Since MiniSter of Labour Ith Sam Heng announced in late-December that the miniStry would hike the minimum monthly wage for the garment Sector to $100, Nuch Sdoeung haS, at timeS, queStioned if he could even afford beef. The wage booSt from the prior minimum wage SS='cambodia-color'>...

Families still waiting for promised land titles in Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood said sunday that the municipal government is offering to give them their long-awaited tenure rights only if they agree to give up part of their land. About 100 Boeng Kak families were left ss='cambodia-color'>...

Taiwanese garment manufacturer Grand Twins International says it will officially list and start trading on the Cambodia stock Exchange (CsX) on May 8 after spending several weeks whipping up interest from local investors, whose appetite remains on the low side so far. stanley shen, a spokesman ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 200 villagers from Kratie province gathered in Phnom Penh Monday, hoping to deliver a petition to the Cambodian senate and other government agencies in protest of a rubber company’s development there. The villagers, from snoul district, say a Vietnamese rubber company began developing in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Every week, dozens of diabetics gather at a home in the Boeng Kak lake neighborhood to have their weight, blood sugar levels and blood pressure checked. They are among 12,000 impoverished people across the country taking part in the NGO MoPoTsyo’s peer support program, which allows ss='cambodia-color'>...

As cooks prepped for lunch yesterday at an outdoor cafeteria for workers employed by the Japanese-owned Taica factory, more than a dozen commune-level officials inspected the premises. seemingly satisfied with the dining operation, they moved into a recreational room with a large, flat-screen television. Taica ss='cambodia-color'>...

A class of 110 military officers-in-training who graduated from a Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) academy in Kompong speu province last week have been granted the name of “Techo Development” officers, according to a post on the website of the ruling CPP. The class, which graduated ss='cambodia-color'>...

A lack of identification papers is the key obstacle preventing ethnic Vietnamese living in Kompong Chhnang province from enjoying the same rights as Khmer citizens, according to a survey released Tuesday. In the new report, the Minority Rights Organization (MIRO) found that ethnic Vietnamese are often ss='cambodia-color'>...

About a dozen Tuol Kok district security guards in Phnom Penh on Tuesday blocked three families involved in a long-running land dispute from building a fence around the disputed property in Boeng Kak I commune, an official said. Deputy district governor saing sopheak Vichet said the ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 200 villagers blocked National Road 5 in Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district for about two hours Tuesday, lighting fires with wood and tires and causing a large traffic jam as they called for authorities to intervene in their ongoing land dispute with the Phanimex ss='cambodia-color'>...

City Hall is turning its focus to Phnom Penh’s “anarchic parking” situation. Phnom Penh Governor Pa socheatvong yesterday said the municipality plans to cancel old contracts awarding private companies the right to charge for parking in certain parts of the city, and introduce new restrictions on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Grand Twins International (Cambodia) Co. Ltd., a Phnom Penh-based manufacturer of clothes for U.s. athletic brands, has again delayed its listing on the Cambodia securities Exchange (CsX), officials said Wednesday. The company was expected to list Thursday, but technical problems prevented it from doing so, according ss='cambodia-color'>...

Resolution continued to elude 17 former bus drivers for the Phnom Penh sorya Transportation Company yesterday when a demonstration at the company’s headquarters was roughly dispersed by company security after the ex-staffers tried to block buses from leaving. sambath Vorn, president of the union whose founding ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in Kratie province on saturday night discovered nearly 90 pieces of luxury-grade wood stockpiled just outside the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) headquarters in Chhlong district, where they believe the timber was being staged for transport to Tbong Khmum province to the south, officials ss='cambodia-color'>...

Illegal logging and destructive farming practices have archaeologists racing to rescue an ecologically crucial mountain and its hidden temples. some 80 per cent of the forest on Phnom Kulen – one of Cambodia’s National Parks – has disappeared due to a combination of illegal logging, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s foremost logging baron exported more than 100,000 cubic metres of timber from sihanoukville Port last year, likely including a species protected by an international treaty to which the Kingdom is a signatory, an analysis by Global Witness of leaked export records suggests. The data, obtained ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Prime Minister is calling for more investments on agriculture processing and technology industry in the Kingdom. speaking at a graduation ceremony yesterday, Mr Hun sen said that more than 2 million hectares of paddy were harvested among the 2.7 million hectares of cultivated land ss='cambodia-color'>...

Preah Sihanouk provincial officialS yeSterday claShed with a group of villagerS armed with StickS and macheteS aS the officialS were trying to diSmantle illegally built homeS in the Ream National Park. According to a provincial police report, the claSh took place inSide the protected area SS='cambodia-color'>...

Grab, SoutheaSt ASia&rSquo;S leading ride-hailing app, announced yeSterday the launch of two new initiativeS in Cambodia under itS &lSquo;Grab for Good&rSquo; Social impact programme. A company-wide commitment by Grab to create poSitive Social and economic impact through technology.​ The two new initiativeS are Break the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Two men, including a village chief, were arrested on Friday for allegedly grabbing and clearing 10ha of forest land in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district. Krasaing Pnov village chief Penh sarorn, 49, and Vong Phalla, 50, were arrested on the orders of Pursat provincial governor ss='cambodia-color'>...