Sketchy detailS that fail to Specify when conStruction of the Lower SeSan 2 hydro dam will begin, or name the ChineSe company involved, have villagerS fearing for their future, repreSentativeS and environmental groupS Say. Since the Council of MiniSterS announced on Friday it had Signed off SS='cambodia-color'>...

The International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia program (BFC) must employ more transparency in their monitoring of Cambodia’s factories in order to effectively bring change to the country’s working and wage conditions, a report launched yesterday says. According to “Monitoring in the Dark” a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s economy is expected to grow by 6.7 percent in 2013 thanks to anticipating increases in agriculture, foreign direct investment (FDI) and tourism, the World Bank said in its latest outlook Wednesday. “The growth is based on achieving the dividends from focus on higher rice ss='cambodia-color'>...

Access to finance could reduce violence, empower the most vulnerable in society and improve the livelihoods of Cambodia’s poorest people, a conference on community-led funding heard on Wednesday. sarah sitts, country manager of the international NGO Pact, introduced the funding model of savings-led micro-finance (sLMF). In ss='cambodia-color'>...

For the second time in five days, Cambodia’s garment industry has been rocked by another partial collapse of a structure at a factory. Garment workers are reporting that at least 10 people, including a pregnant woman, have been injured after a concrete platform collapsed into a ss='cambodia-color'>...

A recent string of disasters rocking Bangladesh’s garment industry has highlighted its factories’ shocking safety record, and stoked optimism that giant fashion brands will flock to move their orders to countries like Cambodia. But Cambodia’s garment industry has not experienced any major deluge of business so ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Zongtex Garment factory off Phnom Penh’s Russian Boulevard looks like a nondescript residential compound, hidden down a dead-end road. There are no signs suggesting that it supplied to some of the world’s leading high street names – and the Us military. Taiwanese-owned Zongtex Garment Manufacturing ss='cambodia-color'>...

A draft trade union law that the government has pledged to introduce by the end of the year includes provisions that will allow for unions to be suspended if their activities are deemed illegal, the head of Cambodia’s largest employers association said Wednesday. Van sou Ieng, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The World’s Children’s Prize (WCP) ceremony, to be held on sunday at the Artscape Theatre, will tell the story of the 2015 award ceremony in sweden and south Africa’s participation. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian navy on Monday formally took control of Koh Damlong, a remote island that was slated to become the crown jewel of sergei Polonsky’s offshore tourism project before the Russian developer was deported to Moscow to stand trial on serious fraud charges, officials said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Lawmakers from Cambodia’s ruling party on Monday refused to accept a petition from hundreds of people who held a rally calling for the government’s help in resolving land disputes, drawing criticism from activists who questioned the effectiveness of the country’s parliament. The appeal, which contained more ss='cambodia-color'>...

Oil prices in Cambodia hit the highest of all time on Friday, with a liter of premium gasoline going for 1.45 U.s. dollars at all petrol stations in the capital. The price is the highest ever if compared with the peak price of 1.41 U.s. dollars ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh municipality defended itself for the first time this weekend against sustained criticism from rights groups over the jailing of 13 female protesters from Boeng Kak, blaming the backlash on the “insanity” of unnamed foreign provocateurs. sRP lawmakers, meanwhile, met with the women in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers who fear eviction from their homes of 30 years in Kratie province travelled to Phnom Penh yesterday to plead for Prime Minister Hun sen’s intervention. Fifteen representatives of 88 families who live close to Kratie Airport, in Kratie town’s srei Padav village, said provincial authorities ss='cambodia-color'>...

SupplierS to Wal-Mart StoreS Inc. (WMT) and HenneS & Mauritz AB (HMB) agreed yeSterday to pay about $145,000 in back wageS and Severance to about 160 workerS at a Cambodian factory that cloSed in November, a labor activiSt involved in the deal Said. The agreement, which SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s first dairy factory is being planned for Phnom Penh, as one of the owners, a Vietnam-based dairy company, hopes to tap strong local demand for its products. The 2.7-hectare factory, in the Phnom Penh special Economic Zone (PPsEZ), would produce condensed milk, yoghurt and UHT ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials yesterday disposed of some 30 tonnes of chemical substances they said Chinese nationals had intended to sell illegally as cosmetics. Long sreng, deputy chief of the Interior Ministry’s anti-economic crime department, said authorities seized the chemicals – some of which already were falsely packaged ss='cambodia-color'>...

The country’s draft $3.4 billion national budget for 2014 proposes yet another $920 million in new debt to make ends meet, the same amount taken on this year, according to a copy of the spending bill obtained Thursday. The draft budget calls for nearly $400 million—or ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new local airline is applying to fly in Cambodia, according to aviation officials, at a time when the market is monopolised by national flag carrier Cambodia Angkor Air and a handful of carriers offering chartered routes. Royal spirit Airlines last Friday met with the state ss='cambodia-color'>...

Communities threatened by the planned construction of three hydropower dams in stung Treng and Ratanakkiri provinces will today submit to the Chinese Embassy a petition demanding that the embassy intervene against Chinese companies investing in the dams. The petition, to be presented in Chinese, Khmer and ss='cambodia-color'>...