With barely a drop of rain falling on their parched fields, Battambang farmers are pleading with a construction company to stop blockading the local river so their recently planted crops don’t dry out. The Asian Development Bank-funded bridge connecting Battambang and Banteay Meanchey has blocked the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia and China are drafting a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to stamp out the exploitative trade of Cambodian women to China, where there have been increasing reports of women being abused by their Chinese husbands and sold into the sex trade. The diplomatic push comes in ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 400 workers protested and burned tires outside the Ocean Garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Pur senchey district on Thursday after the factory failed to follow an Arbitration Council ruling from Wednesday to give the workers $120 each in furlough pay since the factory suspended ss='cambodia-color'>...

A glass-manufacturing tycoon on saturday threatened to shoot dead two local journalists as they were covering a dispute he was having with another businessman in Phnom Penh, according to a report posted on the National Police website. The journalists, from Cambodia Express News and Bayon TV, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Senior CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun on Friday denounced eight arreSted CNRP officialS aS anarchiStS and Said that TueSday&rSquo;S violent claSh at Freedom Park waS worSe than riotS in January in which military police Shot dead at leaSt five proteSting garment factory workerS. Speaking at a preSS SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Friday arrest of a local businesswoman who holds the municipal contract to collect parking and stall fees from markets citywide on breach of trust charges came as no surprise to many vendors, aggrieved by what they say are her unfair business practices. Cheav Vibol, deputy ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 families filed a complaint with the Preah Vihear provincial court yesterday against two employees of logging tycoon Try Pheap who allegedly cleared 15 hectares of community forest late last year before being stopped by villagers. Huon Kino, 39, a representative of the 203 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of Chinese company Tianjin Union Development Group, backed by soldiers, annihilated crops and burned the homes of 29 families in Koh Kong’s Botum sakor district last week, rights groups say. According to a report given to the Post yesterday, a two-day fact-finding mission spearheaded by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials from the Ministry of Interior will meet tomorrow to review the results of an investigation into a crackdown that left four dead on Veng sreng Boulevard in Phnom Penh last month, a police spokesman said. After saying on Tuesday that a report on the investigation’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sam RainSy iS preparing a letter to Prime MiniSter Hun Sen to Seek negotiation between the Cambodian People&rSquo;S Party (CPP) and the Cambodia National ReScue Party (CNRP), an oppoSition official told The Cambodia Herald on WedneSday. The political deadlock in Cambodia haS been laSting for SS='cambodia-color'>...

Two union leaders were summonsed and questioned by a municipal court prosecutor yesterday over allegations they illegally detained the boss of a packaging factory in Por sen Chey district’s Choam Chao commune during a strike. According to Phnom Penh Municipal Court deputy prosecutor Ek Chheng Huoth, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia National Rescue Party president sam Rainsy yesterday called on residents in the northeast provinces to defend their land lest the area be turned into a Vietnamese “colony”. Rainsy’s comments were quickly condemned by both the Cambodian and Vietnamese governments. speaking to hundreds of people in Mondulkiri ss='cambodia-color'>...

Surya Subedi, the UN Special rapporteur on human rightS in Cambodia, added hiS voice yeSterday to the growing choruS of criticiSm aimed at three draft lawS on Cambodia&rSquo;S judiciary that Sailed through the National ASSembly laSt week. Subedi &ndaSh; who had previouSly championed the lawS aS SS='cambodia-color'>...

The new province of Tbong Khmum, which has been carved out of Kompong Cham, was officially launched Monday at a ceremony presided over by Interior Minister sar Kheng. The ceremony was held at the new provincial capital of suong City and also announced the appointments of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) on Wednesday posted to its website a four-page document giving Public Works and Transport Minister Tram Iv Tek’s response to complaints of corruption within his ministry, including that the minister had awarded himself exorbitant bonuses. The ACU said in the document that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s business community is anticipating keen interest from overseas investors as registration for the country’s international investment conference opens this week. The International Business Chamber (IBC) of Cambodia investment conference will take place on October 6th and 7th at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court imprisoned a prominent businesswoman who has exclusive rights to collect taxes at a number of Phnom Penh markets Monday over breach of trust charges related to a subcontracting agreement, signed in 2008, to let a business partner collect fees at ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen said Wednesday that he could not appoint his children in the cabinet posts even though they were qualified. “I have five children and five children-in-law. All of them have possessed degrees ranging from bachelor’s degrees to doctorate’s degrees, but I cannot ss='cambodia-color'>...

Immigration officials from the Interior Ministry and Pursat province today are to begin a census of all foreigners living in the Kingdom, though it is expected to focus primarily on those of Vietnamese descent. Following a meeting in Pursat yesterday afternoon, Major General Khun sambor, chief ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local stock brokerage company sonatra securities has announced it will completely dilute its books and put a halt on all business activities from October 1. In a press release posted on sonatra’s website last week, the firm stated without an explanation that it was suspending all ss='cambodia-color'>...