The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) haS defended itS deciSion not to pay a SurvivorS&rSquo; penSion to the family of a teenager killed in a ceiling collapSe at the Wing Star ShoeS factory in Kampong Speu province laSt May. On the anniverSary of the collapSe on SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s energy minister allayed concerns in parliament over inadequate compensation offered to villagers who face relocation for a proposed China-backed dam on a Mekong River tributary, saying the government has allocated to villagers more than four times the area taken over for the project. Minister of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The planned construction of 88 hydroelectric dams in the lower Mekong basin by 2030 will cause food security challenges in Cambodia, experts say. “Cambodia is going to pay the highest price for dam development basin-wide, to the point of affecting the food security of its 80 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia exported 2.9 million tons of agricultural products last year, roughly the same as 2012, but experts say the figure does not reflect the huge potential for the market. According to official data from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, exports included more than 1 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia exported 21,536 tons of milled rice in January of 2014, down 4,190 tons (16%) compared to 25,726 tons exported in the same period of last year, according to a report on agriculture, forestry and fishery. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Royal Palace yesterday said the letter sent by opposition leader sam Rainsy to King Norodom sihamoni last week that elicited a furious response from the government for “insulting” the King, did not, in fact, disrespect the monarch’s “honour and name”. A statement signed by the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Foreign Minister Hor Namhong has written a letter to the newly appointed Cambodian ambassador to south Korea to censure him over the alleged involvement of his family members in embassy affairs. In the letter, dated Monday, Mr. Namhong warns Ambassador suth Dina not to allow ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hang Chantha watched in horror last weekend as a private company battling to take her land dug a four-meter-deep trench around the perimeter of her home. “After the company dug, I could not sleep at night; I was afraid my house would fall,” she recounted Thursday, ss='cambodia-color'>...

At Chraing Chamreh wholesale fish market in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district, men frantically scoop dark, snake-like Trey Phtok fish out of a huge steel tank and into a wicker basket. The flickering pile of tails and gaping mouths is placed on a scale and weighs ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nasdaq-listed Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc, a company linked to Macau casino operator Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd, is selling its assets in Cambodia. The sale includes all assets of Dreamworld Leisure with the exception of all electronic gaming machines, and prohibits any use of the Dreamworld ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fifty-two students in Kampong Thom are blaming teacher favouritism and an inherently unequal system for preventing them from sitting the national exam and graduating this year. The students, from Hun sen Taing Kork High school in Baray district, filed a petition to the provincial department of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The 23-year-old son of the director of rural development in Pailin province is under investigation by police after photos of the young man hunting protected wildlife went viral on social media, police said Monday. soeu Longdy, deputy Tuol Lvea commune police chief, said his officers questioned ss='cambodia-color'>...

In southwest Cambodia, at the foot of the Cardamom Mountains, is a single dirt road that meanders through the heart of the pristine Areng valley. Ten miles down this road, villagers have set up an encampment to stop a hydroelectric dam project that they fear ss='cambodia-color'>...

An ice-skating rink, bowling alley, seven-screen cinema and a proverbial catwalk of high-end European and Us labels will start vying for a slice of Cambodia’s rising middle class inside the soon-to-open AEON Mall, management with the firm overseeing it confirmed on saturday. The Japanese-owned shopping centre’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

The opposition is eyeing two leading civil society figures and deputy party leader Kem sokha’s daughter to fill the three remaining slots the party holds on the nine-member National Election Committee, according to a high-level party source. Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmaker-elect Kuoy Bunroeun has already ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia will send a detachment of 216 peacekeepers to the United Nations stabilisation mission in the Central African Republic (MINUsCA), the Information Ministry has said. The Kingdom already sent a delivery of tanks, trucks and other materiel there on Friday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Shortly after a Speech in New York by US PreSident Barack Obama, in which he applauded the effortS of human rightS defenderS, Cambodian Foreign MiniSter Hor Namhong SayS hiS country iS making progreSS. Obama acknowledged the work of two Cambodian rightS activiSt during a Speech at SS='cambodia-color'>...

An opposition official has hit back at claims made by “Khmer for Khmer” founder Kem Ley last week that CNRP Vice President Kem sokha has collected a salary of $15,000 per month since the opposition joined parliament in August. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of workers who were fired from a Phnom Penh garment factory returned to work yesterday after Phnom Penh Municipal Court filed an injunction on Monday requiring management to reinstate them. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After issuing an extraordinarily public resignation announcement on her Facebook page last week, Prime Minister Hun sen’s sister Hun sinath has officially left her job at the Ministry of National Assembly-senate Relations and Inspection. According to a Royal Decree that was signed on Monday, King ss='cambodia-color'>...