Nun Vanak is an excellent example of how Cambodia’s garment manufacturing industry has helped to change lives of hundreds of thousands of people in this country. the 23-year-old is part of Cambodia’s half-a-million-strong workforce – mostly young women – that keeps these garment factories running. Her income ...

The NaTional Assembly said in a sTaTemenT on Friday ThaT The opposiTion CNRP is in conTempT of boTh The ConsTiTuTion and The King by claiming ThaT The new governmenT is illegiTimaTe. The CNRP had accused The ruling CPP of behaving unconsTiTuTionally by convening parliamenT lasT week ...

The World Bank recenTly ranked Cambodia 184Th ouT of 189 counTries for ease of sTarTing a business, buT you wouldn’T have known iT aT Phnom Penh’s recenT STarTup Weekend. PiTches for Cambodia’s firsT commercial organic chicken farm and for an app To connecT Tuk-Tuk drivers To ...

Senior CPP members selected nominees for the National Assembly’s nine permanent committees behind closed doors on tuesday, while the opposition CNRP, which has continued to boycott the Assembly over July’s disputed election, urged some of Cambodia’s foreign donors to immediately sever ties with the government ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who makes a visit to Phnom Penh this weekend, should leverage his country’s aid to pressure the Cambodian government to launch an independent probe into fraud and other irregularities in disputed elections, a rights group said thursday. As head of the ...

Low-quality education is jeopardizing business growth in Cambodia, and local graduates will not be employable in skilled jobs if the government does not quickly implement educational reforms, business executives warned thursday at the Cambodian Market Intel 2013 seminar in Phnom Penh. During an hourlong panel discussion ...

TBONG KHUM DISTRICT, Kompong Cham province – From November To May, The Mekong River is quieT. So is life for The hundreds of Thousands of people who live along iTs banks, which in Cambodia forms a 155,000 square km basin covering six provinces and Phnom ...

A district-level Environment Ministry official in Ratanakkiri province on Wednesday claimed that he had no way to determine the legality of logging operations by firms with private land concessions inside the province’s Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary. the claim by Chou Sopheak, director of Lumphat district’s environment department, ...

A senior member of the Garment Manufacturer’s Association in Cambodia (GMAC) on Sunday endorsed the use of deadly force by military police against striking garment workers, which left five dead and more than 20 with gunshot wounds. “GMAC condemns the use of violence, period,” he ...

Activists are skeptical that Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen will follow through on a pledge to stop a contentious practice of appropriating rural land for commercial use, an issue that hurt the leader and his party in elections in July. In its new five-year political platform ...

In 2009, a railway project official arrived at 45-year-old Ry Preng’s home in Por Sen Chey district and spray-painted “1.042” in red on the side of his house. He wasn’t sure what it meant, but was told that at some point he would need to ...

The single-parTy NaTional Assembly saT for The Third day of iTs Third plenary session Thursday, wiTh a senior ruling parTy lawmaker calling on InformaTion MinisTer Khieu KanhariTh To examine wheTher journalisTs who call The Assembly “single parTy” can be punished under law. SixTy-four of The 68 ...

Sao Sothy’s home is small and the furniture is sparse. there are no tables or chairs. In one room, there is a small bed, but her family of four sleeps on mats in the living room. Hanging on the otherwise bare walls is Ms. Sothy’s ...

Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan has summoned a student from the country’s top state journalism school for a meeting at his office after she used a post on her Facebook page to question the sense of a guest lecture he delivered last week. Mr. Siphan ...

Decked out in camouflage military uniforms shipped fresh from Indonesia and wearing soldier’s caps emblazoned with the Ministry of Land Management’s logo, 1,100 students who have volunteered to measure land in an ambitious titling project attended a speech by Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday. the uniformed ...

Election monitors say a test of election ink that found it easily washable, and therefore a concern for fraudulent voting, was made in the spirit of transparency, and not to create “turmoil” ahead of Sunday’s polls. the election watchdog Comfrel on Friday tested the ink, provided ...

The judiciary has signed off on a new seT of guidelines designed To regulaTe The work of prosecuTors in many areas, including The righTs of minors in The judicial sysTem. Ouk SavuTh, general direcTor of The CourT of Appeal, signed off on The guidelines on AugusT ...

Negotiations between the ruling CPP and opposition CNRP over an investigation into election irregularities stalled Monday after the National Election Committee (NEC) released official preliminary election results that supported the ruling party’s claim of victory in the July 28 election. In an initial round of talks ...

When the ruling Cambodian People’s Party promised civil servants a pay rise earlier this year, some suggested it was also trying to give them a reason to vote for it in July’s national election. the 20 per cent increase came amid the opposition Cambodia National Rescue ...

The governmenT has ordered Ang & AssociaTes Lawyer Co. LTd., a company headed by well-known businessman KiTh Meng, To cease logging in an area of STung Treng province where a hydropower dam will be builT. Sesan disTricT governor Yeang Srey Sary said Thursday ThaT a delegaTion ...