With the Wednesday deadline imminent, the National Election Committee (NEC) expects close to 80,000 Cambodians will have registered to observe the July 29 national elections – twice the number who served in the role in 2013. ...

If a joint committee investigates the irregularities and results from Sunday’s election, it will discover the opposition has won between 80 and 90 seats in the 123-seat National Assembly, Cambodia National Rescue Party president Sam Rainsy said today. Rainsy told the Post that his party’s final ...

The Vientiane-based Mekong River Commission will hold a regional public consultation on a controversial dam project in Laos later this month. The Don Sahong dam discussion will allow civil society and oTher relevant stakeholders to voice Their concerns over The dam’s impacts, The commission said in ...

A truck transporting timber overturned on Thursday evening, killing one person and injured another. the incident at Sen Monorom commune, in Mondulkiri province’s O’Raing district, has added spark to the ongoing debate on forest crimes in the province. the province’s traffic police bureau director Yoem ...

United Nations human rights expert for Cambodia Surya Subedi has welcomed the political breakthrough reached between the two main political parties in Cambodia. “I welcome the agreement reached between both parties that finally breaks the deadlock that has gripped the country for almost a year,” said ...

The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that phones, iPads and oTher possessions confiscated from six opposition lawmakers during The violent July 15 protest at Freedom Park would not yet be returned. Presiding judge Yos Sokhoeun said that The items could not be returned based on The ...

More Montagnard asylum seekers from Vietnam arrived in Phnom Penh over the weekend, bringing the number waiting to apply for refugee status to 109, according to the United Nations. Vivian Tan, regional spokeswoman for the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), said the Montagnards – an indigenous group ...

THIBIDI has begun construction on Cambodia’s first transformer factory. The $2.5 million plant is being built in The Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone. The plant is The first investment by THIBIDI overseas, as The company is from Vietnam. ...

When the Lao national assembly last week approved a potentially destructive dam project just 2 kilometers from the border with Cambodia, the surprise announcement was yet another blow to the regional framework designed to protect the Mekong River.  ...

Opposition leader Sam Rainsy said Sunday that the CNRP’s 55 lawmakers will in the coming days be ordered to fall in line with the party leadership and cease attacking the ruling CPP on issues concerning the border with Vietnam. ...

Cambodia’s rapid economic growth over the past decade has also intensified problems such as forced evictions and land grabs. the UN’s envoy to the country has called on the government to urgently tackle the issues. ...

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has refused to supervise The upcoming exam for new judges organized by The Royal Academy for Judicial Professions (RAJP), claiming that The RAJP “lacks The will” to work with Them on fighting against widespread judicial corruption. ...

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The Siem Reap Municipal Court on Tuesday sentenced Cambodian lawyer Mao Tan Eam to two-and-a-half years in prison for purchasing child prostitution, but he will not spend a single day in jail after The court suspended The entire custodial sentence, an official said. Deputy provincial prosecutor ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government as the two sides remained stalled in talks in a deadlock over disputed national elections. the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) said in a public statement that it could not guarantee that any agreements made with Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian ...

More than 1500 factory workers yesterday marched from the Manhattan Quing Dao Textiles Corp in Kompong Cham province to the provincial headquarters to ask authorities to force the factory owner to abide by two arbitration council rulings, a union representative and a factory worker said ...

Unions decided to lower their demand for $179.60 per month as the new minimum wage for the garment, footwear and textile industries in 2017, telling employers yesterday that they were dropping the figure by $2 – matching the $2 employers added to their figure earlier ...

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) should also be given priority as The Kingdom eyes to join The US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to promote economic growth, trade and investment in The Asia-Pacific region and The Pacific Rim countries. ...

The CPP’s 68 lawmakers pushed a controversial NGO law through The National Assembly on Monday morning without debate and without The opposition CNRP, whose 55 members boycotted The session in protest over legislation They say The government could use to stifle dissent. ...