Provincial authorities in Ratanakkiri have warned ethnic Jarai villagers that they will be arrested if they continue to stop bulldozers belonging to a Vietnamese company from clearing forest in O’Yadav district’s Paknhai commune, community leaders said yesterday. Sav Finh, leader of Lom village’s forestry protection committee, ...

Following an investigation of alleged illegal logging by Vietnamese Company 72 in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district forests yesterday morning, provincial Forestry Administration officials claimed nothing seemed awry. Four villagers patrolling the forest at the border of Vietnam reported they had seen six Vietnamese loggers with two tractors, ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday that climate change has now become a strategic challenge to development that requires urgent and joint attention. “Climate change is no longer a remote case, but is affecting all of us in the present and become one of the ...

Two days after opposition calls for renewed negotiations, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith announced yesterday evening that the ruling party will sit down with its opposition counterparts on Thursday to talk election reform, though opposition leaders last night weren’t so sure. Speaking at a gathering of journalists ...

Kimseang spent much of his childhood enduring harassment and verbal abuse, with teachers and other children dismissing him because of a visual and physical impairment. While the kingdom has seen overall access to education improve from a 69 per cent net enrollment rate in 1991 ...

Police in Kratie province on Wednesday demolished the makeshift tents of about 300 families accused of squatting on public land inside a conservation area, two weeks after they forced many of the same families out of the area. Some of the families say they have lived ...

Cambodia may soon have new standardised exams to hold its students, teachers and education system accountable. “Everyone agrees that the improved enrolment rates in primary school is an accomplishment; at the same time, everyone also calls for quality-control improvement [which] means better testing,” said Jan ...

Despite presenting no hard evidence against defendants throughout the two trials of 23 men arrested during a strike that turned deadly in early January, a prosecutor used his closing statement yesterday to up the charges against union leader Vorn Pov. The final day of two trials ...

More than 200 Cambodian garment workers have been hospitalized after episodes of mass fainting at three factories this week, highlighting problems within an industry that is critical to the kingdom’s fledgling economy. The plants all make clothes for brands such as sportswear giants Puma SE and Adidas. Both ...

Nearly 200 people from 25 different communities converged on the Mondolkiri Provincial Hall Monday to file complaints and petitions calling for an end to illegal logging and environmental degradation. The action comes two days after armed commune police blocked 16 rights workers and journalists from visiting ...

About 400 garment workers who lost their jobs when their factory abruptly closed earlier this month blocked access to Canadia Industrial Park on Saturday to demand full severance pay. Workers from the Hongkong Yufeng factory, which unexpectedly closed on June 9, are demanding that management of ...

As the CNRP has taken to Phnom Penh’s streets and its provincial outposts to rally support ahead of the May 18 district, city and provincial council election, the ruling CPP said Monday it had no plans to match the opposition’s campaign push, confident that the ...

Following last week’s street sweep, children as young as 7 years old were kept in Phnom Penh’s notorious Prey Speu social affairs centre, eyewitnesses, staff and those targeted by the initiative have told the Post, directly contradicting government denials offered earlier this week. Standing at the centre’s ...

Preah Dak, one of 36 villages in Banteay Srei district, in Siem Reap province, has been chosen as the model for the “one village, one light bulb” project. The 518 houses in the village will be equipped with solar panels to generate power at no ...

Police in Kep province on Tuesday contacted authorities in Phnom Penh and all 23 other provinces in their attempt to identify a Caucasian man whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase floating in an inlet on Monday, but came no closer to solving the ...

The Minister of Social Affairs yesterday denied a report that the government has no more budget to support the IDPoor subsidy programme. The statement came after the government suspended the cash support programme for pregnant women and children under two years for five days during ...

According to the CDC’s press release made public yesterday, the newly approved investment project is located along the National Road No. 5 in Samaky Meanchey district, Kampong Chhnang province. The project, belonging to Changhui (Cambodia) Handbag MFR, Co., Ltd., is expected to create a total ...

Almost​ 1.9 ​million​ ​vehicle​s ​h​a​d​ ​travel​l​e​d​ on ​t​h​e​ ​P​h​no​m​ ​P​e​n​h​-S​i​h​an​ouk​v​ill​e​ ​Expressway​ ​in​ ​t​h​e​ ​first​ ​f​i​v​e​ ​month​s ​since​ ​its​ ​opening​ ​to​ ​t​h​e​ ​public​ ​last​ ​October​, ​t​h​e​ ​Ministry​ o​f​ ​Public Works​ ​and​ ​Transport​ said​ ​in​ ​a​ ​news release​ on ​Tuesday​. ...

On 23 March 2023, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority issued a notification on the water supply situation in the dry season of 2023.From the beginning of February and March 2023, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority has received information about customer dissatisfaction related to water shortage, ...

Cambodia joined countries across the globe to promote water action as part of the country’s 2023 World Food Day commemoration, which took place in Kouloab commune, Chet Borei district in Kratie province. The commemoration event was held under the global theme, Water is Life, Water ...