While the World Bank commended Cambodia for its strong economic growth and efforts to reduce poverty over the past two decades, it, however, cautioned yesterday that the agriculture and garment sectors posed challenges which could make that growth unsustainable. “An overview of the past two decades, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Worker unions criticized the National Assembly’s passing of 10 amendments to the contentious Trade Union Law on Tuesday, saying they were not aware of the exact nature of the amendments passed by parliament. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sweden loaned Cambodia US$57 million yeSterday for economic country development and cooperation for the duration of 2012-2013. The agreement waS made between Cambodia&rSquo;S Economic MiniSter Keat Chhon and SwediSh ambaSSador to Cambodia Anne Hoglund at the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) yeSterday morning. Keat Chhon SS='cambodia-color'>...

New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the Cambodian Bar Association of trying to silence potential government critics ahead of July’s national elections by imposing restrictions on lawyers making public statements. The Bar Association and the Information Ministry have both issued edicts that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Claims on Cambodia’s six biggest insurance companies declined year on year by more than 90 per cent in the first quarter of 2012, data from the General Insurance Association of Cambodia (GIAC) shows. The value of claims in 2011 was raised by fires that gutted two ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government needs to act – and act now – to review all economic land concessions, which un­derscore the Kingdom’s dark disease of violent land disputes, rights groups said yesterday. Ten days after Prime Minister Hun sen signed a regulation for an immediate and indefinite moratorium ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities set a May 25 deadline yesterday for residents of Mondulkiri province’s Rayum commune in Koh Nhek district to leave their homes, prompting the deployment of additional provincial forces to the area. Villager seng Channy, 52, said that the coalition of about 300 police, soldiers and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The sale and purchase of land along National Road 3 is increasing in volume but land prices are not increasing significantly despite the road being completed, and despite the many industrial zones along it.  Based on his company’s research in the second quarter of this year, ss='cambodia-color'>...

LAST week marked the arrival and paSSing of 12/12/12, the Cambodian government&rSquo;S original date for the commencement of oil extraction from the Block A oilfieldS in the Gulf of Thailand, with no activity on the Site. Chevron currently holdS a 30 per cent intereSt in the SS='cambodia-color'>...

The production of animal feed may be lucrative for family-run businesses, but production is failing to meet the local market’s demand, said industry experts. Ros Limhy, National Agriculture adviser for the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ Tonle sap Poverty Reduction and smallholder Development project, and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 6,000 striking garment factory workers briefly blocked Road 371 in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district on Friday to bring attention to their demands for higher salaries, union officials and protesters said. Marking the third day of strike action, the mainly female workers moved into the middle ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 staffers protested outside a Honda NCX company in Por sen Chey district’s Choam Chao commune yesterday because they say employees are being sacked for trying to unionise, among other grievances. soeurn sot, a technician at the company, said during the protest that if ss='cambodia-color'>...

Another witness to the fatal shootings of environmental activist Chut Wutty and military police officer In Rattana was questioned at Koh Kong Provincial Court yesterday. Bou Orn is the third employee of logging company Timbergreen – a firm Chut Wutty was investigating for alleged illegal logging ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in stung Treng province have released the names of five government officials whom they arrested on Tuesday in samki commune for interfering with a corps of youth volunteers sent to measure land as part of the prime minister’s national initiative to grant property to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Toll Royal Railways signed two freight logistics agreements with siam Concrete Group and United Logistics and Distribution at their offices in Phnom Penh’s Central Railway station yesterday. sCG Cambodia contracted TRR for the transport and warehousing for bagged cement from Touk Meas in Kampot province to ss='cambodia-color'>...

A week after the European Parliament issued a damning resolution on Cambodia’s human-rights situation and called for a revoking of trade privileges, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has shot back. “It is essential for the EU parliament to study and better understand the situation before passing ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a sign that they no longer have faith in the court system, more than 100 villagers in Kampong Chhnang province placed their fates in the hands of a higher power yesterday, and prayed for misfortune to rain down on a company with whom they’ve ss='cambodia-color'>...

A coalition of NGOs has called on Cambodia’s National Mekong Committee (CNMC) to push for the Xayaburi dam to be added to the agenda of a regional Mekong River meeting next week. Chhith sam Ath, executive director of NGO Forum on Cambodia, said it was disappointing ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 500 workers from Phnom Penh’s NagaWorld Casino demonstrated on Monday, in what was their fourth straight day of strike action in front of the casino over wages and the firing of four staff members sok Narith, deputy secretary general of the Cambodian Tour­ism and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Going back on an earlier promise not to make any more public speeches before next month’s commune elections, Prime Minister Hun sen gave the opening address at a two-day conference on food security and nutrition in Phnom Penh yesterday. At the event, organized by the Council ss='cambodia-color'>...