The Phnom Penh court on Friday ordered opposition Candlelight Party vice president son Chhay to pay the ruling CPP 3 billion riel ($750,000) in damages, finding him guilty of defamation for saying that voting fraud occurred during the June commune elections. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Total foreign direct investment (FDI) to the real estate sector peaked at $3.6 billion in the years preceding Covid-19, where half of the approved investments was backed by Chinese investors. In 2019 alone, FDI financing in the property and real estate development in Cambodia stood around ss='cambodia-color'>...

National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and the National Bank of Rwanda recently held talks to explore ways to establish Bakong online payment system in that country, said an NBC statement. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A team from the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) iS working cloSely with the Takhmao fire department to provide water to the reSidentS of Takhmao town. Several memberS of the public have complained about a Severe lack of water preSSure in recent weekS, with SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s international trade performance in the first half of 2023 registered $23.69 billion, a decrease of 13 percent from $27.24 billion in the same period last year, according to a report from the General Department of Customs and Excise (GDCE) on Monday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Dith Tina received visiting Dr Christoph Hoffmann, Member of the German Parliament and Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local officials in Ratanakkiri province are actively preventing a team of U.N. workers in the area from making any attempt to reach nearly 40 Montagnard asylum seekers now hiding in the province. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Finnish government will investigate multinational consulting and engineering firm Pöyry over its involvement in Laos’s Xayaburi dam project, a letter obtained by the Post yesterday reveals. According to the letter from Finland’s Ministry of Employment and the Economy, dated October 16, a complaint filed by ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Information ordered local radio stations not to transmit programs from U.s.-backed broadcasters over the election weekend, an official said. Voice of America (VOA), the U.s. government’s official broadcaster overseas, and Radio Free Asia (RFA), a station funded in part by the U.s. government, ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Grassroots Democratic Party (GDP) has turned back from its earlier warning that it could withdraw from participating in the July 29 national elections, it announced on sunday. The party said it made the decision as the atmosphere of resistance from the Kingdom’s authorities had ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen said on Monday there would never be a foreign military base in his country, following a news report that China was lobbying for a naval base in southwest Koh Kong province. The Asia Times, citing unidentified diplomatic sources and analysts, reported ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng on sunday revealed the story behind the transfer of former opposition party leader Kem sokha from Trapaing Phlong prison in Tbong Khmum province to his house in the capital. speaking at the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) headquarters in Prey Veng ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng has slammed the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) which organised the 1993 elections. He said there were irregularities under UNTAC’s supervision of the polls, and despite spending $2 billion to bring democracy and peace to the country, war still ss='cambodia-color'>...

Caretaker Prime Minister Hun sen on Monday called out former opposition leader sam Rainsy and swore on his life that the latter’s claims of inflated voter turnout figures or intimidation surrounding the July 29 national elections were unfounded. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A high-ranking Chinese official has vowed to boost ties with Cambodia to a new high, noting that the Kingdom has steady economic development during a meeting with Prime Minister Hun sen yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s secretariat of Civil Aviation signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Monday with the Finland Civil Aviation Authority to open their skies and allow direct flights between the two countries. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A spokesman for the country’s election authority said officials in Preah Vihear province were wrong to have registered a group of soldiers who neither lived nor worked there regularly, but added that they might get a pass because the soldiers could end up monitoring polling ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen questioned yesterday the extent of the AsEAN Economic Community’s (AEC) commitment towards forming an inclusive economic region as countries continue to compete with each other for agricultural exports and inflows of foreign direct investment. ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Rohingya refugee who landed in Phnom Penh in June as part of a controversial resettlement deal with Australia is likely back in Burma after requesting to return home, according to the Interior Ministry. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Decades after poachers stripped the forests surrounding Angkor Wat of large mammals, an innovative conservation group is bringing them back. Already, Wildlife Alliance has rewilded the forest with gibbons and langurs. And more are coming. ss='cambodia-color'>...