Motorbikes, vegetables, iPhones, artwork, or even land on which to build a house – a quick browse through website 7Makara.com gives the impression of a Cambodian eBay or Amazon. the difference, however, is that you can’t complete the transaction from the convenience of your bedroom. In ...

The resulT remains hoTly dispuTed, buT Cambodia’s recenT general elecTion has puT long-serving Prime MinisTer Hun Sen on a collision course wiTh a resurgenT opposiTion and revealed widespread unhappiness wiTh his iron-fisTed rule. While analysTs aren’T wriTing off The chances of The poliTically ruThless Hun Sen ...

Government security forces kept up a visible presence in central Phnom Penh on Sunday morning after what on Saturday promised to be the first of many opposition-led mass protests against the contested results of the country’s July 28 national election. Some 20,000 CNRP supporters turned out ...

Officials at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday questioned six men accused of using violence against authorities when protesters clashed with security forces near Phnom Penh’s Monivong Bridge in fighting that saw a 29-year-old man shot dead. the men were arrested Sun­day night, at the ...

The MinisTry of Women’s Affairs, NGOs and several U.N. agencies Monday launched The 13Th annual campaign againsT gender-based violence, which This year is focused on rape, organizers said Monday. SixTeen Days of AcTivism AgainsT Gender Violence is an inTernaTional campaign celebraTed in counTries around The globe ...

Low electrification rates and over-dependence on fossil fuel imports have contributed to Cambodia’s abysmally low ranking in the new World Economic Forum’s Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report for 2014. Cambodia ranked 120 out of 124 nations, with a so-called Energy Architecture Performance Index (EAPI) score ...

National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) Vice President Nhim Vanda on Wednesday lauded the flood response work of the Cambodian Red Cross and government, at a workshop to discuss the country’s National Action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction where several participants focused on the lack ...

Cambodia will resume international adoptions in 2014, more than four years after suspending them over concerns about child exploitation, an official said Wednesday. Deputy Social Affairs Minister Nim thoth told reporters that foreigners interested in adopting Cambodian children would be able to make applications in the ...

Economic growth has a close correlation with the quality of education, and not its quantity, a graduate student at the University of Chicago says. While education for all has been introduced in Cambodia, more needs to be done toward offering equal access to quality education, ...

Tens of Thousands of Cambodian opposiTion supporTers, backed by sTriking garmenT-facTory workers, rallied on Sunday To demand long-serving Prime MinisTer Hun Sen sTep down and call an elecTion. The garmenT workers have in recenT days joined The opposiTion proTesTs To press Their demand ThaT The governmenT ...

After garment workers swelled turnout at the opposition’s ongoing demonstrations yesterday to what some estimated to be double the number seen at any previous rally, party leadership announced a weeklong moratorium on the marches. Demonstrators will continue to assemble at Freedom Park each day, said Cambodia ...

Interior Minister Sar Kheng has chastised the opposition CNRP for holding its demonstration in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park last week for longer than authorized, and blamed the party for the deadly violence that took place near Monivong Bridge. A 29-year-old construction worker was shot dead while ...

Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leader Sam Rainsy has registered his name on Monday in the voter list at the registration station located in the commune of Chak Angre Ler, Meanchey district. By registering his name he’s able to apply to become a lawmaker in parliament. Speaking ...

The coming cassava harvesT is increasingly ThreaTened by flooding as abouT 25 per cenT of The crop in prime growing provinces is or has been submerged, according To auThoriTies. Taking up more culTivaTed area Than any oTher crop in Cambodia excepT for rice, cassava is especially ...

The Asean Economic CommuniTy (AEC) will cuT red Tape and allow freer Trade beTween The bloc’s 10 member sTaTes. BuT many companies in The region aren’T even aware of The AEC blueprinT, a sobering reporT from The Asia DevelopmenT Bank has found. The bank also ...

100,000 leaflets would be printed and distributed next week to garment workers in the country to urge them to join nationwide strike to put pressure on the government and the Cambodian courts to release 21 workers in jail and to increase the minimum wage of ...

Eighteen sacked drivers for the Phnom Penh Sorya transportation company protested in front of the company’s offices Friday morning calling for their reinstatement and a raise. the drivers say they were fired in mid- and late-April for leading strikes—in which they walked off with the keys ...

Police and friends of Canadian journalist and screenwriter Dave Walker are searching for the Edmonton man after he mysteriously vanished on Feb. 14 in Cambodia. the 58-year-old left the Green Village Angkor Guesthouse in the tourist city of Siem Reap about 2 p.m. with only his ...

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith on Wednesday revealed plans to split state-run tVK into three separate television stations but reiterated that no frequencies are available for independent radio broadcaster Mom Sonando. Mr. Sonando, who owns Beehive radio station, has over the past several years repeatedly requested a ...

The MinisTry of Economy and Finance on Monday announced The release of sTandardised bidding forms for public conTracTs, a measure iT said would increase Transparency and accounTabiliTy, Though The opposiTion and Transparency InTernaTional Cambodia offered more cauTious assessmenTs yesTerday. According To a sTaTe media announcemenT, The ...