Officials from the CPP and CNRP met Tuesday at the National Assembly to discuss making changes to the Law on Commune Council Elections before the next poll in February 2017. ...

Siem Reap provincial authorities have stopped three companies from illegally filling in a natural reservoir in Trav Kod resort. The province’s deputy administration director Sok Thol told The Post yesterday that The three companies had filled in The 30ha lake and built wooden cabins on ...

A district military police deputy commander yesterday said the logs are being transported to the district military police headquarters for further action. “they were seized after local residents reported finding them while they were walking through the forest,” he said. “We are collecting the logs ...

At a press conference on Wednesday, the US State Department announced that it would expand visa sanctions on the Cambodian officials and individuals it deems responsible for “undermining democracy” in Cambodia. At the briefing, spokesperson Heather Nauert reiterated that the department regarded the July 29 ...

With the screws tightening on Adhoc, pro-government NGOs are calling for the government to use the newly enacted NGO Law to punish the rights group and other organisations caught up in the Kem Sokha mistress scandal using a provision that can be used to shut ...

With leaders from the Greater Mekong Sub-region gathering next week in Phnom Penh for a new summit on Lancang-Mekong Cooperation, leading political thinkers and researchers say the LMC mechanism plays a crucial role in enhancing economic cooperation in the region and complements the work being ...

Cambodia has been asked to accelerate the final negotiations for a bilateral investment treaty with the United States to pave the way for more American investment in the Kingdom. ...

National Election Committee (NEC) Secretary-General Tep Nytha reiterated Thursday that the NEC had no authority to establish a joint-party investigation into alleged irregularities during Sunday’s national election, while opposition leader Sam Rainsy said he would now seek an investigation outside the NEC. Prime Minister Hun Sen ...

High demand for beef, particularly during the Islamic Qurban festival which ended yesterday, caused beef prices to almost double compared with the same period last year, according to Islamic leaders and officials. Him Khortieth, IKatan  Mahabbah Muslimin’s (IMAN) representative in Cambodia, said the association planned to ...

The Cambodian government has cancelled a 14,981-hectare concession in The Cardamom mountains granted to an Australian firm for a banana plantation, The conservation group Wildlife Alliance has reported. Wildlife Alliance has long lobbied against The concession in Koh Kong province’s souThern cardamom forest on which Indochina ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that the government would intervene to stem the riel’s sharp rise against the US dollar in recent days. “the Cambodian riel has been rising for several days,” he told a land-distribution ceremony in Oral district in Kampong Speu province, ...

The Cambodia Pepper and Spices Federation (CPSF) in collaboration with USAID-funded Feed The Future Cambodia Harvest II “Harvest II” launched on Monday The “Virtual Export Mission to The Middle East and North Africa”, a new digital export programme aiming to provide significant assistance and expertise ...

Phnom Penh Autonomous Port plans to join three other state-owned enterprises in listing on the recently launched Cambodian Securities Exchange, an official said yesterday Hei Bavy, the port’s director general, said that Finance Minister Keat Chhon has spoken to officials at the port, expressing his interest ...

An environmental group yesterday criticized Thailand’s announcement last week that it would not oppose Laos’ proposal to build the first Lower Mekong dam at the upcoming Mekong River Commission (MRC) meeting, as long as Laos addresses the dam’s environmental impacts. Water and environment ministers from Cambodia, ...

The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) has submitted a letter to The National Election Committee (NEC), asking Them to help Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand to register to vote in communes along The Thai border. The letter, signed by acting party president Kem Sokha yesterday and ...

Microfinance deposits are on the rise, a positive trend that the industry says is moving the country towards a reduced dependency on foreign funding and that will eventually lead to greater control over interest rates. the seven microfinance institutions licensed to take deposits collected $209 million ...

The 50×2030 Initiative is launching a data use grant competition for researchers in Cambodia. The initiative is a global partnership between The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and The World Bank. The IFAD will lead The work on data ...

With a sub-national election approaching, the ruling CPP has called on its members to work hand-in-hand to promote its platforms. In a letter dated Friday and released to the public yesterday, CPP vice president and Senate president Say Chhum asked the party committee to have ...

The Mekong River Commission yesterday announced new efforts to address natural disasters in The region, including a decision to upgrade and rename The Regional Flood Management and Mitigation Centre to The Regional Flood and Drought Management Centre. The announcement followed a two-day bi-annual meeting, which ...

A Cambodian election observer in Myanmar says the country’s process holds lessons for Cambodia. Yet the NLD and the ruling junta have tried to resolve their differences, leading up to the opposition’s election victory, said Koul Panha, who has been in Myanmar since Nov. 3, ...