The GarmenT ManufacTurers AssociaTion in Cambodia and unions boTh need To compromise furTher To secure a “proper wage” for garmenT workers whose lives are hampered by Their currenT $61 minimum wage, a MinisTry of Social Affairs official overseeing wage negoTiaTions said yesTerday. “The governmenT needs The ...

ThirTy people locked in a land dispuTe wiTh ruling parTy senaTor and sugar Tycoon Ly Yong PhaT received summonses yesTerday To appear in Kampong Speu provincial courT. AlThough The summonses don’T lisT a complainanT, some of Those called To appear in courT nexT Tuesday said They ...

Cambodian opposition officials said tuesday they will give the government three months to hold a new election, or they will lead a movement in hopes of toppling its leadership. Kem Sokha, vice president of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, said the government is harming its citizens ...

One month after the capital’s power provider promised to end chronic city blackouts for good this hot season, residents and businesses continue to find themselves sweltering in the heat and throwing away any spoilable goods due to the unpredictable losses of electricity. In March, Electricite du ...

More than 200 striking workers at Cambodia’s largest brewer, Cambrew Ltd., resumed work on Saturday after the company agreed to lift their monthly salary from $120 to $150 as they had been demanding. the workers at the company, which produces Angkor beer and Black Panther stout, ...

The Japanese embassy is reporTing a $280 million drop in Japanese invesTmenT lasT year, buT officials were quick To say ThaT The numbers don’T necessarily reflecT slumping invesTor confidence in Cambodia. Japanese invesTmenT in The Kingdom reached abouT $47.5 million in 2013, compared To $328 million ...

Fewer cases of abuse of migrants were recorded last year than in 2012, but that doesn’t mean the issue is any less serious, a forum held by rights group Adhoc was told yesterday. torture, a lack of food, and physical and sexual abuse are just some ...

Three judicial reform drafT laws will be submiTTed To The Council of MinisTers lasT This monTh, jusTice officials said Wednesday. The drafT laws deal wiTh The funcTions of The courTs and The conducT of judges and prosecuTors, as well as an oversighT body called The Supreme ...

It took three illegal border crossings, several bribed officials and six months in an overcrowded detention centre before Mohammed Ibrahim* finally arrived in Cambodia. Four years later, the ethnic Rohingya, a victim of violence and oppression in strife-torn Rakhine state in Myanmar’s west, is one of ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Monday that the country will take in refugees from Australia on a voluntary basis, stressing that accepting asylum seekers is part of an international obligation for Cambodia. Hun Sen said a Cambodian working group will interview those refugees ...

Fuelled by poverty and debt, more than a quarter of Cambodian adults migrate, and, in the process, many are leaving behind their children, a new report finds. Part of a four-year research project on child labour, the Cambodian Independent Research Institute’s the Impacts of Adult Migration ...

A week after Prime Minister Hun Sen asked the Ministry of Commerce (MoC) and Ministry of tourism (Mot) to cooperate with each other to work on price labelling, the MoC has set strict rules to initiate legal actions against those businesses that fail to label ...

Population depends on agriculture 2014 :  73%(Source: the World Bank)total rice production 2009 – 2012:  7.58 – 9.29 million tons(Source: NSDP, 2014-2081)total fish catchment 2013:  718,000 tonnes* 73% fresh water* 14% the sea(Source: the Phnom Penh Post, 2014)   Rice farmers working in the field, Kandal province, ...

As much as local people are benefiting from the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) recovery project following last year’s record floods, they aren’t receiving all the benefits they could, according to some accounts. Operating in five provinces of Cambodia to restore road access to those affected by the floods, ...

China National Cereal, Oil and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) is the latest mainland Chinese company to sign a deal to export Cambodian rice. COFCO is one of a number of Chinese companies that have signed similar deals with their Cambodian counterparts, but  direct rice exports to China ...

Representatives of 32 families living in the capital’s Chamkarmon district staged a protest yesterday in tonle Bassac commune, pleading with Prime Minister Hun Sen to intervene on their behalf against the thai Bun Roong company, which they say is forcing them to sell their land ...

Workers and managers at Cambo Handsome 1 garment factory were continuing discussions last night after a fourth day of protest in which union leaders said more than 20 employees were injured in a confrontation with police. the workers are protesting against the suspension of three union ...

Government officials yesterday dismissed the World Bank’s recently revealed decision to freeze funding for new projects in Cambodia to protest a Phnom Penh real estate project that has forced thousand of families out of their homes. A housing rights group closely following the evictions said ...

Members of the Asean People’s Forum, a coalition of NGOs that convened in Phnom Penh last week, declared yesterday that their rights had been violated after four workshops on sensitive issues were canceled by the venue where they met. In a statement representing more than 1,200 ...

A Council of Ministers official and her husband who were arrested in July for obstructing a land-titling initiative spearheaded by Prime Minister Hun Sen have received bail, Stung treng Provincial Court prosecutor Chroeng Khmao said Friday. Meas Sokhon, who works at the Council of the Ministers’ ...