to strike has hit back at the International Labour Organization (ILO), asking it to retract comments it made in response to the ads. Last week, the Cambodian Federation ss='cambodia-color'>...