In Cambodia’s wildlife sanctuaries, conservation areas and national parks, forests are falling as fast as anywhere else. ss='cambodia-color'>...

StudentS acroSS Cambodia are preparing for thiS year&rSquo;S national high School exam, which will take place Monday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

A lack of funds would prevent Cambodia registering some of the country’s specialty products as geographic indications (GI), a form of international recognition that has boosted the sales of other domestic products such as Kampong speu palm sugar. The government would like to see siem Reap ss='cambodia-color'>...

Imprisoned Yorm Bopha has either been unjustly targeted for her role in Boeung Kak lake eviction protests or is responsible for the vicious beating of two motodops, depending on which protesters’ chants were true yesterday. It was land evictees versus motodops in the capital as two ss='cambodia-color'>...

After closing the last of its 19 petrol stations in Cambodia in April 2010, Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) is again eyeing the country’s oil and gas (O&G) sector. This will see Chevron and its partners developing the country’s first offshore oil field this year. According to ss='cambodia-color'>...

“I trust the Cambodian doctors with a simple problem. But if it’s a serious illness, and I need an operation or something, I don’t really trust them,” said Ly Molina, 31, a businesswoman from Phnom Penh. Ms. Molina spoke as she waited for a bus to ss='cambodia-color'>...

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) released the latest data from its EU-funded project Monitoring and Assessing Progress of Decent Work this week, showing that despite an improving environment, including low rates of official unemployment , 75 per cent of workers are in vulnerable jobs. This includes the self-employed or ‘own ss='cambodia-color'>...

Workers who directly witnessed the stung Atai dam accident more than a week ago have contested government accounts, telling the Post four, not three, men were still missing after an outlet pipe burst. Those working or living near the dam also told the Post investigations pledged ss='cambodia-color'>...

About two months after Phnom Penh-based Tonlesap Airlines suspended its chartered flights, the local carrier’s future seems as cloudy as ever. Vann Chanty, the director of air transport with Cambodia’s state secretariat of Civil Aviation, said yesterday that the airline had not resumed operations and that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen warned thousands of villagers yesterday that his most popular initiatives, including his far-reaching land-titling scheme, will simply disappear if he is not re-elected in July’s national election – amid suggestions his campaigning has unofficially begun. In a marked shift from his apparent ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s cassava exports reached 245,438 tonnes in the first quarter this year, a 47 per cent decline quarter-on-quarter, from 465,640 tonnes in the final quarter of last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce released early this month. While most exports went to Thailand, ss='cambodia-color'>...

For the first time in recent memory, the Ministry of Economy and Finance has released growth projections for the first half of the year, and the numbers are good. The ministry’s preliminary data claims that from January through June, economic growth stood at 7.6 per ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amid swirling rumors that Prime Minister Hun sen had left the country after his Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) suffered a large loss of National Assembly seats in sunday’s election, the CPP released a statement Tuesday insisting he was still in Cambodia and on the job. “Recently ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s opposition leader sam Rainsy has called on the country’s king to step in to resolve a political crisis over recent disputed polls as time runs out for legal challenges before officials announce final election results this weekend. The Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) president made ss='cambodia-color'>...

Peaceful and constructive dialogue will enable the ruling and opposition parties to “overcome the current impasse”, Us ambassador to Cambodia William Todd has said. In a frank column in local media on sunday, linked to from the Us embassy in Phnom Penh’s website, Todd said the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Viewers of local television on sunday would have had no idea the opposition CNRP was staging a mass protest, during which violent clashes with police occurred and water cannons and tear gas were used. Instead, anyone tuned into state-owned TVK or the pro-government broadcasters CTN, CNC, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Solar-powered tuk-tukS could be rolling off the aSSembly lineS in Phnom Penh aS early aS March next year, allowing local tuk-tuk driverS a coSt-effective and greener alternative to uSing petrol, according to the company manufacturing the vehicle. Star 8, the AuStralia-baSed alternative energy firm behind the SS='cambodia-color'>...

Nine garment workers and two Chinese managers were injured on Friday in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district after a riot broke out among 300 workers protesting for higher wages and improved working conditions, officials said sunday. Commune police chief Mao sovann said workers at the sL Garment ss='cambodia-color'>...

Government officials were still tight-lipped about the 2014 draft budget yesterday, though some details did continue to trickle out, such as the announcement of a sizeable increase in national defence spending. Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker and banking and finance committee member Cheam Yeap said yesterday that ss='cambodia-color'>...

Five years after first ratifying the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT), Cambodia remains delinquent in honouring some of its commitments under the treaty, UN representatives said yesterday. Under the OPCAT, Cambodia was obliged to create an independent National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) to ss='cambodia-color'>...