The Free Trade Union (FTU) yesterday filed a complaint with labor Minister Vong Sauth on behalf of nearly 4,000 garment workers in Kompong Chhnang province against Chinese-owned M&V International Manufacturing ltd, alleging that they had been forced to work on International Women’s Day, which is lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has seen an increase in the number of arrivals through its land check points. They are predominately American and Russian, with the number of Thai visitors having fallen due to border disputes between the two nations. It is expected that the number of tourists lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom ranked second in the first half of the year for overseas Vietnamese investments, receiving about $32 million of the total $263 million outflow from the eastern neighbour. The Vietnamese General Statistics Office (GSO) said from January to June this year, that country’s businesses lass='cambodia-color'>...

Some 300 pieces of timber were discovered and two men arrested in separate cases in Pursat and Mondulkiri provinces as they were transporting the logs to Vietnam. National Military Police on Monday found piles of first-grade timber measuring nine cubic metres in Pursat’s Veal Veng lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia-focused mineral exploration company Angkor Gold is actively pursuing oil and gas opportunities in Cambodia in addition to its current roster of mineral exploration projects. The Canadian-listed explorer has been in operation in the Asian nation since 2012, closing 10 deals with a combined value of US$19.50 million within lass='cambodia-color'>...

September 15 is World Cleanup Day and Cambodia will be participating with 20 million people from 150 countries across the globe, said Ministry of Environment spokesman Neth Pheaktra. He said that this year, working under the theme “Together for a Clean World”, participants in the lass='cambodia-color'>...

A national strategy for enhancing seed quality and production was presented to the public last week. The plan was developed by the Ministry of Agriculture in cooperation with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), and outlines a set of initiatives to improve the production and lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Khmer Will Party (KWP), led by Kong Monkia, the son of a former Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) official, and the Motherland Party, led by Chann Bunhorn, in a statement distanced themselves from Rainsy, who has been a vocal opponent of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s lass='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng yesterday rebuked reports that the new Phnom Penh police chief lieutenant General Sar Thet is his brother. lieutenant General Sar Thet officially took over as Phnom Penh police chief on Tuesday, filling a void left by General Chuon Sovann, who took lass='cambodia-color'>...

At least 66 resin trees in the Prey Preah Roka Wildlife Sanctuary in Preah Vihear province’s Tbeng Meanchey district, have been felled so far this month, according to environmental activists. They say deforestation continues to grow unabated, as authorities suspended or cut the number of lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian embassies have recently repatriated 55 Cambodian nationals who went to China, Malaysia and Vietnam to find work illegally or were duped into forced marriages. Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Ket Sophann yesterday said that the embassy in China repatriated two women who were duped into lass='cambodia-color'>...

More than 3,000 members of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) attended the opening of the party’s 41st Congress of the Central Committee in Phnom Penh on Tuesday. The congress aims to elect new members to top party committees and carefully decide strategies to maintain lass='cambodia-color'>...

Following their arrest on Tuesday, tycoon Soeng Sam Ol, owner of the Master K Sun company, two supervisors and a driver were sent to Mondulkiri provincial court on Thursday on grounds of alleged illegal logging. Meanwhile, National Military Police commander Sao Sokha announced that the lass='cambodia-color'>...

National Assembly President Heng Samrin declared Friday the closure of the Eighth Plenary Session of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA). APA grew out of the Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace (AAPP), which held its inaugural assembly in Bangladesh in 1999. Cambodia, a founding member, lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s rice industry has been advised by the European Union (EU) to seek other markets and not just concentrate its exports to Europe, as it moves from a low-income country in its least developed country (lDC) status to a lower-middle income nation, amid calls to lass='cambodia-color'>...

A special team will be established to review high school students’ claims that they were unfairly graded in this month’s national examinations, the education minister has said.The announcement came as the Education Ministry said it had so far received more than 100 formal complaints from lass='cambodia-color'>...

Civil society organizations yesterday expressed concern about the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations last month, which they said would be hard to achieve under the new law on Associations and NGOs (lANGO).   ​ lass='cambodia-color'>...

The new United Nations envoy to Cambodia concluded her first official visit to the country Thursday by calling on Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government to ensure the independence of the judiciary amid a host of land and labor disputes she said are encroaching on the lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly passed the government’s $4.3 billion budget for 2016 this week, which includes a plan to take on nearly $1 billion in foreign debt. The Post’s Siv Meng sat down with Aun Porn Moniroth, Minister of Economy and Finance, to discuss the revenue lass='cambodia-color'>...

After seven years under discussion and a series of drastic edits, the Trade Union Law is inching cLoser to being passed by the NationaL AssembLy. Human Rights Watch yesterday issued a statement on the Latest draft of the union Law, saying that whiLe it Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...