Security footage of a Shooting outSide a Shoe factory on Monday that left three proteStorS in hoSpital haS been reviewed by police, the head of the Special economic zone where the incident took place Said yeSterday. The three women were Shot at a violent proteSt of SS='cambodia-color'>...

PRASAC, Cambodia&rSquo;S largeSt microfinance inStitution by outStanding loanS, planned to become a licenSed commercial bank in the Kingdom, company officialS Said yeSterday. The newS comeS deSpite callS from inSiderS and expertS &ndaSh; moSt recently the International Monetary Fund and World Bank &ndaSh; for the National SS='cambodia-color'>...

Days after Prime Minister Hun sen announced a blanket pardon for all suspects and convicts jailed for small-time fisheries crimes, the premier yesterday signed into effect an expected sub-decree canceling fishing lots across the country. Last month, Mr. Hun sen announced that he would cancel ss='cambodia-color'>...

The number of families claiming to have lost contact with relatives working overseas has seen a significant increase in recent months, three human rights groups said Thursday. Local rights groups Adhoc and Licadho and the legal aid association Cambodian Legal Education Center (CLEC), said that the ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kingdom’s first initial public offering is fast approaching, and demand is expected to be robust. Book-building, the process during which bids for the IPO are taken and a price is set for shares, ended yesterday. The final offering price is expected before the subscription for ss='cambodia-color'>...

Leaning over the railing on the roof of the Khmeroyal Hotel along Phnom Penh’s sisowath Quay, 54-year-old scholar and long-time Cambodian resident Oliver de Bernon peered across at his crumbing riverfront apartment yesterday. Residents of the block between streets 178 and 184 on sisowath Quay ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen ordered Ministry of Labour officials to quickly investigate and resolve problems leading to recent mass faintings at factories in Kampong Chhnang and Phnom Penh during meeting with the Council of Ministers on Friday.  Last week around 300 workers fainted at M&V ss='cambodia-color'>...

The results of an investigation into two mass fainting incidents at a factory in Kampong Chhnang confirmed that M&V International Manufacturing had violated Cambodian labour law by forcing some staff to work overtime and failing to give them a full day off each week, according ss='cambodia-color'>...

Union leaders gathered in the capital yesterday to discuss strategies to curb the garment industry’s widespread use of temporary contracts for hiring workers, saying employers were using them to discourage unions and ensure their workforce remained docile and easy to exploit. They also accused employers of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government authorities are investigating the death of a migrant domestic worker in Malaysia after her family and rights groups raised questions about the stated cause of death from a lung infection, a relative of the deceased woman said yesterday. Na Rith, 42, said his cousin Ouk ss='cambodia-color'>...

Panellists at the first “Permanent People’s Tribunal” on wages and conditions for Cambodian garment workers yesterday released their findings, declaring that a living wage for workers should be considered a “human right”. The hearing included two days of testimony by workers, labour experts and brand-name buyers. While ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has already granted roughly 300,000 hectares in economic land concessions (ELC) so far this year, according to data released by a local rights group yesterday. The figure, which amounts to 40 percent of the total land concessions granted in all of 2011, has ss='cambodia-color'>...

Striking workerS planned to Set tyreS aflame today outSide a garment factory that SupplieS JC Penney in the capital&rSquo;S Por Sen Chey diStrict, union officialS Said yeSterday on the Sixth day of the Strike at Hong Kong-owned Win Shing-tex Cambodia Co Ltd. Ath Thorn, head of SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government was strengthening its capacity to combat human trafficking by focusing on poverty reduction and was eager to work with other groups tackling the crime, Interior Ministry secretary of state Chou Bun Eng said yesterday. “The issues of human trafficking and migrating workers are ss='cambodia-color'>...

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In a scene that has become all too familiar over the past year, a group of five fishermen who had endured more than a year in forced labour on a Thai fishing vessel returned to an emotional reunion with their families in Phnom Penh last ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Borei Keila protester received a summons yesterday to come to Phnom Penh Municipal Court to address a complaint of “incitement to commit a crime” filed by suy sophan, director of the Phanimex company, which evicted the Borei Keila families in January. Borei Keila resident Tim ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia climbed the rankings of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2012-2013 global competitiveness report to finish 85th out of 144 countries, an improvement of 12 places compared to the previous year. The WEF report, which was released yesterday, measured the competitiveness of each country on more ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Phnom Penh Court of Appeal yesterday postponed the final hearing of disgraced anti-drug czar Moek Dara, Chea Leng and Morn Doeun until next month, citing a need for more time in light of last-minute investigations by the Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court, a court official ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government data show that significant amounts of tobacco are being smuggled out of the country each year, health and economics experts said yesterday. A national tobacco survey from 2011, the exact numbers of which remain confidential, shows that more tobacco is produced in Cambodia than is ss='cambodia-color'>...