An estimated 73 suspects and convicts involved in illegal fishing were released on bail in accordance with a blanket amnesty granted by Prime Minister Hun sen earlier this month, a court official said yesterday. speaking with reporters on the sidelines of the Ministry of Justice’s annual ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC) is conducting a feasibility study to construct a 272-meter-long underpass that will run beneath the intersection of Phnom Penh’s Russian Boulevard and Monivong Boulevard, City Hall announced on its website Friday. “It’s a new plan and another solution to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Twenty years ago, on April 15, 1998, Pol Pot, the leader of Cambodia’s genocidal government during the late 1970s, died in his sleep at the age of 73. Born saloth sar, Pol Pot was never held accountable for the crimes committed during the three years, eight ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian government on Friday strongly urged singaporean outlet Channel News Asia (CNA) to issue a correction to an article it published on Thursday, claiming Prime Minister Hun sen had called on the military to destroy the country’s political opponents. The statement, issued by the ss='cambodia-color'>...

China and Cambodia are expected to sign a number of agreements, including one on Chinese assistance and project cooperation, during Prime Minister Hun sen’s attendance at this week’s Belt and Road Forum in Beijing. Mr Hun sen will lead a high-level delegation to attend the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s economic outlook remains positive and the economy is forecast to grow at a robust 7 percent this year and next year, according to a report released by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday. Growth in exports, strong foreign direct investment, growing tourist arrivals ss='cambodia-color'>...

A farming family has agreed to receive $3,000 in compensation from the Wildlife Alliance after it cleared the family’s fruit trees in Koh Kong province’s Koh Kong district. Yorng Tay, the wife of farmer seng Thet, said by phone yesterday that Wildlife Alliance agreed to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith yesterday confirmed that the draft law on Access to Information has been inserted into the 6th mandate of the government’s strategic plan. In an announcement dated yesterday that addressed public and civil society groups’ requests, Mr Kanharith said the ministry had ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen requested China’s cooperation on human resource development on Wednesday by collaborating with the Royal Academy of Cambodia and the ministries of Education, Youth and sport and Labour and Vocational Training and boosting the sector. The request came during a meeting with ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Agriculture Ministry has ordered officials to investigate and take action against people who illegally cleared state land in Kampong Chhnang province’s in Rolea Ba’ier district. Agriculture Minister Veng sakhon yesterday said that after receiving information about the land grab in the district’s Trapaing Ampil, Pra ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Mines and Energy yesterday said two mining firms will begin producing gold in upcoming months. Peng Navuth, under-secretary of state at the ministry, said Indian-owned Mesco Gold will begin extracting this year, while Australia’s Renaissance Minerals is likely to begin in 2020. Mr ss='cambodia-color'>...

Demining experts from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) on Monday cleared two Mark 82 (Mk 82) bombs in two separate locations. In Kampong speu province’s Phnom sruoch district, a villager discovered one bomb buried about 8m below ground, while another was found over 4m ss='cambodia-color'>...

A delegation from Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh city yesterday requested support from National Assembly President Heng samrin to set up a twin city arrangement between it and Phnom Penh. Kim san, deputy chief of Mr samrin’s cabinet, told reporters after the meeting that the delegation led ss='cambodia-color'>...

The EU and Germany have committed to help strengthen Cambodia’s economic integration with Asean member states by providing a €9.35 million ($10.5 million) fund to boost the Kingdom’s trade and investment in the region. The pledge falls under the Asean Regional Integration support – Cambodia ss='cambodia-color'>...

A US M117 bomb weighing 340kg waS found in Kampong Speu province&rSquo;S Chamkar Doung village on Monday, with Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) officialS inSpecting the unexploded ordnance the following day, CMAC director Heng Ratana Said on TueSday. Ratana Said villagerS reported the diScovery to SS='cambodia-color'>...

The UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has agreed to postpone an audit of Cambodia’s aviation authority until June 2016 to give the agency more time to prepare.sinn Chanserey Vutha, spokesman of the state secretariat of Civil Aviation (ssCA) said yesterday that his organisation was ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has warned Mong Reththy Group (MRT), an investor in agro-industrial crops such as palm oil and cassava, that it must pay all outstanding back taxes on its economic land concession in sihanoukville’s Prey Nop district within three months, according to a document received ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rapid credit growth – increasingly financed by bank flows from abroad – poses significant risk to Cambodia’s economy and requires prudential policies to cool lending and reduce exposure, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned in a report released yesterday. It said while Cambodia’s short-term economic ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Japanese government will provide almost $30 million in grant aid to Cambodia to boost Phnom Penh’s public bus system and to strengthen ongoing demining operations. At a signing ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday, minister Long Visalo and outgoing Japanese Ambassador Yuji Kunamaru, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Launched last week, the Cambodia-Japanese Business Investment (CJBI) group aims to facilitate a dialogue between the two countries to bolster investment, and to help guide Japanese businesspeople through Cambodia’s often murky investment climate. The Post’s Cheng sokhorng sat down with Koem Oeurn, CJBI president, to ss='cambodia-color'>...