This week the price of Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority Stock dropped continually from KHR 7,000 (US$1.72) on June 7 until it stopped and stayed at KHR 6,8oo (US$1.67) from June 11 to June 13. On June 13, the stock’s price at the market’s opening and lass='cambodia-color'>...

The 16th Conference of Parties of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) has brought thousands of delegates from over 150 countries to Bangkok to discuss cross-border cooperation, sustainable use of biodiversity and transnational endangered species issues. Construction has already begun on the lass='cambodia-color'>...

It is barely dawn in the quiet suburb of Phnom Penh Thmey, but already the silence has been pierced by the cacophony of generators. On some streets, nearly every household has one of the machines burning through diesel in a bid to fill their basic electricity lass='cambodia-color'>...

Fifty-three families in Preah Vihear province’s Kulen district on Sunday protested outside the headquarters of a Malaysian company that is threatening to clear villagers’ farmland to make way for a rubber plantation, rights groups and officials said Monday. The families, who live in Srayong commune’s Srayong lass='cambodia-color'>...

The government proposed doubling the minimum wage for garment workers—from $80 to $160—within five years during a meeting with labor unions and garment manufacturers on Monday at the Ministry of labor. “We have a plan to raise the minimum wage up to $160 for garment workers, lass='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnamese rubber firm Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) has faiLed to keep its commitments to address human rights and environmentaL abuses at its pLantations in Cambodia, GLobaL Witness said in a statement yesterday. In May, the London-based NGO pubLished an investigation into two Vietnamese rubber companies Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

More than two weeks since some 850 inmates were evacuated from Banteay Meanchey prison after floodwater caused a wall to collapse, the move is illuminating just how overcrowded their destinations are, an NGO worker has said. Sharon Critoph, a prison consultant for rights group licadho, said lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Kompong Speu Provincial Court has summoned for trial a married couple accused of encroaching on land excised from a plantation belonging to CPP Senator and businessman ly Yong Phat, and has issued more than two dozen other summonses and arrest warrants in the past lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Free Trade Union (FTU) on Monday reported an overall increase in industrial action by its local branches last year with 136 total strikes in the first 11 months of 2013, up 35 percent from all of 2012, when there were 101 strikes by its lass='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh’s police force has had almost a week to investigate a fatal hit-and-run on Friday night, when a Range Rover slammed into a motorbike near the Ministry of Commerce, killing two men and seriously injuring another. But local police have not conducted even the most lass='cambodia-color'>...

Just after sunrise in the slums surrounding the Stung Meanchey dump, lak Han, 45, sits in the dirt outside his home methodically chopping up a large pile of rodents. For many years, like hundreds of others at the dumpsite, Mr. Han made a paltry living collecting lass='cambodia-color'>...

Civil society organisations (CSOs) have urged the government to take preventative measures and tougher action following a series of tragic building collapses that have claimed nearly 70 lives since last year. The call was made during a conference jointly organised by the Centre for Alliance lass='cambodia-color'>...

Two weeks after five Montagnard asylum seekers crossed into Ratanakkiri province from Vietnam, the U.N. said Sunday that reports of the arrival of nine more—including three children—added to the situation’s “urgency.” Two ethnic Jarai villagers living in Ratanakkiri said the nine Montagnards—an indigenous group from Vietnam’s lass='cambodia-color'>...

More than 300 families in Chhouk district, Kampot province have requested authorities to provide them with land titles in which they have lived for more than 20 years. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly on Tuesday has issued the list names of chairman, vice-chairman and commission chairman in the National Assembly. Here are the list of the National Assembly’s components in fifth mandate: — Heng Samrin, National Assembly chairman. — Nguon Nhil, National Assembly’s first vice-chairman. — Khuon Sodary, National lass='cambodia-color'>...

The agreement by Mekong River Commission Countries to conduct more studies before they decide on Laos’ proposaL for the first Lower Mekong dam received further support on Friday, with an infLuentiaL US senator and an environmentaL group weLcoming it as an important step in preventing Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

In Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district there is a 133-hectare mound of sand that was once a lake. It took nearly four years to fill Boeng Kak with that sand. On the southern perimeter of the massive sand pit sit two large billboards. On those billboards there lass='cambodia-color'>...

Stung Treng province Commune chief Seak Mekong changes into uniform in his family’s small wooden home in Sesan district’s Srekor I village before leading reporters to a speedboat on the Sesan River and motioning them to climb aboard. Mekong, a 42-year-old Sam Rainsy Party official, says lass='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Monday vowed to return Phnom Penh’s beleaguered Boeng Kak neighborhood to its residents and to have those who filled the lake with sand thrown in jail, should the opposition CNRP ultimately prevail in contesting the unofficial results of last month’s lass='cambodia-color'>...

Customs officers along Cambodia’s border have been instructed to increase their efforts to properly inspect and tax products coming into the country, which has increased the cost of imports and led to a rise in retail prices for a host of goods, government officials, businessmen lass='cambodia-color'>...