Two former board members of the country’s largest independent garment sector union asked the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday to suspend president Ath Thorn and two fellow officials over allegations of embezzlement. Oum Visal and Roeung Chanthorn, founding board members of the Coalition of Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has rejected a request from two former members of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ Democratic Union (CCAWDU) to have the union’s president be forced to step down as he is investigated for embezzlement. Former CCAWDU officials Oum Visal and Roeun ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of Cambodians hoping to migrate to Japan to work in the electronics industry yesterday protested outside an NGO that they claim conned them out of up to $200 each with promises of jobs. About 100 protesters – out of a total of 300 who are ss='cambodia-color'>...

Economic freedom in Cambodia worsened over the past year, according to the latest report from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in the Us. Cambodia is ranked 108 out of 178 countries surveyed, with an overall score of 57.4, a 1.1-point dip from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy launched another effort to mobilize support behind the opposition’s demand for a fresh election, by holding opinion poll via his Facebook page. The opinion poll is regarded as another effort of the opposition leader sam Rainsy in order to mobilize the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A sand-dredging ferry caught fire and two of its pumping machines exploded yesterday in Kandal’s Kien svay district. The blast sent a black plume of smoke over the Mekong and caused oil to leak into the river. Yem sokhum, Phomthom commune police chief, said that according to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of Cambodian rural households with access to latrines increased from 23 to 33 per cent in 2013, a Ministry of Rural Development report released yesterday says. Chreay Pom, director of the ministry’s rural health care department, said that last year, the ministry constructed about ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of mobile subscribers in Cambodia topped 20 million last year, surpassing the country’s population by about 5 million. Internet users also jumped, according to a report released Wednesday by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. The report fails to say how many Cambodians own ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 50 land rights activists from two Phnom Penh communities filed a complaint Wednesday with police over an incident in which an unidentified man allegedly fired a shot at a bus transporting them from an anti-eviction protest in siem Reap to Phnom Penh. The city’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of houses have been marked for demolition near Phnom Penh International Airport as authorities say the families must be moved to bring the site in line with international standards. Civil aviation officials visited Chrey Chisark village in Por sen Chey district’s Choam Choa commune with ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP’s campaign for the May 18 council elections rolled through these northwestern provinces Wednesday, with party leaders sam Rainsy and Kem sokha casting aside their promises last week to refrain from attacks on the ruling CPP. A growing cavalcade moved across Battambang province and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kia Motors opened its first showroom in Cambodia on Friday and the local authorised dealer, A&A Auto Group, says the time is right for the Korean carmaker to join the ranks of those looking to tap the country’s growing middle class. sin soveoung, sales manager for ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the wake of last month’s Thai military coup, an uneasy quiet has fallen over official checkpoints in Oddar Meanchey province, leading many on this side of the border to fear for their livelihoods. sitting on a motorbike in the queue for O’smach international border checkpoint ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Cambodian migrant workers return in droves from Thailand through the casino-laden border town of Poipet, Prime Minister Hun sen is warning gambling parlour owners this does not mean a jackpot for them. “Casinos in Phnom Penh and along the border are not for Khmer citizens,” ss='cambodia-color'>...

Although foreigners have long paid a fee to enter Phnom Penh’s Tuol sleng Genocide Museum, the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has announced that the days of apparently free entry to the notorious Khmer Rouge prison are finished and the charge will now be ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of civil society organizations will petition King Norodom sihamoni today, calling on the king to withhold his signature from three judicial laws that they say will entrench the ruling CPP’s control of the courts and jeopardize citizens’ constitutional freedoms. Despite concern raised by local ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 1,000 ethnic Khmer Krom monks and Khmer nationalists will hold the first formal protest this morning at Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park since authorities re-opened it last week after seven months of a high-security lockdown. The municipality over the weekend approved plans from the Khmer Kampuchea ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court will question three opposition CNRP lawmakers this morning over a street brawl at a July 15 protest that the authorities have described as an “insurrection” against Prime Minister Hun sen’s government. Three CNRP youth organizers remain in prison over the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Trade data from the US ShowS Cambodian exportS to the world&rSquo;S largeSt economy increaSed 6 per cent during the firSt Six monthS of the year. AS of June 30, Cambodian exportS to the US totalled $1.4 billion, up from $1.32 billion recorded during the Same Six-month SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a new draft traffic law aimed at improving the safety of Cambodia’s notoriously dangerous roads, with only legislative approval standing in the way of the bill being passed into law. The draft law, which includes changes to 64 articles, ss='cambodia-color'>...