Forty-four garment workers on Friday fainted at the Chim Ly garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Dangkao district, a police official said yesterday. Kambol commune police chief Phan Phoeun said that at first only a few workers fainted, then others followed suit “because they saw other ss='cambodia-color'>...

In an attempt to foster tourism on the Cambodia-Thai border, tourism officials this week visited the Cham Yeam border crossing in Koh Kong province. Warming relations with Thailand’s newly elected Prime Minister Yingluck shinawatra are expected to improve cross-border tourism, which deteriorated after border clashes ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 female workers fainted yesterday in Kompong speu province at a Taiwanese-owned garment factory manufacturing clothes for the Us sports brand Nike, an official from the Ministry of Labor said. Pok Vanthath, deputy director of vocational safety inside the ministry’s health department, said he ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition MP Mu sochua yesterday called for a boycott of global sports brand Nike, following two fainting incidents at a factory that supplies it last week. she also warned that global brands and the Cambodian government were taking a huge gamble by failing to address the ss='cambodia-color'>...

One of three women shot during a protest outside the Kaoway sports factory in svay Rieng province’s Bavet town on February 20 accused deposed town governor Chhouk Bandith of the crime yesterday, but told a judge she hadn’t been sure until seeing a media report ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s exports to Japan rebounded in the first half of the year, jumping from single-digit growth last year to 19 per cent, new figures from the Japanese External Trade Organization (Jetro) showed. During the first half of last year, Cambodian exports to Japan grew ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Hall has requested owners of factories, enterprises, warehouses and garages to relocate to the outskirts along the capital’s third ring road, which is still under construction and expected to be completed by 2021. It said the facilities’ locations in the city ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has set up a working group in Preah sihanouk province to resolve land disputes in the Poy Machov and Prek Teuk sap Kbal Chhay areas. Minister of Land Management Chea sophara said in a letter dated ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday addressed the Asia Media summit in siem Reap, outlining his priorities to increase cooperation in the region and the world to combat fake news and cybercrime, which he said are becoming a serious threat. In his speech at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Labour Ministry on Tuesday launched a booklet outlining new strategies to promote gender equality in the labour sector from this year to 2023. seung sor socheta, a ministry secretary of state, yesterday said the policies are outlined in the strategic Plan for Gender Mainstreaming ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in the first three quarters of this year, Cambodia earned $5.7 million in royalties from forest produce – an increase of nearly $2 million compared to the same period last year when it earned $4 million. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian and Thai joint authorities on Monday reviewed a disputed area where the Thais removed cassava trees of two Cambodian farmers in Banteay Meanchey province’s svay Chek district last week. The Cambodian side was represented by Major General Chhun Mao, deputy commander of the Royal ss='cambodia-color'>...

A bomb explosion on Thursday killed two of three “unlicensed” men who were hired to carry out mine clearance in O’svay commune, in Oddar Meanchey province’s Trapaing Prasat district. District police chief In Kay said the villagers had collectively hired Hok Rachhan, 18, Mao Kamsot, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 70 NGO repreSentativeS, foreSt activiStS and univerSity StudentS Signed an open letter urging the government to find wayS to prevent and combat foreStry crimeS more effectively. In their petition releaSed on Saturday, the group Said they had been obServing the government&rSquo;S clampdownS over the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen warned on Tuesday that a developing trade war between the Us and China could affect Cambodia, and said the Kingdom must act to mitigate any potential fallout. In March, Us President Donald Trump’s administration slapped tariffs on global imports of steel ss='cambodia-color'>...

After meeting with the European Commission, Prime Minister Hun sen said he had expected that Cambodia would one day lose its access to the bloc’s “Everything But Arms” (EBA) preferential trade agreement and had “already requested low interest” loans from China, Japan, south Korea and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) cleared more than 30,000 land mines from 75sq km in the first 10 months of this year, the organisation’s director-general said on Monday. Heng Ratana, speaking at a CMAC meeting, said the organisation aims to clear a further 116sq ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government on Tuesday said it had “noted” 25 recommendations made by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR), saying they were part of a political agenda and linked to the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). It accepted the other 173 recommendations ss='cambodia-color'>...

A feasibility study on the construction of a new airport in the Kingdom will be launched later this year, according to a Ministry of Tourism spokesman on Monday. The plan was approved last week in a meeting held by the Ministry of Economy and Finance ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Public Works and Transport Ministry on Friday said it plans to spend about $170 million to improve sihanoukville’s wastewater treatment system and deal with floods. Transport Minister sun Chanthol said during a workshop in the capital that he will push for the budget to be ss='cambodia-color'>...