Opposition leader sam Rainsy has scored a late political victory in his whirlwind two-week tour to Europe and the United states to try and ramp up international pressure on the newly formed Cambodian government ahead of his return Tuesday. Last Wednesday, a prominent Republican Party senator, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government should construct an effective annual review system for the minimum wage to ease worker unrest, according to clothing retail giant H&M. The swedish company’s comments came after CEO Karl-Johan Persson visited the country in mid-October, meeting Cambodia Prime Minister Hun sen and other ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prisons across the country will soon be referred to only as “correctional centres” to change a public perception that they are places where people are simply locked up, the Ministry of Interior announced yesterday. Nuth sa An, secretary of state at the ministry, said the change ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia ranked third worst in “global suffering” last year—behind Bulgaria and Armenia—a significant increase from 2011, when it ranked 14th worst, ac-cording to the worldwide polling group Gallup. A poll released last week on Gallup’s website says 34 percent of Cambodian respondents rated their lives as ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of Borey Kuch Asia say the company has injected millions of dollars into an apartment and villa complex in sihanoukville, and that the project will be completed in 2017, despite political uncertainties. Borey Kuch Asia project manager Tous sapheoun said the company spent two years ss='cambodia-color'>...

Corruption is weighing on businesses, and the avenues to address it are limited, according to Cambodia’s leading employer association. At a joint conference with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Cambodian Federation of Employers (CAMFEBA) in Phnom Penh yesterday, the employer representative called on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Freedom Park will remain off limits indefinitely for protesters, authorities said yesterday, despite Prime Minister Hun sen suggesting last month that a ban on public assembly was being lifted. Pich saroeun, chief of Russey Keo district’s Chroy Changva commune, said Phnom Penh Governor Pa socheatvong had ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hun Many, the youngest son of Prime Minister Hun sen and an elected lawmaker in Kampong speu province, has defended his party against allegations of nepotism, corruption and election irregularities in a foreign TV interview. In a wide-ranging Channel News Asia interview that aired on Friday, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty-two families who have been locked in a bitter, seven-year dispute over 145 hectares of land in Kompong Chhnang province with a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister suy sem claim they were illegally pressured into accepting compensation and filed a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Workers aligned with the Collective Union of Movement of Workers locked three officials from the Free Trade Union inside the Ocean Garment factory in Phnom Penh for eight hours Tuesday after the two unions argued over who would represent workers in a wage dispute. Ocean’s approximately ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amid strict reforms to guard against rampant cheating on the high-stakes national exam, education officials yesterday showed surprising leniency towards underperforming grade 12 students. In a notice released yesterday, the Ministry of Education instructed upper secondary schools to hold re-examinations for grade 12 students who failed ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) officer and his son-in-law were arrested separately on Thursday and Friday in Battambang and Banteay Meanchey province for producing tens of thousands of dollars of counterfeit U.s. banknotes, officials said sunday. Police arrested Tang Thearith, 35, in Poipet City on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Military police officers involved in the clash on Veng sreng Boulevard that led to the deaths of at least four protesters earlier this month have been questioned in connection with the shootings, though none will face charges, a military police spokesman said yesterday. The five officers, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen said Friday that the country wanted to see more British investors in order to further contribute to developing local economy and reducing poverty. The premier made the remarks during a meeting with visiting British Minister of state at the Foreign and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Days after warning that his ruling party was as capable and willing to protest as the opposition, and threatening a barbed-wire fence in Freedom Park to divide the two groups, Prime Minister Hun sen was yesterday talking multi-party reform. speaking at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the latest bid to protect Mondulkiri’s ravaged forests, World Wildlife Fund is rolling out a new project designed to give locals financial incentives to help preserve Mondulkiri Protected Forest and Phnom Prich Wildlife sanctuary. Cultivating small-scale, community-run businesses such as resin tree tapping and beekeeping ss='cambodia-color'>...

Anil Wadhwa, India’s deputy foreign minister, met with Foreign Minister Hor Namhong on Wednesday and promised to honor his request for millions of dollars in loans, a spokesman said. He [Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Koy Kuong] said that Mr. Namhong then requested money to complete ss='cambodia-color'>...

A member of the much-maligned National Election Committee said yesterday he hoped that the body would cease to be merely a “paper tiger” and be granted strong powers to punish political parties for electoral transgressions when future election reforms are put in place. speaking at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) and Phnom Penh municipality are cooperating to undertake a study on major new projects for the city – two flyovers and a subway, each of which it is hoped would ease the city’s ever worsening traffic congestion. Touch samnang, project ss='cambodia-color'>...

Friends and family of Canadian journalist Dave Walker, whose badly decomposed body was found on May 1 in siem Reap province, have issued new statements accusing the Cambodian and Canadian governments of being complicit in what they say was his murder. According to a statement posted ss='cambodia-color'>...