Former employees of the failed telecommunications company MFone have been told they can expect a decision next month on their claims for more than $4 million in compensation. Former Mfone section manager Bou Kunthea said after a meeting yesterday with offic-ials from the Ministry of social ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ratanakkirri province’s first privately owned water treatment facility will begin to supply clean drinking water to thousands of households in Banlung City on May 1, but residents will have to pay a premium for its use, officials said yesterday. The $1.7 million facility being built ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodians, particularly young adults, are more often turning to banks to help them buy their homes, according to figures obtained from the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) yesterday. From $179 million in 2008, the total sum lent out to those buyers fell to $94.5 million ss='cambodia-color'>...

PHNOM PENH – Youth representatives from six political parties running in the upcoming elections joined an International Republican Institute-organized debate over the weekend to show their respective parties’ policies. The candidates came from Funcinpec, the Cambodian Nationality Party, the League for Democracy Party, the Anti-Poverty Party, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Koh Kong province’s mangrove forests have changed from being a source of charcoal to serving tourists who help to protect their biodiversity. The forests have now become a popular destination for Cambodian tourists. Yem Yan, Peam Krasorb commune chief in Koh Kong, said gradually visitors ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 1,000 garment workers on Wednesday demonstrated outside Kompong speu Provincial Court calling for the release of eight people arrested during a protest this week over wages at a factory supplying U.s. brand Nike, a union official said. Fighting between the workers on Monday displayed ss='cambodia-color'>...

The final results of sunday’s national election will not be announced until mid-August, the secretary-general of the National Election Com­mittee (NEC) said Monday. The latest possible release date would be early september, Tep Nytha said, adding that the speed with which they were announced depended on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Factories in svay Rieng province’s Manhattan special Economic Zone have fired or suspended more than 200 workers – and are pursuing legal action against some – for participating in a strike last month that saw some 30,000 walk off the job. An accountant at Kingmaker (Cambodia) ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction on Times Centre’s three skyscrapers near Olympic stadium will commence early this year, but little is known about several key aspects of the project, including the company behind the project. The Times Centre project, which will incorporate retail and office space with 1,000 condominium ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has seen a 46 percent rise in dry rubber export in the first ten months of 2013 thanks to rising global demand, said the report of the Commerce Ministry on Friday. The country exported 62,915 tons of dry rubber during the January-October period this year, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kimseang spent much of his childhood enduring harassment and verbal abuse, with teachers and other children dismissing him because of a visual and physical impairment. While the kingdom has seen overall access to education improve from a 69 per cent net enrollment rate in 1991 ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than half a million dollars in bribes were paid to teachers during last month’s national exams by high school students in Phnom Penh alone, the authors of a new study have found. The study, conducted by the Youth Resource Development Program, found that the average ss='cambodia-color'>...

The head of the tiny Khmer Economic Development Party (KEDP), which failed to win a single seat in the July 28 elections, yesterday called on the opposition to take its 55 seats at the National Assembly and form a coalition with the ruling Cambodian People’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

In their final deployment as part of Prime Minister Hun sen’s national land-titling program, 55 student youth volunteers will be sent to measure 50,000 hectares of land following a nearly six-month moratorium on the program. The deployment was officially launched at a ceremony in Kandal province ss='cambodia-color'>...

Flooding continues to ravage 15 of Cambodia’s 23 provinces, acutely affecting Banteay Meanchey, Battambang, Pailin and siem Reap, and claiming 83 lives, according to the latest figures released by the National Committee for Disaster Management. Nhim Vanda, first deputy chairman of the NCDM, confirmed that while ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 80 monks and activists marching to Phnom Penh for International Human Rights Day blocked National Road 5 in Kampong Chhnang town yesterday evening after local authorities allegedly pressured a pagoda to deny them permission to rest there. Independent Monks Network head But Buntenh claimed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Malaysian-owned company VW Win Holdings Plc launched lottery operation Camloto in the Kingdom this week, making it the second to go live in as many months. Camloto CEO Jimmy Kong unveiled the new start-up, which will draw its first ball tonight on all major TV stations, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A week-long strike involving more than 100 work-study participants at Phnom Penh-based NGO Digital Divide Data ended on sunday following talks conducted by the social enterprise’s CEO, who flew in from New York to attend to the matter, participants and management said yesterday. Program participants, who ss='cambodia-color'>...

It will be years before oil starts to be produced by energy giant Chevron’s offshore site in the Gulf of Thailand, a senior Cambodian official said yesterday. Meng saktheara, secretary of state at the Ministry of Mines and Energy, said that negotiations over taxation have continued ss='cambodia-color'>...

As villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley continue to block sinohydro Corp employees from entering the area where the stung Cheay Areng dam is planned, conservationists and rights workers have spoken of the havoc it will wreak if it goes ahead. In terms of the ss='cambodia-color'>...