The Cambodian government has developed six prakases related to a controversial sub-decree that regulates the recruitment of migrant workers, but it cannot yet release the details, a Labor Ministry official said yesterday. On the sidelines of an AsEAN meeting in siem Reap aimed at curtailing migrant worker abuses, seng sakada, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five workers riding a lift meant to carry animal carcasses up to the fifth floor of a meat roasting facility were left with serious injuries when their metal cage plummeted from the third floor. The five victims, aged from 25 to 38, suffered broken legs ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rights workers cautioned yesterday that a sweeping ban on internet cafés near schools was little more than a thinly veiled act of censorship. Issued last month by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, the circular says all internet cafés within 500 metres of a school must ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday unveiled its new three-year assistance plan of 525 million U.s. dollars to Cambodia in order to help the country reduce poverty, promote growth and mitigate climate change, the bank said. The plan for 2013-2015 marked the bank’s strategic focus ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia on Tuesday inaugurated a new container terminal of the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port, turning the port as a large hub for logistics supply and goods collection and distribution. The inauguration ceremony was presided over by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen and Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia’s Ministry of Labour has scheduled a meeting on February 26 with representatives of various unions to discuss the new minimum wage for garment workers in the country. However, the Ministry expects the various workers’ unions to agree on what the new wage should ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday repeated a call for Asean countries to put a stop to the exploitation of migrant workers and urged the acceleration of efforts to provide protection for such workers. At the Asean summit last month, Mr. Hun sen said that protecting the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of police in search of two Kratie province “secessionist ringleaders” surrounded the homes of two of their relatives in Kompong Cham province for nearly 12 hours yesterday while threatening those inside, a relative of the two men said. The alleged secessionist movement has been used ss='cambodia-color'>...

For the past several days, Boonma and seven other Houay souy villagers have travelled back to their homes near the Xayaburi Dam building site on the Lao side of the Mekong River. since the beginning of the year they have been relocated to a new ss='cambodia-color'>...

The recent deluge of comments critical toward the Cambodian government is an attempt to sow political chaos, a senior official said yesterday. At a press conference held at the Council of Ministers, Keo Remy, deputy chairman of the Press and Quick Reaction Unit, blasted several individuals ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 300 families embroiled in a land dispute with notorious, and now defunct, NGO Darpo said yesterday that they had filed complaints to the Preah Vihear Provincial Court on Wednesday accusing a Koh santepheap reporter of disinformation and calling for his arrest and $4,000 ss='cambodia-color'>...

A woman fired from the Conpress Holding garment factory last week said she terminated her pregnancy of three months on sunday in a desperate bid to gain reinstatement for herself and three other workers fired last week for unionising. Huk Pov, Free Trade Union president ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Commerce and bank officials announced yesterday that they will hold a meeting next month aimed at better facilitating rice millers’ access to credit. The move is part of the Asian Development Bank’s Climate Resilient Rice Commercialization sector Development program to address food security ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 3,000 garment workers from two factories that supply clothes to international brands Levi strauss, H&M and Gap continued protesting for higher wages yesterday in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district, before marching to the Ministry of social Affairs. Upon arriving at the ministry, workers employed by the ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Vatha, a 42-year-old construction worker, has been toiling for four years at numerous building sites across Phnom Penh. He knocks down dilapidated dwellings and in their place builds houses and apartments that are bigger, better – and increasingly higher – as demand for residential property, especially ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia on Wednesday inaugurated a 128-kilometer China-funded national road No. 62 in an effort to boost social and economic development in northern provinces. The road, from Kampong Thom province’s Kampong svay district to the provincial town of Preah Vihear province, cost about 52 million U.s. dollars ss='cambodia-color'>...

The stabilisation of the riel over the first half of this year is a reflection of increased confidence in using riel in the economy as well as improvements in the agricultural sector, according to economists and the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC). The slowdown in the Us economy ss='cambodia-color'>...

Honey collectors from four provinces in Cambodia signed an agreement with the Cambodian Center for study and Development in Agriculture (CEDAC) in order to bring more honey to the capital. CEDAC has encouraged farmers from four provinces – Preah Vihear, Kratie, Koh Kong and Mondulkiri – ss='cambodia-color'>...