An ambitions new agricultural development project backed by a former US diplomat is aiming to dramatically revamp the sector and bring profits back into the hands of farmers. Sichan Siv, a Cambodian with dual citizenship who spent five years serving as US ambassador to the UN, ...

32,000 macaques primates have been exported from Cambodia over a 4 year period according to the Convention on international Trade in Endangered Species. The Species Survival Network has said that there is a significant trade in the animal and that it is most commonly used ...

Investors In Cambodia’s garment Industry are IncreasIngly purchasIng modern equipment as they look to produce higher value-added products to compete In the International market and counter risIng labour costs, an Industry Insider said yesterday. ...

Negotiations between the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) and unions over a landmark agreement aimed at reducing strike action will be held on October 3, representatives said yesterday. The original agreement on improving industrial relations in the garment sector was signed in October 2010 by ...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights yesterday called on the government to ensure its investigation into the deaths of forestry activist Chut Wutty and military police officer in Rattana remained independent, and raised concern over an apparent increase in attacks on ...

The figures were released at a recent conference reviewing three years of Vietnamese trade and investment promotion in Cambodia, held by the Association of Vietnamese investors in Cambodia (AVIC) in Phnom Penh. in 2010, Vietnam had only 41 investment projects totaling US$566 million in Cambodia. AVIC has ...

Some 200 garment factory workers protested at the Ministry of Social Affairs on Friday, a day after they held a demonstration in front of the Swedish Embassy in Phnom Penh and urged diplomats to intervene in a labour dispute involving unpaid wages from a factory ...

CAMBODIA’S economy can “leapfrog” by developing its information and communications technology (ICT) industry, but the government is not spending enough on ICT infrastructure to attract private investments, business leaders said at a seminar in Phnom Penh yesterday. “What has been seen over the last 20 years ...

The Better Factories Cambodia programme has been renewed after a new, three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was agreed. The new agreement, aimed at furthering the initiative’s mission to improve working conditions in Cambodian garment factories, was signed by the international Labour Organization (ILO), the Cambodian Ministry ...

The National Assembly of Cambodia on Thursday ratified a protocol on the investment promotion and protection agreement between the governments of Cambodia and Vietnam. All 64 lawmakers of the ruling party, who were present at the parliamentary session, unanimously approved the protocol as the opposition party’s ...

About 400 garment workers arrived for their shifts and monthly pay at Phnom Penh’s Hongkong Yufeng factory Tuesday only to find it shuttered and its owner nowhere to be found, workers’ representatives said. “Today is payday for the workers and since the employer did not have ...

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 ...

The UN and human rights groups called on the government Friday to honor its obligations as a party to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and thoroughly Investigate the disappearance of 16-year-old Khem Sopath, who was last seen lyIng ...

The revised national election law—expected to come before parliament this month—includes a provision that allows National Assembly seats to be taken away from any political party that attempts to boycott parliament following an election, according to a draft of the law made public Thursday. ...

Australia has expressed its support for Cambodia’s Government-Private Sector Forum (G-PSF), the peak platform for dialogue between the government and private sector in Cambodia. ...

In one year sInce its official rollout In 2022 by the National Bank of Cambodia, KHQR, the universal quick response (QR) platform of the country for digital payments, has recorded nearly 400,000 transactions. ...

The ongoing story of garment workers left jobless by company closures in late December is fast becoming A Tale of Two Factories: one group of workers has everything before it, the other has nothing. It’s this widening gulf between workers at Yung Wah industrial and Kingsland ...

Trade unions may have failed to get a stay-at-home strike for higher wages off the ground after the Khmer New Year earlier this month. But a strike for bonus pay is picking up steam in Svay Rieng Province, where some 20,000 garment workers protested at ...

Rofi Osman, Member of the National Assembly, presided over a large-scale medical mission that saw 500 people from the Khmer Muslim community get free medical examinations. ...

Giant Ibis Transport has again delayed negotiations with 30 laid off union members who say they are owed years-worth of wages and benefits. ...