The United Nations Children’s Fund is voicing concern about the decision by Australia to transfer asylum seekers detained on the Pacific island of Nauru to Cambodia, possibly as early as Monday. UNICEF’s concerns come amid growing refugee protests in Nauru and protests over transfers of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Researching Angkor’s complex underground irrigation system, the construction of a new tourist hospitality center, and the creation of a strategic plan to preserve the Kulen area were among the topics discussed at last week’s International Coordinating Committee for the safeguarding and Development of the Historic ss='cambodia-color'>...

National Assembly spokesman Chheang Vun again went on the attack Friday against CNRP lawmaker Um sam An, who has been at the fore of the opposition’s recent campaign to highlight Vietnam’s alleged incursions into Cambodia. ss='cambodia-color'>...

With public statements of their own over the weekend, the national police and armed forces dutifully fell in behind Prime Minister Hun sen’s call on Friday for swift legal action against anyone who still dared to dispute that his government was using the right maps ss='cambodia-color'>...

The single National Assembly vote on Tuesday which solidified Hun Manet’s position as prime minister also ushered in sweeping changes across Cambodia’s top minister roles. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Local community in Samlot diStrict of Cambodia&rSquo;S Battambang province are benefiting from government and partner&rSquo;S endeavour to reStore and enrich the community foreSt. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The first vice president of the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) on Monday blamed some of the deaths in this year’s floods on “careless” mothers. “Maybe the mothers are careless, maybe they don’t pay much attention to their children, so they drown,” NCDM First Vice ss='cambodia-color'>...

A suspect was questioned on Thursday over a grenade attack on the home of a military police officer in Kandal province’s Mok Kampoul district, which appears to have been motivated by a dispute over 3 meters of land, police said. No one was injured when the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Diamond Island Development Co Ltd, owned by Canadia Bank, yesterday bought a 15 per cent stake in Investment and Development Company of Cambodia (IDCC)’s Cambodia-Vietnam Insurance Plc. The companies declined to give the value of the stake. Ngay Mengly, sales officer at Cambodia-Vietnam Insurance Plc, said ss='cambodia-color'>...

As one of the Kingdom’s main engines of economic growth, the agricultural sector has been drawing increased attention recently from both the government and development partners. Millions of dollars have been poured into agriculture projects by both the state and international NGOs, investments which are ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers from Preah Vihear province’s Rovieng district have accused Try Pheap Engineering & Construction Co Ltd of clearing the remaining 10ha of community land in Romny commune’s O’por village, which was reserved for building a school, a hospital and a pagoda. The local authorities said ss='cambodia-color'>...

Russia has agreed to recategorise Cambodia’s outstanding $1.5 billion debt as an investment, pledging to provide more aid to the Kingdom next year. Prime Minister Hun sen met with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Brussels on Thursday. Mr Hun sen had asked Russia to ss='cambodia-color'>...

At the capital’s Peace Palace on Monday, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng sokhon led a delegation at a meeting with the supreme Consultation Forum to discuss all issues under the ministry’s remit. Following the meeting, some council members expressed dismay that several of ss='cambodia-color'>...

Wildlife Alliance on Wednesday commemorated “World Ranger Day” with a call to support the Kingdom’s forest rangers. World Ranger Day is celebrated globally every July 31 to mark the accomplishments and work done by rangers in the name of conservation and to honour those killed ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Khmer Will Party (KWP), led by Kong Monkia, the son of a former sam Rainsy Party (sRP) official, and the Motherland Party, led by Chann Bunhorn, in a statement distanced themselves from Rainsy, who has been a vocal opponent of Prime Minister Hun sen’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

In less than four weeks, millions of Cambodians will head to the polling stations to exercise their democratic right to shape their country’s future. It will be the country’s biggest festival of democracy as 20 political parties are taking part despite a call for a ss='cambodia-color'>...

All 125 elected CPP members will today attend the National Assembly’s first session and take oaths to be lawmakers before King Norodom sihamoni. The National Assembly’s secretary-general Leng Penglong said yesterday that the King will preside over the opening session today with the presence of ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (Jogmec) on Tuesday announced plans to exploit copper and zinc deposits in stung Treng province, in the country’s northeast. Jogmec, an incorporated administrative agency of Japan’s Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry, will be extracting the minerals in ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Kratie provincial Military Police raided a timber broker’s premises in Kratie town’s O’Russey commune on Tuesday, seizing eight vans which were allegedly attempting to transport logs illegally to Vietnam. Kratie Provincial Court deputy prosecutor Chea sopheak told The Post on Tuesday that Kratie provincial ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Stung Sen wetland haS become the Kingdom&rSquo;S lateSt RamSar Site, Said the MiniStry of Environment. The SeaSonally-flooded 9,293ha freShwater Swamp, located along the SoutheaStern edge of the Tonle Sap great lake in Kampong Thom province, waS declared Cambodia&rSquo;S fifth RamSar Site on Friday under SS='cambodia-color'>...