The opposition CNRP on Monday delivered a letter of notice to provincial authorities of its plans to hold a rally in siem Reap City to mark International Human Rights Day next Tuesday, a party official said. Ke sovannaroth, the head of the CNRP’s siem Reap working ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is moving forward with development of the Lower se san 2 hydropower project and is seeking support from surrounding nations. A spirit of collaboration was established on Tuesday at a meeting between Chief Minister Pehin sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, Tourism Minister Dr. Thong Khon and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asean Economic Community (AEC) will cut red tape and allow freer trade between the bloc’s 10 member states. But many companies in the region aren’t even aware of the AEC blueprint, a sobering report from the Asia Development Bank has found. The bank also ss='cambodia-color'>...

Striking garment factory workerS and proteSting CNRP SupporterS Should reSpect people of other nationalitieS and make Sure they act within the boundarieS of the law, DefenSe MiniSter Tea Banh Said ThurSday. Speaking at an opening ceremony for three new Royal Cambodian Armed Force Science laboratory buildingS, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Web surfers and social-media addicts will have to hold out longer in the wait for Cambodia to boost its internet speeds, as construction on the Kingdom’s first submarine internet cable is behind schedule. Paul Blanche-Horgan, CEO of Ezecom, Cambodia’s largest internet provider, confirmed yesterday that the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Pursat Provincial Court on Tuesday charged three men with illegally clearing forest inside a protected wildlife sanctuary, and authorities are still searching for the man they were allegedly working for, officials said Wednesday. Provincial prosecutor Tan seihak Dechak said the three charged men—Pak Im, 41, ss='cambodia-color'>...

NGOS have accuSed logging tycoon Try Pheap&rSquo;S MDS Import-Export Company &ndaSh; which had a licence to clear foreSt during the conStruction of the Stung Atai hydropower dam in PurSat &ndaSh; of continuing to log the area deSpite the dam being finiShed. Ouch Leng, director of the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Workers at two different garment factories say that managers locked them inside their workplaces last week when they tried to participate in a boycott of overtime. Union representatives and rank-and-file employees at Kampong speu province’s Complete Honour Footwear Industrial Cambodia Co, Ltd and Dai Yi Fashion ss='cambodia-color'>...

In his fight for workers’ rights, sar Mora has learned to be stubborn. The union leader behind the closure of Caltex gas stations across Phnom Penh, Mr. Mora’s members remained on strike sunday despite an apparent agreement on Friday for workers to return to their stations. “We ss='cambodia-color'>...

Secret negotiationS between the ruling Cambodian People&rSquo;S Party and the oppoSition are cloSe to reaching a Solution to the political Stalemate that haS gripped Cambodia Since July&rSquo;S general election, according to SourceS privy to the diScuSSionS. OfficialS from both partieS yeSterday denied that talkS had occurred, SS='cambodia-color'>...

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith on Wednesday revealed plans to split state-run TVK into three separate television stations but reiterated that no frequencies are available for independent radio broadcaster Mom sonando. Mr. sonando, who owns Beehive radio station, has over the past several years repeatedly requested a ss='cambodia-color'>...

A report on land prices in Phnom Penh that claims to be the first of its kind has canvassed a large number of correspondents to comprehensively gauge property values in the city’s various districts and communes. Released on March 3, Land Price 2014, which was produced ss='cambodia-color'>...

Emerging from a meeting on electoral reform Monday, senior ruling party lawmaker Cheam Yeap said that the government is considering modifying Cambodia’s nationality law to ban those with dual citizenship from running for the office of prime minister. Mr. Yeap, who represented the CPP at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials have got to work parsing a controversial request that Cambodia, one of the poorest countries in the region with a spotty record handling refugees, take some of Australia’s asylum seekers. Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop made the request to Prime Minister Hun sen ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a meeting with Prime Minister Hun sen and 10 of the government’s highest-ranking officials in Phnom Penh on Wednesday, U.N. human rights envoy surya subedi called for the perpetrators of recent state-sanctioned killings to be held accountable for their actions. Mr. subedi spent three-and-a-half hours ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition CNRP leader sam Rainsy is to meet with Cambodian migrant workers during a two-day trip to south Korea later this week, at the end of a European tour that has included stops in Geneva, Brussels and Paris. “He will be visiting [south] Korea to meet ss='cambodia-color'>...

An increasing number of NGOs in Cambodia are facing the prospect of budget cuts, with money from foreign donors decreasing as a political deadlock continues. Cambodia’s robust civil society relies on donor countries, but some have postponed funding while the country’s two rival political parties remain ss='cambodia-color'>...

Angkor Gold Corp. (TSX: V.ANK, Stock Forum) haS entered into a Strategic alliance with Hong Kong-baSed Tohui BeiShan Property Group Holding Ltd. (TG) that could provide up to $10.5 million for exploration in Cambodia, Angkor Said Monday. The Strategic alliance between Angkor and TG includeS TG&rSquo;S SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s rival political sides failed to sign an agreement that would have ended the ongoing political crisis on Friday. Kem sokha, vice president of the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, told VOA Khmer that the gulf between the two sides in negotiations remains too wide ss='cambodia-color'>...

Behind the walls of the nondescript Hung Tak garment factory on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, more than 400 workers have been toiling in substandard conditions to cut and stitch clothing for some of the world’s biggest brands. But since the factory was named by the ss='cambodia-color'>...