Like many developing countries, Cambodia’s mainly agricultural society is changing fast, driven by urbanization and falling fertility rates. As young workers move to the cities, older people are staying back in the villages, where they have little support. Although former civil servants and soldiers get ss='cambodia-color'>...

An illicit cross-border rubber trade is thriving in Cambodia amid plummeting global prices and is threatening legitimate processing operations in the country, according to business owners and industry experts. And while Cambodia’s natural rubber export tariffs are set at between 2 and 10 percent, Vietnam ss='cambodia-color'>...

Although Prime Minister Hun sen and opposition leader sam Rainsy on Friday agreed that no member of an overhauled National Election Committee could have multiple nationalities, it remains unclear whether rights activist and triple national Pung Chhiv Kek is out of the running for the ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 1,000 workers at a Takeo province garment factory who have been on strike since Monday are due to return to work today after negotiations between union representatives and the factory wrapped up successfully Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Many visit siem Reap province’s Angkorian-era temples for the views and the atmosphere, but the Apsara Authority wants to find out if that atmosphere is toxic. ss='cambodia-color'>...

An opposition lawmaker probing alleged irregularities in Angkor Archaeological Park’s ticket revenues says he’s sceptical about figures released yesterday by the site’s managers showing a boost in sales last month. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After breaking the conditions of their bail last month, causing public outrage from Prime Minster Hun sen, the parents of fugitive businessman Thong sarath are attempting to use their son’s lucrative development company to secure bail for the second time, their lawyer said yesterday.​ . ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following talks with indigenous villagers over the weekend, which saw promises of jobs and English language lessons, there are high hopes that a foreign company looking to extract gold in Ratanakkiri will be awarded the first-ever mining licence in the province. Representatives of Mesco Gold met ss='cambodia-color'>...

The trial of fugitive tycoon Thong Sarath&rSquo;S parentS on poSSeSSion of illegal weaponS chargeS will begin on Friday, officialS Said yeSterday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Labour has issued a prakas urging employers to follow existing regulations in the Labour Law that limit foreign workers to 10 per cent of the total workforce at any one company. It has warned that failure to stay within this limit – or ss='cambodia-color'>...

Noranarith Anandayath, the long-serving personal secretary of former First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh, said sunday that he has resigned from the prince’s newly formed political party and is considering joining the CPP. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Seang VeaSna, the SuSpected gunman in the murder of Ung Meng Cheu allegedly orcheStrated by fugitive tycoon Thong Sarath, waS queStioned again at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yeSterday regarding hiS whereaboutS on the night of the November 2014 Shooting. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) lacks the resources to enforce regulatory standards and bail out underperforming banks during times of need, credit ratings agency standard & Poor’s says. Cambodia’s banking sector was labelled high-risk, with a score of nine out of 10 on s&P’s2014 Banking ss='cambodia-color'>...

As opposition grew yesterday over plans to remove Areng dam activist Alex Gonzalez-Davidson from the country when his visa expires later this week, analysts said the government was hoping to clear the way to develop the valley. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After the sudden, unannounced disappearance of their factory’s owner last Friday, more than 400 garment workers at DF Fashion Apparel (Cambodia) in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district gathered at the factory yesterday, demanding back wages. ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 striking workers demonstrated in front of siko Phnom Penh Garment Factory in the capital’s Dangkor district yesterday after management fired an employee who founded a new labour union there, according to a union representative. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Female members of the National Assembly sat down with a representative of the UK Parliament yesterday to discuss female participation in politics, on the final day of a consultative meeting hosted by the British Embassy. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A decorative gate erected in Siem Reap province&rSquo;S Angkor Archaeological Park for the upcoming Khmer New Year feStivitieS waS burned down in the early hourS of yeSterday morning, following a backlaSh againSt itS So-called VietnameSe deSign. Siem Reap Deputy Governor Bun Tharith Said the gate &ndaSh; SS='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee has created a pair of new commissions, with one aimed at keeping relevant stakeholders informed of the reformed body’s activities and another coordinating electoral activities with Provincial Election Committees. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government today dismissed as inaccurate information in a report released by global broadband speed test operator Ookla that the Internet speed in the country was worse than in Cambodia and Vietnam. ss='cambodia-color'>...