Prime Minister Hun Sen’s nephew Hun To has emphatically denied all allegations published by Australian newspaper The Age about his involvement in a heroin-trafficking and money-laundering syndicate targeting Australia. Hun To, whose wife and children reside in Melbourne, Australia, told the Post yesterday that he plans ...

Four men were granted bail by Pursat provincial court on Saturday after they were caught illegally transporting 11 timber logs in Phnom Kravanh district on Thursday. Provincial Department of Agriculture director Lay Visith on Sunday said provincial forestry administration officials sent the four to court ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that China gave assurances that it will grant greater access for Cambodia’s agricultural products to enter its markets. “it is my mission to ensure that domestic goods, especially agricultural products, can be exported to China in greater quantities. i just ...

Opposition lawmaker-elect Lim Kim-Ya filed charges with Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday morning against a government official he claims led an attack on a peaceful crowd at Freedom Park last Monday. Ket Khy, a Cambodia National Rescue Party lawyer, told the Post that Kim-Ya was seeking financial compensation ...

Charges against 14 Cambodia migrant workers arrested in Thailand last month have been dropped and the group will return to the Kingdom tomorrow, government officials have told the Post. A hearing at the Sa Kaeo provincial court in Thailand this morning determined that the workers had been ...

The opposition party leader Sam Rainsy sent an open letter Tuesday to interior Minister Sar Kheng to resume talks between the two parties to break the current political deadlock. “i would like to inform all observers that today [Tuesday] i contacted Deputy Prime Minister and interior ...

Bankrupt telecommunications company Mfone yesterday handed out the final instalments of unpaid wages to former employees. More than 1,000 former Mfone staffers received the remaining 30 per cent of their unpaid wages after the telecommunications firm filed for bankruptcy in February 2013. Since then, workers have ...

Following reports of endemic corruption and suppression of dissent in the Kingdom last year, Cambodia was once again classified by global watchdog Freedom House as “not free” in a generally bleak report released yesterday. in Freedom of the World 2015, Freedom House’s assessment of the real-world ...

Phorn Chan Bonavy is a 6th grader at Kesaraream Elementary School in Siem Reap, where First Lady Michelle Obama just completed a three-day visit—the first sitting first lady to do so. However, she seems determined to complete school, even though that will require she help ...

While mental health services are crucial to the recovery process for the Kingdom’s victims of human trafficking, stigma and limited resources remain a barrier in the provision of and access to those services, according to a new study published yesterday. The research, published in the international ...

The Government of Australia is supporting the Cambodian Ministry of Public Works and Transport to update its road design standards through its Partnership for infrastructure Programme (P4i), according to the Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh. ...

The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPTC) Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Tourism (MoT) and the Ministry of information (Moi) to organise training programmes on digital skills for civil servants. ...

With a number of homeless, beggars and street sellers who were rounded up in caged vans last week still unaccounted for, several of those targeted by the street sweep claimed yesterday that they had been held in Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey Speu social affairs centre. Homeless ...

Transparency InternatIonal CambodIa (T.I.) wIll next week launch an app for smartphones that allows users to log Instances of brIbery wIth the advocacy group. BrIbespot, the work of a team of German computer programmers, wIll encourage users to share detaIls of corrupt actIvIty In real tIme, ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that he could not appoint his children in the cabinet posts even though they were qualified. “i have five children and five children-in-law. All of them have possessed degrees ranging from bachelor’s degrees to doctorate’s degrees, but i cannot ...

ImmIgratIon offIcIals from the InterIor MInIstry and Pursat provInce today are to begIn a census of all foreIgners lIvIng In the KIngdom, though It Is expected to focus prImarIly on those of VIetnamese descent. FollowIng a meetIng In Pursat yesterday afternoon, Major General Khun Sambor, chIef ...

Garment workers continue to die in traffic accidents on their way to and from the factory, a new report highlighting the deadly commute in Cambodia’s largest industry shows. in the report, titled The Dangerous Journey of Garment Workers in 2014, the Ministry of Labour’s National Social ...

At a celebration of international Women’s Day yesterday, Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) vice president Kem Sokha said women play key roles in the Kingdom’s development, but noted that women in his own party still lack total equality. About 200 people came to LyLa restaurant in ...

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has issued an instruction on procedures to enable taxpayers who are owners of registered businesses to make online adjustments of their online filing on annual tax on income (Toi E-Filing), a ...

In the past, Chhoeurng Rachana had a boyfrIend, but now she loves a woman Instead. The 27-year-old says she just realIzed who she really loved, after tryIng to fIgure out her own feelIngs toward men four years ago. “Back In 2010, I trIed havIng a boyfrIend ...