Cambodia and South Korea Signed a memorandum of underStanding yeSterday, agreeing to work together to enSure worker protection. LaSt month,&nbSp; a Kampong Speu Shoe factory collapSe killed two workerS. The incident inSpired the MiniStry of Labour to implement a Health and Safety Network for workerS here SS='cambodia-color'>...

Despite facing a rampant graft problem that has seen Cambodians paying bribes far more often than their regional neighbors, they have growing faith in the government’s ability to fight it, a Transparency International survey has found. TI’s 2013 Global Corruption Barometer, which measures perceptions of corruption ss='cambodia-color'>...

When activists Mom sakin and sorn siyan took a stand against illegal logging in Kratie province last month, they were allegedly threatened with violence and lawsuits from officials. “Powerful people who wanted to intimidate us shot their guns into the air to prevent us from going ss='cambodia-color'>...

British sugar firm Tate & Lyle has denied knowing of the alleged abuses at two Cambodian plantations accused of illegally driving hundreds of families off their farms and says that the families have no right to ask the company for compensation, according to the firm’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Deforestation and Cambodia’s strong economic growth have resulted in an increase in the price of charcoal, an energy source the poor are dependent on, charcoal vendors say. The price of charcoal in Phnom Penh had increased at least 200 riel ($0.05) a kilogram compared to 2012, charcoal ss='cambodia-color'>...

The president of the Bar Association of Cambodia has hit back at the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), which called for assurances that the Bar Association’s newly launched Code of Ethics, which was unveiled on Friday, would allow Cambodian lawyers to freely express themselves without ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Information on saturday lifted a ban on the broadcast of all Khmer-language foreign radio programs by FM stations during the month leading up to the July 28 national election amid swift and harsh rebuke from the U.s. and the broadcasters themselves. The ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...

Taiwan-based shanghai Commercial & savings Bank Ltd plans to open a representative office in Cambodia, joining an increasing number of Taiwanese banks and garment industry investors in the Kingdom. shanghai Commercial & savings would enter a crowded sector, behind other Taiwanese-based financial intuitions [sic]. Hua ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government on Wednesday insisted that its decision to postpone U.s.-backed military assistance programs following the July 28 election would not have a negative impact on relations between the two countries. Marie Harf, the spokeswoman for the U.s. state Department, also said on Tuesday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Phnom Penh’s mountains of garbage might be keeping the city’s lights on as early as 2015 if all goes according to plan, developers and city officials have said. Under a new proposal presented to Phnom Penh Municipal Hall last Tuesday, the Green Asia Global Corporation is ss='cambodia-color'>...

A coalition of women’s groups have lashed out at Malaysia for continuing to endorse a “public morality” clause in the draft AsEAN Declaration on Human Rights. They claim the clause is subjective and discriminates against women and sexual minorities and should be ditched. Currently being drafted by ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian officials in provinces bordering Thailand said the price of Cambodian corn would increase as a result of a reduced supply and a new Thai government policy of importing more corn for animal processing. The Bangkok Post reported on Tuesday that the Thai cabinet approved the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sketchy detailS that fail to Specify when conStruction of the Lower SeSan 2 hydro dam will begin, or name the ChineSe company involved, have villagerS fearing for their future, repreSentativeS and environmental groupS Say. Since the Council of MiniSterS announced on Friday it had Signed off SS='cambodia-color'>...

The International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia program (BFC) must employ more transparency in their monitoring of Cambodia’s factories in order to effectively bring change to the country’s working and wage conditions, a report launched yesterday says. According to “Monitoring in the Dark” a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s economy is expected to grow by 6.7 percent in 2013 thanks to anticipating increases in agriculture, foreign direct investment (FDI) and tourism, the World Bank said in its latest outlook Wednesday. “The growth is based on achieving the dividends from focus on higher rice ss='cambodia-color'>...

Access to finance could reduce violence, empower the most vulnerable in society and improve the livelihoods of Cambodia’s poorest people, a conference on community-led funding heard on Wednesday. sarah sitts, country manager of the international NGO Pact, introduced the funding model of savings-led micro-finance (sLMF). In ss='cambodia-color'>...