In response to a growing number of strikes in the country’s highly profitable garment sector, the government trained 15 handpicked commune officials yesterday to mediate and resolve factory disputes. The training was designed to teach commune councillors to defuse and resolve conflict, Buth Ji, director of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian People’s Party is prepared to make sweeping changes during its fifth government mandate, including improving the often-criticised judiciary and prioritising social justice, a government spokesman said. This “period of reform” would see deep-seated changes across a number of ministries in response to grievances expressed ss='cambodia-color'>...

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 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s opposition leaders sam Rainsy and Kem sokha went into hiding saturday as the government stepped up its crackdown on protests against Prime Minister Hun sen following deadly violence. A day after police shot dead four people during workers’ protests for higher wages, the government ss='cambodia-color'>...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced ThurSday itS Integrated Nutrition, Hygiene, and Sanitation Program that will improve the liveS of motherS and young children by teaching better nutrition and hygiene practiceS and increaSing the uSe of latrineS.The five-year, $16 million project will benefit SS='cambodia-color'>...

Two of the major donors who have supported Cambodia’s highly successful fight against HIV/AIDs are set to make significant cuts to their funding, putting pressure on the government to increase its own spending, officials and experts said. Both the Global Fund, which has contributed more than ss='cambodia-color'>...

With Sunday&rSquo;S commune electionS quickly approaching, the five main political partieS are all predicting SubStantial gainS over how they faired in the laSt election in 2007, though none deny that the ruling Cambodian People&rSquo;S Party (CPP) will continue to dominate the pollS. And with the entrance SS='cambodia-color'>...

From a devilish-looking bat to a frog that sings like a bird, scientists have identified 126 new species in the Greater Mekong area, the WWF said Tuesday in a new report detailing discoveries in 2011. But from forest loss to the construction of major hydropower projects ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 80 workers from a garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district – which supplies women’s underwear to U.s. retail giant Wal-Mart – protested yesterday, demanding that the factory owner settle their severance payments, workers and union representatives said. Workers at the Kingsland Garment Cambodia factory ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 moto-taxi and tuk tuk drivers who are part of a little-known workers union submitted a letter to the U.s. Embassy and the European Union Delegation yesterday, asking them not to intervene in the case of Boeng Kak activist Yorm Bopha. It is not ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four days after the Labour Advisory Committee approved a monthly minimum wage increase to $75 starting in May, more than 500 workers at the su Tong Fang garment factory yesterday demanded that their company begin the wage increase one month early. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Having seen rapid growth since launching in Cambodia two years ago, the Bank of China (BoC) plans to expand its business operations here. According to a Xinhua report, BoC’s deputy governor Zhu shuming said during his visit to Cambodia last Friday that its local operations have ss='cambodia-color'>...

Holders of shares in the Phnom Penh Water supply Authority (PPWsA) have criticised the level of dividend payment that they will receive from the company. PPWsA, which is the only company listed on the Cambodia securities Exchange (CsX), was to pay its first dividend to 1,500 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kompong Cham provincial governor Lun Lim Thai on Tuesday ordered authorities to step up long-running efforts to reduce the smuggling of unprocessed rubber resin from the province into Vietnam. Those smuggling resin to processors across the border should be more actively pursued and instead forced to ss='cambodia-color'>...

LUMPHAT WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, Ratanakkiri Province &ndaSh; From behind the corrugated metal wallS of Daun Penh Agrico&rSquo;S wood depot, the raSpy buzz of a chainSaw rattled through the Surrounding foreSt on Monday afternoon. AS the chainSaw revved and cut, a heavy-duty truck packed full of long, Sawn SS='cambodia-color'>...

In one corner of the cavernous training centre, a woman patiently strips the baby blue sheets off a queen-size bed, removing the flower-patterned pillowcases and folding them neatly to one side. Under the watchful eye of an instructor, she then remakes the bed, carefully fluffing the ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. PreSident Barack Obama on Friday Signed a Spending bill that SuSpendS Some funding to Prime MiniSter Hun Sen&rSquo;S government until an independent inveStigation into laSt year&rSquo;S diSputed national election iS carried out, or until the oppoSition CNRP endS itS boycott of parliament. The bill targetS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s human rights record was assessed Tuesday by the U.N. Human Rights Council’s 47 member states in Geneva, many of which cited concerns about the recent violent suppression of protests by the government, and a judiciary beholden to Prime Minister Hun sen’s ruling CPP. The U.N. ss='cambodia-color'>...

UN rights envoy surya subedi wrapped up his six-day fact-finding mission to Cambodia yesterday by calling for a thorough investigation into security forces’ role in the deadly crackdown on garment workers early this month. He also offered to act as a mediator between the ruling Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s garment exports exceeded Us$1 billion during the first quarter of 2012, yet many factories are failing to pay workers proper maternity leave benefits or address issues of fainting, a labour report says. The International Labour Or­ganization-Better Factories Cam­bodia’s Twenty Eighth syn­­­thesis Report on Working Conditions ss='cambodia-color'>...