After leading the legal team that won the widely condemned dissolution of the CNRP at the supreme Court in November, Ky Tech, lawyer for the Council of Ministers and Prime Minister Hun sen, has been given a rank equivalent to minister just weeks after he ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday again ordered Kandal provincial authorities to stop residents from leasing land to Vietnamese farmers, repeating a similar demand from in August. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The senators say they wrote as friends of Cambodia, who wish to see a strong relationship between the two countries but who are troubled by the increased social and political turmoil in Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Global credit rating agency Moody’s Investors services said yesterday that while it has retained Cambodia’s B2/stable sovereign rating alongside Vietnam’s B1/positive rating, the Kingdom’s low diversification of exports has put it at higher risk from external shocks than its eastern neighbour. ss='cambodia-color'>...

National Assembly President Heng samrin’s native village is, as map lines go, technically inside of Vietnam, the head of Cambodia’s Royal Academy said at a recent press conference. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and the People’s Bank of China in the autonomous Guangxi region of southern China have launched an official yuan-riel exchange rate that allows businesses and individuals to conduct trade settlement activities without using the Us dollar as an intermediary ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly unanimously passed amendments to the Constitution and Criminal Code Wednesday that will impose restrictions on political rights and make it illegal to disrespect the King – changes that observers called a “disaster” for civil liberties in the Kingdom. In a full plenary session, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two months after it was unveiled and released in the U.s., Apple Inc.’s newest version of the iPad will be released Friday in Cambodia, according to the website of the California-based technology giant. Though suppliers of the iPad in Cambodia were tightlipped yesterday on the number ss='cambodia-color'>...

A pilot project to recruit maids from Cambodia is struggling to take off as workers are turned off by high recruitment fees, and the fear of not being able to adapt to life here. Under a Ministry of Manpower (MOM) pilot scheme that began last August, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Foreign Minister Hor Namhong yesterday took a visit by Lowell, Massachusetts, Mayor Rodney Elliott to offer an impromptu history lesson, he said at a press conference yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A planned demonstration against the consumption of dog meat was shut down before it could begin in Phnom Penh on sunday after city authorities said the group did not have permission to gather. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The portion of the Cambodian population that is undernourished has been reduced by half since 1990, meeting a U.N. Millennium Development Goal ahead of the deadline at the end of the year, according to a report released Thursday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Implementation of the new Land Traffic Law that was passed in December will officially begin on January 1, an official said Monday, with police focusing on the leading causes of traffic accidents, starting with speeding. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian farmers want to grow more cashews in response to rising prices. But lack of information and resources is holding them back. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Education Ministry on Tuesday oversaw the groundbreaking of a $4 million high school that will be built on land that was once the municipal dump in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A spike in violent crime over the past year has seen Cambodia receive a “critical” rating in a report outlining the potential dangers for U.s. Embassy staff operating in the country. The Cambodia 2015 Crime and safety Report, which was compiled by the U.s. Bureau of ss='cambodia-color'>...

A report by the Global Fund’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has confirmed evidence of corruption and nepotism at Cambodia’s National Malaria Centre (CNM), first revealed by The Post last year, calling the centre’s oversight “dysfunctional and unauditable”. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Construction of RMA (Cambodia) Plc’s vehicle assembly plant is 100 per cent complete and installation of the facilities and equipment is nearing the 70 per cent mark, with all signs indicating that production could begin in early April, according to the locally-listed firm’s CEO Ngorn ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new $25 million U.S. government-funded education program that will improve the reading and learning experience for Cambodian primary Schoolchildren waS launched in Phnom Penh yeSterday at an event jointly preSided over by Dr. Hang Chuon Naron, MiniSter of Education, Youth and SportS; U.S. AmbaSSador SS='cambodia-color'>...