Cambodia’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens have seen significant progress in securing legal protections in recent years, activists said yesterday, though the fight for full equality remains an ongoing battle. During a forum in the capital yesterday, participants said that codifying equality under the law ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hydropower developers in southern Laos have fired back at the World Wildlife Fund after the conservation group issued two disparaging reports in as many weeks on the Don sahong dam project. WWF released a brief on February 19 alleging that construction of the 260-megawatt damcould result ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition CNRP met with civil society groups and NGOs on Friday and asked for recommendations ahead of resuming electoral reform talks with the ruling CPP on Monday. “We wanted to ask civil society for their ideas,” CNRP President sam Rainsy said after the meeting. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Judges are now required to write a reasoned explanation when placing citizens in pre-trial detention, instead of simply checking a box as was previously practiced, Justice Minister Ang Vong Vathana said Tuesday. But the Ministry of Justice is also considering amending the criminal procedure code to ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian national was fatally shot near the Thailand-Cambodia border on Wednesday in the latest of a string of deadly incidents along the border this month, officials said yesterday. Theng sokla, 27, a native of Pailin province’s sala Krao district, was hunting for animals on a ss='cambodia-color'>...

European mega-brands are not doing enough to ensure that the Cambodian workers who make their products receive a basic living wage, according to a report released today. Tailored Wages, an analysis of 50 of Europe’s biggest clothing brands, found that many major high-street chains are doing ss='cambodia-color'>...

The leader of Cambodia’s largest independent garment union may soon be in jail, with the group fearing it will not be able to afford the $25,000 bail a judge has ordered be paid by April 25, its vice president said yesterday. Ath Thorn, president of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Laos plans to establish consulate general in siem Reap province to boost bilateral cooperation with Cambodia through tourism and trade, a senior official from Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday. “Tourism from Laos is increasing annually, so Lao PDR will establish a general consulate based ss='cambodia-color'>...

The head of the Post and Telecommunications Ministry’s inspection department was arrested Friday and questioned at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on saturday for allegedly having stolen about $100,000 from the ministry over several years, according to Minister Prak sokhon. He said Chem sangva was reported ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian customs officers on Friday morning confiscated around three tons of elephant tusks at the sihanoukville Autonomous Port in southwestern Preah sihanouk province. In February, customs officers nabbed two Vietnamese men at the siem Reap International Airport for smuggling 79.5 kg of illegal elephant tusks ss='cambodia-color'>...

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said that radio journalist Lay samean, who was badly beaten by district security guards on May 2 while covering a planned opposition rally, may have provoked the violence by calling the guards “yuon’s dogs”, among other insults. The minister added, however, that ss='cambodia-color'>...

About half the Koh Kong province villagers relocated to make way for a Union Development Group resort project have abandoned the new homes provided for them, citing poor conditions and an inconvenient location, a village representative said yesterday. More than 1,000 families living in the province’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

In response to a spate of Cambodian illegal loggers being shot dead by Thai soldiers near the border, the government on Tuesday urged a Thai delegation to consider border patrols composed of representatives from the two countries, the foreign minister said. “I would like to request ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) &ndaSh; the firSt liSted company on the Cambodian Stock exchange &ndaSh; haS recorded a profit of $1.33 million for the firSt quarter, a decreaSe of 60 per cent from the Same period laSt year, according to audited financial StatementS SS='cambodia-color'>...

When authorities in Kampong Chhnang province on Friday encountered and pursued the boat of alleged illegal fisherman Chieb Ou, they couldn’t have expected to find themselves being chased instead. But that’s precisely what happened when, rather than surrendering, the 42-year-old suspect turned his boat towards the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Former staffers of Phnom Penh sorya Transportation will meet with a company representative tomorrow to demand reinstatement after more than two weeks of the firm’s continued refusal to comply with a decision by the Arbitration Council, they and the bus operator said yesterday. According to Yim ss='cambodia-color'>...

The roughly 900 employees of a Phnom Penh garment factory gutted by a fire that killed a Chinese supervisor on Monday protested in front of their old workplace on Thursday to demand a quick payout of their final paychecks and severance. The Chinese-owned Cheng sheng Garment ss='cambodia-color'>...

A newly demarcated wildlife and forest protection zone designed to safeguard Cambodia’s national bird, the giant ibis, along with a number of other endangered species, has been approved after more than 10 years in the making. A government sub-decree approving a protection zone spanning 66,932 hectares ss='cambodia-color'>...

Commerce Minister asked officials at all border checkpoints to prevent and crackdown on expired products. Thong Thira, Banteay Meanchey’s head of Department of Commerce, said that about 71 percent of 700,000 people living in Banteay Meanchey are farmers. He said the province has big 20 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japan will introduce direct flights to and from Cambodia this year in an effort to bolster trade, investment and tourism between the two nations, Prime Minister Hun sen said on Friday. Hun sen announced the plan at a meeting with a delegation led by Hideo ss='cambodia-color'>...