A distinctive new wolf snake species discovered in Cambodia has been named in honour of Zoos Victoria, recognising their support provided to Fauna & Flora International’s (FFI) studies in the Cardamom Mountains over the last few years. The wolf snake is the latest species to be ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Justice and soul Foundation has opened its first cosmetology school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The Kate Korpi salon has been built to teach sustainable cosmetology skills to survivors of the sex trafficking industry. What started as an idea discussed over a cup of coffee five ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh families who face losing a part of their land to a railway rehabilitation project being funded primarily by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) protested in front of the bank’s country headquarters Monday over what they say has been a lack of transparency about ss='cambodia-color'>...

After winning the World’s Best Rice Award for two years running at the World Rice Conference, Cambodia has been selected to host this year’s annual event. The World Rice Conference is a networking event that brings together rice industry professionals from all over the world. Initiated ss='cambodia-color'>...

Property prices in Phnom Penh’s prime residential locations increased by 13.7 per cent in the first half of 2014, while prime office development land prices increased by 7.6 per cent, according to Knight Frank Prime Asia Development Land Indices. Ross Wheble, the independent global property consultancy’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a mass firing the scale of which has not been seen since January, Phnom Penh’s Xin Fang garment factory yesterday terminated 106 employees for protesting in front of the factory. Management at the Por sen Chey district factory on Thursday already sacked nearly 30 striking ss='cambodia-color'>...

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As the deadline set by City Hall for residents of a village in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district to vacate the area draws near, about 100 of them delivered a petition to the National Assembly on Wednesday in a last ditch effort to convince lawmakers ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen returned from south Korea on Monday having struck a series of deals with seoul, including an agreement to explore the creation of a south Korean-funded agricultural university in Cambodia, according to one of Mr. Hun sen’s advisers. speaking to reporters at Phnom ss='cambodia-color'>...

In a shake-up of Phnom Penh’s police force, the chief of the city’s anti-drug trafficking office was promoted to deputy municipal police chief in charge of intervention while the deputy police chief of Chbar Ampov district was made the new Meanchey district police chief. “Mr. Born ss='cambodia-color'>...

After a two-day strike that saw trash quickly pile up along Phnom Penh’s streets, more than 1,000 workers for the city’s only trash collection company, Cintri, agreed to return to their jobs Wednesday after being promised pay raises. street cleaners, who make between $90 and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s efforts to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger have yielded mixed results, despite the government’s claim it has reduced the poverty rate ahead of a UN deadline. But many people remain near the poverty line, vulnerable to natural disasters, such as flooding, that could put ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s energy minister promised lawmakers from the National Assembly’s public works and energy commission yesterday that the country will be weaned off of foreign electricity imports within three years, the commission’s vice chairman said in a press conference after the meeting. According to Mao Monyvann, a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Driven by garment and improved agricultural export markets, Cambodia has bucked the wider trend of slowing southeast Asian economies, according to the United Nations Economic and social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (EsCAP). EsCAP’s semi-annual Economic and social survey of Asia and the Pacific, published ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen on Thursday warned the CNRP that the political deal he cut with the party last month could come undone if its 55 elected lawmakers do not turn up to this morning’s sitting of the National Assembly, the first to be scheduled ss='cambodia-color'>...

In an effort to “clean” Phnom Penh’s streets ahead of the coming Pchum Ben celebrations, authorities in Daun Penh district yesterday rounded up 27 homeless people. Kim Vutha, district security chief, told the Post that authorities conducted the roundup in Wat Phnom, srah Chak, Boeung Raing and Chey ss='cambodia-color'>...

The National Assembly’s Human Rights Committee has laid out its plan to mediate negations to settle a more than decade-long land dispute between villagers and a powerful development company in Kompong Chhnang province’s Lor Peang village. The bipartisan committee announced early this month that it would ss='cambodia-color'>...

As the ruling and opposition parties yesterday edged closer to full agreement on a new National Election Committee law, one of the Cambodia National Rescue Party’s favoured candidates for a seat on the nine-member committee said she had removed herself from consideration. Kem Monovithya, the CNRP’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Two Pailin provincial councillors are calling for a corruption probe of former governor and current council president Y Chhien, accusing him of using $400,000 “not transparently”, and possibly pocketing revenue from sales of natural resources. Cambodia National Rescue Party council members Ven Ra and sou Dina ss='cambodia-color'>...

The head of a key election reform group in Cambodia said Tuesday that he would consider applying for a position on the country’s new election body if membership selection is open to the public and transparent. Koul Panha, director of the Committee on Free and Fair ss='cambodia-color'>...