Laws protecting ethnic minorities’ communal land rights are good, but their implementation has a long way to go, said participants in a forum of minorities from Mondulkiri and Kratie provinces yesterday. After July’s parliamentary elections, legislators should take the opportunity of a newly constituted government to ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 600,000 workers in the lucrative garment and footwear industries, roughly 95 per cent of the sector’s work force, will soon take home an extra Us$10 a month, the Ministry of Labour said yesterday. Barely an hour after a protest involving garment workers at the capital’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new real estate joint venture between local sonatra Group and Japan’s Grand Corp launched a $6.5 million condominium project in BKK1 yesterday. The 26-storey tower, with 50 units, will be built with high-quality, energy-saving Japanese equipment, according to the new firm’s chief executive, Jun Takeguchi. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia Airports estimates the number of passengers entering via Cambodia’s two international airports will increase by an average 8.8 per cent in 2013. That prediction is 1.2 per cent lower than the 2012 projection of a 10 per cent increase. The lower forecast is due to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Just under three weeks ago, residents in Pro Ma village were running for their lives as security forces opened fire on them with automatic weapons, killing a 14-year-old girl. About 1,000 police, military police and soldiers stormed their village, fired at them indiscriminately, evicted hundreds of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court questioned two well-known human rights workers yesterday in an incitement lawsuit brought against them by a CPP commune chief, one of those questioned said. About 200 ethnic minority Tumpuon villagers, embroiled in a land dispute with the DM Group rubber company, protested ss='cambodia-color'>...

Britain embassy to Cambodia is partnering with Cambodian government ministries and departments to provide a training course on international best practices in the field of anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism, according to the embassy’s press release on Friday. The training will be ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen on Thursday urged local producers to increase production in order to boost the country’s exports when the Association of southeast Asian Nations (AsEAN) turns into a community at the end of 2015. He [Hun sen] said when AsEAN became [sic] ss='cambodia-color'>...

Revenue at the Cambodia Post (CP), the country’s mail service provider, rose nearly $2 million in the first half of this year, a 10 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2012. But the service still handles mostly international shipments, and is failing ss='cambodia-color'>...

Lending at Cambodia’s commercial banks increased by 5.4 percent in the first six months of this year thanks to a better economic situation, a central bank official said Monday. Nguon sokha, director general of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), said that the kingdom’s 34 commercial ss='cambodia-color'>...

Deputy Prime Minister Men sam An yesterday said the government should clear beggars away from the country’s most popular tourism sites by providing them with decent education and legal ownership of their land. “We have performed well in working with homeless people, but I noticed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s garment industry is experiencing a worrying rise in fire safety violations as factories struggle to cope with a sharp increase in the number of orders they are receiving, the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia program (BFC) said in a report on Thursday. The ss='cambodia-color'>...

In order to boost the Kingdom’s trade performance and improve the quality of lives of farmers along the Thai-Cambodia border, Thailand has agreed to remove import restrictions on Cambodian cassava and maize. speaking to reporters after the forth meeting of the Joint Trade Committee between Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

In the past few years, the explosive events at Boeung Kak lake – including violent evictions and arrests – have gone largely unreported outside the Kingdom’s independent media outlets. Outspoken community representative Tep Vanny has been under attack from her fellow Boeung Kak residents, who ss='cambodia-color'>...

Bankrupt mobile phone operator Mfone is planning to file a com­plaint with the Phnom Penh Muni­cipal Court against six tele­com­muni­ca­tions firms it says have failed to pay back more than $1 million in outstanding debt to the firm, the court administrator charged with overseeing Mfone’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

The battle for Phnom Penh at Sunday&rSquo;S national election will be fought out with the yearS-long Boeung Kak land diSpute Still unreSolved, after the city&rSquo;S governor announced yeSterday a Solution would be found only after the ballot, villagerS Said. Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong, who in SS='cambodia-color'>...

More than 140 NGOs have called on the Mekong River Commission to freeze all hydropower damn construction in the Lower Mekong River. “The degration of fish production in the river can’t be replaced and the blockage of sediment will affect the fisheries resources in the river’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

The new 100,000 riel banknote depicting the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk iS not juSt a pretty hiStorical token. It will alSo help inject much needed caSh into the economy, according to the National Bank of Cambodia. Although take-up will occur aS older banknoteS of other SS='cambodia-color'>...

Some 24 Ford Explorer Sport utility vehicleS in Cambodia are being recalled to fix a potential fuel leak that could cauSe a fire, company repreSentativeS Said. The move comeS amid a much larger recall of 465,000 unitS manufactured by the Dearborn, Michigan-baSed automaker, raiSing doubtS over SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian students, graduates and jobseekers filled the main hall of the Cambodia-Japan Cooperation Center on Tuesday looking for employment opportunities with some of Japan’s largest corporations. Organizers said the event aimed to bridge the gap between skilled Cambodian job seekers and companies from the world’s third ss='cambodia-color'>...