A monitoring group backed by the United Nations said it would begin to publicize garment factories’ compliance with worker rights and safety standards in Cambodia, a controversial program that its organizers say will be the world’s most extensive initiative to improve working conditions at plants. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

Defense Minister Tea Banh on Thursday said that truckloads of tanks and mounted rocket launchers seen by witnesses leaving the sihanoukville Autonomous Port in the direction of Phnom Penh would be used to protect the country in the case that someone “tries to destroy the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Protesters, including a band of angry monks, clashed with military and riot police on Thursday in Phnom Penh as authorities tried to prevent a local housing rights group from carrying out a rally against forced evictions. Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), a coalition of five local ss='cambodia-color'>...

In January, officials broke ground on the new $4 million headquarters for the Cambodia securities Exchange. situated along a northern stretch of Freedom Park, a short skip from Wat Phnom, the French colonial-era building is a suitable home for the two-year-old bourse, which now operates ss='cambodia-color'>...

A top court ordered Cambodia’s electoral body on Monday to unseal voting records in a second province as the main opposition party held a 20,000-strong rally with an ultimatum to the government to set up an independent probe on widespread irregularities in recently-held national elections ss='cambodia-color'>...

SwediSh clothing giant H&M recently announced a program to booSt wageS for garment workerS in itS Sub-contractor factorieS around the world, including in Cambodia, where the company iS a leading buyer. H&M&rSquo;S announcement comeS at the end of a turbulent year in the garment Sector SS='cambodia-color'>...

After a three-year moratorium on sending maids overseas—sparked by a spate of serious abuses by recruiters and employers—momentum is building to once again send hundreds of thousands of Cambodian women to work overseas as domestic servants. since Prime Minister Hun sen shut down the industry in ss='cambodia-color'>...

At 10 a.m. on January 3, about 2,000 members of the security forces, mostly military police, advanced down Phnom Penh’s factory-lined Veng sreng street, spraying AK-47 assault rifle fire into a crowd of about 100 protesters who had been throwing stones and crude Molotov cocktails. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Preah Vihear province – The residents of this sleepy district, on the edge of the Boeng Per Wildlife sanctuary, grow rice, cassava and cashew nuts. But in a few short years, Chinese investors envisage that Rovieng will be rapidly transformed into an industrial town. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mark Moorstein knew little about Cambodia before he got involved in a lawsuit on behalf of land owners there. But as it’s turning out, the suit could end up affecting most every country in Asia. Moorstein is a land-use lawyer in Northern Virginia who, like many ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia Daily yesterday said it was under “siege” and continued to call the government’s targeting of the newspaper an attack on press freedom, as five radio station owners that had been ordered to shut stop attempted to resume their services. // //   ss='cambodia-color'>...

The filling of Boeng Kak lake and the eviction of thousands of residents was necessary to root out the “prostitutes and terrorists” that were drawn to the area’s once-popular tourist zone, the Phnom Penh Municipality said in a statement yesterday. In a statement posted to its ss='cambodia-color'>...

A weeklong strike by Cambodian garment workers turned deadly Friday as police shot and killed at least four people and wounded several others in an attempt to break up a protest for higher wages. The violence came after weeks of escalating political and labor unrest marked ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials, business professionals and political analysts have mixed opinions on the leadership of the single-party Cambodian government and what the future hold for the next five years. sok Touch, a professor of political science at Khemarak University, said the political deadlock won’t help the nation become ss='cambodia-color'>...

SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia&mdaSh;In thiS quiet beach town, Lim Loeung SayS She SpendS up to 80 hourS a week gluing SoleS onto ShoeS at a factory that doeS work for companieS including JapaneSe Sneaker-maker ASicS Corp. 7936.TO +0.95% The factory believeS MS. Lim iS at leaSt 18 SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS: Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, LaoS, Vietnam, and Yunnan and Guangxi in China) iS undergoing unprecedented changeS. Many of theSe are poSitive, reflecting political Stabilization and economic growth following decadeS of poverty and conflict. But the rate and type of development iS SS='cambodia-color'>...

The International Court of Justice yesterday unanimously declared that its 1962 judgment awarding the Preah Vihear temple to Cambodia also gave the Kingdom sovereignty over the promontory that the temple sits on. But while the announcement was initially greeted as a resounding victory by some in ss='cambodia-color'>...

A track of land once farmed by 1,000 families in Kratie province — families violently evicted amid claims they were part of a separatist movement — is now home to a military base. Unit 9 Royal Cambodian Armed Forces base, which will be finished later this ss='cambodia-color'>...

// // // // An Immigration Department official yesterday confirmed that foreigners requesting a long-term extension of their business visas would need to produce a work permit, with implementation of the rule starting september 4.    ss='cambodia-color'>...

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