Close to 2,000 people, including monks, NGO workers and citizens, marched peacefully to the Ministry of Justice yesterday morning, defying City Hall’s ban on the Human Rights Day protest.Demonstrators from 16 different provinces marched from three separate locations – the senate, Chenla Cinema and Wat ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ruon Thol plans to harvest his rice crop early next month. The farmer spent more than 6 million riel (about $1,500) this wet season to cultivate his four hectares of farmland in Battambang province’s Banan district. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge on Wednesday rejected the prosecution’s request that former Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president Kem sokha be rearrested for allegedly violating his bail conditions. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Victims of the violent clashes that broke out between security forces and stone-throwing youths in Phnom Penh on sunday night recounted the event Monday, with some saying they sustained injuries while battling against riot police and others saying they were simply unfortunate commuters trapped in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Faced with the rapid loss of vast tracts of forest across Cambodia, local communities have begun to fight back, and a growing number of villagers are now organizing their own aggressive forest patrols in order to save the forests on which they have relied for ss='cambodia-color'>...

Import duties and limits, as well as rising wages in neighbouring countries, made Cambodia the second largest exporter of bicycles to the European Union after Taiwan, an industry newsletter reports. According to Bike-EU.com, which quoted data from Eurostat, Cambodia exported 519,389 units to EU countries between ss='cambodia-color'>...

A technology called “Super Wi-Fi” that uSeS the frequency Spectrum between televiSion channelS called “white SpaceS” could be a game-changing force in how people connect to the internet, eSpecially in placeS like Cambodia. The technology, which requireS SpecialiSed equipment coSting about US$2,000 for a baSe Station SS='cambodia-color'>...

The CNRP has scheduled two practice demonstrations for next week in order to ensure that nationwide rallies planned for september 7 are held peacefully, the party said in a statement on Friday. The announcement came a day after 100 party members and provincial activists for ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Labour, Government of Cambodia, would set the 2014 minimum wage for garment workers next month, reports The Phnom Penh Post. A working group consisting of representatives of the Garment Manufacturers’ Association in Cambodia (GMAC), workers’ representatives and factory managers met officials at ss='cambodia-color'>...

US national Daniel Stephen JohnSon waS tranSferred to Prey Sar priSon yeSterday after being charged on Saturday over the alleged rape of five underage boyS &ndaSh; reSidentS of the orphanage he ran without interference from authoritieS for Several monthS. According to Phnom Penh Municipal Court proSecutor SS='cambodia-color'>...

The government’s latest five-year strategy calls for a complete halt to economic land concessions (ELCs) and an inquiry into those still in the pipeline. But the plan has drawn scepticism from conservationists and rights groups, who pointed out that loopholes have been liberally applied after the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Eight Cambodians have died from malaria so far this year, compared to 37 in the same period last year, a drop of about 80 percent and a sign that the country could soon reach the goal of zero malaria deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia held an inter- ministerial meeting on Monday to discuss and prepare documents for a talk with China in November in order to further enhance bilateral ties and cooperation, officials said. Koy Kuong, spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the Monday’s meeting ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government will likely sell a Japanese-style medical service to Cambodia in a package that includes an emergency care center, a medical graduate school and an insurance system. The government has decided to seek a market for the medical service in emerging nations in the Association ss='cambodia-color'>...

When a group of six unions organized nationwide strikes in December demanding a $160 minimum wage, the opposition CNRP aggressively took up the cause. Opposition leaders rallied support outside factory gates around the country and tens of thousands of garment workers flooded into Phnom Penh’s Freedom ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Labor Ministry in a statement Thursday insisted that unions were still free to register as entities recognized by the government, a day after a ministry spokesman said that union registration had been effectively suspended for the foreseeable future. Free Trade Union (FTU) president Chea Mony ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 60 police and military police informed 19 families farming on a plot of land in Pailin province’s sala Krao district on saturday that they would have to move as they were growing crops on state land. However, Prak sophima, provincial coordinator for rights group ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minster Hun sen ar­riv­ed back in Phnom Penh on sunday after a weeklong visit to Chi­na for an international summit during which Chinese Premier Xi Jinping pledged $145 million in aid and soft loans to Cambodia. On Monday, AKP reported that China promised to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six major retail, footwear and garment induStry aSSociationS whoSe memberS account for over 90 per cent of garment importS in the US and Canada have called on the Cambodian government, the Garment ManufacturerS ASSociation in Cambodia (GMAC) and unionS to reSume wage negotiationS. The open SS='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of ethnic minority Kreung villagers protested outside the Ratanakkiri Provincial Court on Monday, demanding the release of a fellow Kreung man presently in pretrial detention for setting fire to a pile of wood on land the community sold in 2007 but claims it was ss='cambodia-color'>...