The Commerce Minister said yesterday that China is a potential market for Cambodia’s garment exports and some other agricultural products while the traditional big markets of Europe and the United states are experiencing an economic slowdown. Cham Prasidh said at the sidelines of the Cambodia-China Trade ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seven monthS after Prime MiniSter Hun Sen unveiled an ambitiouS plan to demarcate 1.8 million hectareS of State land and formally acknowledge thoSe who live on it, the completion of the firSt &ndaSh; albeit the SmalleSt &ndaSh; of eight affected provinceS haS wrapped up. Marking the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Battambang province on saturday summoned two villagers from salmot district’s Ta sanh commune after they refused to hand over money to officials asking for donations to feed students working in the area as part of the government’s nationwide land titling project. Heng ss='cambodia-color'>...

A law student who filed a complaint with the Phnom Penh Municipal Court against the city’s police and military police chiefs over the fatal shooting of a bystander by authorities during a protest last month took his complaint to the U.N.’s human rights office on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s opposition leader, sam Rainsy, is currently in Geneva, where the UN Human Rights Committee is reviewing the country’s rights record. Cambodian government officials are defending their rights record for the second time in four years at the Universal Periodic Review. sam Rainsy, who heads the Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

It took three illegal border crossings, several bribed officials and six months in an overcrowded detention centre before Mohammed Ibrahim* finally arrived in Cambodia. Four years later, the ethnic Rohingya, a victim of violence and oppression in strife-torn Rakhine state in Myanmar’s west, is one of ss='cambodia-color'>...

By the age of 17, Chan Chonreasmey was yet to have a conversation with another person—not with her mother, not with her father, and certainly not with any other children. Two years ago, Ms. Chonreasmey was enrolled in the Maryknoll Deaf Development Program’s (DDP) education ss='cambodia-color'>...

The year 2012 has seen a number of changes of personnel within different companies in Cambodia, particularly in the telecommunications sector, but also in the insurance and banking industry. According to In Channy, ACLEDA Bank’s CEO and vice chairman of the International Business Chamber Cambodia, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen and visiting U.s. President Barack Obama met here on Monday to discuss a number of issues including old debt, human rights, democracy and forced evictions in Cambodia, a senior Cambodian official said. Hun sen also raised the issue of old ss='cambodia-color'>...

Angkor beer workers have been handing out flyers calling for a protest of the brand owned by Cambrew Ltd as the beer promoter strike entered its second day. International NGOs are being urged by the Cambodian Food service Workers’ Federation to support the strikers by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of families living near Phnom Penh International Airport are facing imminent eviction from heir homes as security preparations begin for world leaders who will attend next month’s Asean and East Asia summits. A total of 387 families living on 6.3 hectares of land to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...