Moments after Prak sovannary heard the Court of Appeal denied her husband’s request for bail, she sobbed over a speaker affixed to the top of a tuk-tuk, condemning the decision to about 150 supporters. “Release him! Release him!” said sovannary, the wife of Independent Democracy of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is not prepared to join Asean’s single regional market and production base next year, a Labor Ministry official said Friday. Next year, the 10 nations of Asean are to create the Asean Economic Community (AEC). Within this community, labor is to flow freely and import ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 employees of Cambodia’s largest brewer, Cambrew Ltd., held a protest outside the brewery in sihanoukville on Thursday to demand a $30 dollar salary increase to $120 monthly salaries, worker representatives said. The company, which produces Angkor beer and Black Panther stout, employs more ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Ministry is seeking 478 students to work in prisons and offices across the country, according to an announcement posted online Monday. The ministry’s message, posted to the website of the National Committee for sub-National Democratic Development, calls for 80 candidates to work as prison ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sam RainSy, preSident of the oppoSition Cambodia National ReScue Party (CNRP), on ThurSday renewed hiS call for negotiationS with the Prime MiniSter Hun Sen&rSquo; S ruling party to end a nine-month poSt-election diSpute. &nbSp; &nbSp; “Only talkS between the two partieS will lead to the end of the SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Interior’s National Police plans to establish its own Khmer-language newspaper to provide the public, for a fee, with accurate information on security and crime in Cambodia and to promote awareness about traffic laws and the dangers of drugs, the National Police spokesman ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand are rushing back across the border, voluntarily repatriating themselves in the face of increasingly hostile rhetoric towards undocumented labourers. In the wake of Thailand’s coup d’état last month, army chief General Prayuth Chan-o-Cha urged better regulation of the workforce ss='cambodia-color'>...

The leader of Cambodia’s largest independent garment union is due to appear in court this afternoon for a third round of pretrial questioning over a case stemming from a strike that ended more than six months ago. Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (C.CAWDU) president ss='cambodia-color'>...

The tax imposed on the export of acacia chips is to be abolished to help boost exports of the locally grown raw product, Prime Minister Hun sen announced on Monday. speaking at the grand opening of Aeon Mall, Hun sen said that acacia chips exported to ss='cambodia-color'>...

A senior member of the ruling party says it needs the opposition in the National Assembly and in the election process in order for Cambodia to develop democratically. “The Cambodian People’s Party needs a partner,” Chheang Von, a guest on “Hello VOA,” said last week. “Democracy ss='cambodia-color'>...

A deal to end the political deadlock may reduce demonstrations in the streets, but the authorities are leaving nothing to chance – Daun Penh’s notorious district security guards are finally receiving proper government training. City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche, who has previously said the baton-wielding district ss='cambodia-color'>...

City Hall on Friday officially issued its ban on trucks weighing more than 3 tonnes from using the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge until cracks discovered last month in a pillar on the bridge’s eastern end are repaired, a city spokesman said yesterday. Long Dimanche said police had ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 30 families continued to demonstrate in Preah Vihear province’s Chheb district on Friday and saturday over what they say is the illegal clearing of land by a Chinese company, villagers said sunday. The families accuse Rui Feng (Cambodia) International of clearing 500 hectares of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s porous borders are creating one of several headaches for health officials working to minimise outbreaks of avian influenza, officials revealed yesterday at a symposium on emerging infectious diseases in southeast Asia. The border provinces of Takeo and Kampong Cham have been witness to the highest ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy has been meeting with a number of Australian lawmakers in recent days, asking them to urge the Australian government to support his call for reform and a new election in Cambodia. But while the Cambodia National Rescue Party leader had announced that ss='cambodia-color'>...

A weekend storm battered buildings in Banteay Meanchey province’s Thma Pouk district, leaving hundreds affected by damage to houses and schools across the area. Deab Chhun, Thma Puok district deputy governor, said strong winds and rain swept through Komrou, Thmor Puok and Phoum Thmey communes at ss='cambodia-color'>...

Pen Siman, the general director of the MiniStry of Finance&rSquo;S general department of cuStomS and exciSe, will retire in October, according to a royal decree Signed by King Norodom Sihamoni and reprinted WedneSday in local media. Dated April 3, the royal decree inStructS Prime MiniSter Hun SS='cambodia-color'>...

As news broke yesterday evening that the Thai political situation had evolved from martial law to a full-blown coup d’etat, Cambodian government officials said they hoped the army’s takeover would be transitional and dismissed any concerns that tensions could rise on the Cambodia-Thailand border. ”We wish ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Education is drafting two sub-decrees on private educational institutions aimed at improving regulation of the nation’s vast body of private schools. The sub-decree on Organization and Management of Private schools and sub-decree on Categorization of Private schools have been sent to a range ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Electoral Reform Alliance, a group of election monitors and NGOs, put its support behind the opposition CNRP’s demands for a two-thirds majority vote for selecting members of the National Election Committee (NEC) at a workshop Tuesday in Phnom Penh. The process for selecting members of ss='cambodia-color'>...