Ministry of interior officials held a closed-door meeting Monday with NGO representatives to contest Cambodia’s recent downgrade on the U.S. State Department’s Global Trafficking in Persons Report, which the ministry will discuss in a meeting with the U.S. Em­bassy this week. The annual report, released last ...

Malaysia has not yet received a draft agreement aimed at protecting Cambodian migrant domestic workers from abuse, but the government is pressing Cambodia to lift its two-year moratorium on sending maids, a Malaysian official said Wednesday. in October 2011, Prime Minister Hun Sen imposed a ban ...

Government officials and union representatives met behind closed doors Thursday to start hashing out a better way to set the minimum wage for the country’s all-important but troubled garment sector at a workshop brokered by the international Labor Organization (ILO). But what was supposed to be ...

The only man convicted in relation to a murder case that made global headlines, the killing of environmentalist Chut Wutty and military police officer, in Rattana, walked free on Friday, less than two weeks after his sentencing, rights group Licadho said. Ran Boroth, who was ...

In an effort to make up for the low salt yield this year caused by unexpected raInfall durIng the dry season, farmers In salt-producIng Kep and Kampot provInces said yesterday that they would try to contInue harvestIng the mIneral for another month even though the ...

Cambodia has the dubious distinction of coming in third place in a survey released this week purporting to measure countries’ suffering. in the well-being poll compiled by US research company Gallup, more than a third of Cambodian respondents rated their quality of life as abysmally low, ...

Tycoon Sok Rathorn, who was in the midst of a one-year prison sentence on fraud charges, was provisionally released from detention yesterday after a deal was struck in a separate case. ...

Cambodia on Saturday began a one-month intercensal economic survey, aiming to update basic statistics on establishments and enterprises in the country.     Planning Minister Chhay Than announced the survey launching and called for cooperation among the public, particularly enterprise owners and local authorities in order to lead ...

The head of a local rights group who was once touted as the consensus choice for the revamped National Election Committee’s key ninth member will soon announce whether she will officially withdraw her candidacy. ...

The Interior MInistry officially registered the Khmer Power Party on Friday, after years of InsistIng—despite a lack of evidence—that its parent group, the Khmer People Power Movement, was a terrorist organization. ...

Construction at Camko City, an unfinished, US$2 billion satellite city in northwestern Phnom Penh, has resumed after at least one sentence connecting the mega-project’s chief executive with a Korean banking scandal was dropped. , the company behind Camko City, has resumed the construction of retail space ...

Acleda Bank, a leading commercial bank in Cambodia, on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UnionPay international on payment services for mutual benefits, according to the bank’s statement. Xu Luode, president of China UnionPay and vice-chairman of UnionPay international, said currently, UnionPay cards reached ...

A fisherman and his brother were struck by lightning on Sunday – one of them fatally – while six others were injured in storms, local police said yesterday. ...

In a boast remIniscent of US President Donald Trump, Prime MInister Hun Sen went on a tangent on Wednesday before thousands of garment workers In Por Sen Chey district extollIng his negotiatIng prowess, callIng himself one of the top negotiators In the “history of world ...

Plan International Cambodia and other partner organizations have ended the Cambodia Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Improvement Program (CRSHIP), sayIng all of the families Involved now understand the importance of sanitation and hygiene.   ...

Two newly elected opposition commune chiefs in Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville are struggling to dislodge their Cambodian People’s Party predecessors following their recent swearing in to office. ...

The homes of 137 families in Pursat province’s Phnom Kravanh district have been demolished since Tuesday, when more than 60 police, military forces and forestry officials began evicting families from land claimed by Touch Hiv, an agricultural company, local officials and villagers said yesterday. “We ...

A protest leader was arrested during a demonstration on Monday morning outside Banteay Meanchey provincial police headquarters in Poipet City because authorities said the group of about 40 people did not have permission to protest. ...

One teenager drowned and at least 30 families were evacuated as the Stung Sen river swelled over One meter higher than emergency levels in Preah Vihear province, authorities said on Wednesday, as at least five other provinces recorded flooding from Tropical Storm Sonca. ...

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 ...