Cambodia’s energy sector acquired a new product yesterday with the introduction of solar powered lights from energy company Total, advancing it toward a longer term solution to meeting the population’s energy needs. An industry player described the products as a nice bridge toward seeing Cambodia supplied with ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 90 garment workers began a hunger strike yesterday in front of the shuttered Kingsland Garment Cambodia, Co. Ltd. factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, following weeks of protests demanding unpaid wages and severance pay. “We want the owners of Walmart and H&M to know ss='cambodia-color'>...

Freedom House and several other international human rights groups condemned the conviction of 13 Phnom Penh women last week who are locked in a land dispute with CPP senator Lao Meng Khin and called for their release in a joint statement issued Tuesday. The women were arrested ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment employees who have refused to return to work after striking for three weeks no longer have jobs at Tai Yang Enterprise, which supplies Levi’s and Gap, management said yesterday. Tired of strikes the company claims are costing it Us$10,000 per day, administrative manager Ou Meng ss='cambodia-color'>...

A coalition of about 30 soldiers, police, forestry officials and military police armed with chainsaws razed some 40 houses belonging to villagers in Pursat province’s santre commune yesterday, claiming the villagers were illegally living in a state forest, villagers and officials said. According to resident Chin ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hun Sen&rSquo;S titling plan waS announced in June and iS intended to reSolve land conflict Stemming from the Khmer Rouge regime&rSquo;S ban on private property in the 1970S. Around 1,600 StudentS have been Sent around the country to demarcate 4.4 million acreS of unconteSted territory, which SS='cambodia-color'>...

Popular Japanese hotel chain Toyoko Inn has embarked on a joint-investment with Cambodian company OCIC to build a three-star hotel on Phnom Penh’s Koh Pich, to cater to the growth of foreign investors and visitors to Cambodia. The groundbreaking ceremony for the 22-storey, 304 unit Toyoko ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Real wages for Cambodia’s semi-skilled construction workers fell during the past five years, according to a recent report from market research firm BDLINK Cambodia. A 36 per cent increase in the Kingdom’s consumer price index during the period put semi-skilled workers’ real wages last year ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s footwear industry has experienced significant growth over the past five years, with the number of factories doubling, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce. Meanwhile, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has announced it will monitor and report on footwear factories. As of November, 45 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers who confiscated land-clearing equipment during a forest patrol yesterday in Khsuem commune in Kratie province’s snuol district are claiming the equipment belongs to a rubber concessionaire attempting to expand into state land, an allegation local authorities denied. Villager representative Mom sokkin said the Binh ss='cambodia-color'>...

A bail hearing for imprisoned Boeung Kak lake land activist Yorm Bopha, 29, will be held this morning at the supreme Court, her husband, Lous sakhorn, said yesterday. Bopha was arrested on september 4 last year and charged with intentional violence over the assault ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia imported 727,500 tons of petroleum in the first five months of the year, a 2 percent drop from 744,700 tons a year earlier, the figures of the Ministry of Commerce showed saturday. A liter of premium gasoline goes for 1.38 U.s. dollars in Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Better Factories Cambodia programme has been renewed after a new, three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was agreed. The new agreement, aimed at furthering the initiative’s mission to improve working conditions in Cambodian garment factories, was signed by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Cambodian Ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

A landmine blast tore both legs from a 19-year-old man as he searched a wooded area in Pailin province’s sala Krao district for bamboo shoots. Despite losing his legs, Thean Chin survived the explosion, and is receiving treatment at the Battambang Provincial Hospital, sala Krao Deputy ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s fish output rose 10 per cent in 2013 from a year earlier, according to figures from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Production reached 730,000 tonnes last year, Nao Thouk, director of the ministry’s fishery department, said yesterday. There were 550,000 tonnes of fresh ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia is helping its members sue several unions for damages after a walkout over demands to raise the minimum wage to $160. Ken Loo, GMAC’s secretary general, said that more than 150 members are jumping on board to sue: “And the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is considering the development of an expressway network to meet the need for the country’s growing economy, Minister of Public Works and Transport Tram Iv Tek said here Wednesday. The minister said many Asian countries, including neighboring Vietnam and Thailand, have formulated their national ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following the recent wave of luxury car brands entering the Cambodian market, RMA Cambodia’s CEO said yesterday that the firm will bring in UK brands Land Rover and Jaguar by opening a showroom before the end of the year. The newly appointed official authorised dealer will ss='cambodia-color'>...

Family members of striking garment factory workers killed, wounded and missing after military police violently suppressed last Friday’s Veng sreng street protests have begun preparing complaints to file with authorities and rights NGOs. At least five people were shot dead, and more than 40 were in­jured, ss='cambodia-color'>...