About 300 villagers in Pursat province’s Krakor district yesterday protested to stop the powerful Pheapimex Company from clearing their farmland after armed military police arrived in the area to guard the firm’s government-awarded land concession, villagers said. The company used two excavators and nine bulldozers to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Boeung Kak community land activist Tep Vanny is making another bid for release in a case that sent her to prison over a 2013 protest outside the home of Prime Minister Hun sen. Vanny’s sister, Huot Chansovann, filed a petition on Monday to Hun sen’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government has predicted that Cambodia’s economic growth will decline to 6.5 per cent next year – down from 7.1 per cent this year – due to global challenges and the possible withdrawal of the EU’s “Everything But Arms” trade agreement. The prediction was made ss='cambodia-color'>...

While the Ratanakkiri provincial administration will not recognise illegal land transactions in the province’s protected areas, an NGO says its action is not effective and forest crimes continue unabated. The administration’s letter dated October 19 and obtained by The Post on Monday came after Minister ss='cambodia-color'>...

The government reshuffled members of the National Committee for Coastal Management and Development in late January, according to a government statement received by The Post on Tuesday. Prime Minister Hun sen continues to serve as the committee’s honorary president, while Minister of Land Management, Urban ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s military is backing a powerful company in its seizure of land in Preah Vihear province, guarding bulldozers sent to destroy villagers’ crops and defying government orders not to get involved in land disputes, Cambodian sources say. speaking to RFA’s Khmer service on Wednesday, one village ss='cambodia-color'>...

Singapore-baSed firm KriSEnergy Ltd, which operateS Cambodia&rSquo;S offShore Block A, claimS it will be able to meet itS Schedule to extract itS firSt drop of oil late thiS year. The firm haS actively prepared all neceSSary facilitieS for the production, MiniStry of MineS and Energy SS='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Governor Khuong Sreng yeSterday received 80 public buSeS from Japan during the inauguration of a buS terminal in Prek Taroth village in Phnom Penh&rSquo;S Chroy Changva diStrict. Mr Sreng Said at the event that JapaneSe AmbaSSador to Cambodia Horinouchi HidehiSa handed over 80 SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s first Civil society Day was held on Tuesday, with at least 300 members of civil society groups in attendance at Phnom Penh’s Hotel Cambodiana for the event. Held under the theme Inclusive Partnership for Democratic and sustainable Development, the day is intended to enable ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport yesterday announced the start of feasibility studies aimed at building an express elevated toll road that would extend from Phnom Penh’s city centre to the airport by 2021.Public Works Minister Tram Iv Tek said yesterday that China’s Henan ss='cambodia-color'>...

Vietnam and Cambodia Wednesday agreed on directions and measures to bolster cooperation between their border provinces and effectively settle arising and complex issues, the Vietnam News Agency reported.The eighth meeting on border province cooperation and development, held in Ho Chi Minh City October 27-28, was ss='cambodia-color'>...

As Prime Minister Hun sen appealed to citizens who have not yet registered to vote to do so, the Thai Labor Ministry announced last week it would allow Cambodians who are legally working in Thailand to return for voter registration. At a graduation ceremony for students ss='cambodia-color'>...

The CNRP said on Thursday it would end its monthslong boycott of the National Assembly by joining today’s session, despite no signs of the “comprehensive solution to the current political crisis” it had sought as a condition for its return. After days of publicly equivocating about ss='cambodia-color'>...

Patrick Heuveline sat among villagers in Cambodia, showing them photos of his daughter to establish common ground with a group of people whose culture he had yet to fully understand.Heuveline, a UCLA sociology professor since 2007, has now spent about 15 years studying the effects ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite numerous laws and committees created to tackle deforestation and illegal logging in Cambodia, the timber trade has continued unabated. In another attempt to deal with the issue, authorities across the country have been ordered to ensure they execute their responsibilities to oversee the enforcement of ss='cambodia-color'>...

A new sub-decree to allow the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce to represent the business sector overseas, will come into force next year after Prime Minister Hun sen signs the draft into law soon, according to a Commerce Ministry official. soeng sophary, the ministry’s spokesperson, said the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Japanese Prime Minister shinzo Abe has reaffirmed his commitment to the country and the upcoming national election as Kem sokha’s daughter has taken to social media to demand an explanation as to why Japan is supporting an “artificial” election. Last week Japan’s ambassador to Cambodia, Hidehisa ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen, ministers, secretaries of state and 2,500 other civil servants and political figures will receive substantial pay rises after the Council of Ministers approved a draft of the 2017 Draft Law on Financial Management on Friday. During the cabinet meeting, Mr. Hun sen ss='cambodia-color'>...

Association of Banks in Cambodia president In Channy on Tuesday said the Kingdom’s banking sector will remain strong and not be directly affected by the potential suspension of its access to the EU’s “Everything But Arms” (EBA) trade agreement. ss='cambodia-color'>...

One of Cambodia’s primary telecommunications companies, Cellcard, announced yesterday that longtime Chief Operating Officer Kay Lot has resigned. The departure of Kay Lot follows the departure of CEO David spriggs who resigned his position about two months ago. Telecommunications industry insiders say the otherwise healthy and profitable ss='cambodia-color'>...