Only one of the 241 Cambodians questioned for the largest survey of the notoriously abusive Thai fishing industry’s workforce to date said he was forced into the job, according to a new report by the International Labor Organization (ILO). Though some of the findings are in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three monks at the sansam Kosal pagoda were beaten by the deputy chief monk as they left to participate in saturday’s opposition rally, though the deputy maintained yesterday that the incident had more to do with truancy than politics. The incident came just days after ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian political analysts say the opposition is now facing a dilemma, as public pressure continues for a just solution for alleged election fraud. That has limited the opposition’s ability to deal for a political solution, analysts said this week. However, with the return of King ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than two weeks after the slaying of 29-year-old Mao sok Chan in clashes at Phnom Penh’s Kbal Thnal overpass, police have yet to launch an internal investigation into the use of force, officials said yesterday. National military police spokesman Kheng Tito said he had no ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite concerns that political uncertainty would be a drag on the economy, Cambodia’s garment exports continued on an upward trend in the first nine months of the year, the latest data show. Though volume increased, factory profit margins were squeezed due to labour disputes and demands ss='cambodia-color'>...

Yet another ruling in the tumultuous trial of former Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith has been set, with the Appeal Court yesterday announcing a verdict date for next week. After Bandith was convicted in absentia on the charge of unintentionally causing injury in June for non-fatally ss='cambodia-color'>...

While the streets of Phnom Penh were quiet this holiday period after the Water Festival was cancelled, numbers swelled in the provinces as tourists flocked to Cambodia’s temples and beaches, provincial officials said yesterday. Chhoeuy Chhorn, director of the siem Reap Provincial Tourism Department, said Angkor ss='cambodia-color'>...

Senior government miniSterS yeSterday rejected the Cambodia National ReScue Party&rSquo;S call for Cambodia to follow the lead of Thailand and take the country back to the pollS. Interior MiniSter and Deputy Prime MiniSter Sar Kheng Said yeSterday that there waS no chance a new election would SS='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials over the weekend warned that opposition leader sam Rainsy could face legal action for comments he made on his Facebook page that called on the public to woo the country’s armed forces into supporting the CNRP and put an end to decades of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Oddar Meanchey’s Trapaing Prasat district filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc alleging a military official is using armed forces to claim 90 hectares of their land. In their complaint filed with Adhoc earlier this month, the 13 families who claim ownership of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

United Nations envoy is expected to arrived in Cambodia today, a week after the deadly crackdown by government forces against protesting workers on Veng sreng street, which left five people dead. This is the first visit of surya P. subedi, UN special Rapporteur on human ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government yesterday warned foreigners to stay away from opposition protests against a hotly disputed election as thousands of riot police practised crowd control in the capital. Authorities and security forces would “avoid potential clashes at all costs” said the government in a statement released ss='cambodia-color'>...

Riot police and groups of men in plain clothes armed with sticks, Tasers and slingshots violently attacked a group of anti-eviction protesters conducting a hunger strike at Wat Phnom late last night, injuring several people. Protesters from Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak community began the hunger strike ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng has ordered all prison, detention and rehabilitation center chiefs to accommodate and give full access to delegates from the U.N.’s subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (sPT), whose five-day mission to assess the use of torture, cruelty and other inhumane treatment ss='cambodia-color'>...

Stronger diSaSter planning iS needed to avoid future devaStation and loSS of life cauSed by flooding, according to a report publiShed by World ViSion yeSterday. The report, titled&nbSp;CitieS Prepare, recommendS that the Cambodian government and civil Society work to place “a Stronger emphaSiS on diSaSter riSk SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has summoned to court four people involved in a land dispute with a private company in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak I commune, including two victims of a snake-throwing incident in October, over alleged violence and theft. On October 30, a bag ss='cambodia-color'>...

Both dengue fever and malaria deaths have plummeted this year compared to the same period in 2012, which was a peak year for the cyclical dengue, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Health. Dengue fever killed 59 people and infected 17,491 during the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A village chief in Kompong Thom province has begun collecting signatures on a petition to remove the opposition-aligned head monk of his local pagoda, whom he has accused of embezzling the pagoda’s money. Kheang Khean, the chief of Krachab village in stung sen city’s Achar Leak ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of soldiers from the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) in Banteay Meanchey province have filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc accusing their superiors of serious corruption, stealing veterans’ pensions, nepotism and illegal logging. For three years, a representative of the soldiers said, they had ss='cambodia-color'>...

After the management of an embattled garment factory this week refused to follow a government order to reinstate 19 dismissed union leaders and activists, unionists and observers are at a divergence of opinion over how the state should respond. “It’s fairly unprecedented,” Dave Welsh, country director ss='cambodia-color'>...