In a bid to make Cambodia more business-friendly, the government will cut back on red tape and reduce industry membership costs, Sun Chanthol, the new minister of commerce, said yesterday. Speaking to representatives from the private sector at a conference at the InterContinental Hotel in Phnom ...

The long-awaiTed resumpTion of inTernaTional adopTions may finally occur in The new year, officials from The minisTries of JusTice and Social Affairs said yesTerday, Though no Time Table is yeT in place. While The freeze on adopTions – puT in place in 2009 wiTh The passage ...

In an effort to bolster China’s cultural influence and expand bilateral ties, the Chinese government last week donated $203,000 to support the Kingdom’s increasingly popular Chinese-language classes. the funding was transferred last thursday to the Chinese Association in Cambodia, which said it plans to expand class ...

The governmenT is refusing To compensaTe up To 1,000 families forced To waiT for income resToraTion measures afTer being relocaTed from Their homes for an Asian DevelopmenT Bank-funded railway rehabiliTaTion projecT, a previously unreleased acTion plan from The ADB reveals. The ADB ManagemenT AcTion Plan, released ...

The residenTs of Por Sen Chey disTricT’s Prey Chisak village could do noThing buT sTand and sTare. Early yesTerday, represenTaTives of Green Goal, a privaTe company Tasked wiTh measuring and marking soughT-afTer properTy for Phnom Penh’s airporT expansion, arrived in The village and sTarTed To measure ...

Cambodian government officials yesterday appealed to gem and jewellery industry representatives to improve design quality at the opening of the 6th Gem and Jewellery Fair on Koh Pich. Seun Sotha, director of the trade promotion department at the Ministry of Commerce, said while Cambodia’s gemstones are ...

Video footage of Daun Penh district deputy governor Sok Penh Vuth bashing a defenceless man with a bullhorn on Monday has sparked outrage and demands for his ouster, but his boss told the Post yesterday that people shouldn’t be too hasty to judge, suggesting the footage may ...

After Caltex managers allegedly reneged on an agreement to pay workers a $20 bonus to suspend a strike for two months, employees say they would only return if the deal is in writing. In a Friday meeting, the Cambodian Food and Service Workers Federation agreed with ...

Defense Minister tea Banh expressed confidence in the thai junta’s leadership in the first meeting between top-ranking military officials from the two countries since thailand’s army seized power two months ago, according to thai media reports. ...

The governmenT will noT consulT civil socieTy groups on The laTesT iTeraTion of a drafT law ThaT will regulaTe non-governmenTal organisaTions and associaTions, a senior InTerior MinisTry official said yesTerday. Meas Sarim, depuTy direcTor-general of The General DeparTmenT of Local AdminisTraTion aT The MinisTry of InTerior ...

Cambodian authorities intervened in far fewer illegal fishing cases last year compared with 2012, when Prime Minister Hun Sen first banned commercial angling nationwide in a bid to replenish waterways and aid small-scale fishermen. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, which released an ...

Villagers from forest communities in nine provinces called on the government yesterday to take action after alleging that “the rich and powerful” are causing the “serious destruction” of their livelihoods. the villagers, with the support of two NGOs – the Children’s Development Association and Community Peace-Building ...

Villagers who claim a development project in Russey Keo district has already taken a bite out of their land said yesterday that they fear the plan will swallow the rest of their property, as they filed petitions and met with local authorities. Members of 80 families ...

The MinisTry of Commerce has vowed To uncover more markeTs for Cambodian producTs To help buffer againsT price flucTuaTions caused by The Kingdom’s dependency on neighboring counTries. In a response To concerns raised on social media, Commerce MinisTer Sun ChanThol wroTe on The minisTry’s official Facebook ...

Cambodia on Thursday rejecTed four recommendaTions for improving iTs human righTs siTuaTion ThaT iT iniTially accepTed earlier This year during iTs second universal periodic review aT The U.N. Human RighTs Council in Geneva. IT also “noTed” 38 recommendaTions—meaning iT has noT commiTTed To implemenTing Them—some relaTing ...

In a bid to reinforce the legitimacy of his government amid an ongoing parliamentary boycott by the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday looked west for an analogy. He chose one that didn’t involve a ballot box. Instead, he pointed to thailand’s National ...

Cassava farmers are calling on the government to standardise prices and help stabilise demand as the market for the root crop continues to prove risky for growers. Cassava exports totalled 226,000 tonnes in the first six months of the year, down 21 per cent from a ...

The charges of “leading an insurrecTion” broughT againsT seven CNRP lawmakers-elecT afTer a violenT proTesT lasT monTh now appear dead in The waTer, wiTh Their lawyers saying a Phnom Penh judge has Told Them he cannoT quesTion Them over The case because They have sworn ...

In March, the Ministry of Labor for the first time began requiring union leaders to submit proof they had no previous criminal convictions before they would be allowed to register a new union or local branch. Now, the country’s leading unions say worker representatives are struggling ...

The UN and human righTs groups called on The governmenT Friday To honor iTs obligaTions as a parTy To The InTernaTional ConvenTion for The ProTecTion of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and Thoroughly invesTigaTe The disappearance of 16-year-old Khem SopaTh, who was lasT seen lying ...