One year ago today, Hang Serei Odom, a journalist in Ratanakkiri province, received a fateful phOne call. After telling his wife he was going to meet a military police officer, he bid her goodnight. He left his house in Banlung City at about 7 p.m. ...

The National Assembly said in a statement on Friday that the opposition CNRP is in contempt of both the Constitution and the King by claiming that the new government is illegitimate. The CNRP had accused the ruling CPP of behaving unconstitutionally by convening parliament last week ...

The economic fallout from garment worker protests and the industry’s response is expected to cost the key sector millions of dollars while tarnishing the country’s reputation among international buyers, interviews with suppliers and figures from previous periods of labour unrest show. Disputes over wages came to ...

About 50 ethnic Jarai families in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadaw district have sold their farmland and part of the forests their culture depends on to the sister of former Finance Minister Keat Chhon, rights group Adhoc said Monday. Last year, the ethnic minority Jarai in the district ...

Low-quality education is jeopardizing business growth in Cambodia, and local graduates will not be employable in skilled jobs if the government does not quickly implement educational reforms, business executives warned Thursday at the Cambodian Market Intel 2013 seminar in Phnom Penh. During an hourlong panel discussion ...

While the European Union Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht never told the Ministry of Commerce that Cambodian rice was “30 per cent” mixed with the same product from Vietnam, he did say Cambodia had to better ensure that its harvest was homegrown and not from ...

TBONG KHUM DISTRICT, KompONg Cham province – From November to May, the MekONg River is quiet. So is life for the hundreds of thousands of people who live alONg its banks, which in Cambodia forms a 155,000 square km basin covering six provinces and Phnom ...

Cambodia’s Apsara National Authority, which manages Angkor Archaeological Park, will this week unveil a “revolutionary” new concept for Angkor’s management that will vastly decentralize responsibility for the preservation of the temple complex, according to Anne Lemaistre, Unesco representative in Cambodia. The new Angkor Heritage Management Framework, ...

Before casting their ballots, residents in three communes in Kulen district carefully mulled their options. on one hand, many have found themselves locked in a land dispute with the government – forced to farm their land in secret from the forestry administration. on the other, ...

With the long-ruling CPP sworn in to govern for another five years despite the opposition CNRP abstaining from sitting in the National Assembly due to election irregularities, a new report argues that imminent threats to Cam­bodia’s future development can only be overcome with significant government ...

In Cambodia, there is talk of change. Not just from Hun Sen, the prime minister, who has promised reforms after his party suffered a significant blow in recent elections, but from environmental activists and campaigners, who say there has never before been such an opportunity ...

Average Cambodians are to pay the price for stamping out corruption in the customs department. Prices for basic goods, such as food and clothing, rose recently after the department was ordered last week to clean up its act and apply the official tax rate, importers told ...

Since its emergence in the region more than a decade ago, the governments of Southeast Asia have been fighting to contain the human avian influenza virus through surveillance programs, rigorous inspections and widespread culling of infected birds. In Cambodia last year, 13 people died of ...

Population depends on agriculture 2014 :  73%(Source: The World Bank)Total rice production 2009 – 2012:  7.58 – 9.29 million tons(Source: NSDP, 2014-2081)Total fish catchment 2013:  718,000 tonnes* 73% fresh water* 14% the sea(Source: The Phnom Penh Post, 2014)   Rice farmers working in the field, Kandal province, ...

When 29-year-old store manager Srey Mom sent her mother in Takeo province some money to pay young people to help with the rice planting, her mother told her it was no use – the young people had abandoned the village to seek their fortunes in ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has fiercely defended his right to grant economic land concessions after issuing a moratorium on the leases in May, pointing to a loophole in the ban which exempts ELCs that already had in principle approval. Hun Sen attacked the Post and the ...

On 04 August 2021, the Phnom Penh Capital AdministratiOn issued a notificatiOn On the additiOn of COVID-19 vaccinatiOn site for children and adolescents aged 12 to under 18 years in the geography of Khan 7 Makara, Phnom Penh. The Phnom Penh Capital AdministratiOn has informed ...

On​ 29​ July​ 2021,​ British​ Embassy​ in​ Cambodia​ issued​ a​ press​ release​ On​ UK​ is​ dOnating​ 415,000​ AstraZeneca​ COVID-19​ vaccines​ to​ Cambodia​ through​ a​ bilateral​ agreement.The​ UK​ will​ this​ week​ begin​ delivering​ nine​ milliOn​ COVID-19​ vaccines​ around​ the​ world,​ including​ to​ Cambodia,​ to​ help​ tackle​ ...

On 12 October 2021, the Ministry of Labor and VocatiOnal Training issued a notificatiOn On opening subsidies to 5,415 workers of 74 factories in the garment, footwear and bag industry in the regiOn under the implementatiOn of large-scale closure measures in Phnom Penh, Takhmao, Kandal ...

On 14 October 2021, the Department of Tourism VocatiOnal Training issued a notificatiOn On the reopening of tourism vocatiOnal educatiOn and training institutiOns, tourism vocatiOnal training schools and assessment centers under the Ministry of Tourism of Capital-Provinces with low risk of COVID-19 outbreak.Tourism VocatiOnal Training ...