The European Union’s ambassador to Cambodia raised issues of judicial reform, land reform and the upcoming national elections in a meeting with Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday morning. The European Commission’s directorate-general for trade is currently reviewing a report by the U.N.’s human rights envoy ss='cambodia-color'>...

The massive and highly controversial Lower sesan 2 Dam project took a major step forward yesterday with the inking of government power purchase agreements and an investment deal between Royal Group and a Chinese company. But details about the contracts, their implementation or the fate of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s abuse of land rights and indigenous minorities were among the top concerns raised Tuesday by non-governmental groups at a workshop in Phnom Penh on Cambodia’s progress toward achieving a long list of U.N. human rights recommendations. As part of the U.N. Human Rights Council’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) is calling all mobile phone operators to attend a meeting next week in order to reconsider the costs for within-and across-network calls, after disputes over bonus promotions in Cambodia’s crowded telecoms market. TRC director Mao Chakrya said that for the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The occupants of 90 Phnom Penh households whose homes were partially or completely dismantled to make way for the Railway Rehabilitation Project partly funded by the ADB have demanded the bank offer them fair compensation. In a letter submitted to the Inter-Ministerial Resettlement Committee, the ADB, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five SoutheaSt ASian countrieS, Cambodia, LaoS, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam, are targeting a double-digit growth rate of international viSitorS annually by 2015 under the theme “Five CountrieS &ndaSh; One DeStination”, according to Hoang Tuan Anh, Viet Nam&rSquo;S MiniSter of Culture, Sport and TouriSm. In a SS='cambodia-color'>...

International trade leaders say Cambodia’s workers and managers should continue to negotiate for an increase in wages, despite a deadly crackdown on worker protests earlier this month. Workers want a raise in the minimum wage to $160 per month to keep up with the rising cost ss='cambodia-color'>...

The International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) watchdog announced Tuesday it will proceed with an investigation into Cambodia’s leading microfinance firms, after the IFC withdrew a request for review of the decision to investigate. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A son of casino firm NagaCorp’s billionaire senior CEO has been accused by unionists of snatching and throwing to the ground a phone belonging to a striking employee of the company’s NagaWorld casino, with video also showing the identified executive lobbing a traffic cone at ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s employment rate continued to be strong at 99.3 percent and remained one of the best in the world. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nean Narin, a humble man and father of three children, says his family is going hungry. Narin lives in the village of Boeung Kak, situated on the edge of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. For years, he and other villagers relied on the Boeung Kak Lake ss='cambodia-color'>...

Their stories have become all too familiar – Cambodian fishermen enslaved on fishing boats after being promised lucrative jobs overseas. They’re also becoming increasingly common. Anti-trafficking NGOs told the Post this week that they have noticed an exponential increase in the number of trafficking complaints from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Labor rights activists and a government official accused the International Labor Organization’s Better Factories Cambodia program of ineffectiveness in its monitoring of factory conditions following a deadly ceiling collapse on Thursday at a shoe factory in Kompong speu province. Moeun Tola, labor program head of the ss='cambodia-color'>...

There has been a 13 percent increase to Cambodia’s two international airports since the beginning of the year. The UsA, China, south Korea and Vietnam along with Japan were the key factors in this growth. The government’s attempts to attract visitors and investors is cited ss='cambodia-color'>...

Atok-Big Wedge Co. Inc., a listed company owned by the group of former Trade minister Roberto Ongpin, acquired Tidemark Holdings Ltd., a Hong Kong company that owns 25.9 percent of Forum Energy Plc, an oil and gas firm controlled by Philex Mining Corp. Atok-Big Wedge said ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s latest brewery is set to launch on November 1, introducing a new player into the growing Cambodian beer market, insiders said yesterday. The Khmer Brewery plant, a Us$60 million joint venture between locally based Chip Mong Group and major international brewery manufacturer Ziemann Group, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Internet service protocol company Mega will join the Cambodia’s gaggle of active providers today after launching an unconventional marketing campaign that sought to stir curiosity. Four billboards without a clear company name appeared around Phnom Penh in early January. “something Mega is coming soon” the ad, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The timing couldn’t have been better. After a week in which one NGO was suspended and others warned to “readjust their work,” and the World Bank was finally forced to reveal that it had stopped loaning to Cambodia, the government announced over the weekend that ss='cambodia-color'>...

The evictions and so-called “land grabs” have angered aid donors, putting at stake hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid as well as a trade scheme that gives Cambodian produce tariff-free access to the EU. International donors and lenders such as the World Bank ss='cambodia-color'>...

Multiple government ministries and the International Labor organization will form a group to investigate the mass fainting that have plagued Cambodia’s garment industry over the past several months, Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh said yesterday. There have been at least 15 mass fainting since the beginning ss='cambodia-color'>...