British minister for trade and investment Lord Green would visit Cambodia next Monday in order to boost bilateral trade and investment ties, according to a media statement from the British Embassy to Cambodia on Wednesday. Mark Gooding, British Ambassador to Cambodia, said trade between UK ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Confederation of Unions president Rong Chhun yesterday appealed to landlords with properties close to garment factories not to take advantage of the industry’s minimum wage increase by raising rent prices. The minimum monthly salary in the garment sector – Cambodia’s biggest export industry – officially ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 300 people on Saturday blocked off a Stretch of National Road 5 in Banteay Meanchey province proteSting what they call iS an unfair increaSe in electricity priceS. ProteSterS believe that the private electricity Supplier, Sok Vitith, altered the Commune&rSquo;S electricity converter without telling the SS='cambodia-color'>...

About 250 laborers working at a newly opened $90-million sugar factory complex in Kratie province-hailed by the government as a boon to Cambodia’s economy-staged a protest last saturday morning demanding to be reimbursed for two weeks worth of unpaid wages. District governor Heng soha acted ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kuala Lumpur-based Felda Global Ventures Holdings Berhad (FGV), the third-largest palm oil operator in the world, said it plans to cultivate rubber inside Cambodia. “We are . . . consolidating by expanding into countries like Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos – planting other crops such as rubber,” ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 40 families of ex-Khmer Rouge and government soldiers in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district complained to rights group Adhoc yesterday, accusing officials of forcing them to thumbprint a contract saying they would vote CPP so the party could resolve an ongoing land dispute, an ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following a weekend of opposition demonstrations and rejection of official election results, King Norodom sihamoni on Monday called for the two political parties embroiled in Cambodia’s post-election deadlock to open a legislative meeting on the sept. 28 deadline. The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Acting Prime Minister sar Kheng on Wednesday said that opposition leader sam Rainsy, now doesn’t want the parliament chairmanship chair post, but equal committee posts within the parliament. speaking to reporters after delivering certificates to 3,000 police officers, he said sam Rainsy phoned him and told ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tonle Bassac is located on the western shore of the Bassac River, from which it takes its name (Tonle is Khmer for ‘river’). Contained by the river to the east, sihanouk Boulevard to the north and Norodom Boulevard to the west, Tonle Bassac hooks westward ss='cambodia-color'>...

The former president and current party secretary of the struggling Funcinpec party, Nhek Bun Chhay, has been nominated as a government adviser – a position the government ranks equivalent to that of a deputy prime minister. senior ruling Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker Cheam Yeap said the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fifty people have died from dengue fever in the first 10 months of this year, a decrease of 72 percent on the same period last year when 176 deaths were recorded, the National Center for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control said Monday. Continuing a month-on-month trend, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Experts say the government has not yet done enough to promote the studies of science at the university level, leaving Cambodia behind on technology and other science subjects. Louise Ahrens, a project coordinator at Maryknoll, a Us-based organization that provides education counseling at the Royal University ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ath Thorn, the president of the country’s largest independent labor union, said Friday that he has appealed court orders restricting his unionizing activity and is seeking support from international labor organizations as he faces charges of incitement. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has ordered Mr. Thorn, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A meeting at the Ministry of Mines and Energy on Friday about plans for a controversial hydropower dam in Koh Kong province failed to assuage fears among those trying to stop the project that construction had already been approved. During Friday’s meeting, officials from the ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian People’s Party is declaring victory in a round of sub-national elections that were held sunday, but observers say the latest polls diminished some of the ruling party’s power at the grassroots. The CPP on Monday claimed 2,543 seats in leadership positions at the city, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A golden urn police maintain was the one stolen from Oudong mountain in December – sparking a furore and police investigation – was taken to the Royal Palace on Friday, police have said. Deputy Prime Minister Kong sam Ol on Friday transported the relics – said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s highly secretive draft law on cybercrime, which has never been released publicly, seeks to criminalise online content that “slanders or undermines” government agencies, ministries or officials or affects “political cohesiveness”, a copy obtained by the Post reveals. The law, which was first announced in May ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local and foreign firms have a high level of confidence in the current economic climate in Cambodia despite the political deadlock in the country since last year’s disputed election, and are optimistic about business over the next year, according to a study to be released ss='cambodia-color'>...

Y Chhien, who has served as the governor of Pailin province since former Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng sary led his rebel forces in the area to defect to the government in 1996, will step down from his position on saturday, his cabinet chief said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Before he was arrested in January, Vorn Pov and the union he created were not widely known outside of activist circles. But when he emerged from Phnom Penh’s CC1 prison on Friday, he walked away as one of the highest-profile unionists in the country, and a ss='cambodia-color'>...