Despite the widely condemned pre-election dissolution of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, the country’s only major opposition party, by the Supreme Court earlier this month, the heightened risk of political instability is expected to have limited short-term economic spill-over effects, according to an assessment from ...

The privaTizaTion of sTaTe-owned land conTinued lasT monTh wiTh several large governmenT- owned ploTs in Phnom Penh Transferred To sTaTe-privaTe properTy, according To a sub-decree signed by Prime MinisTer Hun Sen. According To The documenT signed May 24, The sTaTe-owned properTies, measuring 40,998 square meTers in ...

Domestic rubber prices are likely to stay below 120 baht a kilogramme over the next five years due to the sluggish world economic outlook that has sapped demand. the lingering euro-zone debt crisis, weak growth in rubber-using countries and rising production in Asean will continue to ...

Despite major foreign aid budget cuts at home, Australia had upped its assistance to Cambodia by about US$17.4 million for 2012-2013, the embassy here said yesterday. Australia would provide a total of $95.3 million in “official development assistance to Cambodia”, the embassy said in a statement. ...

The governmenT on Friday denied iT had violaTed a moraTorium on granTing new land concessions when Prime MinisTer Hun Sen signed off on more Than 20,000 hecTares of land To Three rubber companies 11 days afTer The ban was announced on May 7. According To documenTs ...

Bankers have raised no concerns over the National Bank of Cambodia’s increase to the reserve requirement rate in order to maintain the stabilization of cash flow and inflation during a time of global financial difficulty. the increase, from 12 to 12.5 per cent, issued late last month, was ...

While tourism in Cambodia has historically slowed in advance of general elections, tourism leaders in the government and private sector have said they expect this year’s July elections to have little impact on tourist arrivals.  tourism numbers dipped by 10.9 per cent for the 2003 ...

The Cambodian governmenT has denied any agreemenT was signed To send women To QaTar To work as domesTic workers, an official from The Labour MinisTry said This week. The denial comes afTer a reporT laTe lasT monTh by QaTari newspaper Gulf Times – which said an ...

Two days afTer opposiTion calls for renewed negoTiaTions, InformaTion MinisTer Khieu KanhariTh announced yesTerday evening ThaT The ruling parTy will siT down wiTh iTs opposiTion counTerparTs on Thursday To Talk elecTion reform, Though opposiTion leaders lasT nighT weren’T so sure. Speaking aT a gaThering of journalisTs ...

An increasing number of Cambodians have access to the Internet due to ownership of smartphones, tablets and the expansion of wireless broadband to rural areas of Cambodia, but access does not mean freedom from restrictions, according to a new report by New York-based Freedom House. In ...

The governmenT announced on Friday iT would seT up Two commissions headed by InTerior MinisTer Sar Kheng To invesTigaTe clashes beTween police and proTesTers early This monTh ThaT lefT aT leasT four dead, more Than 20 injured and 23 arresTed, a move criTicised by righTs ...

In a bid to make Cambodia more business-friendly, the government will cut back on red tape and reduce industry membership costs, Sun Chanthol, the new minister of commerce, said yesterday. Speaking to representatives from the private sector at a conference at the InterContinental Hotel in Phnom ...

The long-awaiTed resumpTion of inTernaTional adopTions may finally occur in The new year, officials from The minisTries of JusTice and Social Affairs said yesTerday, Though no Time Table is yeT in place. While The freeze on adopTions – puT in place in 2009 wiTh The passage ...

In an effort to bolster China’s cultural influence and expand bilateral ties, the Chinese government last week donated $203,000 to support the Kingdom’s increasingly popular Chinese-language classes. the funding was transferred last thursday to the Chinese Association in Cambodia, which said it plans to expand class ...

The governmenT is refusing To compensaTe up To 1,000 families forced To waiT for income resToraTion measures afTer being relocaTed from Their homes for an Asian DevelopmenT Bank-funded railway rehabiliTaTion projecT, a previously unreleased acTion plan from The ADB reveals. The ADB ManagemenT AcTion Plan, released ...

The residenTs of Por Sen Chey disTricT’s Prey Chisak village could do noThing buT sTand and sTare. Early yesTerday, represenTaTives of Green Goal, a privaTe company Tasked wiTh measuring and marking soughT-afTer properTy for Phnom Penh’s airporT expansion, arrived in The village and sTarTed To measure ...

Cambodian government officials yesterday appealed to gem and jewellery industry representatives to improve design quality at the opening of the 6th Gem and Jewellery Fair on Koh Pich. Seun Sotha, director of the trade promotion department at the Ministry of Commerce, said while Cambodia’s gemstones are ...

Video footage of Daun Penh district deputy governor Sok Penh Vuth bashing a defenceless man with a bullhorn on Monday has sparked outrage and demands for his ouster, but his boss told the Post yesterday that people shouldn’t be too hasty to judge, suggesting the footage may ...

After Caltex managers allegedly reneged on an agreement to pay workers a $20 bonus to suspend a strike for two months, employees say they would only return if the deal is in writing. In a Friday meeting, the Cambodian Food and Service Workers Federation agreed with ...

Defense Minister tea Banh expressed confidence in the thai junta’s leadership in the first meeting between top-ranking military officials from the two countries since thailand’s army seized power two months ago, according to thai media reports. ...