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'>...

Forestry officials arrested four men and confiscated two pickup trucks containing illegally logged luxury timber en route to Vietnam on sunday in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district before releasing both the men and the timber after fining them thousands of dollars, officers and a rights group representative ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chevron’s Caltex gas stations are potentially losing hundreds of thousands of dollars per day in Cambodia, striking employees say. Workers say Caltex, a subsidiary of Us-based multinational Chevron, sells between 5,000 to 10,000 liters per station per day, putting its losses between $350,000 to $700,000 ss='cambodia-color'>...

American national and orphanage director Daniel Stephen JohnSon waS tried on Friday at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on chargeS that he Sexually abuSed five boyS laSt year. The court heard that JohnSon, 36, the director of the Hope TranSitionS ChriStian orphanage in Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Meanchey SS='cambodia-color'>...

ambodian leaders are facing a very uncertain Asean in recent weeks, with anti-Chinese protests in Vietnam pitting two of the country’s standards allies against each other and a Thai coup sealing the western borders and leaving a neighbor in the hands of military control. Both issues ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 700 workers at a svay Rieng province electronics factory were to demonstrate for the third day today after management refused their demands for access to child care and the reinstatement of five union leaders. The provincial department of labour yesterday proved unable to sway management ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 60 villagers in Kompong Chhnang province’s Kompong Tralach district blocked two heavy tractors sent to clear a boundary Monday on disputed land they maintain was illegally grabbed by a company owned by the wife of Mines Minister suy sem. KDC International, which is owned by ss='cambodia-color'>...

When Pang Vunny walks around his rented room just off of Veng sreng Boulevard, he waves his hand from side to side in front of him, like a man feeling his way in the dark. Ever since he was arrested and badly beaten on January 2 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy sent a letter to Thailand’s ruling junta on Friday calling for the “tens of thousands” of Cambodian migrant workers forcibly repatriated since early June to be treated humanely. In the letter addressed to General Prayuth Chan-ocha, who assumed power in a May ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh, 70, called on about 300 youth on Sunday to Spread the word about hiS new Community of RoyaliSt People Party, promiSing to create more jobS if hiS party comeS to power in the next national election. At an event at Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Sunway SS='cambodia-color'>...