In the latest bid for an increase in garment-industry wages, Free Trade Union (FTU) president Chea Mony yesterday called on the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) to come to the table and discuss a $120-per-month minimum wage. A few days after Cambodian Confederation of Unions ss='cambodia-color'>...

For a long time, Cambodia’s national carrier Cambodia Angkor Air (CAA) served only as a feeder carrier to its shareholder Vietnam Airlines. Three lines were then in service on routes linking Phnom Penh to siem Reap, Phnom Penh-Ho Chi Minh City and finally siem Reap-HCMC. ss='cambodia-color'>...

ANZ chief executive Mike Smith SayS Cambodia Should decouple the riel from the US dollar to a Stand-alone currency and align itSelf to the ChineSe renminbi (RMB), given the Shift in global trade flowS. At the Cambodia Outlook Conference in Phnom Penh yeSterday, Smith Said: “I SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen on Thursday met with a large group of Chinese business executives visiting Cambodia to explore investment opportunities. To date, he said, the sino-Cambodian relationship has reached the level of the Comprehensive strategic Partnership of Cooperation. The premier said China has helped ss='cambodia-color'>...

Borei Keila evictees will have a chance to revisit the area they were forcibly evicted from this sunday when authorities truck them back from the makeshift tents of their relocation site for a special purpose – to vote. Touch Khorn, a representative of the Borei Keila ss='cambodia-color'>...

An abused Cambodian maid working in Malaysia has had her day in court – and won. Men Chan Veasna is the first Cambodian maid to successfully sue her employers in the Malaysian courts, rights groups said yesterday, calling the win a landmark victory for maids struggling ss='cambodia-color'>...

Garment factory owners have agreed to provide workers with an additional $9 in monthly benefits for transportation, housing and attendance in order to reduce growing protests in the sector, Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia (GMAC) officials said yesterday. “We will provide $3 in attendance bonuses and ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Villagers who have spent recent days patrolling Prey Lang forest would file a complaint to the prime minister alleging government officials and private companies are clearing parts of the forest, a spokesman said yesterday. The 70-strong citizen patrol team who scoured the forest this week ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen mockingly declared that opposition pledges to increase the salaries of civil servants marked the arrival of “the season of promises” ahead of next year’s elections, during a speech yesterday. The premier deemed boosting salaries by reducing tax losses attributed to graft unfeasible  because ss='cambodia-color'>...

The country cannot afford to further increase the salaries of civil servants such as teachers and members of the armed forces, as to do so would require tax increases—a move that has already sparked protests across Europe, Prime Minister Hun sen said yesterday. speaking at a ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 600 Tae Young factory workers are back on the job thanks to a court injunction – and the desire to pocket a little cash in time for Pchum Ben – but the return will only be temporary, workers said yesterday. The decision followed a Kandal ss='cambodia-color'>...

After calls from their lawyers late last month to speed up the appeals process, three former advisers to senate President Chea sim convicted of fraud last year will appear before the Appeals Court on November 7, court deputy prosecutor Tan senarong said yesterday. The three defendants ss='cambodia-color'>...

The inking of a €300 million contract for water turbines, and job advertisements marked “urgent” appear to be the latest signs that Laos is powering forward with the Xayaburi hydroelectric dam project on the Mekong River. Assurances the $3.8 billion project was on hold pending further ss='cambodia-color'>...

Growing calls in sweden for multinational clothing giant H&M to increase wages for Cambodian garment workers have taken a royal twist. Cambodia’s Prince Charin Norodom, 38, who has lived in sweden for more than 30 years, told the Post yesterday that he had been working behind ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Thailand-based technical university yesterday signed two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with technical training institutes in Cambodia to improve human resources in the technical sector. The MoUs were signed between the Thai Rajamangala University of Technology and the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia and the National ss='cambodia-color'>...

Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc. (EGA), announced Monday that it will break ground Thursday on a new $7.5 million slot Hall casino in Poipet province along the Thai border, EGA said in a statement. The casino will open by the end of the year with 300 gaming ss='cambodia-color'>...

A delegation of Chinese officials yesterday donated two airplanes and signed an agreement to provide Cambodia with loans for a new hydropower dam in Battambang and the renovation of two national roads. The deals were made during a meeting in Phnom Penh between He Guoqiang, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

On Saturday, the family of Slain environmental activiSt Chut Wutty will commemorate the 100 dayS, or thereaboutS, that have paSSed Since hiS death in a caSe that remainS unreSolved even though Six eyewitneSSeS have already been queStioned. The official Story iS that he waS killed by SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Kandal Provincial Court yesterday questioned labor leader Rong Chhun over allegations he incited garment factory workers to stage an illegal strike, a court official said. A director at the Tai Yang garment factory in Ang snuol district- which supplies apparel to U.s. brands Levi strauss, ss='cambodia-color'>...