When an overloaded and illegally built storage level at the Wing star shoes factory in Kampong speu province collapsed last May 16, officials went into damage control, promising to compensate victims using a relatively new state fund. But one year after teenager Kim Dany and co-worker ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) gained ground against Prime Minister Hun sen’s party in local elections over the weekend, initial tallies indicated Monday, in a boost the opposition party’s leader sam Rainsy said would help strengthen democracy at the grassroots level. The ruling Cambodian People’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

In less than two months, smokers indulging in Cambodia’s inexpensive cigarettes will have to reach a little deeper into their wallets. starting in July, the tax on cigarettes will jump from 20 per cent to 30 per cent of the retail price, with a tax base ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Chinese firm that was financially backing an ambitious project to develop Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak neighborhood has pulled out, Chinese Embassy and company officials have confirmed, and no other investor appears to have taken its place. That makes the Erdos Hongjun Investment Corporation at least ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia (UYFC), led by Hun Many, Prime Minister Hun sen’s son, is claiming that one of its Facebook pages was hacked by international “hactivist” group Anonymous. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A request has been sent to the government’s Human Rights Committee and the interior and foreign affairs ministries seeking clarification on the status and whereabouts of a draft law that will govern associations and non-governmental organizations, asking to see the latest version of the law ss='cambodia-color'>...

Building partnerships to realize the potential of the Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle was the theme of a forum in Buon Ma Thuot City, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on April 21. The event, co-hosted by the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Asian Development ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prince Norodom Ranariddh has officially registered his new political faction, the Community of Royalist People’s Party, as a contender in the next national elections in 2018. The party’s new chief of cabinet, Nop sothearith, yesterday told the Post he submitted the application to run to the Ministry of ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 400 monks and villagers protested sunday outside Wat Koh Puthivong pagoda in Phnom Penh’s sen sok district to protest what they say is a real estate company’s encroachment onto the pagoda’s land, including an island that monks consider sacred. During the protest, dozens of young ss='cambodia-color'>...

A joint committee of Cambodian and Chinese technical analysts will begin reviewing black box data today retrieved from the Chinese-built Z-9 helicopter that crashed early this week, killing four military personnel, officials said on Thursday. The Z-9 helicopter, which the government purchased from China last year ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police and court officials on Wednesday searched the home of villager Oum sophy, who has been outspoken opponent of the well-connected KDC company as it has tried to push her and dozens of her neighbors off their land in Kompong Chhnang province. The raid came after ss='cambodia-color'>...

The cabinet of Prime Minister Hun sen on Wednesday accepted a petition from villagers from Kratie province’s snuol district who are requesting intervention in a land dispute with a plantation owner. Kong Chamroeun, a secretary in the prime minister’s cabinet, met about 100 villagers at Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

When two middle-aged novices emerged with signs protesting the development of disputed land near the tip of the Chroy Changva peninsula on Thursday, one of the country’s foremost anti-eviction activists was there to tell them they were doing it all wrong. Ms. Vanny, who was ss='cambodia-color'>...

A group of unions in the U.K. is urging its government to make sure British brands sourcing clothes from Cambodian factories respect their workers’ rights, and to ask the European Union to negotiate a deal with the Cambodian government to improve factory conditions. In a July ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of workers in Preah sihanouk province marched on the local labour department yesterday after three days of protests against the sacking of seven employees. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Hundreds of housing rights protesters and evictees clashed with security forces outside Phnom Penh on Monday, leaving at least nine people with minor injuries. The clash was one of the first since major violence over Freedom Park in the capital in July. Protesters gathered outside the National ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 70 residents from Kandal province’s Ponhea Leu district were blocked on saturday from marching to Prime Minister Hun sen’s Phnom Penh villa, where they planned to appeal for support in a long-running land dispute. The residents were representing 134 families from four villages in Chhvang ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Israeli gaming firm behind sihanoukville’s Queenco Casino is seeking investors to expand its operations in the seaside town, according to a report released by the company last week, but after six months of “cash flow distress” and losses of more than $1 million, those ss='cambodia-color'>...

After promising in early september to settle a land dispute between farmers in Kompong Chhnang province and a company owned by the wife of a government minister within a week, the National Assembly’s human rights commission has yet to find common ground between the two ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Supreme Court yeSterday upheld the murder convictionS of former Phnom Penh Municipal Police chief Heng Pov and three otherS in the caSe of the 2003 killing of Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Sok Sethamoni. DefendantS Pov, Ly RaSy, Hang Vutha and Prum Sophearith have been SS='cambodia-color'>...