Last month a study conducted by the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia painted a bleak picture for Cambodia’s ailing healthcare system. While acknowledging progress made in the field of delivering quality healthcare and the government’s apparent commitment to its universal access, the ...

Relevant stakeholders gathered at the National Open Data Conference to discuss how Open data about people with disabilities (PWD) can be utilised to help support the needs of the vulnerable group. ...

More than 40 business delegates from the Singapore-China Chamber of Commerce and Industry yesterday met the secretary-general of the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) to discuss potential investments and seek local business partners. ...

The Education Ministry will organize a training course and study programs that will give all of the country’s teachers access to bachelor’s degree programs by 2020, officials said yesterday. ...

Gender studies will be incorporated into the curriculum at Cambodia’s largest university in an effort to shape the country’s top students’ views on the role of women in society, educators and experts said on Wednesday at a workshop on the course. A pilot program will begin ...

The Ministry of Environment conducted a workshop yesterday to discuss the government’s plan to designate five forest areas, totaling about one million hectares of land, as protected. ...

The Appeal Court has again denied bail to imprisoned Sam Rainsy Party Senator Hong Sok Hour, ruling the lawmaker poses a security and flight risk, according to the defendant’s lawyer. ...

An opposition senator who has been jailed since August has lost an appeal to be released on bail. He will appeal the bail to the Supreme Court, he said. ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has approved a decision to establish three committees on land border demarcation and landmark planting with Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, reports Vietnam News Agency (VNA). ...

The Appeal Court yesterday rejected a bid by Hong Sok Hour’s lawyer to secure the imprisoned opposition senator’s freedom and avoid being forced to hand over further evidence, including the lawmaker’s laptop. ...

Opposition Senator Hong Sok Hour was sentenced to seven years in prison on Monday for forgery and incitement after presenting a border treaty on Facebook that the CNRP says merely contained a mistranslation. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday received Vietnamese Communist Party Politburo official Le Hong Anh at his office in Phnom Penh and asked that Vietnam remain “calm” over recent fact-finding trips to the border led by opposition lawmakers. ...

Forty-Seven senators supported this afternoon the authorities’ legal action against senator Hong Sok Hour, the senate’s spokesperson Mam Bunneang, told reporters. ...

As Thailand today opens another fast-track visa office along the border in the hope of reversing the ongoing exodus of workers, Cambodia continues clamouring to find jobs for the returning migrants. The Ministry of Labour remained adamant yesterday that there are enough open positions in the ...

Medical students who vowed on Sunday to boycott the first government-ordered national exams under claims of discrimination backtracked on their threats yesterday. Da Nhel, 27, a representative of the student doctors, said that just hours after threatening to boycott the exams, which were approved by the ...

Phnom Penh Sugar will begin producing white sugar this month for the Cambodian market to reduce the demand for imported sugar, according to a spokeswoman for the firm. Chheang Kemsoun, a representative of Phnom Penh Sugar, told the Post yesterday the company would produce white sugar ...

Hong Leong Bank Bhd’s (HLB) subsidiary Hong Leong Bank (Cambodia) PLC (HLBC) has clinched a banking licence for its operations in the country from the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC). HLBC, a commercial bank with a capital of RM119.25mil, would begin operations on July 8, the ...

Kompong Chhnang provincial police on Tuesday arrested one of six suspects wanted for the murder of a journalist in Cholkiri district nearly nine months ago, police said Wednesday. Suon Chan, 44, who worked for the infrequently published Meakea newspaper, died on the way to the hospital ...

Thirty-six villagers remained hospitalized Monday afternoon after about 800 fell ill on Saturday from eating tainted sandwiches distributed at a World Vision event in Siem Reap province’s Chi Kreng district, officials said. ...

Villagers in a land dispute with companies producing sugar in Koh Kong province gathered again at the Land Ministry yesterday afternoon, demanding the ministry resolve their land disputes as soon as possible. More than 70 people from Sre Ambel and Botum Sakor districts are facing difficulties ...