<p>Nearly a decade ago, Meng Chor inherited a rooftop rental agreement with a telecommunications firm after buying a property on Mao Tse Toung Boulevard. For $300 a month over a 10-year lease, the contract allowed the company that later became Mfone to keep the cell tower ...p>

<p>In the week before the National Election Committee was formed in December 1997, Chheng phon predicted he had a tough road ahead. “If you ask me personally, I must say I do not want this job,” the inaugural boss told the&nbsp;post&nbsp;from the banks of a canal ...p>

<p>Global Witness, a United Kingdom-based NGO, has alleged that Deutsche Bank has dropped the majority of its holdings in a Vietnamese company that operates rubber plantations in Cambodia, amid accusations the firm is involved in land grabbing and illegal logging. In a statement released today, Global ...p>

<p>The Cambodian Red Cross (CRC) donated $1 million to the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals on Monday. &nbsp; ...p>

<p>Government officials yesterday denied claims of yet another planned crackdown on disabled street performers in the capital. &nbsp; ...p>

<p>Cambodia and Germany have reiterated commitment to foster their bilateral relations and cooperation. ...p>

<p>A mining outfit in Battambang province will begin copper and silver extraction within two years, the company’s chief executive said yesterday. Wild Bull Resources, an Australian firm partnering with local miner Angkor Thumopich Resources (ATR), would join a small group of companies claiming a quick turnaround ...p>

<p>Small pig farmers are struggling to stay in business as illegal imports of pigs from neighbouring countries rise, squeezing them out of the market, industry insiders say. Srun peu, deputy director of the Cambodia pig Farmers Association, an organisation with 4,000 members, said the increase in ...p>

<p>Cambodia’s Apsara Authority and China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the project of sustainable management of the existing resources for conservation and sustainable development in Angkor World Heritage Site and Siem Reap region. The deal was inked between ...p>

<p>Some 400 garment workers yesterday gathered outside the Ministry of Social Affairs to plead for government intervention against a factory owner who fled without paying them overdue wages three months ago. Khem Chamnan, a Free Trade Union representative from the pine Great (Cambodia) factory in phnom ...p>

<p>In the wake of last month’s election, production levels at Cambodian garment factories are still below the norm as lingering fears of political unrest keep workers at home and away from the capital. Shrugged off at the outset as a natural byproduct of the election that ...p>

<p>Security barricades and razor-wire installations set up around phnom penh yesterday were supposed to maintain order as the opposition Cambodia National Rescue party kicked off what it promised to be three days of mass protests. But the show of force and control had more of an ...p>

<p>Despite concerns that political uncertainty would be a drag on the economy, Cambodia’s garment exports continued on an upward trend in the first nine months of the year, the latest data show. Though volume increased, factory profit margins were squeezed due to labour disputes and demands ...p>

<p>The discovery of the remains of three endangered Asian elephants in Mondulkiri’s phnom penh prich Wildlife Sanctuary has prompted conservation group World Wildlife Fund to launch an investigation into the animals’ deaths. Samrang Dy Vichet, director of the Wildlife Sanctuary, told the&nbsp;post&nbsp;yesterday that villagers spotted the ...p>

<p>Cambodia hopes to legalise undercover investigative techniques – like covert surveillance and officers posing as criminals, which until now have fallen into a murky legal grey area – by next year. At a workshop in the capital yesterday, law enforcement officials and representatives of human rights ...p>

<p>Forty-eight Cambodians will graduate today from what is being heralded as the Kingdom’s first speech-therapy training program. The graduates have been trained to fill a void in speech- and language-therapy services for an estimated 536,000 people in Cambodia affected by communication and swallowing disorders, according to ...p>

<p>Around 4000 Cambodian garment workers are protesting after a factory supplying global brands including Gap and H&amp;M fired hundreds of their colleagues for striking over conditions. Union leaders said the Singapore-owned SL Garment processing factory fired 720 workers on Wednesday while more than 5000 others were ...p>

<p>The coming cassava harvest is increasingly threatened by flooding as about 25 per cent of the crop in prime growing provinces is or has been submerged, according to authorities. Taking up more cultivated area than any other crop in Cambodia except for rice, cassava is especially ...p>

<p>Kratie Forestry Administration forces in cooperation with provincial armed forces seized 12 trucks laden with illegal timber yesterday. &nbsp; ...p>

<p>Israel’s oral vaccine is heading to Southeast Asia, Oramed pharmaceutical announced Wednesday. ...p>