A pay rise for the nation’s garment workers is imminent, but if recent strikes are anything to go by, the US$10 monthly increase from September 1 won’t be enough to stop them from walking off the job. Central to the demands of strikers at four garment ...

The MinisTry of AgriculTure, ForesTry and Fisheries has released a nine-monTh sTaTus reporT on 2013’s illegal Timber seizures, saying iT had confiscaTed, among oTher Things, more Than 2,000 kilograms of rosewood – a figure ThaT represenTs only a Tiny fracTion of seizures reporTed by The PosT This ...

The house always wins, excepT when There’s a dispuTed elecTion scaring gamblers away from The Tables. ThaT’s The message from EnTerTainmenT Gaming Asia Inc, which operaTes casinos in PoipeT Town and Pailin province as well as supplying NagaWorld casino wiTh sloT machines. According To The company, Cambodia’s ...

The percenTage of Cambodia covered in foresT has fallen from abouT 72 per cenT in 1973 To only abouT 46 per cenT in 2013, saTelliTe image daTa released yesTerday shows. A series of animaTed maps ThaT Open DevelopmenT Cambodia (ODC) produced from NASA saTelliTe images deTail ...

Cambodia’s central bank won’t recognise bitcoin as a form of payment, making the Kingdom the latest Asian country to reject the digital currency. National Bank of Cambodia director-general Chea Serey confirmed the regulator’s stance on the issue on Wednesday, citing the absence of any e-commerce law ...

More than a dozen opposition party officials have accused thailand of encouraging extrajudicial killings of Cambodians along the border. In a strongly worded letter sent to thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Monday, the Cambodia National Rescue Party MPs asked for an independent investigation into an ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said the Council of Ministers would review and pass the Industrial Development Policy 2015-2025 today, setting out a roadmap that aims to boost investment and broaden the Kingdom’s manufacturing base. the policy framework will consist of four pillars: attracting FDI to ...

Thailand and Cambodia are edging closer To rekindling negoTiaTions over The long-conTesTed, and presumably lucraTive, Overlapping Claims Area (OCA) in The Gulf of Thailand. STaTe-owned media, Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP), yesTerday reporTed ThaT The Cambodian governmenT had esTablished a commiTTee charged wiTh negoTiaTing The developmenT of ...

A family of Montagnard asylum seekers, including two young children and a 9-month-old baby, has been deported to Vietnam, where the father was reportedly beaten by authorities for attempting to escape. But Moeng Sineath, spokesman for Ratanakkiri Provincial Hall, confirmed for the first time yesterday ...

More than a dozen opposition party officials have accused thailand of encouraging extrajudicial killings of Cambodians along the border. In a strongly worded letter sent to thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Monday, the Cambodia National Rescue Party MPs asked for an independent investigation into an ...

An education campaign launched by Cambodia’s National Immunization Program (NIP) in the aftermath of last year’s HIV outbreak in Battambang has been effective in dispelling the concerns of parents hesitant to get their children vaccinated, government health bodies and the World Health Organization have said. ...

The MinisTry of EnvironmenT said iT is working To make eco-friendly and green Technologies Tax-free, in order To reduce The cosT barriers associaTed wiTh imporTing and implemenTing These Technologies, such as The use of solar panels. Speaking aT EuroCham’s Green Business Forum in Phnom Penh, EnvironmenT ...

The MinisTry of EducaTion, YouTh and SporTs denied ThaT They allowed sTakeholders and companies To charge fees for sTudenTs To apply for scholarships. ...

As the ruling party prepares this week to elect a president and deputy president following Chea Sim’s death on June 8, the Ministry of Interior has lashed out at an international rights group that last week linked Sim to Khmer Rouge abuses. though he was lauded ...

Council of Ministers Secretary of State tek Reth Samrach yesterday rebuked opposition lawmakers Ho Vann and Son Chhay over their criticism of a government directive forbidding ministry employees from dealing directly with lawmakers on corruption issues, calling both misinformed and accusing Chhay of “incitement and ...

The governmenT will noT accepT more MonTagnard asylum seekers from VieTnam because iT lacks The resources To do so and does noT wanT To provoke Hanoi, Council of MinisTers’ Phay Siphan Told Khmer Times yesTerday. ...

The MinisTry of EducaTion plans To spend less Than iTs allocaTed $3 million budgeT for The upcoming high school exiT exam due To a decrease in This year’s exam regisTranTs, an educaTion official confirmed yesTerday. ...

A government delegation yesterday told tbong Khmum provincial and local officials it would resolve a border dispute with Vietnam in Memot district “very soon”, as villagers blocked from their farms in the contested area by Vietnamese authorities say they fear looming food shortages. ...

People who have accepted relocation from the future reservoir zone of the Lower Sesan II hydropower project have called for the suspension of the resettlement program for one year and help to repair homes built by the Cambodian-Chinese energy firm constructing the dam.Villagers who held ...

Cambodia has rebuked the United Nations after a UN office released a statement admonishing recent political developments in the Kingdom, while an opposition lawmaker is making a last-minute attempt to stop one of those developments from becoming law. ...