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The Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court laid fresh charges of money laundering on the detained chairman of an embattled British investment firm on Friday, the same day that a provincial official was arrested in relation to fraud charges the businessman was already facing, a court official ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of civil society representatives, garment workers and community groups are expected to take to the streets this morning to deliver petitions to foreign embassies calling on the government to release the 23 people arrested during garment worker strikes earlier this month and find justice ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mobile payment company Wing and the Foreign Trade Bank (FTB) of Cambodia on Monday announced they had joined forces to expand the bank’s already-existing prepaid Visa card network in an effort to make it easier for locals without bank accounts to have access to electronic ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials from the ruling CPP said Wednesday that a series of public forums announced by Prime Minister Hun sen earlier this year, which he said would help gather input for his promised plans to introduce widespread political reform, are now being held around the country. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

An official with the government’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) said Tuesday that staff there were specifically instructed not to investigate allegations of large-scale bribery inside the Health Ministry so that the unit could settle the case out of court. On sunday, ACU chief Om Yentieng told reporters ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of 20 ethnic minority Chong villagers in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley blocked the road Friday to prevent a group of Chinese engineers from reaching the site of a controversial proposed dam. A number of Chong villagers have been intermittently camping near the road ss='cambodia-color'>...

Early this month, in what looks like a failed attempt to save its reputation, Australia‘s ANZ Bank severed its ties with Phnom Penh sugar, a company accused of a range of human rights abuses linked to its plantations in Kampong speu province, Cambodia. The move ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction of the Lower sesan 2 dam will begin early next month, residents and authorities said after a meeting in stung Treng province on Monday. Minister of Mines and Energy suy sem for the first time gave a time frame for the construction of the dam ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...