The Australian government yesterday said it has been aware of poor working conditions and inappropriate surveying methods used on Cambodia’s railway rehabilitation project since February and had ordered that the project’s partners investigate the matters. “The Australian Government was alerted to possible concerns about workplace health ss='cambodia-color'>...

Democratic Kampuchea’s commerce committee was under the leadership of co-accused Khieu samphan and Ieng sary, testimony by former national bank deputy director sar Kimlomouth revealed yesterday at the Khmer Rouge tribunal. Although the Khmer Rouge regime had eliminated currency and attempted to turn the nation into ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five people were arrested early sunday morning for allegedly stealing more than 8,000 articles of clothing from shipping container on its way to Phnom Penh for export to the U.s., police said. The five suspects are accused of removing the garments from the cargo container as ss='cambodia-color'>...

The chairman of the U.S. HouSe of RepreSentativeS Committee on Foreign AffairS called on Prime MiniSter Hun Sen to Stand down during an event attended by CNRP Vice PreSident Kem Sokha in California on Saturday night. Speaking at a CNRP fundraiSing event, Ed Royce, a Republican SS='cambodia-color'>...

As military police began a 10-day training program with the U.s. military in Phnom Penh on Tuesday, questions are being raised again over Washington’s ongoing support to Cambodian security forces involved in serious human rights abuses. On January 3, military police officers opened fire with AK-47 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers whose homes will be destroyed if the controversial Lower sesan 2 Dam is built are to deliver today a letter to provincial authorities announcing that they refuse to be resettled. Meach Mean, coordinator of the 3s Rivers Protection Network, said the villagers, who hail from ss='cambodia-color'>...

October marks the start of the main rice harvest in Thailand, the world’s largest exporter of the grain. Traders are waiting to see the full impact of flooding on the crop, but it’s already clear that output across southeast Asia will fall substantially. The U.N.’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

North Korea and Cambodia have attempting to increase trade between the two nations with Cambodia exporting rice and North Korea exporting knowledge. North Korea is set to share its knowledge of small scale hydropower and mining expertise in exchange for rice, beans and corn imports. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong will travel to the U.s. on saturday to hold separate discussions with secretary of state Hillary Clinton and senator Jim Webb, chairman of the subcommittee on East Asia and Pacific Affairs, the government said in a statement. Mr. Namhong’s visit comes ss='cambodia-color'>...

Poipet City authorities have given dozens of families living along a section of railway slated for renovation 10 days to move or face forcible eviction. Poipet City Deputy Governor An Vanak said that the eviction notice was sent Monday to about 40 families, only eight of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Capitalising on recent worldwide attention to their plight, some 200 villagers who say they’ve been robbed of their homes and land staged a vivid and stylised protest yesterday aimed at President Obama and secretary of state Hillary Clinton, calling for intervention in Phnom Penh’s land-titling ss='cambodia-color'>...

KOH KONG, CAMBODIA — A Thai force dubbed the “Rambo Army” couldn’t stop the gangs, armed with battlefield weaponry, as they scoured the forests. Neither could a brave activist, gunned down when he came to investigate. Nor, apparently, can governments across southeast Asia. The root of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of a massive hydropower dam project in stung Treng province’s sesan district approached local authorities late last month informing them that the government had granted the company permission to clear 36,000 hec­tares of land for a reservoir, officials said on sunday. The 400-megawatt Lower se­san ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chartered direct flights from Taiwan to Cambodia were re-launched on February 7 by Taiwanese airline Far Eastern Air Transport, one year after the company abruptly suspended the flights over a dispute with its Cambodian airline partner over unpaid aviation fuel. six flights have been ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 3,000 workers at a factory supplying clothes to U.s. brands Levi strauss and Old Navy blocked traffic for nearly five hours yesterday on National Road 4 in Kandal province, as part of a protest for more benefits and severance pay, protesters and police said. Protests ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 10 workers were beaten by police and military police during a protest over severance payments yesterday in Kandal province, workers and union representatives said. Protests at Tai Yang Enterprises—which supplies clothing to U.s. brands Levi strauss and Old Navy—in Ang snuol district have been ongoing ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s total exports increased more than 13 per cent in the first nine months of this year, with a year-on-year comparison indicating a widening trade deficit. A private-sector representative, an exporter and an independent economist said the slow growth was mainly due to the slowing of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cargo shipments through sihanoukville’s Deep sea Port increased more than seven per cent year-on-year in 2012. Port officials say this growth is a result of Cambodia’s economic performance and an improving global economy. “It is a fast rate of growth compared with previous years. We had ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian court is asked to re-examine the jailing of Boeung Kak land activists. Cambodian authorities have asked a court to review the jailing of 13 women involved in a land dispute as protests over their sentences escalated with over 100 demonstrators threatening Thursday to march ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a rare intervention, the Thai Labor Ministry has stepped in to stop the exploitation of migrant workers from Cambodia and Myanmar at a seafood factory in the country’s south, correspondence obtained by the Post reveals. The ministry found the Phatthana seafood factory, in songkhla province, which employs ss='cambodia-color'>...