Droves of seafood sellers descended on the normally sleepy Kep province this past weekend, attempting to capitalise on a tourism festival set up to drive dollars to Cambodia’s coastal areas. But overcrowding and blocked roads pushed prices down and kept customers away, according to vendors. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

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The Constructors Association (C.A.) was officially formed on October 7th with an aim to develop the country’s construction and real estate sector. The C.A. launching ceremony was presided over by senior Minister and Minister of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction H.E. Im Chhun Lim. ss='cambodia-color'>...

At least six people were seriously injured Wednesday in clashes between about 100 villagers demanding land compensation and 300 security personnel in front of the home of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen, activists said. According to villager representative Tep Vanny, the evictees from Phnom Penh’s Boeung ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mobile firm CooTel, a subsidiary of a large Chinese tele­communications corporation, is making plans to enter Cambodia’s oversaturated mobile phone market, officials said. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications granted CooTel’s parent company, Xinwei (Cambodia) Telecom Co. Ltd., an operating license in August 2011 and the ss='cambodia-color'>...

China’s expanding investment portfolio in Cambodia has brought into sharper focus the darker side of the Asian giant’s “development projects” in the impoverished southeast Asian nation. And it is in the southwestern corner of Cambodia—known for its rich biodiversity, forest covered hills and bubbling rivers—where this ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday issued extensive orders to unions, factories, workers and authorities to rid the garment industry of violent strikes, roadblocks and rights violations he says are threatening public order. “There have been many strikes and demonstrations at factories recently, and, in some cases, ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday lashed out at the opposition party’s concerns over the interest rates charged by commercial banks to farmers. sRP lawmaker Yim sovann said commercial banks in Cambodia charge customers very high interest rates, and said it is much higher than in other ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of social Affairs on Friday established four sub-committees tasked with finding a new minimum wage for the country’s 300,000-plus garment factory workers, Minister Ith sam Heng said on Friday. “The sub-committees have a limited time of five weeks for research before they have to ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Six monthS after two of her co-workerS were cruShed to death when a Storage level collapSed at the Wing Star ShoeS factory in Kampong Speu, employee Yu Manith iS noticing the crackS in a factory wall beginning to expand. Shortly after police rummaged through the SS='cambodia-color'>...

A Phnom Penh municipal official said yesterday that they would investigate mounting complaints that authorities have been forcing the capital’s residents to thumbprint letters supporting the preliminary election results and promising not to join demonstrations. Residents in Daun Penh and Tuol Kork districts told the Post ss='cambodia-color'>...

Election observers on Wednesday released a joint statement regarding the fallout from the disputed national election, calling for a recount of votes in Kandal province’s Takhmao City, where a particularly large number of irregularities were reported. The situation Room, a conglomerate of NGO’s and election monitors ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian provincial court today dropped charges against a military police officer and his wife accused of murdering a reporter investigating the country’s illegal timber trade, drawing protests from the journalist’s wife and from human rights and environmental advocacy groups. Hang serei Oudom, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee (NEC) on Monday said that a host of senior ruling party officials had resigned from their elected posts in Parliament in order to allow lawmakers lower down the party’s rostrum of candidates to be given a seat in the National Assembly. “The ss='cambodia-color'>...