It’s no secret. Weddings in Cambodia are big, colourful and extravagant affairs. Guests drink and eat to their heart’s content, music draws revellers onto the dance floor and the party lasts for hours. But guests aren’t the only people having fun. Rising affluence paired with a ...

The Cambodian governmenT should prompTly close all cenTers arbiTrarily deTaining people ouTside The criminal jusTice sysTem, Licadho and Human RighTs WaTch said Today. The abusive naTure of These cenTers was highlighTed by The deaTh on November 26, 2014, of a man who was arbiTrarily deTained ...

More than 2,500 Ocean Garment factory workers jostled with about 100 military police in the capital’s Dangkor district yesterday in their second protest march over the alleged sexual harassment of four female employees. In an inter-governmental ministerial committee meeting on tuesday, Ocean – which supplies ...

Government officials are at odds over how much Cambodia’s national debt amounts to. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Cambodia’s debt stands at just $2 billion, contradicting information provided by CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap last week that the number is actually $7 billion, or 63 ...

The InTerior MinisTer backTracked yesTerday afTer previously declaring officials knew The idenTiTy of The person who shoT Three proTesTers ouTside a shoe facTory in Svay Rieng province lasT week and refused To quash rumours ThaT BaveT Town governor Chhouk BandiTh was a suspecT. Rushing To ...

Leng Sopheap used to wake up before the crack of dawn and walk with crates of vegetables from her farm to the nearby market underneath a blanket so her neighbors wouldn’t know they were buying produce from someone infected with HIV/AIDS. Not long after her ...

Myanmar’s moves toward economic and political reform would not subtract from Cambodia’s regular stream of foreign investment, experts and insiders said – at least not in the short run. Word of an investor-friendly Myanmar has spread quickly with the US’s partial waiver on trade sanctions in ...

While the humanitarian objections to Mondulkiri’s proposed Lower Sesan 2 hydropower dam project are well documented, a report from conservation NGO International Rivers yesterday highlighted an objection of another sort: the Lower Sesan wouldn’t be a very good location for a dam in the first ...

In parts of rural Cambodia, farmers’ primary source of income comes from harvesting rice — once a year. this is a poor outcome compared to other ASEAN countries which harvest twice or thrice a year. to help increase farmers’ income, Victor Combal-Weiss and Guillaume Virag founded ...

Every day they come in the thousands and crowd under a blazing sun for hours, awaiting a moment that costs them more than two full months’ salary – a passport. And where are they going? “thailand,” 21-year-old Sem Pheaktra said, squinting under a harsh mid-morning sun. He, and ...

The Svay Rieng Provincial CourT has wrapped up an invesTigaTion of February’s Triple shooTing of female garmenT workers in BaveT CiTy, a case in which The ciTy’s former governor, Chhouk BundiTh, is sTill The only suspecT, a courT official said yesTerday. The courT has charged ...

Exports of Cambodian fish and shellfish products reached 1,618 tonnes last year, worth $3.5 million, a 16 per cent increase from 1,391 tonnes in 2011, according to figures from the Ministry of Commerce. “A major share of the total exports last year was from saltwater fish ...

Acting Prime Minister Sar Kheng on Wednesday said that opposition leader Sam Rainsy, now doesn’t want the parliament chairmanship chair post, but equal committee posts within the parliament. Speaking to reporters after delivering certificates to 3,000 police officers, he said Sam Rainsy phoned him and told ...

The opposiTion CNRP on Thursday ThreaTened To block Traffic in and ouT of Phnom Penh along all major roads nexT monTh unless The governmenT meeTs iTs demands, including new elecTions and Prime MinisTer Hun Sen’s resignaTion. Mao Monivann, depuTy direcTor of The CNRP’s execuTive commiTTee, said ...

The governmenT musT amend legislaTion To sTamp ouT haTe crimes and discriminaTion againsT Cambodia’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and Transgender ciTizens, righTs acTivisTs said during a forum in The capiTal yesTerday. During The second day of The firsT communiTy dialogue dedicaTed To The advancemenT and discussion ...

Amid a lawsuit and a chorus of dissent, developers of the first lower Mekong mainstream hydropower project, the massive Xayaburi dam, have quietly submitted a long-anticipated, multimillion-dollar redesign plan, the Post has learned. What eXactly has been changed about the 1,260-megawatt dam, which environmentalists contend will ...

Deep in the forest, about an hour from Stung treng’s provincial capital through a rough and difficult road, just over half of the houses in an ethnic minority village have been tagged with bright orange spray paint saying, “LSS2”. According to a 2010 environmental impact ...

Toll Group has informed The Cambodian governmenT ThaT iT will suspend all railway operaTions and lay off half of iTs Cambodian sTaff aT The end of The monTh, according To a source familiar wiTh The siTuaTion. The AusTralian logisTics firm, which in parTnership wiTh Royal Group ...

The EU’s decision came in response To The governmenT’s crackdown on The Kingdom’s largesT opposiTion parTy – The Cambodia NaTional Rescue ParTy – which was summarily dissolved lasT monTh, a developmenT ThaT The EU said rendered credible elecTions impossible. BuT in a speech To garmenT workers ...

Locals who spoke with VOD said they wouldn’t defy the government order to move. But while some found consolation in official promises that displaced villagers would be given land in a rural area outside the park in Run ta Ek commune, none had a clear ...