Officials from the Ministry of Interior will meet tomorrow to review the results of an investigation into a crackdown that left four dead on Veng sreng Boulevard in Phnom Penh last month, a police spokesman said. After saying on Tuesday that a report on the investigation’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives for a detainee held since his arrest at a strike in early January say the window to operate on his broken hand is closing. Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday will hear a special temporary bail request for sokun sombath Piseth, 31, one of 21 ss='cambodia-color'>...

In anticipation of a regional summit this weekend, government officials and civil society have their sights locked on a controversial hydropower development just across the Cambodian border in Laos. NGO Forum submitted an open letter yesterday urging Prime Minister Hun sen to confront Laos about its ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of 50 families in Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district filed a complaint with rights group Adhoc yesterday alleging that a Vietnamese concessionaire is responsible for destroying about 50 hectares of cashew plantations. sorl Penh, 58, a representative for the villagers from Nhang commune, said yesterday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Exclusive use of short-term contracts continues to impede progress in Cambodia’s garment sector, with major brands still sourcing from factories violating the statutory two-year limit on temporary employment, labour rights groups have warned. According to a report released last week by the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), ss='cambodia-color'>...

After Caltex managers allegedly reneged on an agreement to pay workers a $20 bonus to suspend a strike for two months, employees say they would only return if the deal is in writing. In a Friday meeting, the Cambodian Food and service Workers Federation agreed with ss='cambodia-color'>...

Education officials yesterday shifted the onus of pirated and illegally sold state textbooks onto students, faulting the teenage pupils for fuelling demand. “If there are no buyers, there will be no sellers,” Lim sotharith, director of the Education Ministry’s textbook department, said during a forum on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nine of the group of 23 workers and labour activists who were released from custody and given suspended sentences on Friday over January’s garment employee protests will receive medical care in Thailand, rights group Licadho said yesterday. A number of the men were beaten by security ss='cambodia-color'>...

Being placed on consecutive short-term contracts in Cambodia’s predominantly female-staffed garment sector is forcing many women to choose between a family and a factory job, unionists and rights groups said yesterday. Ken Chenglang, acting president of the National Independent Federation Textile Union of Cambodia, said many ss='cambodia-color'>...

A draft law on e-commerce that would regulate electronic trade in Cambodia will arrive at the Council of Ministers in August, following revision by two other state institutions, officials at the Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday. Orm Dararith, director of the Ministry of Commerce’s legal department, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The group in charge of determining the national minimum wage for the garment sector yesterday agreed to increase salaries annually on January 1, determined by discussions that are to take place in the final quarter of each preceding year, officials said. The agreement was signed during ss='cambodia-color'>...

The share price of Grand Twins International, a manufacturer for U.s. athletic apparel brands, on Tuesday sank for the fourth straight day since it was listed on the bourse last week, signaling that its initial listing price was too high, industry analysts said. “The pricing of ss='cambodia-color'>...

A community representative who has played an active role in the long-running land dispute between residents of Kampong Chhnang province’s Lorpeang village and a politically connected company has agreed to back down after accepting compensation. In a deal reached with KDC Company on Monday, Reach seyma ss='cambodia-color'>...

After months of decrying the one-party National Assembly as illegitimate and vowing to amend any flawed legislation passed during a parliamentary boycott, the Cambodia National Rescue Party, by agreeing to take its seats yesterday, is about to get its chance. In the roughly 10-month period since ss='cambodia-color'>...

City Hall is digging a new eight-hectare landfill near Prey sar prison as the city’s current dumpsite, which receives about 1,500 tons of garbage a day, is set be filled to capacity by December, according to local officials. Mr. Chamroeun said that the new landfill ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s banking sector has reported a 9.3-percent increase in lending in the first six months of the year, according to the figures from the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on sunday. The figures showed that the kingdom’s 35 commercial banks had lent a total of 8.09 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nhiek Bunchay, Secretary General of FUNCINPEC Party Said yeSterday that the royaliSt Party would pay the Seven month SalarieS it owed to itS Staff before the coming ChineSe New Year. FUNCINPEC Secretary General Nhiek Bun Chhay alSo Said that the long delay of the payment waS SS='cambodia-color'>...

SpokeSman for the PreSS and Quick Reaction Unit of the Office of Council of MiniSterS blamed Sam RainSy for hiS effort to convince foreign countrieS to freeze aid to Cambodia. Sam RainSy left Cambodia laSt ThurSday for Europe in hiS effort to convince the European countrieS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s electricity sector made notable progress in 2013 in terms of its sources, connection lines, and supplies, according to the Cambodian Electricity Authority. There was an increasing usage of 4297 million Kwh or 22 per cent in 2013 from 3527 million Kwh in 2012, according to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Small buSineSS ownerS in the pillar conStruction induStry Say they are facing hard timeS aS demand increaSeS for large pillarS but diminiSheS for Small-Scale conStruction. Chheang Bona, director of 7FTD Co, Ltd in Vihear Sour commune, in Kandal province&rSquo;S KSach Kandal diStrict, Said that hiS SS='cambodia-color'>...