The number of families claiming to have lost contact with relatives working overseas has seen a significant increase in recent months, three human rights groups said Thursday. Local rights groups Adhoc and Licadho and the legal aid association Cambodian Legal Education Center (CLEC), said that the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s first initial public offering is fast approaching, and demand is expected to be robust. Book-building, the process during which bids for the IPO are taken and a price is set for shares, ended yesterday. The final offering price is expected before the subscription for ss='cambodia-color'>...

Leaning over the railing on the roof of the Khmeroyal Hotel along Phnom Penh’s sisowath Quay, 54-year-old scholar and long-time Cambodian resident Oliver de Bernon peered across at his crumbing riverfront apartment yesterday. Residents of the block between streets 178 and 184 on sisowath Quay ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen ordered Ministry of Labour officials to quickly investigate and resolve problems leading to recent mass faintings at factories in Kampong Chhnang and Phnom Penh during meeting with the Council of Ministers on Friday.  Last week around 300 workers fainted at M&V ss='cambodia-color'>...

The results of an investigation into two mass fainting incidents at a factory in Kampong Chhnang confirmed that M&V International Manufacturing had violated Cambodian labour law by forcing some staff to work overtime and failing to give them a full day off each week, according ss='cambodia-color'>...

Union leaders gathered in the capital yesterday to discuss strategies to curb the garment industry’s widespread use of temporary contracts for hiring workers, saying employers were using them to discourage unions and ensure their workforce remained docile and easy to exploit. They also accused employers of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government authorities are investigating the death of a migrant domestic worker in Malaysia after her family and rights groups raised questions about the stated cause of death from a lung infection, a relative of the deceased woman said yesterday. Na Rith, 42, said his cousin Ouk ss='cambodia-color'>...

Panellists at the first “Permanent People’s Tribunal” on wages and conditions for Cambodian garment workers yesterday released their findings, declaring that a living wage for workers should be considered a “human right”. The hearing included two days of testimony by workers, labour experts and brand-name buyers. While ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has already granted roughly 300,000 hectares in economic land concessions (ELC) so far this year, according to data released by a local rights group yesterday. The figure, which amounts to 40 percent of the total land concessions granted in all of 2011, has ss='cambodia-color'>...

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The Cambodian government was strengthening its capacity to combat human trafficking by focusing on poverty reduction and was eager to work with other groups tackling the crime, Interior Ministry secretary of state Chou Bun Eng said yesterday. “The issues of human trafficking and migrating workers are ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 800 Cambodian workers in Thailand went on strike yesterday against a major global seafood exporter they accuse of exploiting them. The factory, which has been identified by workers and rights groups as Phatthana seafood Co Ltd in Thailand’s songkhla province, allegedly scrapped a 20 baht ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) publishes a new topic page on​ “sDG 3 Good health and well-being”, which is one of the 17 goals of the UN sustainable Development Goals (sDGs), in both Khmer and English languages. Through ODC’s new topic pages on sDG 3, you ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 13 August 2019, Mr. stephen Burega, Chief Executive Officer at Angkor Gold Corp. announced that Angkor, through its subsidiary EnerCam Resources Co. Ltd. (“EnerCam”), had received the approval of the Royal Government of Cambodia on its application for a 7300 square kilometre oil and gas concession in Cambodia. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

After the authorities on Friday and saturday dismantled 49 of some 1,000 huts which had been built illegally on forest land in siem Reap’s Phnom Kulen National Park, Banteay srei district governor Khim Finan said on sunday that a hunt was on for a group ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Labour Ministry is merging its inspection department’s team with those in three other ministries to create a single one to conduct checks on industries and factories.​ Labour Minister Ith samheng on Friday led a meeting with officials from the Industry and Handicrafts Ministry, Tourism ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Ministry is hoping last year’s relative decrease in traffic accidents and deaths during the Pchum Ben holiday is a sign of things to come and asked citizens again this year to drive safely as they crisscross the country to celebrate the holiday. In a ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 21 December 2017, at the Ministry, H.E. senior Minister Prak sokhonn and H.E. Xiong Bo, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Kingdom of Cambodia, will sign the Agreement on the Cooperation on Projects of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation special ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia is lighting up with solar power as international politics gluts the world market with inexpensive equipment options, according to industry insiders. The lowering or complete end of subsidies for Us, European and Australian firms, along with China’s backing of the renewable energy sector, has seen ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a scene that has become all too familiar over the past year, a group of five fishermen who had endured more than a year in forced labour on a Thai fishing vessel returned to an emotional reunion with their families in Phnom Penh last ss='cambodia-color'>...