By the time London Fashion Week comes to a close, 58 high-end designers will have shown their collections. Rail-thin models will have walked the runways. Debate will have raged over size zero. In Cambodia, meanwhile, garment workers stitching clothes that supply the UK high street are ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh City Hall has turned down two requests by non-governmental groups to hold rallies and marches to mark both International Teachers’ Day and the international day for housing rights. Housing Rights Task Force (HRTF), a local NGO, was denied permission to organize a rally at ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian opposition leader sam Rainsy said his country has reached a political “stalemate” and is calling for a halt in international aid to the Phnom Penh government. Rainsy spoke to VOA during a visit to Washington, where he is trying to convince U.s. officials and others ss='cambodia-color'>...

The roads surrounding In­dependence Monument will once again be blocked off as a planned three-day opposition rally kicks off this morning, but military police maintained yesterday that they will not be as tightly enforced as they were when frustration over delays erupted into violence last ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities said Thursday they were closely watching the development of the world’s big­gest storm to materialize so far this year as it hits the Philippines today before moving west toward Vietnam and Cambodia in the following days. “Our first step is to keep a close eye ss='cambodia-color'>...

There were major traffic delays along Phnom Penh’s Veng sreng Boulevard in Pur senchey district Wednesday after about 200 garment workers from the Alim Cambodia Co. Ltd. garment factory formed a gated roadblock and protested for higher wages. A line of halted container trucks stretched for ss='cambodia-color'>...

A ruling party lawmaker and parliamentary spokesman said yesterday that the National Assembly will consider invoking an internal rule that could force the opposition party to replace its elected lawmakers with lower-ranked candidates from within the party if their boycott continues beyond a deadline. Principle 83 ss='cambodia-color'>...

The sight of traffic moving easily and people milling about along Veng sreng Boulevard in the capital’s Meanchey district yesterday was a far cry from two days earlier, when the street was occupied by makeshift roadblocks, bonfires and military personnel carrying automatic rifles. While visible evidence ss='cambodia-color'>...

The five people killed by AK-47 gunfire from military police at a protest along Pur senchey district’s Veng sreng street on Friday were all striking garment factory workers, a union official confirmed sunday. Military police officers opened fire on the factory-lined street on Friday morning during ss='cambodia-color'>...

The death toll caused by severe flooding along the Mekong River increased by eight yesterday, bringing the total number of deaths over the past two weeks to more than 20, including 11 children, an official said. Keo Vy, deputy chief of the information department at the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The apartment rental market was flat in the third quarter after strong growth earlier in the year, with oversupply and political tensions among the causes blamed by realty experts. Chrek soknim, deputy director of VTrust Property Co, Ltd, said that growth has stagnated after the January-March ss='cambodia-color'>...

Inside a shop in a restored building on the corner of sothearos Boulevard and street 266, nearly 10 Cambodians wearing the same uniform are walking around and cleaning tables. By the end of this year, Brown Coffee will have a total of eight branches in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The aid sector needs more transparency to ensure that the public knows exactly where and how money is being spent, a consortium of NGOs said Tuesday. Tek Vannara, deputy executive director of the NGO Forum, said at a workshop in Phnom Penh that while the Council ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Environment on Thursday denied that a private agro-industry firm had been issued an “unofficial” land concession inside Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat Wildlife sanctuary, as stated on Monday by the provincial governor. In response to claims by local officials that Daun Penh Agrico Co. Ltd. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Air pollution from vehicles and electric generators inside the Angkor Archeological Park and in siem Reap City is soiling and darkening the monuments at the World Heritage site, an official at the Apsara Authority, which is responsible for the park, said Friday. Options to decrease ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dissident monks and political activists hosted a ceremony Thursday for the protesting garment workers killed by military police during their repression of stone-throwing demonstrators on Veng sreng street two weeks ago. The hourlong ceremony, held at the home of housing rights activist Tep Vanny in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong Said TueSday he would Shut down the ShiSha barS&mdaSh;where cuStomerS Smoke flavored tobacco through large Middle-EaStern Style water pipeS&mdaSh;that have recently Sprung up around the city. While the governor noted there waS nothing illegal about the pipeS or tobacco, he told SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Labor said Wednesday that the government has agreed on a final draft of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Malaysia regarding sending Cambodian maids to work there, but that no timeframe for the signing of the agreement has been set. Following reports of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials said two people were killed on Tuesday by separate lightning strikes in Pailin and Kompong Cham provinces as the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology issued a warning about seasonal storms spreading across the country. searing temperatures and the approach of wet season ignited the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A few garment factories resumed operations in Phnom Penh on Friday, albeit at reduced capacity, as thousands of workers returned to the city after Khmer New Year celebrations in the provinces. While the majority of factories in Meanchey and Pur senchey districts stayed closed, it remained ss='cambodia-color'>...