Members of the Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) said during a conference sunday that they are “fed up” with the government for not controlling strikes by labor unions. “All of us have the same issue: illegal strikes,” Van Porphin, a member of GMAC’s executive committee, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The seizure on Friday of a large haul of African elephant tusks in svay Rieng province, only one month after police intercepted a large ivory haul in siem Reap, could indicate that Cambodia is becoming a major transit point for illegal ivory, experts said Monday. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

With time running short before Laos’s Xayaburi hydropower dam enters its final, potentially irreversible stages of construction, a group of NGOs has made another call for its suspension. In a joint declaration released today, 39 organisations based in Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Australia set a one-year ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. EmbaSSy Chargé d&rSquo;AffaireS, a.i. Jeff Daigle viSited In Komar Primary School in Kampong Thom province today to highlight a $20 million U.S. government School feeding program funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and implemented by the United NationS&rSquo; World Food Programme (WFP), SS='cambodia-color'>...

As a child growing up in a poor family in Banteay Meanchey, Yang Leaphea struggled to imagine a world outside her province. she turned to her desperately under-resourced local library, but found few books there to expand her horizons. All that changed when the intelligent daughter ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three parliamentarians from the National Assembly’s human rights commission, led by CNRP lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang, returned Tuesday from a two-day visit to four communities in Koh Kong province locked in land disputes with companies holding private land concessions. Following the trip, the lawmakers said ss='cambodia-color'>...

The governor of Ratanakkiri province is not cooperating with efforts by the U.N. to negotiate safe passage for five Montagnard asylum seekers who crossed the border from Vietnam nearly two weeks ago, a U.N. official said Thursday. Wan-Hea Lee, the country representative for the U.N.’s Office ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s population is expected to grow by 22 per cent to almost 19 million by 2030, while infant mortality is slated to decrease and life expectancy to increase, according to a UN report released on Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A California judge has ordered lawyers representing two Us seafood companies to appear in court for a scheduling conference following a lawsuit filed on behalf of seven Cambodians who claim they were duped into a life of servitude working in factories that supply the firms. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Laos has stepped up plans for three hydropower dams on Mekong River tributaries, updating an eight-year-old deal with a Russian investor to build the projects for U.s. $1.5 billion. Lao authorities signed a project development agreement with Russia’s Regional Oil for the sekong 4, sekong 5, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The entire work force of the Ta Prohm temple restoration project in siem Reap – more than 100 people – gathered at the temple yesterday to demand the reinstatement of 30 of their number [sic] who were dismissed at the start of the month. The 145 ss='cambodia-color'>...

With 10 days remaining until a government-imposed deadline for the U.N.’s human rights office to either sign a new agreement to operate in the country or close down, there is no sign that the two sides have come any closer to reaching a deal. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S. EmbaSSy donated more than 300 laptopS and other aSSorted equipment valued at over $250,000 to the MiniStry of DefenSe on Saturday, according to an embaSSy Statement. The equipment will go to the Royal Cambodian Armed ForceS&rSquo; priority unitS, which already receive training from the SS='cambodia-color'>...

The number of incoming business people from Wenzhou, a Chinese coastal city of three million known for manufacturing, has grown markedly in recent years. so much, in fact, that Wezhou opened an official chamber of commerce in Phnom Penh last week. Labour and land costs on China’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Acleda Bank has filed an application to start banking operations in Burma with the central bank and is on track to open its first microfinance branch in the country by January, Acleda President In Channy said yesterday. Mr. Channy said the bank submitted its application for ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local and international organizations on Tuesday marked International Day of Persons With Disabilities by calling on the government to extend its efforts to employ more disabled people beyond Phnom Penh’s environs. A sub-decree attached to the government’s Disability Law, enacted in July 2009, states that the ss='cambodia-color'>...

City Hall announced a new plan to improve living standards in the city’s poorest areas Tuesday on International Human Rights Day, while representatives for the urban poor continued to call on the municipality to issue longsought after land titles. Addressing a crowd of 600 at Olympic ss='cambodia-color'>...

A World Bank-supported rubber company accused of land grabs has suspended some of its projects, as an investigation by the bank continues. The Hoang Anh Gia Lai company, which received support from the bank’s International Finance Corporation, said in a decision following an April 2 ss='cambodia-color'>...

As hit-and-run victim san Chan lies in a hospital bed awaiting justice for his brother’s death, officials from the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces, police and traffic police are pointing fingers at one another, while the driver remains at large. A week ago today, Mr. Chan, 18, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A journalist who filed a complaint with the Pursat Provincial Court alleging that a soldier threatened to kill him over an illegal logging report withdrew his complaint after the soldier was internally disciplined, court officials and military police said Monday. sak Rom, a reporter with Kapit ss='cambodia-color'>...