A lawyer representing three of the 23 people arrested during garment strike clashes on January 2 and 3 hopes the capital’s court will drop charges against her clients when it hears their case on April 18, she said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday summonsed three senior leaders of Cambodia’s largest independent garment union for questioning over claims they embezzled money meant to be paid to workers in compensation following an industrial dispute, a court official has said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian women continue to be poorly represented in government following commune elections in May, the Committee to Promote Women in Politics said yesterday. This reality, the committee said, is endangering the Kingdom’s chances of meeting its UN Millennium Development Goals. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Acting Thai Foreign Minister sihasak Phuangketkeow said yesterday that Thailand would eventually resume talks with Cambodia regarding the International Court of Justice’s decision last November that clarified Cambodian sovereignty over the promontory on which the Preah Vihear temple sits. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Police in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district took part in a sting target took part in a sting targeting illegal computer gaming locations yesterday, arresting seven people and seizing 71 illicit machines across three locations in Phsar Thmey III village. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Villagers living in Mondulkiri’s sen Monorom district are demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation for the loss of thousands of protected resin trees, alleging that a land concessionaire company has been illegally razing community forest since 2012.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

About 2,000 workers at Takeo province’s I-Cheng (Cambodia) Cooperation remain on strike today, after management held steady in its refusal to pay employees for days they joined in a national garment worker strike in December and this month. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Marking the next step to the Kingdom’s resumption of international adoptions, the Ministry of social Affairs distributed for the first time copies of all adoption-related prakases, or edicts, to international representatives and adoption agencies in the capital yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Japanese government will sign up to provide 11.7 million U.s. dollars to Cambodia next week to help the country in its health sector development, according to a news statement from the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian soldiers are continuing to cut into community forests in Oddar Meanchey province that are meant to anchor what is intended to be the country’s first forest-based carbon credit trading scheme, local villagers and NGOs said Wednesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Koh Kong Provincial Court questioned four villager representatives Tuesday over alleged violence and property damage in an ongoing land dispute with CPP senator Ly Yong Phat’s Koh Kong special Economic Zone company. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Chinese government has provided forestry equipment in equivalent to 4.1 million yuan (667, 200 U.s. dollars) to Cambodia for protecting and developing forest sector, officials said. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen on Tuesday broke ground for the construction of a 14-million-U. s. dollar flyover, which will be the fourth overpass in Phnom Penh. ss='cambodia-color'>...

With regional consultations on Laos’s Don sahong dam expected to commence soon, the developers are violating pledges to postpone construction, which is being undertaken by a Chinese company associated with several controversial hydropower projects, the Post has learned ss='cambodia-color'>...

NGOs have filed a new complaint against Australia’s ANZ Bank claiming it owes compensation to 681 Cambodian families who say their farms were illegally grabbed by a sugarcane plantation the bank helped to finance. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Following days of high-profile convictions and charges dealt at breakneck speed, based on little evidence and little investigation, a prominent legal expert said yesterday that the law “needs to be updated” to change Cambodia’s widely decried court system. ss='cambodia-color'>...

After promising in september to quickly resolve a years-long land dispute involving villagers and the politically connected development company KDC International, a member of the National Assembly’s human rights commission visited affected families in Kampong Chhnang province yesterday.​ ss='cambodia-color'>...

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Prime Minister Hun sen took aim at Michelle Obama yesterday, accusing the Us first lady of making false promises, while suggesting her visit last weekend was more about hopeful rhetoric rather than implementing concrete improvements in the country’s education sector. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen took aim at Michelle Obama yesterday, accusing the Us first lady of making false promises, while suggesting her visit last weekend was more about hopeful rhetoric rather than implementing concrete improvements in the country’s education sector. ss='cambodia-color'>...