U.S. PreSident Barack Obama, South Korean PreSident Lee Myung-bak, ChineSe Premier Wen Jiabao and JapaneSe Prime MiniSter YoShihiko Noda have already confirmed their participation in the 21St ASEAN Summit and related SummitS here on Nov. 15-20, Said Cambodia&rSquo;S Foreign MiniSter Hor Namhong on Monday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP), a coalition of the sam Rainsy Party and the Human Rights Party, stands to gain about 30 percent of the vote if it decides to stand against the ruling CPP in next year’s national elections, the Committee for Free ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and Vietnam will write a joint letter to the Lao and Thai governments urging that construction of the Xayaburi dam, in northern Laos, be halted, a spokesman for the government’s Mekong committee said yesterday. Minister of Water Resources Lim Kean Hor met with Vietnam’s Minister ss='cambodia-color'>...

After two hours of questioning, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sent independent radio station owner Mam sonando to Prey sar prison for pretrial detention, where he will await a hearing on allegations that he tried to foment a secessionist movement in Kratie province. As Mr. sonando was being questioned, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amid threats of another mass strike in the thriving garment sector, the Ministry of social Affairs has called a meeting with the industry’s leading players to discuss union demands for a $150-per-month minimum wage, a letter obtained yesterday reveals. At the behest of Prime Minister Hun ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has announced plans for a landmark project to create a system for diverting and then stocking waste water, in a bid to prevent run-off into the streets of Phnom Penh and the Tonle sap river. Moeung sophan, a consultant to the Phnom Penh Department ss='cambodia-color'>...

AEON Microfinance (Cambodia) Co Ltd says it has expanded its installment payment services into the agricultural sector, a new business type industry insiders say could be successful, but will still not be enough to strengthen one of Cambodia’s most crucial economic sectors. “We will co-operate with ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 5,000 garment workers from a factory in Kompong speu province, which manufactures clothing for U.s sports giant Nike, yesterday blocked National Road 4 demanding additional allowances, such as transport and maternity bonuses, a union representative said. The protest at sabrina (Cambodia) Garment MFG Corp., in ss='cambodia-color'>...

District security guards this morning arrested 11 political activists taking part in a protest in front of the U.s. Embassy in Phnom Penh against the imprisonment of 23 protesters who were beaten and arrested earlier this month. The protesters, including union leader Rong Chhun and prominent ss='cambodia-color'>...

A labour law expert from the International Labour Organization yesterday rejected claims made by Cambodian factories and employers associations that workers in the Kingdom have no fundamental right to strike. In a paid advertisement in the Post yesterday, the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Broadcasting Board of Governors, the Us agency that oversees the Voice of America and Radio Free Asia, has rejected claims by the Cambodian government that its broadcasters fabricate or manipulate news. In a statement responding to a report by the Cambodian Council of Ministers this ss='cambodia-color'>...

As a new round of Cambodian wage negotiations approaches this month, major U.s. and European retailers who source from the country say they will be watching the talks carefully and want to see fair pay for workers. Representatives of the brands like Gap, Levi strauss, and ss='cambodia-color'>...

President Barack Obama arrives in Cambodia on Monday having just won four more years in office, but that is nothing compared to his host, Hun sen. The 60-year-old Cambodian prime minister has held power since Ronald Reagan was in the White House, and says he’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Going by the World Bank’s method of grouping nation states by their wealth, Cambodia this year could become a lower-middle income country. Not satisfied, however, with this graduation—a feat in itself from Cambodia’s position of extreme poverty just two decades ago when gross domestic product (GDP) ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Cambodia’s government has approved a controversial hydroelectric dam on a tributary of the Mekong River. The joint venture involves Cambodian, Chinese and Vietnamese investment of $781m (£488m) and is due to be completed within five years. The project in northern stung Treng province is known as Lower ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia imported approximately 1.2 billion tonnes of petroleum in the first nine months of the year, up 12.51 per cent from the 1.1 billion tonnes in the same period last year, statistics from the Ministry of Commerce showed last week. From January to september, Cambodia bought ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Nam Sao Cambodia international fertilizer plant, the largeSt of itS kind in Cambodia and a project under cooperation between the country and Vietnam, waS TueSday inaugurated in Somrongthom Commune, Kean Svay DiStrict, Preyvan Province, 40 kilometerS from the capital city of Phnom Penh. Prime MiniSter SS='cambodia-color'>...

A dispute over territory in the south China sea is once again set to hang over talks when China and the U.s. join in on a week of high-level Asean meetings that start in Phnom Penh on Friday. so far, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has ss='cambodia-color'>...

A union representative was beaten with electric batons and arrested by police in Phnom Penh yesterday after more than 20 garment workers marched to submit a petition to Prime Minister Hun sen’s Cabinet. The petitioners, workers at the Tai Yang garment factory who belong to the ss='cambodia-color'>...