The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) yesterday said a recent exodus of workers from factories in Phnom Penh to the provinces over concerns related to a recent military build up in the capital would not threaten stability in the sector. Ken Loo, secretary-general of GMAC, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Blinded, bloodied and barely conscious, two unionists who were nearly beaten to death after passing out pro-union literature in front of a Phnom Penh garment factory remained in their hospital beds yesterday, awaiting a possible transferral to Vietnam. The vicious attack in front of Dayup ss='cambodia-color'>...

After a five-year break, Lao Airlines will revive the Phnom Penh-Vientiane route with direct flights three times a week starting in November, the company’s representative said yesterday. Ek Narun, assistant to the general manager of Lao Airlines in Phnom Penh, said tickets will be available for ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 10 families in Pailin province are claiming that flood aid proffered by Cambodia Red Cross officials is being unfairly distributed by commune and village authorities. Kim san, 61, a member of one of 16 severely flood-affected families in sala Krao district’s stung Trang commune ss='cambodia-color'>...

It’s taken years of waiting – and protesting – but families in the capital’s Boeung Kak community yesterday saw City Hall officials measure land in their villages. Representatives of the city were deployed yesterday to villages 24, 22 and 6 to demarcate land as a step ss='cambodia-color'>...

The assistant of a lumber tycoon accused of major deforestation and forced evictions rejected Thursday the findings of a recent report by local rights groups. The Cambodian Human Rights Task Force said in its report that some 1,400 families had been pushed from their land by ss='cambodia-color'>...

After being delayed twice, construction of the New siem Reap International Airport (NsRIA) is expected to start in early 2014, a senior government official said yesterday. Tek Reth samrach, chairman of the NsRIA steering committee, said a detailed plan must be completed by the airport’s two ss='cambodia-color'>...

Anti-logging activists wrote to the United Nations yesterday to call for the monitoring of a lawsuit in which they accuse hundreds of officials in Kampong speu province’s Phnom Oral Wildlife sanctuary of illegal deforestation. The Natural Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organization (NRWPO) listed 241 officials it ss='cambodia-color'>...

The death toll from Mekong River and flash floods in Cambodia has risen to 122 in the past four weeks, a senior disaster control official said Monday. “To date, the floods have killed 122 people and affected some 1.5 million people,” Nhim Vanda, vice-president of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

CPP lawmaker Chheang Vun on Wednesday lauded the economic and social benefits of the widespread clearing of Cambodia’s forests for development projects. speaking to reporters at the National Assembly after a meeting with the Vietnamese Ambassador Ngo Anh Dzung, Mr. Vun, who is also the spokesman ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia reported 74 landmine casualties in the first seven months of this year, down 36 percent from the 115 casualties over the same period last year, the figures of the Cambodia Mine Action Center (CMAC) said Tuesday. During the January-July period this year, 12 people were ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Constitutional Council on Thursday ordered the National Election Committee to discipline staff members at seven voting stations in siem Reap province for irregularities in July’s national election. The Council, which acts as the appeals body for election complaints, said in its decision that disciplinary action ss='cambodia-color'>...

Accelerating the mapping and titling of rural farmland should be an “urgent” priority of the government and civil society, particularly when it comes to protecting indigenous peoples’ and women’s rights, Oxfam representatives said yesterday. The remarks followed the release of an EU-funded survey of rural communities’ ss='cambodia-color'>...

Returning to a long-time party priority, opposition lawmakers yesterday said they will travel to Kampong Cham’s Memot district today to investigate claims that Vietnamese troops were forcing farmers off land that rightfully belongs to Cambodia. Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker-elect Mao Monyvan, who ran in Kampong ss='cambodia-color'>...

Piles of waste stinking up siem Reap’s Chreav commune are causing serious health problems and making the area unlivable, according to local residents. The site in Knar village, which is run by refuse company Global Action for Environment Awareness (GAEA), is plagued with flies and a ss='cambodia-color'>...

UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai haS aSked the government of Cambodia to lift a ban on public gathering that haS been in force for a month. A Statement alSo Said Kiai met and raiSed the iSSue of the blanket proteSt ban with Secretary of State for SS='cambodia-color'>...

The offices of commune officials along the Tonle sap basin will soon be solar-powered as part of a poverty-reduction project backed by the Asian Development Bank. some 123 off-the-grid commune council offices in Banteay Meanchey, siem Reap, Kampong Thom and Kampong Cham provinces will be fitted ss='cambodia-color'>...

Desperate ethnic minority villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley have blocked a road that was to be used to transport heavy machinery onto their lands to start construction of the highly controversial stung Cheay Areng dam, according to villagers and officials. Three Chinese employees of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police raided a guesthouse in Poipet City on Monday and arrested 23 men as they waited to be paid for illegally logging rosewood across Cambodia’s border with Thailand, police officials said. Um sophal, Poipet City police chief, said the men were arrested Monday following a tip-off ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a first for Phnom Penh, south Korean condominium developer Nury D&C has teamed up with sBI Royal securities to offer condominium buyers a leaseback arrangement on the remaining condo-miniums and condo-minium blocks for sale at De Castle Royal. The 32-storey De Castle Royal has a ss='cambodia-color'>...