Kandal, Cambodia News

Leading apparel factories in Cambodia have been asked to immediately raise salary of garment workers from current US$ 61 per month, by a panel of international as well as local judges.

"From two years selling my biography, I saved $30,000," for my house," Bou Meng said.

In the report obtained by the Post,A Bridges Across Borders Cambodia saysA a perception among many families interviewed that they had been, or would be, worse off because of the project was "unsurprising". "The lack of meaningful consultat-ion, including the provision of genuine choices from the beginning, has meant the resettlement process has ... (more)

However, Nowra Anglican College is moving beyond dreaming and taking decisive steps to introduce the next generation of schooling - turning out students who not only learn about global issues, but are also encouraged to pursue humanitarian work and build a social conscious, all while exploring diverse parts of the world.

Phnom Penh Munici-pal Hall had issued an appeal to community leaders in the city's nine districts to recruit young, unemployed and unskilled men to attend technical training with the NGO Caritas, an announcement posted on the city hall website yesterday said.

The Cambodian Foreign Ministry had sent a diplomatic note to the Thai government alleging Thai military encroachment in the Provisional Demilitarised Zone around the Preah Vihear temple, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Koy Koung said yesterday.

Prime Minister Hun Sen cuts a ribbon during the opening of a new building for the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction yesterday in Phnom Penh.

Forced evictions and land grabbing are getting worse in Cambodia. But the case which grabbed global attention involves the violent demolition of an urban poor community in Borei Keila located in central Phnom Penh.

The first overseas branch of Saigon-Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank will officially launch in Phnom Penh today in its first bid to tap neighbouring ASEAN economies.

European Union Ambassador Jean-Francois Cautain speaks with Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong during a meeting yesterday in Phnom Penh.

A woman takes part in a ceremony for victims of the Khmer Rouge at the Choeung Ek killing fields earlier this month.

She was beloved and dubbed as a national treasure by the king. Her voice was high and clear, careening above ballads and love songs with a gem-throated vibrato.

Long known as one of the last major Asian cities without a skyline, Phnom Penh embarked on a high-rise building boom in the middle of the last decade, only to see it derailed by the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.

A panel of international and local judges on Wednesday called on garment factories in Cambodia to urgently increase employees' salaries and pressed big international clothing brands to do more to improve working conditions.

Tonnes of young Cambodians are eagerly awaiting this Valentine's Day to snag some special time with their friends, family and loved ones.

Globalisation has mixed tradition with modern development in Cambodia, and it's not slowing down any time soon.

AA computer teacher from the Worldwide School in Phnom Penh has been sent to pre-trial detention in Prey Sar prison for the kidnap and brutal murder of his eight-year-old student over the weekend.

Many people have a regular massage to stay healthy, or use a massage therapist after an injury suffered while playing sport, for example.

The former head of the notorious Tuol Sleng or S-21 detention and interrogation center will now spend life in prison after an war crimes tribunal appeals court in Phnom Penh Cambodia extended an earlier sentence to the maximum allowed under Cambodian law.

Former Borei Keila residents Joe Sreang, his wife Touch Kanha and their four young children in their tent at Srah Po village in Kandal province.