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'>...

With the spectre of potential garment-sector unrest on the horizon and emboldened communities protesting land disputes, the National Police is buying what appear to be the authorities’ first water-cannon trucks designed specifically to control demonstrations. In advertisements in yesterday’s Post and Post Khmer newspapers, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has become increasingly reliant on China for aid. But critics warn that financial support from China is not well tracked and likely means the country has undue influence over the government, and that could mean more trouble down the road as Cambodia looks toward ss='cambodia-color'>...

Electricite du Cambodge director Keo Rattanak said on saturday that the stalled Chinese-backed hydropower project in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley has set back Cambodia’s plans to become energy self-sufficient. Rattanak, who was speaking at a gathering for soldiers in the Odar Meanchey province, singled out ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mondulkiri provincial court on Saturday charged and jailed Seven people for felling reforeSted treeS in a protected area in Koh Nhek diStrict&rSquo;S Rayar commune, officialS Said. Keo Sopheak, director of Mondulkiri provincial environment department, Said yeSterday park rangerS arreSted nine SuSpectS on ThurSday at Rayar SS='cambodia-color'>...

Passenger taxi boat traffic has dropped by about five per cent compared to the same period last year, despite the government providing free service for garment workers until next year, Phnom Penh Autonomous Bus Transportation Authority director Ean sokhim said on Monday. In 2018, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tourism industry officials and representatives expressed concern that the outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) will devastate Cambodia’s tourism industry following the Kingdom’s first documented case in the coastal province of sihanoukville on Monday. At a press conference late on Monday, Minister of Health ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 60MW solar power farm in Kampong Chhnang province was connected to the national grid last weekend, bringing the Kingdom’s total solar-power generation to 150MW, Ministry of Mines and Energy spokesman Victor Jona said on sunday. The project, located in Taing Krasaing commune’s Romeas village ss='cambodia-color'>...