Female union leaders in the garment industry – where women constitute 90 per cent of the work force – are effective at bargaining for better working conditions, but their voices aren’t being heard in a union landscape dominated by men, a labour expert said yesterday. Veasna ss='cambodia-color'>...

Arbitrators in seoul have ruled that the company contracted to build the $240 million Gold Tower 42 project in Phnom Penh was in breach of contract after failing to raise funds to finish the project, which resulted in work stopping almost two years ago, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. faSt-food chain Burger King Said yeSterday that no one holdS the rightS to open a branch of itS reStaurant in Cambodia, deSpite job advertiSementS appearing online featuring the company&rSquo;S logo. . “Currently, we do not have any eStabliShed franchiSee in Cambodia,” Tan Ching Ee, marketing SS='cambodia-color'>...

The biggest Us trade delegation to Cambodia in decades joined secretary of state Hillary Clinton here as the two countries look to expand their economic relationship beyond exports of cheaply produced garments. “On the economic front, there is much more room for us to grow ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives of 44 families embroiled in a violent land dispute in Banteay Meanchey province say they are living like squatters and haven’t been granted long-promised property in the area. Kao Ty, a defence lawyer for the families, said that his clients are among the more than ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 2,00 female workers from a factory in Phnom Penh that makes clothes for the U.s. brand Gap protested yesterday for a third straight day demanding that the firm sack a manager at the factory for allegedly abusing workers. Lining Russian Boulevard near the Ocean ss='cambodia-color'>...

FARMERS&rSquo; crop yieldS are being undercut by unregiStered middlemen Selling fake fertiliSer, and government effortS to combat thiS have proved ineffective, according to independent reSearch from the Cambodia Development ReSource InStitute (CDRI). CDRI&rSquo;S preliminary reSearch, conducted aS part of a larger program inveStigating agricultural policieS for SS='cambodia-color'>...

A mining outfit in Battambang province will begin copper and silver extraction within two years, the company’s chief executive said yesterday. Wild Bull Resources, an Australian firm partnering with local miner Angkor Thumopich Resources (ATR), would join a small group of companies claiming a quick turnaround ss='cambodia-color'>...

Lao PDR says it will consider joining Thailand and Cambodia’s single visa scheme launched late last year saying it will help to boost Mekong region tourism. A senior official at the consular department in Vientiane told the Vientiane Times, last week, that the government would hold ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on saturday asked some 4,000 garment factory workers for their votes in July’s national elections at a rally in Phnom Penh attended by members of several CPP-aligned unions, according to those in attendance. Cambodian Union Federation president Choun Mom Thol said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prices in the global carbon market are too low to provide an incentive for Cambodian businesses to engage in carbon offset schemes, but there are other options for businesses to gain funds for emission reduction, industry experts say. speaking on the sidelines of a two-day educational ss='cambodia-color'>...

Former Bavet City governor Chhouk Bundith failed to show up Wednesday for the first day of his long-awaited retrial at svay Rieng Provincial Court for his alleged involvement in a shooting that left three workers wounded, court officials said. According to provincial Judge Leang sour, Mr. ss='cambodia-color'>...

International donors, including the U.s., Australia, the European Union and the World Bank, have urged the Cambo­dian government to redesign a massive hydropower project in stung Treng province that environmentalists say will deplete fisheries and submit it to the Mekong River Commission (MRC) for consultation. In ss='cambodia-color'>...

ANLONG VENG, Cambodia — A decade and a half after the last remnants of the Khmer Rouge capitulated in this northwestern town, the streets are festooned with images of their erstwhile enemy, Prime Minister Hun sen, who is seeking to prolong his 28 years in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two firms holding concessions in rapidly disappearing northern forests are amassing stockpiles of tens of thousands of luxury logs cut both within and outside their leases and trucking them on to Vietnam, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights has alleged. CCHR investigators that tracked logging operations ss='cambodia-color'>...

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith on Thursday clarified that Prime Minister Hun sen did not express willingness to see international involvement in an independent investigation into election irregularities, after state media incorrectly reported to the contrary. state news service Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP), which operates out of ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 100 people protested Wednesday evening outside a Phnom Penh ice-making factory owned by the daughter of deputy Kompong spue governor Tong seng, complaining that the factory causes a bad smell and that the health of residents in Russei Keo district’s Kilometer 6 commune was ss='cambodia-color'>...

At least 23 workers were hurt in Cambodia on Monday when police using stun batons moved in to end a protest over pay at a factory that makes clothing for U.s. sportswear company Nike , a worker and a trade union representative said. Police with riot ss='cambodia-color'>...

On the palm-studded plains of Cambodia, rice farmers’ eyes light up with the prospect of sending their crop northward to China. The poor southeast Asian nation had been trying for several years to export rice to the mainland but only last year did it gain ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the wake of last month’s election, production levels at Cambodian garment factories are still below the norm as lingering fears of political unrest keep workers at home and away from the capital. shrugged off at the outset as a natural byproduct of the election that ss='cambodia-color'>...