The Labor Ministry on Friday announced that formal negotiations to set a new minimum wage for the country’s all-important garment sector—now at $128 a month—will begin in July, reviving the same schedule for talks it used with unions and employers for the first time last ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following an appeal by Prime Minister Hun sen for the country’s youth to better understand his self-titled “win-win policy,” which he credits for ending the civil war and peacefully reintegrating the Khmer Rouge, the premier Monday delivered an hourlong lecture on the topic to about ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen is set to take over the presidency of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, following the death of party leader Chea sim last week. The move will shore up solidarity in the party, which has become increasingly united, party members say. ss='cambodia-color'>...

On the southern outskirts of Cambodia’s capital, a ramshackle factory turns out tens of thousands of bricks each month. Pale rows of freshly fired bricks wait for buyers under the corrugated iron roof, while a 50-meter-long oven leaks a dull heat as it bakes a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng on Tuesday handed down a list of instructions to government officials working along the country’s border with Vietnam to help tamp down newly inflamed tensions along disputed stretches of the frontier, including an order to stop cutting informal deals with their ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ahead of a visit to the Prey speu social affairs center Friday, Phnom Penh governor Pa socheatvong on Wednesday urged NGOs to get homeless people off the streets and into safe environments where they can turn their lives around, according to a post on City ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hoping to help fill the void in reliable data that has stymied past negotiations on the minimum wage for the country’s garment workers, an international team of labor rights groups Monday hired a local research firm to find out exactly how much the workers are ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Constitutional Council of Cambodia on Wednesday deemed new legislation regulating the country’s non-governmental organizations to be in full compliance with the Constitution, rejecting all arguments—from the U.N. down to the NGOs themselves—that it flies in the face of the highest law of the land. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s legislature voted to strip an opposition senator in police custody of his immunity Monday, prompting criticism from rights groups, after Prime Minister Hun sen accused him of treason for posting a disputed diplomatic document online relating to the country’s border with neighboring Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An outspoken opposition lawmaker from Cambodia has arrived in the U.s. to “attend to personal affairs” amid fears of his arrest, after authorities detained a colleague over the weekend for posting a disputed diplomatic document online relating to the country’s border with neighboring Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Most families immediately downstream of Cambodia’s first major hydropower dam are worse off than they were before the project, according to a new study by U.K. researchers that urges the government to pay more attention to impacts on local residents as it gears up for ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s decision to keep four officials from rights group Adhoc imprisoned while the court investigates their case was right “according to the law,” a supreme Court official said on Monday during an appeal hearing. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has reminded local authorities not to allow entertainment clubs and KTVs to reopen businesses if they have not been converted into restaurants. This follows the Health Ministry’s measures to stem any spread of  COVID-19. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) is set to launch a property tax app soon, according to a senior official. Director-General Kong Vibol announced this during a GDT special Live show that provided an update on the tax department’s activities. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Commission for COVID-19 Vaccination says the media in Phnom Penh will receive the third dose of AstraZeneca at the National Children’s Hospital from september 8 to 15, 2021. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Constitutional Council of Cambodia (CCC) will seek a consultation with King Norodom sihamoni on amendments to several articles of the Constitution which would mandate that the Kingdom’s top national leadership positions be filled by people solely in possession of Cambodian citizenship. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is committed to harnessing digitalisation for better coordination in tax administration, as a jurisdiction that subscribes to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), according to a General Department of Taxation (GDT) press release issued on september 12.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said on Wednesday that agricultural innovations hold key to sustainable production intensification and increasing farmers’ income. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen shared Cambodia’s lessons on peacemaking and national reconciliation at the World summit in seoul, marking the end of a four-day trip to south Korea where he clinches a peace prize. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia Competition Commission (“CCC”) was established pursuant to the Royal Government of Cambodia’s sub-Decree No. 37 ANKr.BK on the Organisation and Functioning of the Cambodia Competition Commission (“sub-Decree”). ss='cambodia-color'>...