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. ...

Obviously, COViD-19 has forced many people’s lives to a certain degree as the fear of its spreading compels the government to take strict measures and fellow citizens are advised to abide by. At ODC, working from home appears to be an alternative and information and ...

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 ...

Siv Mao, 25, just had a caesarian operation. She feels some discomfort but is smiling. Her newborn baby is sleeping fitfully beside her and she says: “They saved our lives and i’m happy.” Ms. Mao encountered complications in her pregnancy and doctors knew she could not ...

Open Development Cambodia (ODC) has published a new map layer of targeted districts of the implementation plan for the social accountability framework (i-SAF) on the interactive map, under the map category of “Government”. This the spatial representation of the districts which have been selected to implement ...

A local investor revealed yesterday that the construction of the US$100 million Kampot sea port had been further delayed by rain. Vinh Huor, president of the Kampot Special Economic Zone, (KSEZ) said: “We are preparing to be better, and that may take some time. i am ...

Mates are more important than anything else for Paul Ouk, an Australian-born and raised ethnic Khmer. “it’s not about the money, it’s about the people,” says Ouk, who owns Me Mates Place, a guesthouse on Street 90 and a restaurant and bar on Street 88 called, ...