Negotiations to determine 2019’s minimum wage for garment workers began at the Labour Ministry yesterday with the issue of worker welfare as the first order of business, the Labour Advisory Committee said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Siem Reap&rSquo;S Banteay Srei and Bakong foreStry adminiStrationS on TueSday releaSed more than 100 turtleS and water monitor lizardS back into their natural habitatS after authoritieS Seized them from illegal wildlife traderS. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The human rights wing of the International Bar Association has found Cambodia’s judiciary is riddled with problems that corrode citizens’ rights to a fair trial, including widespread graft.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

A fire tore through a garment factory in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district on Monday evening, destroying more than half of the building and its inventory but injuring no workers, an official said Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly’s Legislative Commission will hold a consultative workshop next week at the National Assembly to collect inputs over a much-criticized draft law on Trade Union. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Research by the Asia Injury Prevention Foundation (AIPF) found helmet use by child motorbike passengers was still low in January despite the government’s much-touted Traffic Law, with observers blaming poor enforcement. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Economy and Finance in partnership with Cambodian Public Bank Plc. signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday, establishing the bank as the Ministry’s prime tax collecting institution nationwide. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has appointed a six-man team to investigate corruption allegations involving two Telecom Cambodia employees and some $230,000 missing from the state-owned company’s accounts. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hoping to increase university students’ knowledge of Cambodia’s credit reporting system, the Credit Bureau of Cambodia (CBC) on Tuesday launched a series of workshops in Phnom Penh aimed at boosting financial literacy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Higher Education Association released a statement on saturday defending its members against claims made last week by CNRP President sam Rainsy, who criticized the quality of Cambodia’s postsecondary education system. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has issued a directive banning people from renting or selling border land to people from neigbouring countries in an effort to maintain Cambodia’s “national sovereignty and territorial integrity”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s much-maligned drug rehabilitation programs may be getting a facelift, thanks to a new government-led push towards ‘community-based treatment’, according to officials and NGOs working in the sector.  ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Kandal province on Tuesday arrested the owner of an electrified rat trap that killed a fisherman in a flooded rice field behind the suspect’s home on Mon­day night, an official said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The territorial conflict between Thailand and Cambodia will not be discussed during Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen’s visit to Thailand this week, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha says. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Physical, sexual and emotional violence against women is “common” in Ratanakkiri’s ethnic minority communities, and mostly committed by the victims’ husbands, a new gender-based violence report by CARE Cambodia has found. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Up to 4,000 mostly ethnic minority people in Mondulkiri’s Keo seima district are facing a water shortage after the local supplier announced service would be suspended due to impending widescale drought. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s agriculture sector will benefit from a grant of $35 million by the United states Agency for International Development (UsAID), with some of the money also going towards public health and education. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 130 hectares of protected wetlands in three villages in Kampong Chhnang province’s Boribor district were consumed in forest fires last week, according to a police report issued by the Interior Ministry. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of residents from Kratie’s Chhlong district gathered in front of the Ministry of Land Management yesterday to submit a petition calling for Minister Chea sophara to intervene in a land dispute. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Interior’s department of immigration temporarily arrested 31 foreign nationals, including one Frenchman, on suspicion of staying in the Kingdom illegally in raids of two businesses in the capital yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...