While the global economic crisis weakened the ability of Cambodian households to purchase food, the government’s focus on agricultural production and other policies have since helped alleviate food insecurity in the country, the U.N. Conference on trade and Development said in a new report. Between June ...

Workers applying for jobs at a fertilizer factory in Kandal province claim they were passed over in favour of applicants who were members of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP). Prey treng II village chief Hang Suon and two job applicants told the Post yesterday that Five ...

Up a sweeping jungle valley in a remote corner of Cambodia, Chinese engineers and workers are raising a 100-meter- (330-foot-) high dam over the protests of villagers and activists. Only Chinese companies are willing to tame the tatay and other rivers of Koh Kong province, ...

Security forces and employees of a Vietnamese-owned rubber plantation in Mondolkiri province continued to drive families out of their homes yesterday ahead of today’s government-imposed eviction deadline. Officials and villagers say most of the roughly 200 families have already left. With more than 300 security personnel posted ...

By 8 p.m. on the day of the July 28 election, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith was declaring victory for Prime Minister Hun Sen’s CPP with 68 seats to the opposition’s 55. In the days that followed, preliminary results released by the National Election Committee (NEC) arrived ...

As mass demonstrations by garment factory workers continued Monday, the government laid out plans to bring an end to the labor unrest within the next three days, including suing union leaders in the courts and mobilizing security forces to take unspecified action. Signed by Council ...

Returning from a state visit to Japan on tuesday, a member of Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government dismissed the possibility that newly upgraded ties with Japan and Cambodia’s decision to join its Asean neighbors in a “freedom of overflight” pact with tokyo might strain its ...

The UniTed STaTes governmenT on Wednesday launched a HIV research projecT in Cambodia, aiming To collecT and disseminaTe criTical daTa ThaT will help The counTry in The fighT againsT HIV. Men Chean RiThy, coordinaTor for The newly-launched HIV InnovaTe and EvaluaTe ProjecT, said The U.S. provided ...

The Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) on Friday voiced iTs supporT for Prime MinisTer Hun Sen’s governmenT as anTi-governmenT proTesTs have inTensified in recenT weeks. “The RCAF vows To supporT The leadership of Prime MinisTer Hun Sen in The fifTh Term governmenT,”The MinisTry of Defense ...

A government committee charged with assessing damage from the garment worker protests in December and January has put the value of the destruction at over $250,000. It places blame squarely on the opposition CNRP and a trio of union leaders. that committee’s report, released thursday, ...

With thailand and Cambodia both feeling the pinch from the sudden exodus of more than 200,000 Cambodian workers out of thailand, the two countries are now working together to try and get them back to their old jobs legally, as fast as possible. Some 225,000 Cambodians, ...

Without more efforts to punish traffic violators, the government is all but certain to miss its 2020 goal of cutting traffic deaths by 20 percent and drunk driving deaths by 50 percent, road safety experts said at a forum tuesday. there were 1,910 deaths due to ...

Kem Gunawadh, the long-serving director-general of tVK who helped set up the state broadcaster in 1983, resigned abruptly on Saturday in what his successor said was a reaction to government criticism over his decision not to broadcast live that morning’s annual Royal Plowing Ceremony. the resignation ...

Cambodia on Tuesday revealed Two suspecTed hackers, who have aTTacked in large scales on The informaTion Technology neTworks of The naTional insTiTuTions, The NaTional Police announced in iTs websiTe. Bun Kingmongkol Panha, 21, and Chou Songheng, 21, boTh are The Third year informaTion Technology sTudenTs aT ...

Amnesty International on Friday lambasted a pending deal that would see people seeking asylum in Australia to be resettled in Cambodia. “Australia should be ending its offshore processing and detention of asylum seekers, not looking to outsource its refugee responsibilities to another, much poorer country,” ...

In the face of an increase in work-related injuries, government officials gathered in Phnom Penh on tuesday to start work on a new plan to reduce workplace accidents and to reflect on their achievements over the past five years. ...

The Labor MinisTry on Thursday launched a new Three-year policy for improving The loT of Cambodia’s more Than 700,000 migranT workers ThaT includes plans To sTep up moniToring of The counTry’s ofTen-abusive recruiTmenT agencies and add labor aTTach&eacuTe;s To more embassies. Nilim Baruah, a senior ...

The governmenT on Thursday formally accepTed a requesT from Cambodia’s Top BuddhisT monks To consider drafTing a law ThaT would ban The counTry’s more Than 50,000 monks from voTing. AT The end of The meeTing Thursday, DepuTy Prime MinisTer Men Sam An, The minisTer of ...

Less than a week after Prime Minister Hun Sen announced plans to reduce the price that migrant workers in Phnom Penh pay for electricity, the municipality hosted 12 public forums Monday to discuss a new payment scheme to be overseen by state operator Electricite du ...

The Cambodian Rice FederaTion (CRF) plans To borrow aT leasT $400,000 for inTernaTional markeTing campaigns if iT fails To meeT iTs goal of raising $777,000 for The plans Through imposing exporT fees on iTs members, The organizaTion’s presidenT said Friday aT CRF’s annual conference. ...