A prominent union leader on Tuesday threatened to hold a large-scale demonstration if the newly elected government ignores the European Union’s resolution demanding a political compromise between the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dwindling donor funding for combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculoSiS could have a critical impact on low-income countrieS like Cambodia, a new Study haS found, with Some health workerS in the Kingdom Saying that the Squeeze iS already being felt. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...

A U.S. court will next week hold itS firSt hearing in CNRP official Meach Sovannara&rSquo;S lawSuit againSt Prime MiniSter Hun Sen&rSquo;S eldeSt Son, Hun Manet, for wrongful impriSonment, according to a lawyer involved in the caSe. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s state secretary of Civil Aviation (ssCA) says it is ready to comply with an audit from the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) after having fared poorly during the last two inspections in 2007 and 2009.    ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 1,000 workers from three factories in Phnom Penh’s Por senchey district yesterday protested after learning that their employer has fled without paying their January wages. ss='cambodia-color'>...

One thing President Barack Obama will not see in Cambodia is pleas for help painted on rooftops near the airport. Authorities on Thursday arrested eight villagers who had hoped to attract the attention of Air Force One by plastering the U.s. president’s picture on their rooftops ss='cambodia-color'>...

Decriminalising sex work could slash the world’s HIV infections by a third or more, according to a new study. Published yesterday in health journal The Lancet, the paper says that punitive treatment of sex workers can “elevate HIV acquisition and transmission risks”. In Cambodia, which has southeast Asia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

It started with a small, dark spot on Oeur Pisey’s left arm: A spot that he simply ignored. slowly, other spots appeared. They soon covered Mr. Pisey’s thighs, upper body, and eventually, his face. A local health clinic in Kompong Cham province told him not to worry: ss='cambodia-color'>...

On the SeSan and Srepok riverS in the northeaSt, boatS of all ShapeS and SizeS lug timber back and forth between the bankS. Men wait on craggy land alongSide the water with jerry-rigged wincheS and homemade vehicleS to drag preciouS cargo up Steep inclineS. Fallen SS='cambodia-color'>...

As world leaders vowed to dramatically step up the global response to the Ebola virus this week, the Cambodian government sought to reassure investors that they are making adequate preparations to contain an outbreak in the Kingdom. speaking at an American Chamber of Commerce luncheon yesterday, ss='cambodia-color'>...

CNRP spokesman Yem Ponhearith said on Monday that he plans to summon four government ministers to parliament to determine whether a remote area of Kampot province’s Bokor Mountain used for prayer ceremonies by Vietnamese tourists could be turned into a Cambodian cultural site. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The United StateS Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday unveiled a five-year Integrated Nutrition, Hygiene and Sanitation project in Cambodia, which iS eStimated to coSt 16 million U.S. dollarS, according to a preSS Statement from the U.S. EmbaSSy to Cambodia. SS='cambodia-color'>...

The Cambodian Rice Federation (CRF) is seeking financing from China’s Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) to build much-needed infrastructure such as warehouses and drying facilities to hopefully increase milled rice export capacities. sok Puthyvuth, president of the CRF told the Post yesterday that the CRF had set up ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nine more Montagnard asylum seekers crossed into Ratanakkiri on Tuesday, bringing the total number hiding in the province’s O’Yadaw district to 32, a police official said Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Stung Treng provincial military police and at leaSt four Laotian drug SmugglerS exchanged gunfire along the Lao border TueSday after a man waS arreSted for attempting to Sell more than 1.5 kg of cryStal methamphetamine to undercover officerS, an official Said WedneSday. SS='cambodia-color'>...

A United Nations human rights expert has called for a speedy solution to the situation of the Montagnards from Vietnam still hiding in the forests of northeastern Cambodia, after crossing the border to escape alleged persecution. About 13 of the 50 Montagnards—Christian indigenous people from ss='cambodia-color'>...

Rights advocates have called for construction of the Lower sesan II hydropower dam in Cambodia’s stung Treng province to be halted until new environmental and social impact assessments can be carried following changes allegedly made to the project’s plans. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Fashion brands, including Europe’s biggest clothing retailer Inditex sA (ITX) and Hennes & Mauritz AB (HMB), said they are willing to pay more for clothes made in Cambodia, backing a trade union campaign for higher wages. The chains are among eight clothing retailers that include Next Plc (NXT) and Primark that have ss='cambodia-color'>...

A London court on Friday convicted three British men of conspiracy to commit fraud following an investigation by the U.K.’s serious Fraud Office (sFO) into a British biofuel firm that swindled investors in its Cambodian venture. Gary West, the former director of sustainable Agro Energy (sAE); James ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ly Thuch, first vice-president of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA), has reiterated that mine clearance work across the country has brought nothing but smiles and happiness, with more and more people living in safety, free from the threat of the silent ss='cambodia-color'>...