Monday morning’s meeting held at the National Assembly between the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) leaders ended around 1:30 in the afternoon, producing a joint agreement by both parties. After the meeting the two opposing party senior officials announced ss='cambodia-color'>...

Amid concerns of legal violations on the part of their employer, about 400 workers at the UsA Fully Field garment factory in the capital’s Meanchey district accepted payouts for their factory closing – even though it hasn’t. Workers protested last week in fear that the factory ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing emergency humanitarian assistance of 3 million U.s. dollars to help Cambodia recover from devastating floods that have affected 1.7 million people and caused an estimated 1 billion U.s. dollars in damage, the Bank said in a statement on ss='cambodia-color'>...

Investors in drinks giant PepsiCo have filed a shareholders resolution urging the company to account for alleged land-rights violations in Cambodia. The 14 shareholders – including Oxfam – are increasing the pressure on PepsiCo following Coca-Cola’s pledge earlier this month of “zero tolerance” towards land grabs. An ss='cambodia-color'>...

Interior Minister sar Kheng on Monday blamed stalled negotiations over the disputed results of July’s national election on divisions within the opposition CNRP, whose leaders he said were of two minds about resuming talks. Top-level talks between Prime Minister Hun sen and CNRP President sam Rainsy, ss='cambodia-color'>...

Officials from svay Rieng’s provincial health department are rounding up expired medications that medical staff and villagers are believed to have pocketed while clearing a stockpile near the provincial hospital on Wednesday, local health officials said yesterday. Provincial medical staff alerted the provincial health department after ss='cambodia-color'>...

Taiwan’s E. sun Commercial Bank has purchased a 70 per cent stake in Cambodia’s Union Commercial Bank. The deal, planned for months but announced yesterday at a press conference at the sofitel hotel in Phnom Penh, will bring technology upgrades and more loan capital to the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Representatives from civil society and the opposition gathered yesterday to push for the adoption of an access to information law – a move that comes less than a month after Prime Minister Hun sen urged the Ministry of Information to hasten its development. Two laws dealing ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three officials from Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district were charged on september 10 for threatening and intimidating a villager after he filed a lawsuit related to the corrupt sale of community land in 2011, according to a letter obtained by the Post yesterday. Romas svang, 47, of Yatung commune, received ss='cambodia-color'>...

Despite recent political turbulence, local investors in the Phnom Penh property sector are not deterred and are still bullish on the market’s future prospects. One good example of this local optimism is Ly Hour Group, which recently announced it would invest more than $100 million to ss='cambodia-color'>...

Authorities burned one house and demolished three others in the past two days in Koh Kong’s Botum sakor and Kiri sakor districts in the latest development in the long-running land dispute between villagers and Tianjin Union Development Group, community representatives and the rights group Adhoc ss='cambodia-color'>...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has launched an internal investigation into a complaint lodged against the institution for investing in a Vietnamese rubber firm accused of illegal logging and land grabbing in Ratanakkiri, an NGO and villager said yesterday. Earlier this month, representatives of the IFC’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

A two-star general in the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces was arrested Friday on charges of defamation, police and prison officials said Friday. On Friday, police officers from the Interior Ministry’s penal department arrested Major General Chea Dara, who works at the Ministry of Defense, following a ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dozens of villagers in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district are facing eviction after the National Cadastral Commission announced last week that a number of areas in Tuol sangke commune are earmarked for future redevelopment. The commission’s plans for new projects, including a road widening, were posted ss='cambodia-color'>...

Friends of Canadian journalist Dave Walker, who went missing under mysterious circumstances in February and was found dead in siem Reap province last week, expressed anger Wednesday at the Cambodian police’s apparent unwillingness to investigate the 58-year-old’s death. Two-and-a-half months after the journalist vanished after going ss='cambodia-color'>...

Mid-level negotiations between the CPP and opposition CNRP to end the country’s political deadlock hit yet another snag Thursday, this time over how to elect members to the National Election Committee (NEC), though the parties did agree to keep talking. The talks were the second since ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian woman who went to China to marry a man there was repatriated on Thursday after escaping from her husband’s house and finding refuge at the Cambodian consulate in Guangzhou. Yoeng sreymom arrived at Phnom Penh International Airport at about 3:30 p.m. in the company ss='cambodia-color'>...

Thach Ry, a 64-year-old Khmer Krom man, fled Vietnam in 2008 after authorities there tried to arrest him for protesting the government’s treatment of his community. Arriving in Cambodia with his wife and daughter, authorities here tried to arrest him, too, he said, so like many ss='cambodia-color'>...

UNESCO, the Battambang provicial government and touriSm officialS held talkS yeSterday on planS to liSt the province on the UN arm&rSquo;S World Heritage CitieS Program. AS part of the firSt of Several conferenceS on SuStainable touriSm for the conServation of cultural and natural heritage and the SS='cambodia-color'>...

The head of a construction company working to upgrade Phnom Penh’s dusty, potholed Veng sreng street said Thursday that the project would take twice as long to complete as expected. In November, Phnom Penh governor Pa socheatvong announced that a 6.5 km strip of the road—which ss='cambodia-color'>...