Minister of Health Chheang Ra reaffirmed Cambodia’s commitment to promoting the health and well-being of the people of AsEAN by strengthening and expanding cooperation with the bloc and its dialogue partners. ss='cambodia-color'>...

For the ethnic Bunong people in this northeastern province, animals are an integral part of the local economy. Pigs, chickens and water buffaloes offer a variety of sustenance and labour. But it’s the elephants that bring foreigners – and foreigners bring cash. “When I get tours, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The price of food spiked this month, and Cambodia’s low-paid garment workers are feeling the effects. Meat, vegetables, toothbrushes, beauty accessories and even the plastic bags they get packed in have all seen a sharp bump up in price this month, some items by as much ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties are “narrowing their differences” in talks aimed at ending a standoff over recent elections, officials said Tuesday, as protesters ended three straight days of mass demonstrations against poll results. Both the leaders led their parties in the discussions, which were ss='cambodia-color'>...

Trade unions may have failed to get a stay-at-home strike for higher wages off the ground after the Khmer New Year earlier this month. But a strike for bonus pay is picking up steam in svay Rieng Province, where some 20,000 garment workers protested at ss='cambodia-color'>...

When the Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange (CSX) waS officially launched on Jul. 11 there were no companieS liSted becauSe of a drive to enSure that everything waS above board. “We want to aSSure full tranSparency,” SayS Huot Pum, the deputy director-general of the SecuritieS and Exchange SS='cambodia-color'>...

Triple-shooting suspect Chhouk Bandith has been sacked as Bavet town governor to prevent him from interfering in court proceedings, the svay Rieng deputy provincial governor said yesterday. The high-profile suspect is accused of shooting three garment factory workers at a protest outside the Kaoway sports Ltd ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia held on to its Tier 2 ranking for the third straight year in the U.s. state Depart- ments latest global Trafficking in Persons Report, which praised the country for a rise in prosecutions, but criticized the country over a new sub-decree on migrant labor. In ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen has signed off on four more economic land concessions (ELCs), all in protected areas, despite placing a moratorium on granting such leases on May 7. since the May 7 sub-decree, the premier has now signed off on seven concessions totalling 56,586 hectares ss='cambodia-color'>...

Less than five months from the national elections, Prime Minister Huns sen yesterday warned the public that his ruling CPP party would stop making charitable donations towards infrastructure and national development if the party is not re-elected. speaking at the inauguration of a Chinese-funded expansion of ss='cambodia-color'>...

With competition rife in Cambodia’s telecommunication market, two of the country’s largest mobile phone operators have engaged in a battle over prices and are at odds over the tactics being used to gain market share. On Friday, the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) ordered all mobile ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday forced a family whose three children were allegedly beaten by DM Group firm employees last month to accept only $1,000 in compensation in place of the $40,000 the family initially had demanded, the children’s father claimed. Ry sarun, 52, said that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s opposition leader sam Rainsy called Friday for election officials to declare his party and Prime Minister Hun sen’s party joint victors in recent polls saying the move would be a first step toward resolving a deadlock over the disputed election. With the opposition Cambodia National ss='cambodia-color'>...

A local company has begun working in cooperation with ABA bank to streamline payments for services such as electricity bills and mobile phone top-ups by allowing people to pay through its website, mobile applications and electronic kiosks. PayGo sEA (Cambodia) Co. Ltd., which operates under the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Municipality will provide land titles to 33 more families living in the city’s Boeng Kak neighborhood, a municipal official said Tuesday, roughly a third of those still seeking property rights in the area that has seen some 3,000 forced evictions. “First, we will solve ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers and local authorities continued to argue over a 4-hectare plot of land in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district on Monday, a day after officials promised to measure and issue a title for it. District council chief Prak Channa on sunday promised to issue a land ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Appeal Court has reduced the already shortened sentence of the 31-year-old son of a high-ranking official who killed three women in a car accident, ordering him to serve just two months in prison, a court official said Tuesday. Bun Rattanak, the son of municipal finance ss='cambodia-color'>...

It was late at night when a torrent of water burst through the Kamping Pouy reservoir on October 8 and surged into more than 50 houses effectively sacrificed to stop a potentially catastrophic breach in the dam in Battambang province. With cracks appearing in a dam ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government claims to have finished nearly a third of the work needed to rehabilitate the long-dilapidated railway line from Phnom Penh to the Thai border at Poipet, twice the figure reported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the main financier of the over-budget and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Security forceS Started Searching vehicleS entering Phnom Penh along all major roadS ThurSday morning in advance of a maSS demonStration planned by the oppoSition CNRP for Saturday. The CNRP called the checkpointS an illegal and futile attempt to Stop itS SupporterS from attending the maSS meeting. SS='cambodia-color'>...