Cambodia will submit a human rights report to the U.N. today for a universal periodic review (UPR), the second time it is participating in the process, according to the Council of Ministers’ Press and Quick Reaction Unit. Under the UPR process established in 2006, the Human ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government proposed doubling the minimum wage for garment workers—from $80 to $160—within five years during a meeting with labor unions and garment manufacturers on Monday at the Ministry of Labor. “We have a plan to raise the minimum wage up to $160 for garment workers, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police briefly detained 13 garment factory workers on Thursday after about 20,000 workers, some throwing rocks, continued a strike that began Monday in svay Rieng province’s Bavet City over wages and working conditions, a union official and police said. Union leaders had on Wednesday evening agreed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnamese rubber firm Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) has failed to keep its commitments to address human rights and environmental abuses at its plantations in Cambodia, Global Witness said in a statement yesterday. In May, the London-based NGO published an investigation into two Vietnamese rubber companies ss='cambodia-color'>...

An official at the Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) said Wednesday that the body plans to review and possibly lower the current minimum price per call after it recently ordered the country’s seven mobile phone operators to abide by a law that sets minimum call ss='cambodia-color'>...

A rice trader on Monday filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit, Prime Minister Hun sen’s Cabinet and three ministries alleging that officials in Kompong Cham province had wrongly fined her for an overweight truck after using improperly weighted scales. saing Darlin had her truck impounded ss='cambodia-color'>...

Notification that her son is being detained at Correctional Centre 3 in Kampong Cham came as a relief to Touch sart yesterday, after spending nearly a week wondering whether he was even alive. since her son, Theng saroeun, was arrested along with 22 others at demonstrations ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s decline in HIV/AIDs mortalities has made it a regional anomaly, according to a new study published today by a global health research centre at the University of Washington. While HIV/AIDs remains a leading cause of disease burden in Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, and mortality ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnam Dairy Products Joint-stock Co., the nation’s largest dairy producer, is building a milk factory in Cambodia as it plans a global expansion to more than double annual revenue to $3 billion by 2017. The company known as Vinamilk is opening a plant in the capital ss='cambodia-color'>...

King Norodom Sihamoni haS Signed off on a Royal Decree terminating the poSitionS of every miniStry-level adviSer in the government except for thoSe of Prime MiniSter Hun Sen in order to allow recently appointed officialS to appoint new adviSerS. The decree, Signed October 1 and obtained SS='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 400 workers at the UsA Fully Field (Cambodia) Garment factory blocked National Road 2 in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district yesterday after fears spread that the factory was winding down operations and that management wouldn’t pay necessary wages once it closed. soy Nakri, a worker representative ss='cambodia-color'>...

Now about six months old, Hope is still a little clumsy when climbing trees. Hope’s sidekick, named “173,” follows her around as if they were inseparable twins. Together, they swing in a hammock, bathe in a pool and, sometimes, climb up the metal bars of their ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Government of Australia are expanding access to economical and reliable energy for rural Cambodian households, including through the promotion of cookstoves in svay Rieng and Kampong Cham provinces. A $6.1 million Australian Aid grant, administered by ADB, will finance ss='cambodia-color'>...

The long-awaited resumption of international adoptions may finally occur in the new year, officials from the ministries of Justice and social Affairs said yesterday, though no time table is yet in place. While the freeze on adoptions – put in place in 2009 with the passage ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday called on all newly-elected lawmakerS to See the country&rSquo; S intereSt aS the top priority and unify for the nation&rSquo;S preStige. Speaking at the opening SeSSion of the fifth legiSlature of the National ASSembly, the king congratulated all lawmakerS for SS='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...