Under the shade of Angkor’s canopies and twisted Banyan trees, more than 100 restoration workers watched yesterday afternoon as union delegates signed their first collective bargaining agreement, in what union advocates say should set a precedent for Cambodia’s construction industry. Over the past two years, the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia needs to ensure fair treatment of both domestic and foreign investors if it wants to attract more foreign investors, accordsing to Us Trade Representative Ron Kirk. Kirk presented the idea during a press conference last week in siem Reap durig the AsEAN-Us Business summit by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Resident of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood burned straw effigies symbolizing corrupt government officials yesterday to make the one-year anniversary of demolition of eight homes at the contest site. Roughly 100 protesters gathered at the site of the demolitions and set fire to eight scarecrow-like effigies ss='cambodia-color'>...

Four construction workers were injured, two seriously, when a wall dividing their building site from a school collapsed on them yesterday, police said, the latest in a string of mishaps in Cambodia’s burgeoning construction industry. The brick wall, between the site of an apartment complex being ss='cambodia-color'>...

An outstanding court warrant for Phnom Penh International University rector Tep Kolap was dropped after the intervention of the premier and his wife, according to Phnom Penh Municipal Police Chief Touch Naruth. Declining to comment on the extent of the premier’s intervention, deputy commander of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The first time Leang Horng, a resident of Kandal province’s saang district, made use of a micro-finance institution, a loan was the only service he needed. At that time, Horng had no idea about deposits or money transfers. But things have changed in the past few ss='cambodia-color'>...

Unions and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) are unlikely to walk out of their final minimum wage meeting today with an agreed-upon increase for workers, industry insiders said yesterday. Both parties have reaffirmed their respective positions: GMAC secretary-general Ken Loo said yesterday that “nothing’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

One and a half million children still toil as laborers in Cambodia’s fisheries, brick factories, agricultural plantations and construction sites, government officials said yesterday at an event held at Phnom Penh’s Wat Botum ahead of World Day Against Child Labor on Tuesday. The government has set ss='cambodia-color'>...

The grand finale at Phnom Penh’s much-ballyhooed TEDx event on saturday was intended to send a message. several activists, among them Loun savath and the son of the late Chut Wutty, would stand before an audience of 600 and read accounts of violent land disputes. Images from ss='cambodia-color'>...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arriveS in Phnom Penh today for diplomatic and buSineSS talkS with China and ASEAN&rSquo;S 10 member StateS, but rightS groupS and oppoSition partieS are counting on the State of human rightS in Cambodia to be a top priority aS SS='cambodia-color'>...

The “one community, one destiny” motto Cambodia adopted when it took over the rotating chairmanship of Asean this year could not have sounded more hollow as it did Friday when the 10-member bloc failed to produce a joint closing statement for the first time in ss='cambodia-color'>...

In an effort to improve Kratie town’s aesthetics, authorities have ordered about 300 shop owners on central roads and along the river bank to relocate their operations or face physical removal. Vendors were given until today to move to a location about a kilometre away, but ss='cambodia-color'>...

The area under Viet Nam Rubber Group’s cultivation in Laos and Cambodia totals 100,000 ha, including 27,000 ha under the group’s seven rubber projects in Laos. By the end of 2012, VRG had 21 rubber projects in Cambodia, including 19 rubber tree plantations and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two rival workers unions continued to trade barbs Thursday, each blaming the other for a violent clash between striking garment workers and police at a factory in Kompong speu province on Monday that saw eight people arrested. The Free Trade Union (FTU) has led strikes for ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a sub-decree designed to regulate the performance of the government’s administration by chastising institutions that fail to properly carry out their work in delivering public services. Though the legislation does not carry any punishment for officials that fail in ss='cambodia-color'>...

Six of the 10 labor unionS negotiating with the country&rSquo;S garment manufacturerS over a new minimum wage for factory workerS dropped their demandS yeSterday to $73 per month, breaking previouS commitmentS by unionS to Stand at $91. Ken Loo, Secretary-general of the Garment ManufacturerS ASSociation SS='cambodia-color'>...

State-owned energy Supplier Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) haS Sent letterS to Some of Phnom Penh&rSquo;S four- and five-Star hotelS, aSking that they Switch to generatorS between 8am and 9pm thiS month &mdaSh; a move hotel-induStry expertS Say would have a Significant economic impact. In a letter SS='cambodia-color'>...

British minister for trade and investment Lord Green would visit Cambodia next Monday in order to boost bilateral trade and investment ties, according to a media statement from the British Embassy to Cambodia on Wednesday. Mark Gooding, British Ambassador to Cambodia, said trade between UK ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Confederation of Unions president Rong Chhun yesterday appealed to landlords with properties close to garment factories not to take advantage of the industry’s minimum wage increase by raising rent prices. The minimum monthly salary in the garment sector – Cambodia’s biggest export industry – officially ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 300 people on Saturday blocked off a Stretch of National Road 5 in Banteay Meanchey province proteSting what they call iS an unfair increaSe in electricity priceS. ProteSterS believe that the private electricity Supplier, Sok Vitith, altered the Commune&rSquo;S electricity converter without telling the SS='cambodia-color'>...