Just days after the supreme Court dissolved Cambodia’s primary opposition party, government officials and affiliates yesterday gathered to praise the unprecedented move as a strengthening of democracy, even as international organisations and governments around the world have condemned it. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The owner of a garbage collection company that recently took over trash pick-up in sihanoukville admitted shortcomings in collection efforts yesterday, while pledging to improve services, following a petition by residents calling for the company’s contract to be rescinded. ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a freshly bulldozed lot in Kampong Krabao commune, across the stung sen River from Kampong Thom’s provincial capital, a team from the Czech NGO People in Need (PIN) is preparing a small styrofoam drone for a survey flight. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 500 workers from the Benoh Apparel factory in Meanchey district’s stung Meanchey commune yesterday agreed to sell the remaining machines in the factory to cover their lost pay after the owner went bankrupt and fled the country. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee has reaffirmed its commitment to making sure July’s general election is free and fair. The NEC yesterday held a public consultation on regulations and procedures for the polls, intended to help ensure effectiveness and transparency. ss='cambodia-color'>...

UN special Rapporteur Rhona smith’s request to meet with jailed opposition leader Kem sokha in a Tbong Khmum prison was rejected by an investigating judge who cited “important tasks” that needed to be completed before outsiders were allowed such access. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Displaced villagers from two Phnom Penh neighborhoods on Wednesday submitted a petition to the UN’s human rights envoy, who is in Cambodia on a routine fact-finding mission. The envoy, surya subedi, was visiting the Phnom Penh eviction site of Borei Keila ss='cambodia-color'>...

The families of two maids working in Malaysia asked Preah Vihear’s anti-human trafficking office and the human rights group Adhoc yesterday to intervene on behalf of their daughters, whom they haven’t seen or heard from since last year, officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Just as a solution to a two-week-long dispute at two sL Garment factories seemed over on saturday, the company’s owner issued a statement refusing to recognise an agreement that had lured more than 5,000 employees back to work. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thirty residents of Banteay Meanchey province gathered in front of Prime Minister Hun sen’s house Friday to seek intervention over a land dispute. The residents, representing 51 families in Ou Chrov district, said they had sued provincial authorities for seizing their land. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Alongside growing Cambodian exports, Danish logistics company Damco opened a second CFs warehouse facility in Phnom Penh yesterday. The 10,500-square-metre facility, on National Road 4, brings the company’s total warehousing capacity in Cambodia to 16,500 square metres. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thailand’s military government has announced plans to fast-track work visas for thousands of Cambodians after a crackdown on illegal workers. Three temporary offices have been set up along the Thai-Cambodian border where migrants will have their work permits processed. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Grand Twins International (GTI) ended trading yesterday with a slight decline. The newly listed company was changing hands at 9,480 riel ($2.36) per share at the 1pm close, down from 9,640 riel ($2.40) at the morning’s opening. ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 villagers in the capital’s Por sen Chey district who allege two powerful families are trying to push them off their land protested yesterday after workers fenced off more than 3 hectares of the land they claim in Kouk Rokar commune. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh municipality launched the capital’s second bus line yesterday, running for 68 stops from the night market to Takhmao town in Kandal province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The cost of a blaze that ripped through a backpack factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district last Tuesday amounted to almost $1 million, an administrator at the factory said Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen said Thursday that the country needs about 11 billion U.s. dollars for public investment to support the implementation of the government’s priorities from 2013 to 2018. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Third-party payments provider Wing yesterday penned a deal with Canada-based financial services group, Manulife. According to a joint statement issued by the two companies, Wing customers can now pay their Manulife insurance bills via the company’s mobile payments system.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday promised to help pry answers out of the government for residents of Phnom Penh who fear losing all or some of their land to a bank-funded project to rehabilitate the country’s railway network. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Anti-drug police officers arrested nine foreign nationals in a sting on a rental house on sunday, accusing the men of involvement in a drug-trafficking ring catering to other foreigners in the vicinity of Phnom Penh’s Central Market, police said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...