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'>...

In the course of a year, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction along with the National Authority for Land Dispute Resolution (NALDR) received a combined total of 2,713 complaints of land disputes, of which 1,871 are under review. Of the total, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

A National Police report for 2019 said that of the 4,121 traffic accidents that occurred throughout last year, 1,981 people – including 330 females and 1,651 males – had died. Another 3,919 were seriously injured and 2,222 suffered minor injuries. The report said traffic accidents ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kratie Province–World Wildlife Fund Cambodia yesterday urged Kratie provincial authorities to take firm action against fishing, forestry, and forest land encroachment crimes in order to protect and preserve rare species of wild animals that are currently under threat. Horm Chandet, a landscape manager for WWF’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Jinkosolar Holding Co Ltd has announced it is to supply photovoltaic panels for three solar power plants in Cambodia with a combined capacity of 150MW. New York stock Exchange-listed Jinkosolar said Cheetah solar panels will be installed at two photovoltaic power stations in Pursat province’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

With the new coronavirus claiming its 17th life in China, the Cambodian Ministry of Health on Thursday said it is taking measures to ensure the disease does not enter the Kingdom, including inspecting all flights from Wuhan City, the outbreak’s epicentre. Ministry secretary of state ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Two foreign-owned garment manufacturers will submit disclosure documents to Cambodia’s capital market regulator next month, the companies’ underwriter Phnom Penh securities Firm Plc. said yesterday. The initial public offerings for the two private companies, expected by the end of the year, should boost action on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia securities Exchange has seen a sharp decrease in action this week, with trading volume yesterday falling to 3,453 shares, down nearly 100 per cent from Monday. Despite the drop, which was accompanied by a strong shift from institutional to retail investors, experts have stressed the time ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s embattled opposition risks losing its official salaries and government-provided Lexuses if it continues to boycott sessions of the National Assembly, a ruling party spokesman said yesterday.The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party began boycotting parliamentary sessions at the end of last month when it pulled ss='cambodia-color'>...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new online resource detailing on Basemap of Cambodia (2014) covering three levels of administrative boundaries such as: provincial, district and commune on ODC “Download maps” attached with its Dataset in both Khmer and English. Together with Basemap of ss='cambodia-color'>...

On 16 September 2021, AuStralian EmbaSSy in Phnom Penh iSSued a media releaSe on AuStralia-Cambodia partnerShip for improved conStruction Safety in Cambodia. AmbaSSador Kang met with HiS Excellency Chea Sophara, Deputy Prime MiniSter and MiniSter of Land Management, Urban Planning and ConStruction (MLMUPC) to diScuSS SS='cambodia-color'>...