Cambodia’s poverty rate fell dramatically between 2004 and 2011 – from more than 50 per cent to roughly 20 – but those gains are so precarious that a slight economic shock could send millions plunging back below the poverty line, according to a World Bank ss='cambodia-color'>...

Members of an ethnic minority in Koh Kong province’s Areng Valley stood watch Thursday to block a road leading to the site of a proposed dam after they heard that Chinese workers would inspect the site, community representatives said. Villagers believe that the Chinese company sinohydro ss='cambodia-color'>...

Verdicts will be handed down Friday in two garment protest-related cases that rights groups say were built on a weak body of evidence. The two cases occurred months apart but followed a similar narrative: Garment workers fed up with their calls for a higher monthly minimum ss='cambodia-color'>...

Khan Thea, a subsistence fisherman who lives and works along this sprawling, 7,000-hectare lake fed by the Mekong River, was not having a good day on the water. struggling to net even a single fish, he finally resorted to a dangerous—and illegal—technique: fishing with electric current. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Labor Ministry on Tuesday defended its failure to act on the results of its own study, which in November found that the minimum livable wage for garment factory workers is between $157 and $177. In its annual report, the ministry listed its wage study, carried ss='cambodia-color'>...

Most tuk-tuk drivers have to continuously vie with each other to attract tourists’ attention, but Oung Hour gets it without even trying. As he stands on the sidewalk near the riverside, groups of tourists point at his bright mustard-yellow tuk-tuk, its smooth fiberglass body shaped like ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 garment and shoe factory workers fainted in two separate incidents Thursday, the first reported factory faintings of the year, according to local officials. Eighty-two garment workers fainted at the Crystal Martin factory in Kandal province after inhaling fumes from leaking battery acid, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers involved in a long-running land dispute with a company alleged to be owned by Pailin Governor Y Chhien were arrested Monday for failing to heed an order from Mr. Chhien to vacate the disputed land, rights workers said. Pich sothea, 47, Orm sam Ath, 44, ss='cambodia-color'>...

When the 2007 Traffic Law was passed, it required that the myriad private vehicles on the road bearing Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) number plates be removed and switched with civilian plates within one year. But more than six years after this deadline, the sight of ss='cambodia-color'>...

CNRP spokesman Yim sovann on Thursday moved to clarify his position on the armed forces after the Defense Ministry accused him of “looking down” on the government and the work of the army. In a lengthy written statement issued Thursday, Mr. sovann spoke in glowing terms ss='cambodia-color'>...

Meeting for a minimum wage workshop on Tuesday, the country’s independent and government-aligned unions argued over reforms to the Labor Advisory Committee (LAC), the body in charge of setting the minimum wage in the garment sector, which employs some 600,000 workers. The LAC, which is composed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Discussions about salaries on the factory floor led worker Channa, 22, to begin feeling jealous of her male counterparts. she learned, through talking with a number of co-workers, that the men working around her were doing the same amount of work as she was, but being ss='cambodia-color'>...

Richard Rogers, the lawyer retained by the opposition CNRP to potentially submit a case against Prime Minister Hun sen’s government with the International Criminal Court at The Hague, said Thursday that letters were hand-delivered to two military police chiefs requesting information about the fatal shooting ss='cambodia-color'>...

A clinic claiming to cure cancer, diabetes and other serious illnesses through “detoxification” is operating without a license, five months after it opened illegally in Phnom Penh. The Immanuel Bicom True Healing Center in Chamkar Mon district came under scrutiny shortly after opening in early December ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of eight trade unions Thursday said the government has turned down every one of their applications to form local branches at the country’s garment factories since early last year and threatened mass strikes if the rejections continue. At a press conference in Phnom Penh, ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 200 illegal snares have over the past two weeks been removed from the Prambei Mom Forest community area in Kampong speu’s Thpong district. Liv sarum said on Thursday that patrols of the forest community in Prambei Mom commune found the traps, with 117 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mondulkiri provincial joint forces detained a man for questioning, confiscated seven motorbikes and seized 178 timber logs in O’Raing district’s Dak Dam commune on saturday. Provincial department of Agriculture director song Kheang said officials from his department, the forestry administration, provincial police, Military Police and ss='cambodia-color'>...

After issuing a warning over the country’s air quality on Friday, the Ministry of Environment said on sunday that the PM2.5 concentration levels in the country were returning to normal. PM2.5 refers to atmospheric particulate matter (PM) that has a diameter of less than 2.5 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Kampong Chhnang deputy provincial governor Sun Sovannarith reaffirmed that the 40ha the provincial authoritieS allocated to VietnameSe boat people iS Cambodian national RoS Chamroeun&rSquo;S private land. He Said there waS no cutting of land for them, but the VietnameSe immigrantS will have to pay rent SS='cambodia-color'>...

Conservationists have expressed alarm over the increase in the mortality rate of Irrawaddy dolphins in Cambodia’s Mekong River last year, compared to previously. The director of the Fisheries Conservation Department, Ouk Vibol, said on Wednesday: “Though we are happy at the birth of 13 dolphins ss='cambodia-color'>...