The court prosecutor investigating last month’s shooting of three female factory workers at a special economic zone (sEZ) denied a newspaper report claiming the chief suspect, former Bavet City Governor Chhouk Bundith, had confessed to shooting the women. svay Rieng Provincial Court prosecutor Hing Bunchea said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Kompong Thom province yesterday forced a pagoda to withdraw its invitation to host a workshop about forest protection, continuing their pressure on two NGOs that provide community legal education in the province, a monk and NGO worker said. Chin Neth, chief monk at ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 60 Cambodian and international human rights groups and trade unions yesterday called on Cambodia and Malaysia to reach a bilateral agreement that would guarantee strong labor rights and working conditions for Cambodian maids employed in Malaysia. “The time is ripe for the Cambodian ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of migrant workers abused by their foreign employers abroad more than doubled in 2011, rights group Adhoc announced yesterday before calling on the government to improve its efforts to protect both migrant and repatriated workers. “It’s a dangerous sign,” said Adhoc president Thun saray ss='cambodia-color'>...

Free Trade Union president Chea Mony yesterday rejected a charge in court that he and two other FTU members incited workers to damage property during a mass strike last year at the M&V garment factory. During nearly two hours of questioning at the Kampong Chhnang provincial ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union has launched a $4.5 million program aimed at increasing food security among indigenous minorities in Ratanakkiri province, including those whose land has been affected by the growing number of economic land concessions in the area. speaking on the sidelines of the launch in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police threatened workers and fired shots into the air as a dispute involving about 800 Cambodian workers at Phatthana seafood Co Ltd in Thailand’s songkhla province escalated yesterday, a workers’ representative said. sok sorng said “many police” had threatened workers with guns as more than 1,000 ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Ministry of Justice spokesman and Cambodia’s Permanent Mission to the UN Office at Geneva (Unog) have described demands for the treason charge against Kem sokha to be dropped as tantamount to interference in the judiciary. Rhona smith, the UN special Rapporteur on the situation ss='cambodia-color'>...

The 22nd Asean Banking Conference and the 49th Asean Banking Council Meeting kicks off on Monday in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. This is the Kingdom’s first time hosting the conference and the second time for the council meeting. The event is organised by the Association of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen left recommendations for the Veterans Confederation of Asean Countries (Veconac) to help it attain new achievements in the interest of the general welfare of veterans in each member-nation. The recommendations were made on Tuesday at the 19th General Assembly of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The United StateS and Cambodia have agreed to begin diScuSSionS on a bilateral inveStment treaty (BIT) in a bid to Spur trade and inveStment between the two countrieS, officialS Said on Friday following the end of the ASEAN-US BuSineSS Summit in Siem Reap. “A bilateral inveStment SS='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N.’s special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, has waded in to the furor surrounding the imprisonment this week of two anti-eviction activists from Boeng Kak and Borei Keila communities, posing with a poster calling for the release of the two women. Yorm Bopha, 32, ss='cambodia-color'>...

In parts of rural Cambodia, farmers’ primary source of income comes from harvesting rice — once a year. This is a poor outcome compared to other AsEAN countries which harvest twice or thrice a year. To help increase farmers’ income, Victor Combal-Weiss and Guillaume Virag founded ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni began a 3-day State viSit to Vietnam Starting on Monday at the invitation of VietnameSe PreSident Truong Tan Sang, local media reported. The viSit, the fourth made by Cambodian king Since he came to the throne in 2004, will likely elevate further SS='cambodia-color'>...

Former Khmer Rouge cadres who in return for laying down their weapons and swearing allegiance to the Cambodian government were granted plots of land in what is now Kampot province say local authorities aren’t respecting the deal. Representatives of 80 families in the province’s Chhouk district told the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Flooding  this year cost the government significantly less than expected due to better preparation and lower water levels than in previous years, first vice president of the National Committee for Disaster Management Nhim Vanda announced yesterday. The NCDM could not yet report the precise amount spent on flood ss='cambodia-color'>...

US-BASED OverSeaS Private InveStment Corporation (OPIC) yeSterday Signed a deal to provide a $5 million long-term loan to Thaneakea Phum (Cambodia) Ltd (TPC), a local microfinance inStitution (MFI), to Support TPC&rSquo;S expanSion of itS home improvement loanS for low-income CambodianS. Fernanda Lima, director of US-baSed Socially SS='cambodia-color'>...

Every day they come in the thousands and crowd under a blazing sun for hours, awaiting a moment that costs them more than two full months’ salary – a passport. And where are they going? “Thailand,” 21-year-old sem Pheaktra said, squinting under a harsh mid-morning sun. He, and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Kratie province have denied entry to journalists and rights workers to the site of violent land clashes that led to the death of a teenage girl on Wednesday. Rights workers say they fear for the safety of villagers in Broma village, but police say ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh municipal authority has called on Borei Keila residents evicted on January 3 to present official documents proving they are eligible for housing. City Hall’s request came as part of a statement criticising NGOs and political parties that encouraged “poor” residents, who were not ss='cambodia-color'>...