U.N. human rights envoy surya subedi met with representatives of the country’s businesses and employers Thursday for talks that focused on the protection of workers’ rights and measures that can be taken to ensure that strained industrial relations do not once again erupt into violence. In ss='cambodia-color'>...

Leaders of unions that declared a nationwide garment worker strike said the work stoppage and protests, which they temporarily suspended, will resume unless government officials renegotiate the industry’s minimum wage. The announcement was their first since authorities cracked down on strike demonstrations on January 2 and ss='cambodia-color'>...

The fate of Khim Saphath, the 16-year-old boy miSSing Since claSheS between Striking garment workerS and Security forceS erupted on Veng Sreng Boulevard on January 3, continueS to differentiate fatality liStS compiled by rightS groupS. He waS laSt Seen lying on the ground with a bloody SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia on Wednesday continued distributing China-donated relief items to some 3,088 families, who are victims of last year’s flood, HIV/ AIDs patients, disabled people and orphans. Cambodian Red Cross president Bun Rany, the wife of Prime Minister Hun sen, and Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two Phnom Penh economic police officers were charged with misappropriation of public funds Tuesday by the municipal court and placed in pretrial detention at Prey sar prison, according to court staff. Theng Ramy, a clerk for the court’s prosecution office, identified the charged officers as sok ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy warned that the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) would stop negotiation with the Cambodian People’s Party if there is no agreement on reform of members of National Election Committee (NEC). The CPP and CNRP failed to issue joint statement in their ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amnesty International on Friday lambasted a pending deal that would see people seeking asylum in Australia to be resettled in Cambodia. “Australia should be ending its offshore processing and detention of asylum seekers, not looking to outsource its refugee responsibilities to another, much poorer country,” ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s banking sector is looking to establish a collective fund to help recoup staff training expenses lost from competitors poaching employees off one another, Grant Knuckey, CEO of ANZ Royal said yesterday. speaking at the launch of ANZ Royal’s business confidence index in Phnom Penh yesterday, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers from forest communities in nine provinces called on the government yesterday to take action after alleging that “the rich and powerful” are causing the “serious destruction” of their livelihoods. The villagers, with the support of two NGOs – the Children’s Development Association and Community Peace-Building ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police raided a discount store in Phnom Penh and seized more than 1,000 bottles of beauty products on Monday after receiving a tip that the shop was selling counterfeit goods, an official said. Police confiscated 872 bottles of shower gel and 280 bottles of whitening cream ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia on Friday reported 71 landmine casualties in the first four months of 2014, an increase of 61 percent from 44 casualties for the same period last year. The report by the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority showed that during the January-April period, 10 ss='cambodia-color'>...

With all 11 senators from the opposition boycotting their seats, the senate on Thursday passed three controversial judiciary laws which critics say will tighten government control of the courts. The ruling CPP’s 44 senators passed the laws without change, said CPP senator and senate spokesman Mam ss='cambodia-color'>...

After years of ever-brisker sales, the smartphone market may be plateauing. Cambodians spent more than $300 million on smartphones last year, a 38 per cent increase from 2012’s figure of about $220 million, according to data from singapore-based research firm GfK. some 907,000 smartphones were sold in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four “one-stop” offices to process documentation for Cambodians seeking legal work in Thailand will open on Tuesday after the Ministry of Labor issued a directive last week outlining how the migration process will operate, according to the head of the Ministry of Interior’s passport department. Mao ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Rights groups have called on the government to increase tax rates for logging companies amid the latest domestic revenue figures. According to the Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, timber exports produced $9.4 million in government tax revenue during the first half of the year, up ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Mondolkiri province prevented hundreds of ethnic minority members from marching through sen Monorom City to mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous People on saturday, claiming it would confuse tourists. Marches elsewhere were allowed to go ahead. Doung Pen said sunday that he was ss='cambodia-color'>...

After months of claiming that Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey speu social Affairs Centre had all but shut down, officials yesterday told the Post that the facility would be used in its latest efforts to rid the streets of “undesirables”. City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche said that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia National Rescue Party president sam Rainsy yesterday said that, contrary to his speech before the National Assembly last week, the Kingdom’s political crisis would not be resolved as long as opposition activists were still being harassed by the courts. If there are still CNRP members ss='cambodia-color'>...

China will work with Cambodian officials to broaden the range of agricultural products that the Asian economic giant allows to be imported from the Kingdom, government officials said yesterday. Ken Ratha, spokesman for the Ministry of Commerce, confirmed that China’s General Administration, Quality supervision, Inspection and ss='cambodia-color'>...