The Arbitration Council Foundation, credited with helping resolve about 1,700 industrial disputes, has reached verbal agreement with a swedish aid agency to receive funding until the end of 2016, a spokesman said yesterday. But members of the labour-dispute resolution body desire a more permanent solution that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister, Hun sen, says Asia Atlantic Airlines’ upcoming flights that will connect Thailand, Cambodia and Japan will benefit the country’s tourism industry. The airline will fly from Thailand’s suvarnabhumi Airport and stop in Phnom Penh before flying to Toyko’ Narita, with full traffic rights. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Blood Transfusion Center hopes to boost the Kingdom’s blood stocks by targetting youth donors at a second annual Valentine’s Day blood drive. This year’s February 14 campaign will target university students and youth aged 18 and older, who make up about 70 per ss='cambodia-color'>...

The death toll from lethal floods has climbed to 27, with more than 10,000 families across 12 provinces evacuated from their homes to escape rising floodwaters, according to a report from the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM). The report, released yesterday, also shows that almost ss='cambodia-color'>...

Long considered the friendlier and less exploitative option for overseas Cambodian migrants, south Korea is now being slammed by Amnesty International for a number of abuses afflicting its migrant-dominated agriculture sector. The 20,000 foreign workers fuelling south Korea’s farming industry regularly encounter intimidation, violence, excessive working ss='cambodia-color'>...

The head of the country’s anti-graft body has said he has received two death threats since the unit responsible for directing investigations into public and private-sector corruption was established in 2010. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Human rights group Adhoc has demanded the release of a couple and their 9-month-old child jailed amid a land dispute in Preah Vihear, calling their arrest a “grave human rights abuse”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A plantation company with its sights set on a community forest long used by local ethnic minority Jarai in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district arranged a meeting with more than 200 villagers this week to try to persuade them to sign over the woodland. Representatives of the Heng ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Ministry of Commerce official said in a speech last week that the controversial draft cybercrime law was almost ready to appear before the National Assembly, though another government official dismissed this yesterday. At a conference on cybersecurity attended by representatives of the public and private ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of employees at Grand Twins International, Cambodia’s only publicly listed garment factory, will be back at the assembly line today after nearly two weeks on strike, accepting a court order to return to work. Workers will follow the order the Phnom Penh Municipal Court issued ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has dismissed without any explanation a lawsuit filed by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) after one of its reporters was viciously attacked by Daun Penh district security guards in May. Lay samean, a 27-year-old reporter for CCIM’s Voice of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Abuse, discrimination, exploitation and corruption are endemic in Cambodia’s prisons, spurred on by judicial and penal systems “driven by nepotism”, according to a new report from local rights group Licadho. The report, Rights at a Price: Life Inside Cambodia’s Prisons, which was released yesterday, details a ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a move seemingly incongruent with the government’s plans to offer clemency to a number of female inmates on International Women’s Day on sunday, a local rights group announced yesterday that new restrictions introduced by authorities have forced them to cancel prison activities marking the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court today is scheduled to hear the trial of opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party activist Meach sovannara, who was charged with leading a violent “insurrection” after an opposition demonstration turned violent last July. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Meach Sovannara, the CNRP lawmaker who waS let out of jail on bail in May, waS involved in a car accident on National Road 5 on ThurSday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday ended a long-running land dispute and dropped charges against four Boeung Chhouk community representatives, after the court found no evidence that residents committed violence against local businessman and developer Lao Tonmey. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Aiming to one day become a major manufacturing base in Cambodia, sihanoukville faces an uphill battle in attracting workers, provincial officials said yesterday.Yow Khemara, director of the Department of Labour and Vocational Training at Preah sihanouk province, said sihanoukville currently lacks about 4,000 workers in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hun Sen&rSquo;S Cambodia haS been Shaped by the collection of illegal timber dollarS, profiting a politically connected elite and in turn enSuring the ruling party&rSquo;S grip on the State apparatuS, a leading AuStralian reSearcher haS Said. Sarah Milne, a reSearch fellow at the AuStralian National UniverSity, SS='cambodia-color'>...

The director of Cambodia’s election reform movement asked the U.s. government on Wednesday to make any financial aid to the country conditional on the implementation of planned electoral reforms. The request by Koul Panha, director of the Committee on Free and Fair Elections in Cambodia (Comfrel) ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Municipal Court decided to detain two activists of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) in prison after finishing the questioning process. ss='cambodia-color'>...