Seven Tons of Cambodian-Made Fake Cosmetics Uncovered
Seven tons of counterfeit cosmetics were seized and four people were arrested yesterday during a raid on a house in Phnom Penh's Russei Keo...
Unions To Decide on Strikes Today
Union leaders appeared to be at odds yesterday over whether garment workers should go ahead with imminent strikes that would see around 80 factories...
First Day of Garment Worker Strike Passes Peacefully
Almost 70,000 garment workers went on strike across the country yesterday, as the first day of a week-long series of work stoppages passed relatively...
Factory Strikes Gaining Momentum, Union Leaders Say
As the strikes sweeping Cambodia's garment industry entered their second day yesterday, union leaders claimed that the number of people staying away from work...
Arrests Do Not Follow Rising Profile of Acid Crime
Keo Savorn, 22, had no idea what awaited her two weeks ago as she left her Phnom Penh factory at lunch to buy sugar...
Hun Sen Statue Removed From Anti-Corruption Unit Offices
Only hours after the Prime Minister's cabinet asked public institutions not to display sculptures of government leaders-at around 1 am Friday-a crane hoisted the...
A ‘Malaysian Deal’ Paid For By Cambodia
In the run up to the arrival of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to Cambodia this week, the expectation of $1 billion in investment...
Tunnel For ‘Total Revolution’
Kompong Cham Air Base - With fear in his eyes, the RCAF general looked across the plastic table at our group and said we...
US Filmmaker Oliver Stone In Focus
Legendary American filmmaker Oliver Stone spoke in Phnom Penh yesterday, decrying the "beast of fear" in current politics and urging students "to read history...
Lawyers Sought Sok An’s Help in Acid Attack Case
Lawyers for former Military Police Deputy Chief of Staff Chea Ratha, who successfully defended her in August against charges that she ordered a brutal...
Expatriate Games Foreign Footballers Feature Heavily in the Cambodian Premier League, But is Their Presence Constructive or Destructive?
You loved him or you hated him, with his upturned collar, ramrod posture and puffed-out chest. There were the sublime moments, when he elevated...
Remembering the Vietnamese
Twenty years ago today, the last contingent of soldiers of the People's Army of Vietnam officially left Cambodia, bringing to an end a decade-long...
The Beginning of The End
The official departure of the Vietnamese troops from the country in September 1989 initially meant little to the hundreds of thousands of Cambodians who...
AIDS Patients at Tuol Sambou Get Overdue Visitors
More than two months after the eviction of HIV/AIDS patients from Borei Keila, the men at the helms of both the National AIDS Authority...
Rubber and Acid, a Devastating Combination in Kompong Cham
Mat Aphimas' arms are webbed together from her shoulders to her forearms with shiny scar tissue. Upon meeting guests she timidly hides beneath a...
Pedophile Was Permitted To Leave Prison
Convicted Russian pedophile Alexander Trofimov, wanted in Russia for sex crimes against children and sentenced in Cambodia to 17 years imprisonment for child abuse...
Aung San Suu Kyi’s Trial Casts Shadow Over Asean-EU Talks
When foreign ministers from Asean and the European Union gather in Phnom Penh today for a two-day meeting on cooperation between the two regions,...
S-21 Photographer Has a New Vision: KR Tourism
Anlong Veng, Oddar Meanchey province - "The world should thank me for my work," Nhem En told the makers of the recent Academy Award-nominated...
UN Officer Cites Gov’t Meddling in Tribunal: Panel
Meeting with a visiting German parliamentary delegation in October, the Khmer Rouge tribunal's UN Coordinator allegedly asserted that the government was interfering in the...
For Better or Worse, Change Comes to Mondolkiri
Sen Monorom, Mondolkiri province - New paved roads, round-the-clock electricity, streetlights, a postbox and plans for a major water plant: Mondolkiri province has come...
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