Almost 150 garment factory workers from two Phnom Penh factories fainted late last week after inhaling toxic fumes used to treat clothes, workers and union leaders said yesterday. The mass faintings came as the Clean Clothes Campaign and Community Legal Education Center released an evaluation report ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Court delayed the deStruction of the homeS and SubSequent eviction of 14 familieS embroiled in a land diSpute with a company owned by tycoon Kong Treav in Village 4 of Sihanoukville&rSquo;S Commune 4, local authoritieS Said yeSterday. Though many of the familieS SS='cambodia-color'>...

As a delegation of Us business owners prepares to travel to Cambodia with Us secretary of state Hillary Clinton, analysts say they will be tough to court, given Cambodia’s lack of law enforcement. “Investors don’t bring guns, they don’t bring bodyguards—they bring money to invest,” said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Better communication from authorities in Cambodia and Vietnam might have prevented the deaths of villagers and the destruction of homes in Ratanakkiri at times when water has been released from Vietnam’s Yali Falls dam, researchers said yesterday. speaking at a national workshop about the Yali Falls ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s total exports to the United states increased by 0.2 per cent over the first 10 months of the year, a year-on-year analysis from the Us Department of Commerce showed. The data showed exports to the Us totalled $2.296 billion between January and October this ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 200 Koh Kong farmerS locked in a long-running land diSpute with two Sugar plantationS met TueSday with a repreSentative of the Thailand-baSed ownerS for the firSt time Since the land diS&Shy;pute began in 2006. Khamrom Phochai, a Thai national and repreSentative of Thai&Shy;land&rSquo;S Khon Kaen SS='cambodia-color'>...

Rainfall during this year’s dry season and fewer farmers cultivating tobacco has resulted in a shortage of raw tobacco and a steep price increase, industry officials and farmers said yesterday. Tola Ponlu, head of corporate and regulatory affairs at British American Tobacco (BAT) in Phnom Penh, ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge yesterday approved a proposal to delay the case against human-rights worker Chan soveth, according to his employer, Adhoc. soveth has been accused of providing assistance to “specific perpetrators”. Although the court did not provide names, an anonymous court official recently ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Free Trade Union expects thousands of workers from across the country to join FTU president Chea Mony in paying respects to the late King Father Norodom sihanouk on Tuesday.   To make up for the lost day of work, workers will instead work on October ss='cambodia-color'>...

Workers applying for jobs at a fertilizer factory in Kandal province claim they were passed over in favour of applicants who were members of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). Prey Treng II village chief Hang suon and two job applicants told the Post yesterday that Five ss='cambodia-color'>...

Workers from at least six more factories in Bavet town’s Manhattan and Tay seng special Economic Zones joined about 5,000 workers who had been on strike since yesterday for a minimum wage increase and better working conditions. Va sarorn, director of the svay Rieng ss='cambodia-color'>...

The KTH Premium Power Mall, opposite the Chinese Embassy in Phnom Penh, will be officially inaugurated on March 1 by K Thong Huot Telecom Co (KTH). The 1,200-square-metre mall will focus on international brands of electronic products. A mall representative told the Post the business would cater ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has seen a remarkable rise in trade volume with its neighboring Vietnam and Thailand in 2012, official statistics showed on Friday. The bilateral trade with Vietnam was worth 3.3 billion U.s. dollars last year, up 18 percent year-on-year, according to a data from the Vietnam ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed a complaint by the Canadian-Cambodian shrimp manufacturer Nautisco seafood Manufacturing Inc. alleging that the private equity firm Leopard Capital had purposely indebted the company for its own personal gain. According to the sihanoukville-based shrimp company’s complaint, Leopard Capital, a partner ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia would have to give two villages to Vietnam if it wanted to retain another two deemed the territory of the Kingdom’s eastern neighbour by the former French Indochina colonial administration, a government minister said yesterday. Last year, the Cambodian government announced it was speeding up ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two more people in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district were arrested Tuesday in connection with what local authorities are calling a secessionist plot, a forestry official said yesterday. Veal Veng district forestry chief Thorn Bunthet said that Kuy Van, 55, and Leng Chhoeuk, 50, were arrested ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thousands of angry garment factory workers, en route yesterday to the Ministry of social Affairs in a protest over alleged sexual harassment, were stopped in their tracks by about 100 armed police and ordered back to the workplace. More than 2,500 workers from Phnom Penh’s Ocean ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cargo shipments via Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP), Cambodia’s second largest port, rose by 16 per cent year-on-year in the first nine months. The Port Authority said yesterday the rise was mainly due to the increase of import and export activities for garments, agricultural and construction ss='cambodia-color'>...

More than 100 people from two communes in Kratie province’s sambor district gathered yesterday for a three-day protest in front of the provincial office of Think Biotech, a Korean-owned timber company villagers say is encroaching on their land. As of yesterday evening, 10 armed policemen ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s reliance on imported fossil fuels to meet its energy needs is set to increase in the coming years, despite the raft of hydropower projects planned by the government, according to new data from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Using baseline figures from the Institute ss='cambodia-color'>...