Small buSineSS ownerS in the pillar conStruction induStry Say they are facing hard timeS aS demand increaSeS for large pillarS but diminiSheS for Small-Scale conStruction. Chheang Bona, director of 7FTD Co, Ltd in Vihear Sour commune, in Kandal province&rSquo;S KSach Kandal diStrict, Said that hiS SS='cambodia-color'>...

Forestry officials arrested four men and confiscated two pickup trucks containing illegally logged luxury timber en route to Vietnam on sunday in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district before releasing both the men and the timber after fining them thousands of dollars, officers and a rights group representative ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chevron’s Caltex gas stations are potentially losing hundreds of thousands of dollars per day in Cambodia, striking employees say. Workers say Caltex, a subsidiary of Us-based multinational Chevron, sells between 5,000 to 10,000 liters per station per day, putting its losses between $350,000 to $700,000 ss='cambodia-color'>...

American national and orphanage director Daniel Stephen JohnSon waS tried on Friday at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on chargeS that he Sexually abuSed five boyS laSt year. The court heard that JohnSon, 36, the director of the Hope TranSitionS ChriStian orphanage in Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Meanchey SS='cambodia-color'>...

ambodian leaders are facing a very uncertain Asean in recent weeks, with anti-Chinese protests in Vietnam pitting two of the country’s standards allies against each other and a Thai coup sealing the western borders and leaving a neighbor in the hands of military control. Both issues ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 700 workers at a svay Rieng province electronics factory were to demonstrate for the third day today after management refused their demands for access to child care and the reinstatement of five union leaders. The provincial department of labour yesterday proved unable to sway management ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 60 villagers in Kompong Chhnang province’s Kompong Tralach district blocked two heavy tractors sent to clear a boundary Monday on disputed land they maintain was illegally grabbed by a company owned by the wife of Mines Minister suy sem. KDC International, which is owned by ss='cambodia-color'>...

When Pang Vunny walks around his rented room just off of Veng sreng Boulevard, he waves his hand from side to side in front of him, like a man feeling his way in the dark. Ever since he was arrested and badly beaten on January 2 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy sent a letter to Thailand’s ruling junta on Friday calling for the “tens of thousands” of Cambodian migrant workers forcibly repatriated since early June to be treated humanely. In the letter addressed to General Prayuth Chan-ocha, who assumed power in a May ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh, 70, called on about 300 youth on Sunday to Spread the word about hiS new Community of RoyaliSt People Party, promiSing to create more jobS if hiS party comeS to power in the next national election. At an event at Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Sunway SS='cambodia-color'>...

The single-party National Assembly on Thursday approved the 2014 to 2018 National strategic Development Plan (NsDP), which will cost an estimated $26.58 billion to implement. An extradition agreement between Cambodia and Vietnam was also passed. Approved earlier this month by the Council of Ministers, it is ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 plainclothes men, some wielding sticks, tried to block a group of opposition activists and youth supporters in svay Rieng province yesterday from reaching a disputed section of the Cambodia-Vietnam border. Clashes broke out at about 10am between the group of Cambodia National Rescue Party ss='cambodia-color'>...

Information technology firm First Cambodia on Friday joined forces with little-known singaporean investment company GlobalVision, in a move that aims to expand the local company’s international footprint. As part of the joint partnership, GlobalVision has purchased a 50 per cent stake in First Cambodia for an ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ethnic Bunong in Mondolkiri province’s sen Monorom City said Tuesday that they would no longer cooperate with local officials in fighting illegal logging and that they would begin to confiscate loggers’ equipment and burn illicit timber themselves. At a press conference in Phnom Penh, representatives of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Staff from the MiniStry of CultS and Religion Seized promotional material from a man claiming to be a BuddhiSt “god” on Sunday in Kandal province, officialS Said yeSterday. The operation waS conducted at Reachea pagoda, where Thean Vuthy had been promoting himSelf aS the fifth and SS='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s long-pledged health insurance scheme for private sector employees, including factory workers, is just around the corner, officials promised yesterday while refusing to name a more specific date. On Wednesday, the Ministry of Labour held a public forum on the insurance plan, which is expected ss='cambodia-color'>...

An annual vulture census carried out across Cambodia has recorded the second lowest population estimate for ten years. The new figures follow a major vulture poisoning incident that occurred in Cambodia’s Mondulkiri Protected Forest back in february when 13 vultures were found dead. This is the largest ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five hundred villagers in Preah Vihear province protested yesterday outside the office of FP Malaysia Plantation Company, which they say is attempting to take their land. Rith sothon, a village representative in Preah Vihear’s Kulen district, said the villagers filed a complaint after the company placed ss='cambodia-color'>...

In March, the Ministry of Labor for the first time began requiring union leaders to submit proof they had no previous criminal convictions before they would be allowed to register a new union or local branch. Now, the country’s leading unions say worker representatives are struggling ss='cambodia-color'>...

Experts say that Cambodia’s economic growth remains fragile and unsustainable, bringing environmental degradation, social inequality and, at times, unrest to the country. Cambodia has maintained a high economic growth rate in recent years, up to 8 percent, “but that high growth comes with high costs,” said ss='cambodia-color'>...