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Two trucks loaded with illegal timber were confiscated and five men were arrested en route to Vietnam on Sunday night in Kratie province’s Chet Borei district, according to Military Police who made the arrests. ...

About 1,000 workers and employees of the Victco Handbags Cambodia Industrial factory, an Adidas supplier before it abruptly suspended operations earlier this year, marched in Kampong Speu’s Samrong Tong district to the provincial hall yesterday morning to deliver a petition. ...

Supermarket owners are to be called for a meeting with the Commerce Ministry in response to complaints from small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that local products are not displayed or sold on their shelves, the commerce minister said yesterday at the launch of a ...

Negotiations between former drivers of the Capitol Bus Company and their ex-employer, mediated by Prampi Makara district authorities, yielded no settlement yesterday, although both parties agreed to continue talks.   ...

The Interior Ministry has made tentative plans to send a delegation of three people to the South Pacific island of Nauru next month to meet and vet two more refugees who have volunteered to resettle in Cambodia.   ...

Vietnam will host its seventh annual trade fair in Cambodia during the second week of October of this year, the Department of Economics in the Vietnam Ministry of National Defense (MOD) announced in Ho Chi Minh City last week.   ...

Alan Doss, executive director of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s eponymous foundation, met with officials from the CPP, CNRP and National Election Committee (NEC) on Monday as the first step in the body’s efforts to help election reform here.   ...

Fifty Dangkor district security guards removed their uniforms in front of the district hall yesterday morning in protest for better pay and conditions.   ...

Officials at the Ministry of Justice will join members of the Labor Ministry, local authorities, police and provincial governors on the Committee for the Settlement of Strikes and Demonstrations after a union leader requested they be included. ...

Swedish apparel giant H&M yesterday responded to a new report that alleged labour rights abuses in its Cambodian supplier factories by saying such issues plagued the entire industry and were difficult for any one company to fix.   ...

Police who shut down a gathering of 30 people in a private home in Prey Veng province yesterday justified the action by saying the organisers had failed to notify the district governor in writing beforehand. ...

Cambodia Angkor Air is studying a tourism air route linking Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, home of the Angkor temples, and Vietnam’s Danang, a coastal city popular with tourists. ...

About 200 Cham Muslims turned out to the Al-Serkal Mosque near the old Boeng Kak lake in Phnom Penh on Friday to protest a controversial road that the government plans to build through the mosque’s land. ...

Cambodians’ growing appetite for fast food and franchised food outlets, and the increasing number of restaurants springing up in the capital and other towns, has become a healthy business for some of the food chains now operating in the Kingdom.    ...

The World Bank has approved $130 million in developmental aid aimed at reducing poverty in Cambodia, signalling its first direct re-engagement with the Kingdom since it left in protest in 2011 after one of the largest forceful evictions led by the government displaced more than ...

The Environment Ministry on Friday released its final study on the algal bloom that forced swimmers out of the water in Kep province in early April, stating no chemical substances were found in the bloom that would have negatively affected human or animal health. ...

Cambodia’s election body has called for regular meetings with political parties, journalists and civil society organisations (CSOs) in a bid to stave off suspicions of bias as two of its non-CPP aligned officials face prosecution. ...

The developer of the controversial Gold Tower 42, which has sat idle for years, has been refused permission to restart development and finish off the hulking, half-built concrete shell. ...

Cambodian soldiers stationed at Preah Vihear temple said relations with their Thai counterparts have remained friendly despite reports that a controversial replica temple built by the Thai military could be reopened. ...

People smoking tobacco in offices, restaurants and other public spaces will have to indulge their habit in clearly demarcated smoking areas or both the smoker and establishment owner will face fines, the Ministry of Health announced. ...

A new report has alleged labour rights abuses at Cambodian supplier factories for apparel giant H&M, as more than 500 garment workers gathered in Phnom Penh yesterday to air some of the same concerns over working conditions during a workers’ forum.   ...

Defence Minister Tea Banh will lead a delegation of about 10 other senior military officials to Vientiane, Laos, to attend the ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting from May 24 to 27, which will focus on regional cooperation in defence technology and natural-disaster response. ...

Turkish Airlines, a member of the Star Alliance network, has become the newest player to enter into Cambodia’s air freight business after launching operations last Saturday.    ...

Cambodia dispatched a group of 45 troops to take part in the 2016 multinational peacekeeping exercise in Mongolia late on Thursday. ...