Nearly four years after it was established by the Commerce Ministry and one year on from its official launch, the National Commercial Arbitration Center (NCAC) held its first annual assembly Friday. The NCAC was set up in 2010 to provide businesses with an alternative to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

At nearly half of the Kingdom’s primary schools, students have to make a daily choice between drinking contaminated water or going thirsty, a dilemma the government hopes to soon banish with new minimum sanitation and safe water standards. The guidelines, which have yet to be finalised ss='cambodia-color'>...

Drug-resistant malaria is now widespread in southeast Asia, seriously threatening global efforts to control malaria, a new study warned Wednesday. An analysis of blood samples from 1,241 malaria patients in 10 countries across Asia and Africa found resistance to the world’s most effective anti-malarial drug, artemisinin, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The ruling CPP and opposition CNRP sat together in the National Assembly for the first time Friday, formalizing the addition of the Assembly’s new commission on anti-corruption and putting forth their plans for what the parties say is a new culture of political cooperation. Longtime rivals ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of people charged in land disputes across the country so far this year has already surpassed the number of charges in all of 2013 in what rights group Adhoc on Tuesday called an “alarming” increase in legal action against those wrapped up in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia stands to be the biggest beneficiary, in terms of GDP growth, for the first decade following AsEAN Economic Integration in 2015, according to a study released publicly today by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The ILO’s 160-page report says Cambodia could see a 19.9 per ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) over the weekend released a statement condemning an ongoing strike at a Kompong Chhnang garment factory and urging authorities to “punish the perpetrators.” About 3,000 employees of the Chinese-owned Jiun Ye Garment factory have been on strike since August ss='cambodia-color'>...

The body of a 100-kilogram Irrawaddy dolphin from Cambodia was found dead in Vietnamese territory and repatriated to its home waters yesterday, officials said. Im Phat, deputy chief of the Fishery Administration in Takeo province’s Angkor Borei district, said two endangered freshwater Irrawaddy dolphins – fewer ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian labor unions this week lowered their demands for a 60 percent increase to the country’s $100 minimum wage, as talks loom next month on setting a new wage.Unions agreed to call for $150 a month during a meeting with officials from the Garment Manufacturers’ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Municipal officials on Tuesday announced a new initiative to help rehabilitate Phnom Penh’s drug addicts by offering discreet treatment services at local health centers. The initiative will encourage commune-level officials to visit known drug addicts in their community and tell them about the treatment options available at ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange (CSX) laSt week made itS long awaited move from the 25th floor of Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Canadia Tower to itS new home in a $4-million French colonial-era building on Street 106. The CSX officially moved into the two-Story building on September 8, according SS='cambodia-color'>...

About 500 workers who have been on strike at a Chinese-owned footwear factory in Phnom Penh for the past two weeks protested in front of the Ministry of Labor yesterday asking for the government’s help in resolving the dispute. On september 15, more than 1,000 employees ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is experiencing a runaway property boom that must be constrained by laws and regulations in order to draw investment from European developers, which are largely absent in the country, experts said at an industry conference in Phnom Penh on Wednesday. simon Griffiths, senior manager at ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fearing loss of land, about 150 farmers in svay Rieng province yesterday marched to the provincial hall, filing a petition that demands land titles on their property. Many villagers in svay Chrum district’s Chhoeuteal commune lost parts of their property in 2011, when a dam was ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the World Bank considers supplying fresh loans to Cambodia, a new study uses the country as exhibit A for how the financier effectively sponsors corporate land grabs at the expense of the rural poor it purportedly helps. Three years ago, the bank’s own inspectors found ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite reports that Prime Minister Hun sen recently offered assurances that construction of the controversial stung Cheay Areng hydropower dam would not be allowed to begin in the near future, local officials are allegedly pushing forward with plans to relocate villagers. Multiple provincial, district and village ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police on Friday warned labour union leader Pav Sina that if he continueS to lead proteStS &ndaSh; thereby violating the ruleS of a court order &ndaSh; he will be arreSted. The Collective Union of Movement of WorkerS leader waS called to the Choam Chao commune police SS='cambodia-color'>...

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith this week launched a marketing campaign titled “Get Your sexy Back,” aimed at promoting a culture of moderate alcohol consumption among young people by linking excessive drinking to a loss of sexual attractiveness. Launched on Monday and presided over by the long-serving ss='cambodia-color'>...

Testing of a computerized voter registration system will begin next month in the hopes of addressing flaws in the current system, which remains susceptible to election fraud, a coalition of NGOs working to promote democracy in the country announced Thursday. The Electoral Reform Alliance (ERA) has ss='cambodia-color'>...

CNRP President sam Rainsy on Friday told supporters that the opposition party was responsible for recent government efforts to lower gasoline and electricity costs and said he would work to keep alive the new “culture of dialogue” with the CPP, despite Prime Minister Hun sen calling ss='cambodia-color'>...