A lawyer representing the three victims of the Feb. 20 shooting of workers at a special economic zone (SEZ) in Svay Rieng province has written to investigators asking to be allowed to participate in the case. Chin Lyda, a lawyer for human rights group Licadho who is representing the three ...

A lot of Japanese companies have been making inquiries about investing in Cambodia. And a good number of them are companies who are considering relocating from China. This was revealed by Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone manager Hiroshi Uematsu in the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. Recent ...

Tokyo-based Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) to help support Japanese investment in Cambodia. the MoU was signed by SMBC President and CEO Takeshi Kunibe and PPSEZ Chairwoman Lim Chhiv Ho earlier this ...

Twenty-two families who have been locked in a bitter, seven-year dispute over 145 hectares of land in Kompong Chhnang province with a company owned by the wife of Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem claim they were illegally pressured into accepting compensation and filed a ...

In the past, Chhoeurng Rachana had a boyfriend, but now she loves a woman instead. the 27-year-old says she just realized who she really loved, after trying to figure out her own feelings toward men four years ago. “Back in 2010, I tried having a boyfriend ...

More than one year after the government passed legislation to bring in a pension for people with disabilities living in poverty, a preliminary committee to workshop how to locate such disabled people has still not been formed, officials said yesterday. In June last year, the ...

Cambodia’s top economy builders are looking to bring back Thai investment that has departed the country since the onset of political clashes involving Preah Vihear temple in northern Cambodia. officials at the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) yesterday hosted 30 delegates from the Thai ...

The Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP), a coalition of The Sam Rainsy Party and The Human Rights Party, stands to gain about 30 percent of The vote if it decides to stand against The ruling CPP in next year’s national elections, The Committee for Free ...

Four Vietnamese nationals were arrested off the coast of Preah Sihanouk province Tuesday for allegedly smuggling illegally cut wood from the neighboring province of Koh Kong, officials said yesterday. Sak Sovann, crime unit chief for the Interior Ministry’s maritime border police department, said the four men ...

PROMINENT businessman Kith Meng was re-elected unopposed yesterday as president of the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce. Kith Meng, the only contender who declared his candidacy for the three-year mandate, received support from all 11 candidates eligible to stand. Kith Meng, who is also chairman and chief ...

A group of Cambodian artists and filmmakers requested the government to take action on the foreign dramas. Cambodia has lost some $6 million annually to buy foreign programs or dramas from Korea, Thailand, China, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. ...

The Ministry of Labor on Sunday launched an educational campaign aimed at preventing furTher mass faintings in garment factories, a ministry official said yesterday. Meng Hong, director of The ministry’s inspection and legal affairs department, said that The campaign would target more than 30,000 garment workers ...

While the smoke has long cleared on January’s violent garment strikes, for many of the 23 workers and unionists arrested and tried on charges widely considered to be baseless, the ordeal is far from over. Nine months after security forces used deadly violence to end strikes ...

The Stung Sen wetland has become The Kingdom’s latest Ramsar Site, said The Ministry of Environment. The seasonally-flooded 9,293ha freshwater swamp, located along The souTheastern edge of The Tonle Sap great lake in Kampong Thom province, was declared Cambodia’s fifth Ramsar Site on Friday under ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen urged relevant institutions, especially the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS) to further enhance the quality of higher education, particularly the doctorate degree. ...

The Constitutional Council of Cambodia is expected to review The “State of Emergency” draft law soon after it was unanimously adopted by legislative bodies, passing it to The final phase of becoming legislation. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has asked the Electricity of Cambodia to waive some part of over $2 million electricity bills the Ministry of Defense has not yet paid. ...

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 ...

On 15 March 2024, Cham Nimul, Minister of Commerce, presided over the conclusion of ARISE Plus Cambodia and the launch of “EU Global Access and Trade Expertise (GATE)” with many participants from the Ministry of Commerce, representatives from the relevant partner and stakeholders. ...

Reporters in Cambodia seeking statistics from government ministries and departments are used to being given the brush-off from time to time, but in the run-up to the July 28 national election, things appear to have worsened. the Council for the Develop­ment of Cambodia (CDC) has for ...