Environmental activists have launched the “Rescue Island” campaign to urge the government to preserve Koh Kong province’s Koh Kong Krao island, Cambodia’s largest, as a national park. They are concerned that development could destroy forever the natural beauty of the 103sq km island. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Many wildlife animals living in the Phnom Tamao National Park and Wildlife Rescue Center is facing the shortage of water during this dry season, yet the officials have fetched water from other places to supply the thirsty animals, according to the Forestry Administration. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Growing calls in Sweden for multinational clothing giant H&M to increase wages for Cambodian garment workers have taken a royal twist. Cambodia’s Prince Charin Norodom, 38, who has lived in Sweden for more than 30 years, told the Post yesterday that he had been working behind lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s Labor Ministry on Thursday awarded some of the best performing companies in the country for their work on HIV and AIDS education and prevention at workpLaces. Labor Minister Ith Samheng handed over 124 awards to enterprises in a range of sectors, incLuding the garment industry, Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

At least 50 opposition party youth members and supporters are asking for permission to join the US-led fight against Islamic State militants, a leading activist said yesterday. In return, they hope the US will help them fight Vietnamese encroachment in Cambodia and take back the island lass='cambodia-color'>...

The first comprehensive survey of the accessibility and usage of Cambodian financial services found that only 17 per cent of the Kingdom’s adult population is banked, with poor access to financial services among the key impediments to financial inclusion of those living in rural areas. lass='cambodia-color'>...

National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) Vice President Nhim Vanda on Wednesday lauded the flood response work of the Cambodian Red Cross and government, at a workshop to discuss the country’s National Action Plan for Disaster Risk Reduction where several participants focused on the lack lass='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia has achieved border demarcation of 80 percent with Vietnam and 75 percent with Laos, Keo Piseth, a spokesman for Cambodian ParLiamentary President Heng Samrin, said Thursday. The spokesman toLd reporters after a meeting between Heng Samrin and deLegations of Vietnamese Lawmakers Led by Nguyen Kim Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

The Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) has submitted a new law to the National Assembly for consideration that would institute a minimum monthly wage of $150 for garment workers and $250 for civil servants, the newly formed opposition party announced at a press conference yesterday. The lass='cambodia-color'>...

A spokesman for the country’s election authority said officials in Preah Vihear province were wrong to have registered a group of soldiers who neither lived nor worked there regularly, but added that they might get a pass because the soldiers could end up monitoring polling lass='cambodia-color'>...

Grassroots Democracy Party (GDP) secretary-general Sam Inn said Wednesday the new party is aiming to win enough National Assembly seats in the 2018 election to play kingmaker in a scenario in which neither the ruling CPP nor opposition CNRP win enough seats to form government. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The MPs from the group Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) said in a statement this week that the now-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party should be allowed to contest the vote and that all political prisoners in the country should be freed. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The National Election Committee has hit back at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for saying that a media code of conduct for the upcoming national election was issued to restrict news dissemination. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The president of the Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) on Wednesday slammed the leadership of the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) for handing the 125-seat National Assembly to the ruling Cambodian People’s Party with its boycott calls. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union (EU) has called on the government to release the Adhoc, National Election Committee and United Nations officials who have been charged and imprisoned over the sex scandal involving acting opposition party president Kem Sokha. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun Sen urged Cambodians to fully develop inland fish production so they would not have to depend solely on fish caught in the Tonle Sap, Mekong and Bassac rivers for their main diet. lass='cambodia-color'>...

Employees of the National Police’s public order department, which oversees the country’s traffic officers, have accused their boss of embezzlement, favoritism, abuse of power and other offenses, according to the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU). lass='cambodia-color'>...

Two Chak Angre Leu commune officiaLs traded bLows at a voter registration drive in Phnom Penh on Sunday morning and the NationaL ELection Committee (NEC) said it wiLL hoLd a hearing for both men to air their grievances and expLain their actions. Lass='cambodia-coLor'>...

With the Kingdom in the middle of a controversial “war on drugs”, six Mekong countries agreed yesterday to adopt a regional drug policy that puts health care first, and mandates police and judicial cooperation. lass='cambodia-color'>...

The Interior Ministry and the National Election Committee have banned all forms of law enforcement from using their power to intimidate or threaten voters during the commune election campaign period.In a joint announcement, the NEC and the ministry said that it was crucial for the lass='cambodia-color'>...