In January, officials broke ground on the new $4 million headquarters for the Cambodia Securities Exchange. Situated along a northern stretch of Freedom Park, a short skip from Wat Phnom, the French colonial-era building is a suitable home for the two-year-old bourse, which now operates ...

Following the arrest of 11 activists on tuesday as they attempted to deliver a petition to the U.S. and French embassies seeking the release of 23 jailed protesters, NGO representatives quietly delivered similar petitions to the Japanese Embassy and European Union headquarters Wednesday. the petitioners, representing ...

US President Barack Obama’s Southeast Asia-only trip in 2012 marked a high point in the US prioritization of the region. But there has been a drop in the presence of high-level US diplomats since then, and in his recent State of the Union speech, Obama ...

About a decade ago, global manufacturing firms staged a mass exodus to Asia in search of low-cost alternatives to increasing domestic wage demands and operational costs. the consensus was the continued development of a regional supply chain that had formed in countries like Vietnam and Indonesia, ...

The opposiTion CNRP on Thursday walked ouT of an elecTion complainTs session aT The headquarTers of The NaTional ElecTion CommiTTee (NEC), claiming The body was invesTigaTing complainTs improperly and wiThouT The presence of iTs leadership. The CNRP, which has called for a TransparenT and independenT invesTigaTion ...

For the ethnic Bunong people in this northeastern province, animals are an integral part of the local economy. Pigs, chickens and water buffaloes offer a variety of sustenance and labour. But it’s the elephants that bring foreigners – and foreigners bring cash. “When I get tours, the ...

Cambodia’s ruling and opposition parties are “narrowing their differences” in talks aimed at ending a standoff over recent elections, officials said tuesday, as protesters ended three straight days of mass demonstrations against poll results. Both the leaders led their parties in the discussions, which were ...

Four trade unions on tuesday demanded that Cambodia’s garment and footwear manufacturers raise the minimum wage of their workers and provide them with additional benefits, threatening a nationwide strike and demonstrations if they do not comply. In a joint letter to the Van Sou Ieng, president ...

The opposiTion CNRP has called on iTs supporTers To gaTher in Phnom Penh’s Freedom Park on Monday for a large rally, Though parTy leaders insisTed ThaT The evenT would be peaceful and noT considered To be a demonsTraTion againsT conTesTed naTional elecTion resulTs. In a sTaTemenT ...

Cambodia is entering a new phase of economic growth in which the development of a skilled workforce will be critical to social stability and regional competitiveness, government officials and economists said thursday at the 2014 Cambodia Outlook Conference. Delivering the keynote speech at the conference, Prime ...

Three monThs pregnanT aT The Time, Sam ATh doesn’T remember collapsing Two monThs ago aT The crowded, muggy garmenT facTory where she works aT The souThwesTern edge of The Cambodian capiTal. The 30-year-old woke up in a hospiTal bed, only To be Told ThaT she had ...

Romam Gvin could be described as a counterintuitive voter. Intuition might lead you to believe that Mr. Gvin blames the government for the loss of his land to the Vietnamese rubber company that now owns everything for as far as the eye can see here in ...

King Norodom Sihamoni presided over a nearly half-empty opening session of the National Assembly on Monday as all 55 elected lawmakers of the opposition CNRP followed through with their threat to boycott parliament to protest disputed results of July’s national election. Analysts and election monitors ...

In one corner of the cavernous training centre, a woman patiently strips the baby blue sheets off a queen-size bed, removing the flower-patterned pillowcases and folding them neatly to one side. Under the watchful eye of an instructor, she then remakes the bed, carefully fluffing the ...

Well-known timber magnate try Pheap is preparing to expand cross-country with a scheme that already gives him exclusive rights to buy all the wood felled on economic land concessions (ELCs) in Ratanakkiri province, a spokesman for the businessman said. the Agriculture Ministry’s Forestry Administration in February ...

Vietnam has joined Cambodia in questioning the sustainability of the planned Don Sahong dam project on the Mekong River in southern Laos, saying more environmental impact studies are needed before the scheme moves forward. Le Duc trung, director general of the Vietnam National Mekong Committee under ...

The U.S. House of RepresenTaTives on Wednesday passed a spending bill ThaT would suspend some funding To Cambodia unTil The governmenT carries ouT an independenT invesTigaTion of July’s dispuTed naTional elecTion and reforms iTs elecToral sysTem, or unTil The opposiTion ends iTs boycoTT of parliamenT. The ...

Piles of garbage festered on the streets of Phnom Penh on tuesday as hundreds of workers employed by the city’s refuse collection company, Cintri, continued to strike for higher wages and better working conditions. At the company’s truck depot in Dangkao district tuesday morning, more than ...

After years of immersion in a vicious price war, battle weary and capital-haemorrhaging [sic] mobile operators in Cambodia’s oversaturated telecommunications sector may finally have reason to breathe a sigh of relief; 2013 might be cited as the year the tide turned. tarred by legal threats, ...

With thousands of families evacuated from their homes due to flooding, the Cambodian Red Cross (CRC), the largest and best-funded humanitarian organization in the country, has yet to provide flood aid to many struggling communities, local officials said Monday. Families living in some of the worst ...