One of the most well-informed personalities in the air transport business in Phnom Penh is Nicolas Masse, country manager for Dragonair, which operates daily flights from Phnom Penh to Hong Kong in the morning and evening using Airbus A320 and A330 aircraft. Comparing the January through ss='cambodia-color'>...

The slump in global markets has depressed demand for Cambodian products, leading to reduced growth forecasts by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for 2012 and 2013. “Falling global demand, especially in Europe and the Us, means that the industry sector will grow at a slower pace ss='cambodia-color'>...

The mother of a domestic maid allegedly stranded in Malaysia has become the latest Cambodian claimant to file an official complaint to the Ministry of Interior over labor abuse in the country. Em sokhum said her 24-year-old daughter Chher sophorn left to pursue work in Malaysia more than ss='cambodia-color'>...

Customs and Excise Department officials are complaining that a promised salary bonus meant to serve as an incentive to avoid corruption has yet to be doled out, even though the program began last June. The initiative, managed by the Ministry of Economics and Finance, was supposed ss='cambodia-color'>...

Chased out of the house by her Malaysian employer, fresh-faced Tieng sasa, 18, found shelter with an NGO, escaping alleged abuse at the hands of her employer that included binding her hands and beating her feet with a metal club until her bones broke. Three months ss='cambodia-color'>...

The London Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (Locog) plans to investigate allegations that a Cambodian factory producing Olympic merchandise for Adidas is not paying workers a sustainable living wage, a spokesman for Locog said yesterday. The investigation is a response to an article published saturday ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two months after government security forces evicted hundreds of families from Kratie’s Broma village at gunpoint, residents who were permitted to remain there took their first steps toward legal land tenure. scores of volunteers last week began to collect data of families in Chhlong and snuol ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Minister of social Affairs has sent a letter to the management of the Tai Yang and Camwell garment factories, suppliers to Levi’s and Gap, requesting it reinstate 37 workers involved in a strike that has dragged on for almost two months. “In order to ensure ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government has developed six prakases related to a controversial sub-decree that regulates the recruitment of migrant workers, but it cannot yet release the details, a Labor Ministry official said yesterday. On the sidelines of an AsEAN meeting in siem Reap aimed at curtailing migrant worker abuses, seng sakada, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five workers riding a lift meant to carry animal carcasses up to the fifth floor of a meat roasting facility were left with serious injuries when their metal cage plummeted from the third floor. The five victims, aged from 25 to 38, suffered broken legs ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rights workers cautioned yesterday that a sweeping ban on internet cafés near schools was little more than a thinly veiled act of censorship. Issued last month by the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications, the circular says all internet cafés within 500 metres of a school must ss='cambodia-color'>...

Stock trading at the Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange of the only publicly liSted company, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, Slightly fluctuated in termS of both trading volume and price in the laSt five trading dayS from Nov. 26 to Dec. 5. On Nov. 26, one day before SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday unveiled its new three-year assistance plan of 525 million U.s. dollars to Cambodia in order to help the country reduce poverty, promote growth and mitigate climate change, the bank said. The plan for 2013-2015 marked the bank’s strategic focus ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia on Tuesday inaugurated a new container terminal of the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port, turning the port as a large hub for logistics supply and goods collection and distribution. The inauguration ceremony was presided over by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen and Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia’s Ministry of Labour has scheduled a meeting on February 26 with representatives of various unions to discuss the new minimum wage for garment workers in the country. However, the Ministry expects the various workers’ unions to agree on what the new wage should ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday repeated a call for Asean countries to put a stop to the exploitation of migrant workers and urged the acceleration of efforts to provide protection for such workers. At the Asean summit last month, Mr. Hun sen said that protecting the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of police in search of two Kratie province “secessionist ringleaders” surrounded the homes of two of their relatives in Kompong Cham province for nearly 12 hours yesterday while threatening those inside, a relative of the two men said. The alleged secessionist movement has been used ss='cambodia-color'>...

An alleged accomplice of “secessionist” leader Bun Ratha has confessed and been granted immunity as a witness, Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday, a deal he left on the table for any of the four remaining fugitives who are willing to co-operate, including Ratha. Warrants for ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite being downgraded by Moody’s just over two months ago, profits at Cambodian Public Bank (Campu) and Acleda Bank—two of the largest banks in the country—increased by about 50 percent during the first half of the year, according to figures provided by the banks yesterday. In ss='cambodia-color'>...

For the past several days, Boonma and seven other Houay souy villagers have travelled back to their homes near the Xayaburi Dam building site on the Lao side of the Mekong River. since the beginning of the year they have been relocated to a new ss='cambodia-color'>...