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With the death last week of Chea Sim, a ruling party stalwart and former Khmer Rouge cadre, Cambodians are again reminded that the powerful are rarely prosecuted, Human Rights Watch says. ...

The Food and Agriculture Organisation has announced a new guide to assess child labour in agriculture and the impacts that various development programmes can have. ...

The Chinese government on Monday provided 200 sets of ultrasound machines to Cambodia in order to contribute to the improvement of the country’s health quality and services. Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo handed over the equipment to Cambodian Health Minister Mam Bunheng at a ceremony ...

Labor leaders say they are concerned that a number of unions would be shuttered if a new law to govern them is passed. Labor Minister Ith Samheng said the law will not “put pressure” on unions. “We take unions and other vocational organizations as our ...

Mam Sonando, director of Beehive radio will re-establish his Beehive Democratic Society party for the 6th legislature mandate in 2018. ...

A gathering of some 50 youths from five different provinces met in Phnom Penh last week to discuss the problems of forced migration and its dangers. The Community Youth Network leaders came from provinces where migrant work is common, to discuss how to make it ...

The Phnom Penh branch, which will serve customers from all over Cambodia, is BBL’s 29th international branch and the third in Cambodia of a Thai bank. The bank resumed operations on December 30 as the 45th commercial bank in Cambodia and held the grand opening yesterday. ...

Cambodia’s Environment Minister Say Samal is a hybrid package. On one hand, he comes from a politically powerful family. This Saturday, his father, Say Chhum, is to be elected co-vice president of the ruling party. On the other hand, the 35-year-old Minister represents Cambodia’s rising, ...

Starting next month, the ministries of education and labor will offer job counseling to students in Svay Rieng province as the first step in an effort to better match employment opportunities in the country with the skills of youth entering the workforce, the education minister ...

Cambodia is looking at a delayed onset of the rainy season, with experts and government officials having raised concerns of a prolonged dry season affecting agricultural production, as the Pacific weather pattern El Niño threatens to bring drought-like conditions. Ngin Chhay, director of the Rice Department ...

Employees of Cintri, the city’s sole garbage collection agency, are feeling the effects of their job as they go about keeping the capital clean.  ...

An ethnic Jarai villager in Ratanakkiri province said Monday that two men claiming to be Montagnard asylum seekers approached him on his farm on Sunday looking for help after swimming across the Sesan River to escape Vietnamese police three days earlier. ...

A company organising homemade missile competitions for Thai gamblers in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district has come under fire after the plastic rockets fell onto roofs and frightened villagers. ...

With Phnom Penh’s parking situation in “disarray,” City Hall has agreed to allow a Cambodian-Japanese joint venture to test a paid-parking scheme next month in an effort to reduce the number of parked cars clogging the capital’s streets, according to company officials. ...

Late CPP President Chea Sim’s personal bodyguard unit will be disbanded following the cremation of his body on Friday and its members returned to their former police departments and military brigades, officials said Monday. ...

In the first verdict handed down in the case against Major General Thong Sarath, who stands accused of masterminding a fellow tycoon’s assassination, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday sentenced him and one of his bodyguards to 30 months in jail for illegal weapons ...

Workers at A & J Carter (Cambodia) Limited in Kampong Speu province’s Samrong Tong district protested outside the factory yesterday, continuing a strike that began five days ago. ...

Police in Svay Rieng province on Sunday stopped three Phnom Penh-bound tour buses from Vietnam suspected of smuggling shoes and clothing into Cambodia, officials said Monday. ...

As tension rises along an undemarcated border section with Vietnam in Ratanakkiri province, analysts say the government’s newfound toughness against Hanoi reflects rising Chinese influence here. ...

Cambodia’s garment workers will renew their campaign for a monthly wage of $177 next month, when talks start for a new minimum wage, labor leaders said yesterday.  ...

Following an appeal by Prime Minister Hun Sen for the country’s youth to better understand his self-titled “win-win policy,” which he credits for ending the civil war and peacefully reintegrating the Khmer Rouge, the premier Monday delivered an hourlong lecture on the topic to about ...

Prime minister Hun Sen will be automatically nominated as the new president of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party but not clear for whom will succeed him as the new vice president. The CPP will hold its congress on June 20, 2015 to elect new president ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy on Monday extended a rare compliment to Cambodia’s foreign minister, who has sent two missives since Friday to Vietnam, accusing the government allowing encroachment in Ratanakkiri province. ...

Dozens of Vietnamese families illegally residing in floating homes on the Mekong River in southeastern Cambodia’s Kandal province have urged local authorities to postpone their eviction by eight months so they can sell the fish they are raising and avoid financial ruin. ...