Major hotels are under the microscope after a labour rights group found that some have been failing to pass their entire service charge on to their staff, a violation of the Labour Law. Dave Welsh, country manager of the American Center for International Labor Solidarity(ACILS), said yesterday ...

Logistics firms saw a new level of diversity in Cambodian exports, a trend that would protect the economy from external shock, several shipping companies said. the Kingdom is on the right track to diversify and increase the export of agricultural products, while decreasing its reliance on ...

A draft agricultural land law threatens to eliminate property rights and effectively remove all limitations on the size of economic land concessions, a coalition of civil society groups said in a statement released.the draft of the Law on the Management and Use of Agricultural Land, ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nephew Hun To hit back strongly yesterday at allegations published in a leading Australian newspaper, The Age, which linked him to an international drug smuggling and money laundering ring, demanding that The publisher print a retraction. Mr. To sent a letter to ...

A modest increase in the inflow of foreign direct investment is a sign that Cambodia remains an attractive destination to investors, and will go a long way toward the country’s development, analysts said yesterday. Total capital inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) to Cambodia amounted to ...

Cambodia had attracted some $427 million of investment from China last year, up 62 percent compared with the $263 million in a year earlier, according to a report by the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC). the cumulative Chinese investment in Cambodia has totaled $9.6 ...

Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Thursday met with U.N. and NGO representatives to discuss the ongoing dispute between the powerful Chinese-owned Union Development Group (UDG) and villagers in Koh Kong province who say they were kicked off their land and had their shelters torched. In ...

The government plans to implement an industrial policy designed to promote development of The manufacturing sector. Speaking at a business networking dinner prepared by The Cambodian Federation of Employers and Business Associations on Wednesday, Sok Chenda Sophea, secretary general of The Council for The Development of ...

Police in Phnom Penh raided a factory on Monday, collecting thousands of items of evidence linked to an alleged counterfeiting scheme producing soft drinks illegally marked with the logo of a popular regional brand. ...

Sales of the SOHO (small office and home office) component of the Bridge condominium project, which will have 54 floors and will be built with an investment of $300 million, officially launched last week. Sear Rithy, director of World Bridge Land, said he was proud and ...

The Ministry of Social Affairs on Friday established four sub-committees tasked with finding a new minimum wage for The country’s 300,000-plus garment factory workers, Minister Ith Sam Heng said on Friday. “The sub-committees have a limited time of five weeks for research before They have to ...

A year after establishing the Cambodia Rice Federation, the Ministry of Commerce is planning to set up a cassava organisation to boost production of the root vegetable in the Kingdom. According to Ratha, the federation will work similarly to the Cambodia Rice Federation and will ...

Work was underway on Friday to erect the big top of Phare, the Cambodian Circus, at its new location on the outskirts of Siem Reap City. ...

Cambodia has been removed from the United Nation’s list of states not complying with Article 17 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT). ...

The Ministry of Commerce has urged exporters to adhere to The UK’s rules of origin (RoO) in order to benefit from Their Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS), a system of graduated tariffs on imports. ...

Cambodia’s first association for expanding business opportunities and financing for women was launched on Saturday. The Cambodia Women Entrepreneurs Association would seek to enhance The competitiveness of businesswomen in The growing ASEAN market, which was set to integrate by 2015, Seng Takakneary, president of The new ...

Southeast Asian nations displayed a rare show of unity on Sunday against China’s sweeping maritime claims, calling for the first formal talks with Beijing over a sea dispute that has raised tensions and exposed deep divisions in the region. As Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in ...

A Tauranga business and a charity have so far raised enough to provide 43 people with freshwater for the rest of their life in Kratie, a rural state of Cambodia. Good Trust, a registered charity where 100 per cent of proceeds goes directly to water projects, ...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport has announced The annual schedule for junior high school Diploma and high school Baccalaureate (Bac II) final examinations. ...

Cambodia and Colombia on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of a political consultation mechanism in order to strengthen the bilateral relations and cooperation. the deal was inked between Ouch Borith, Secretary of State of Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Patti Londono, ...