Three people have died, six remain missing and more than 100 homes have been affected by heavy rains that began on Wednesday in Kampong Chhnang and Kandal provinces, local authorities said yesterday. Prak sophorn, director of the Kampong Chnnang provincial Cambodian Red Cross office, said yesterday ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 work-study participants employed by NGO Digital Divide Data (DDD) in the capitol’s Chamkarmon district jumped on the strike bandwagon on Monday, demanding the same monthly wage garment workers are calling for, a union representative said yesterday. Employees are charged with transforming physical documents ss='cambodia-color'>...

Civil society groups and Phnom Penh municipal officials next month will hold a workshop to decide which designated slum areas will be the focus of a planned pilot project to improve living standards. On Tuesday night, Phnom Penh governor Pa socheatavong and members of civil society ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 60 wooden homes in Pursat province were burned to the ground Wednesday by officials in Veal Veng district, who claimed that the owners were living on state land, rights group Licadho said. “On Wednesday morning, police, military police, RCAF soldiers and the deputy provincial ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Australian senate has passed a motion that calls for an international investigation into the conduct and disputed result of last year’s national election. The motion, which was tabled by Australian Greens party leader and senator Christine Milne, also took note of the January 3 killing ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Chum district are demanding their land back, claiming buyers from a local company failed to uphold a 2007 deal. The 66 ethnic Kreung families filed a complaint on Friday after workers from a nearby rubber plantation started to slash and burn the 400 ss='cambodia-color'>...

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The governor of Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district will face arrest if he fails to appear for a second summons to Ratanakkiri Provincial Court to answer questions about his alleged involvement in the illegal logging of protected land around the Ou’sinlair waterfall, the court said yesterday. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new auto-mechanics training school at the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia (NPI) that aims to train select Cambodian youth and support a shortage in the labour market officially commenced construction yesterday. In partnership with the Ministry of Labour, joint sponsors the Korean International Cooperation Agency ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ever since some 500 people laid siege to the home of traditional healer pov sovann, dragged him out and brutally stoned him to death over the course of eight hours on sunday, two opposing sets of fears have gripped members of his community in Takeo ss='cambodia-color'>...

A mining delegation from Cambodia has left for a fact-finding tour of Australia in a bid to glean knowledge from one of the world’s largest minerals exploration countries. The trip is being coordinated by the International Mining for Development Centre of the Western Australia state government. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Eight members of Cambodia’s largest independent union were released on bail yesterday after being tried at Takeo Provincial Court over their alleged involvement in a factory protest late last week, officials said. Defence lawyer Kim socheat said the members of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers’ ss='cambodia-color'>...

A 17-year-old high school student was charged Wednesday after he confessed to hacking a government website and creating a Facebook page on which he encouraged people to attack government websites as well as the websites of pro-government groups, officials confirmed, though the exact charges are ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government has budgeted $3.5 million for tourism-related advertising and promotions in 2014, Minister of Tourism Thong Khon said yesterday. “This year the budget has reached $3.5 million dollars, half of the total budget for the ministry as we will host PATA Travel Mart 2014,” ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday heard the case of a member of Interior Minister sar Kheng’s cabinet who was charged with fraud for accepting $38,000 from the representative of a Taiwanese national in exchange for citizenship documents that were never delivered. suong Veasna, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The approval of King Norodom Sihamoni iS all that iS needed for three controverSial judicial billS to be paSSed into law after they were declared conStitutional thiS week by the CPP-Stacked ConStitutional Council of Cambodia (CCC). DeSpite an outcry from rightS and legal advocacy groupS over SS='cambodia-color'>...

Three reporters and a publisher were arrested in two separate cases of attempted extortion in stung Treng and Kratie provinces on sunday after stopping vehicles suspected of carrying illegally logged timber, according to local authorities. Mom Mon, 54, and Kim Noeun, 28, reporters for the sangkum Khmer and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) has postponed a two-day meeting with telecom firms to discuss a controversial draft law leaked to the Post last week, which details the government’s plan to assert control over the industry. A representative from one telecommunications provider who wished ss='cambodia-color'>...

181 national and international non-governmental organizations handed over their petitions to foreign embassies on Thursday to seek the release of 23 people who were arrested in protest crackdowns. A group of some 50 representatives marched along the streets and submitted the petitions to the German, sweden ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s insurance business is continuing to make strides, with the total value of engineering insurance reaching approximately $4 million in 2013, a significant increase compared to 2012. According to data recently released by the Insurance Association of Cambodia, the value of engineering insurance purchased in 2013 ss='cambodia-color'>...