Analysts say many in rural areas are seeing few benefits from the country’s brisk economic growth, and yet may be among the most seriously affected if Cambodia loses duty-free trade with Europe over human rights concerns.
Four representatives from two rival unions were arrested by military police in Kandal province after a dust-up over recruiting members at a factory, according to one of the unions.
Eleven surrogate mothers who were jailed while pregnant in November have been released on bail, a senior Interior Ministry official said on Thursday. Nouth Savna,
Workers chanted slogans and unfurled banners outside the Council for the Development of Cambodia building in Phnom Penh last week. The building — standing between
Cambodia’s rapid 7.5 percent GDP growth last year came amid ballooning private debt, increased reliance on an uncertain construction boom, and threats to the country’s main exports due to politics, according to recent reports from the World Bank and National Bank of Cambodia.
A U.N. representative on Monday signed a new five-year development assistance program with the government after meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen to discuss social protections for the poor.
Preah Sihanouk provincial police arrested two men allegedly involved in murdering another man and dumping his body onto the streets of Sihanoukville.
About 400 villagers protested outside the district hall in Kandal province’s Kandal Stung district on Monday seeking compensation for communal land they say was sold without their knowledge to house Phnom Penh’s new airport.
Twenty clothing brands including adidas, Gap, Nike and New Balance appealed to Prime Minister Hun Sen to uphold human rights and prevent the loss of preferential trade with the E.U. and U.S.
The Information Ministry ordered a ban on alcohol advertising on Visak Bochea and Meak Bochea, two Buddhist holy days this year falling in February and May.
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