Unions aligned with Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government issued a statement Wednesday calling on it to “take action” against union leaders who they accuse of inciting workers to hold strikes and violent demonstrations. “We would like to request [CPP Labor Minister] Ith Sam Heng to take ...

The ruling CPP will pay a bonus of 500,000 riel (about $125) to each of its commune councilors just weeks before they go to the polls to vote in the next elections for district, city and provincial councilors in May. According to a copy of a ...

More than five years after the close of the 2008 fiscal year, the National Audit Authority (NAA) on Thursday released its audit into the government’s financial management in 2008. The 38-page report is only the third such audit carried out since the department opened in 2000 ...

A number of provincial and district councilors aligned with the opposition have not been paid in the past two months following a Ministry of Interior directive in March calling for their salaries to be halted and positions revoked, according to the secretary-general of the Sam ...

Cambodia is changing fast. Over the past decade, the capital city, Phnom Penh has expanded exponentially: its bodies of water have been filled in and green spaces diminished. Rural to urban migration has changed the shape of the countryside. Great shifts are under way and ...

Two months ago, Sok Sathya spent less than a dollar for a kilogram of oranges to sell from his sidewalk stall across from a row of garment factories in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. Now the same oranges cost Mr. Sathya, 39, more than 6,000 riel, or ...

The number of four-star generals in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) grew Thursday as 29 former lieutenant generals were promoted at a ceremony in Phnom Penh presided over by Defense Minister Tea Banh, who last month underlined the army’s role as defender of Prime ...

On 19 March 2020, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a letter to the embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in Cambodia about the request to the Vietnam authorities inform Vietnam natiOnals not to travel to Cambodia by land, water and air. Entry ...

A joint investigative committee will be established to re-examine the killing of activist Chut Wutty and military police officer In Rattana, the head of the armed forces told the Post yesterday, after providing his own version of the incident to radio. Pressure from the families of victims and ...

On 03 January 2017, NatiOnal ElectiOn Committee (NEC) issued the first publicatiOn of voter lists with the first total number of the 7,864,429 eligible voters and name of 8,346 eligible voters will be omitted. Citizens can go to check and cOnfirm their name and persOnal data at ...

Most mornings, garment worker Vicheka buys food from the street vendors outside her factory in Kampong Chhnang province. The beef and pork dishes, she says, have a tendency to give workers a stomach ache – a reputation forged long before Vicheka and her co-workers at ...

Close to 2,000 people, including monks, NGO workers and citizens, marched peacefully to the Ministry of Justice yesterday morning, defying City Hall’s ban on the Human Rights Day protest.Demonstrators from 16 different provinces marched from three separate locations – the Senate, Chenla Cinema and Wat ...

An unruly protest in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet town entered its second day yesterday as thousands of garment workers from a number of special economic zones continued to throw stones and break windows as they demonstrated for a greater increase to the national garment industry ...

Mr. BE Chantra is the lead organizer of BarCamp in Cambodia, an international, innovative, and open technology conference. He is in charge of overall event planning, funding and coordination of all activities, ensuring the events run smoothly and meet expected outcomes. He has also organized ...

On World InformatiOn Society Day, LICADHO releases its report “Going offline? The threat to Cambodia’s newfound internet freedoms,” describing the vital importance of the internet for freedom of expressiOn in Cambodia and the imminent threat that this last bastiOn for independent voices now faces. ...

On 16 July 2020, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a $100 milliOn credit from the InternatiOnal Development AssociatiOn (IDA) for the Cambodia Road COnnectivity Improvement Project. The project will enhance rural communities’ access to critical services, such as health centers, referral ...

On 09 September 2020, the undersigned civil society groups issued a joint statement cOndemning the arrests of seven young activists over the past few days, and calling for all charges against those imprisOned to be dropped immediately. The society groups urged the government to end ...

On 01 September 2021, the Cambodian Embassy in Australia has issued a notificatiOn informing Cambodians to be careful of any recruitment informatiOn to come to Australia under the new “Agriculture” visa scheme.To avoid being scammed, the embassy took the opportunity to clarify that the Australian ...

The Ministry of Commerce issued an announcement on the 19th China-ASEAN Expo 2022” at Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center, Nanning City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China.The Ministry of Commerce in collaboration with CAEXPO Secretariat is going to organize “The 19th China-ASEAN ...

After 38 years in power, Hun Sen finally stepped down from the prime minister role, leaving the top job to his eldest son Hun Manet this week but retaining significant powers. ...