Cambodia has been asked to send a delegation to the site of the proposed Xayaburi hydro-electric dam in northern Laos, Minister of Water Resources and Meteorology Lim Kean Hor said yesterday. Kean Hor, who is also chairman of Cambodia’s National Mekong Committee, said the equivalent body ss='cambodia-color'>...

Global brands Levi’s and Gap had continued slashing orders at the Tai Yang and Camwell factories in Kandal province, costing the company that owns them about Us$6 million, its manager claimed yesterday. Tai Yang Enterprises manager Wu Minghuor said the brands had reduced their orders from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Laos’ energy minister announced last week that the country will sell energy supplied by the controversial Xayaburi Dam to Cambodia. It is already planning to sell power to Thailand, where last month a lawsuit was lodged to stop the country from buying electricity produced at ss='cambodia-color'>...

A local journalist and a forestry official were arrested by military police in Kratie province’s sambo district on Friday night for allegedly discharging a weapon into the air and beating a man with a boat oar in an extortion bid gone awry. According to district military ss='cambodia-color'>...

The protectionist bent of conservation groups and the development agenda of the government can come together in Cambodia to create a green economy. That is the message of a new book Conservation International (C.I.) launched yesterday in Phnom Penh, outlining practical options for saving the environment ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers locked in a land dispute in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district no longer pose a secessionist threat, and those remaining in the contested area will receive new plots of land on which to live, the district governor said yesterday. District governor Chhe Chhiv said that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nineteen families from Pursat province’s Prangil commune, plagued by a long-running land dispute with developer Pheapimex, are in despair now that student volunteer surveyors cannot help them reclaim land they say is rightfully theirs. Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday revealed he had revised his ss='cambodia-color'>...

Concerns that a drought may soon grip some of Cambodia’s provinces intensified after the government allocated thousands of cubic metres of water to more than 20,000 hectares of dried rice paddies in a mission to save valuable rice crops last weekend. Although the rainy season has cloaked ss='cambodia-color'>...

After months of inactivity that has fueled questions about the company’s future, Boeung Kak lake developer shukaku Inc has launched a recruitment drive, calling for at least half a dozen architects, engineers and other employees. When contacted yesterday, sok Heng Ly, an administrative employee listed in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

High demand for beef, particularly during the Islamic Qurban festival which ended yesterday, caused beef prices to almost double compared with the same period last year, according to Islamic leaders and officials. Him Khortieth, IKatan  Mahabbah Muslimin’s (IMAN) representative in Cambodia, said the association planned to ss='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...

Sarorn Phi, 39, cautiouSly StopS hiS moto 20 metreS away from the large, SignleSS boom gate blocking hiS path in SeSan diStrict. He ShuffleS toward the Security guard&rSquo;S hut at the entrance to a Sprawling ChineSe rubber plantation and negotiateS with the guard to enter SS='cambodia-color'>...

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'>...