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Construction has started on the 22-storey Toyoko Inn Hotel, which will cost Us$20 million to build, near the Hang Bridge. The project is due to be completed in November 2014. Touch somnang, the Project Manager for the Koh Pich development project, said the Toyoko Inn Hotel ss='cambodia-color'>...

Tuesday marked World Toilet Day, the annual attempt to push the issue of open defecation back into the spotlight and highlight the preventable illnesses that are caused by what is still a very common practice in Cambodia, which has the lowest toilet coverage in southeast ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition CNRP President sam Rainsy on Friday expressed his intention to take his dissatisfaction with the outcome of the July national election, over which his party is boycotting its National Assembly seats, to an international stage. speaking at the launch of a detailed election report by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Minister of Labor Ith samheng on Friday afternoon held an urgent talk with the representatives of six pro-opposition trade unions after they have led tens of thousands of workers off work in protest against low wage increase for 2014. As the meeting was going on, ss='cambodia-color'>...

After the Court of Appeal denied bail to 21 jailed protesters on Tuesday, 16 labor unions and associations announced Wednesday that they will retaliate by calling a nationwide labor strike in the middle of March. The unions, which mainly represent workers in the garment industry, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

A U.N. rights envoy to Cambodia on Wednesday expressed “cautious optimism” that the parties of Prime Minister Hun sen and opposition leader sam Rainsy would move toward ending their seven-month political deadlock following an agreement achieved this week between the two sides on a set ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities in stung Treng province discovered and confiscated a haul of luxury wood that was being transported in three trucks on sunday night from the protected Virachey National Park, officials said Tuesday. Provincial deputy police chief Yorn Din said the trucks were stopped and searched as ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee last night released the official results of the May 18 district, provincial and municipal council elections, with the ruling CPP winning 2,540—or 76.4 percent—of the 3,324 positions that were available across the country. The figures are almost identical to the figures released ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Defense on Monday said that a complaint filed against a Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) commander in Banteay Meanchey province for alleged corruption and other crimes had already been resolved in 2011. On Friday, provincial RCAF soldiers informed local rights group Adhoc of ss='cambodia-color'>...

A dispute has erupted off the coast of sihanoukville. On one side is the country’s aviation authority, backed by the local airport. On the other side are a couple of guys and a few flying boats. The state secretariat of Civil Aviation (ssCA) said yesterday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

The World Bank on Thursday asked Phnom Penh municipal officials to do more to help the thousands of families the city evicted from the Boeng Kak neighborhood to make way for a CPP senator’s private real estate project, and is now waiting for a reply, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ath Thorn, the president of the union that led strikes at the sL Garment Factory last year, appeared before the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday for questioning over allegations of incitement. The Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union (CCAWDU), headed by Mr. Thorn, spearheaded ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police said sunday that they will not pursue charges against Ek sovannara—the son of a former Kandal provincial police chief—whose Lexus sUV on April 12 crashed into a motorbike carrying three men, killing one and causing the other two to have their left legs amputated. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thmey Thmey online news and Women’s Radio FM 102 on Thursday announced a partnership that will see journalists from both outlets join forces to create evening news bulletins to be broadcast daily starting saturday. “Our concept is independent Cambodian news, by Cambodians, for Cambodians, and 102 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials and union representatives met behind closed doors Thursday to start hashing out a better way to set the minimum wage for the country’s all-important but troubled garment sector at a workshop brokered by the International Labor Organization (ILO). But what was supposed to be ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 30 villagers in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district staged a protest Tuesday morning against tycoon sok Kong, whom they accuse of piping dredged sand into their farmland and fishing ponds. Fourteen families occupying 21 hectares of land in Prek Pra commune have been locked in a ss='cambodia-color'>...

A forestry official with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) who is usually tight-lipped acknowledged last week that his agency has struggled to combat illegal logging, blaming a shortage of manpower and entrenched opportunistic logging by villagers – explanations that were laughed off ss='cambodia-color'>...

A villager involved in a long-running land dispute in Kompong Chhnang province with the wife of Mines and Energy Minister suy sem has accused his commune police chief of discrimination after he was refused a character statement he needed to apply for a garment factory ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh’s police force has had almost a week to investigate a fatal hit-and-run on Friday night, when a Range Rover slammed into a motorbike near the Ministry of Commerce, killing two men and seriously injuring another. But local police have not conducted even the most ss='cambodia-color'>...